Athletics at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's 5000 metres


The men's 5000 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 8–11 August.
The final race started out slowly, the first lap in 74.1 and only that fast because Hayle Ibrahimov accelerated the last 100. The field continued running splits in the 70s, Lopez Lomong leading through 2000 in a pedestrian 5:56.7. In the seventh lap Yenew Alamirew moved to the front and accelerated the pace, the next several laps down below 62, Mo Farah the only one to break up the Ethiopian team at the front. With 700 to go, Farah took the lead, his training partner Galen Rupp joining him with 500 to go, as the rest of the field jostling to be in position to sprint. First Hagos Gebrhiwet challenged, then disappeared. Down the backstretch, Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa challenged, with Abdalaati Iguider immediately behind. Dejen Gebremeskel, Bernard Lagat and Isiah Kiplangat Koech packing up around the final turn. At the head of the stretch, Koech contacted Lagat as he was just coming clear to sprint, Lagat stumbling. Meanwhile, Farah was accelerating ahead of Longosiwa, who couldn't handle the speed. Gebremeskel went around the outside with Lagat's delayed sprint unable to catch Longosiwa. The winning time was more than 15 seconds slower than the slowest time in qualifying.

Competition format

The Men's 5000m competition consisted of heats and a Final. A total of fifteen competitors qualified for the Final from the heats.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
World record12:37.35Hengelo, Netherlands31 May 2004
Olympic record12:57.82Beijing, China23 August 2008
2012 World leading12:46.81Paris, France6 July 2012

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time
DateTimeRound
Wednesday, 8 August 201210:45Round 1
Saturday, 11 August 201219:30Finals

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 5 of each heat plus the 5 fastest times qualified.

Heat 1

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
Hayle Ibrahimov13:25.23Q
Isiah Kiplangat Koech13:25.64Q
Mo Farah13:26.00Q
Lopez Lomong13:26.16Q
Hagos Gebrhiwet13:26.16Q
Edwin Cheruiyot Soi13:27.06
Arne Gabius13:28.01
Daniele Meucci13:28.71
Moukheld Al-Outaibi13:31.47
10Bilisuma Shugi13:31.84
11Yuki Sato13:38.22
12David McNeill13:45.88
13Olivier Irabaruta13:46.25
14Aziz Lahbabi13:47.57
15Amanuel Mesel13:48.13SB
16Collis Birmingham13:50.39
17Serhiy Lebid13:53.15
18Geofrey Kusuro13:59.74SB
19Hussain Jamaan Alhamdah14:00.43
20Rene Herrera14:44.11PB
Teklemariam Medhin
Hassan Hirt*

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
Dejen Gebremeskel13:15.15Q
Yenew Alamirew13:15.39Q
Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa13:15.41Q
Bernard Lagat13:15.45Q
Abdalaati Iguider13:15.49Q
Galen Rupp13:17.56q
Moses Ndiema Kipsiro13:17.68q
Cameron Levins13:18.29q, PB
Juan Luis Barrios13:21.01q
10Mumin Gala13:21.21q, SB
11Abrar Osman Adem13:24.40
12Nick McCormick13:25.70
13Polat Kemboi Arikan13:27.21
14Rabah Aboud13:28.38
15Abraham Kiplimo13:31.57
16Craig Mottram13:40.24
17Alistair Ian Cragg13:47.01
18Soufiyan Bouqantar13:47.63
19Javier Carriqueo13:57.07SB
20Abdullah Abdulaziz Aljoud14:11.12
21Ruben Sança14:35.19

Final

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
Mo Farah13:41.66
Dejen Gebremeskel13:41.98
Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa13:42.36
4Bernard Lagat13:42.99
5Isiah Kiplangat Koech13:43.83
6Abdalaati Iguider13:44.19
7Galen Rupp13:45.04
8Juan Luis Barrios13:45.30
9Hayle Ibrahimov13:45.37
10Lopez Lomong13:48.19
11Hagos Gebrhiwet13:49.59
12Yenew Alamirew13:49.68
13Mumin Gala13:50.26
14Cameron Levins13:51.87
15Moses Ndiema Kipsiro13:52.25

Notes: Q- Qualified by place
q - Qualified by performance
PB - Personal Best
NR - National Record
SB - Seasonal Best
DQ - DisQualified
DNS - Did Not Start
DNF - Did Not Finish