* Alemitu Bekele TUR disqualified from the competition for doping in accordance with International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)’s announcement of 16 January 2013. Results annulled from 17.08.09 and banned for 4 years until 14.02.16.
** Elizaveta Grechishnikova RUS disqualified from the competition for doping in accordance with the Russian Anti-Doping Agency’s decision of 25 October 2013. Results annulled from 18.08.09 and banned for 2 years until October 2015.
Women's 5000 m - Athletics - Berlin 2009 World Championships
Event Format: Athletes competed in preliminary heats and final. The best athletes from each heat (Q) and a number of "lucky losers" (q) advanced to the final. The winner of the final was the winner of the Gold medal.
Event facts: Women's 5000 m competition was held at the Olympiastadion
Budapest 2023
Athletics World Championships August 19 - August 27
Olympian Database
Women's 5000 m 2009
