The men's 5000 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene from 21 to 24 July 2022.Timetable
Summary
The podium from the previous championships all returned. Muktar Edris was now ranked #13 in the world, Selemon Barega #3 and Mohammed Ahmed #4. Olympic Champion and world record holder Joshua Cheptegei was #1. And there was Jakob Ingebrigtsen with no ranking at all and a chip on his shoulder after losing the 1500 earlier in the Championships.
From the start, Cheptegei went to the front to control the race. He was marked by Luis Grijalva, Jacob Krop and Grant Fisher through three 62 second laps. Then Cheptegei let off the gas, the Kenyans decided to move forward, Krop taking the point, Nicholas Kipkorir dropped in behind him, Daniel Ebenyo came along the outside of the pack to join them. But the pace dropped to 65 second laps. Grijalva and Cheptegei both made minor attempts to displace one of the Kenyans but they would have none of that. After 5 laps, Kipkorir took the lead while Krop dropped back, then he dropped back a little more and the roadblock was broken. Meanwhile, Ingebrigtsen made a leisurely jog along the outside to join the front group, taking a wide detour out to lane 4 for water, only joined by Cheptegei and Edris before dropping in next to Grijalva behind Kipkorir. For the next four laps, the Kenyan cast of leaders kept changing as one would drop back into the pack then rush back to the front while another would drop back. With a kilometer to go, Ingebrigtsen took a shift at the front. Krop made one more effort to take the lead, but no, Ingebrigtsen felt he wanted to be there and would not let him pass again keeping Krop to the outside as the pace got faster and faster. Down the final backstretch, Fisher worked his way past Kipkorir into third, with Ahmed behind him. Through the final turn, Ingebrigtsen separated from the pack and after he had 7 metres, looking back to make sure there was no trouble coming to take his easy win. Behind him, Krop moved to the rail through the turn. With Ahmed passing on his outside, Fisher stepped on the rail with 120 metres to go, losing his balance and momentum. Ahmed and Oscar Chelimo went by, then Grijalva moving faster than any of them. In lane 3, Chelimo ran past Ahmed, who strained for the finish line. As he dived for the finish, Grijalva pipped him for fourth but his closing speed couldn't catch Chelimo.
Records Before the competition records were as follows:
RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record12:35.36Monte Carlo, Monaco14 August 2020Championship record12:52.79Saint-Denis, France31 August 2003World Leading12:46.33Rome, Italy9 June 2022African Record12:35.36Monte Carlo, Monaco14 August 2020Asian Record12:51.96Monte Carlo, Monaco19 July 2013North, Central American and Caribbean record12:47.20Portland, United States10 July 2020South American Record13:19.43Kassel, Germany8 June 2006European Record12:48.45Florence, Italy10 June 2021Oceanian record12:55.76London, Great Britain30 July 2004
Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 13:13.50.
Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:
Date Time Round21 July 18:10 Heats24 July 18:05 Final
Results
Heats The first 5 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 5 fastest (q) qualify for the final.Heats Summary
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Jacob Krop 13:13.30 Q 2 2 Jakob Ingebrigtsen 13:13.92 Q 3 2 Luis Grijalva 13:14.04 Q, 4 2 Yomif Kejelcha 13:14.87 Q 5 2 Mohammed Ahmed 13:15.17 Q 6 2 Daniel Ebenyo 13:15.17 q 7 2 Muktar Edris 13:21.19 q 8 2 Marc Scott 13:22.54 q 9 1 Oscar Chelimo 13:24.24 Q 10 1 Grant Fisher 13:24.44 Q 11 1 Selemon Barega 13:24.44 Q 12 1 Joshua Cheptegei 13:24.47 Q 13 1 Abdihamid Nur 13:24.48 Q 14 2 Sam Parsons 13:24.50 q 15 1 Nicholas Kimeli 13:24.56 q 16 1 Telahun Haile Bekele 13:24.77 17 2 Merhawi Mebrahtu 13:24.89 18 2 William Kincaid 13:25.02 19 1 Ky Robinson 13:27.03 20 1 Andrew Butchart 13:31.26 21 1 Sam Atkin 13:34.36 22 1 Adel Mechaal 13:36.48 23 1 Geordie Beamish 13:36.86 24 1 Narve Gilje Nordås 13:37.14 25 2 Hamish Carson 13:37.62 26 1 Soufiyan Bouqantar 13:37.69 27 1 Charles Philibert-Thiboutot 13:38.80 28 1 Maximilian Thorwirth 13:43.02 29 1 Altobeli da Silva 13:43.80 30 1 Adriaan Wildschutt 13:44.32 31 2 Hyuga Endo 13:47.07 32 2 Peter Maru 13:47.65 33 1 Mohamed Mohumed 13:52.00 34 2 Lesiba Precious Mashele 13:52.37 35 2 Matthew Ramsden 13:52.90 36 1 Jamal Abdelmaji Eisa Mohammed 14:02.79 37 2 Hicham Akankam 14:05.11 38 2 Yaseen Abdalla 14:15.59 39 1 Nursultan Keneshbekov 14:15.59 40 2 Kieran Tuntivate 14:19.28 41 2 Jethro Saint-Fleur 16:04.46 2 Ali Hissein Mahamat (CHA)
Final The final was started on 24 July at 18:05.Final Results
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Jakob Ingebrigtsen 13:09.24 Jacob Krop 13:09.98 Oscar Chelimo 13:10.20 4 Luis Grijalva 13:10.44 5 Mohammed Ahmed 13:10.46 6 Grant Fisher 13:11.65 7 Nicholas Kimeli 13:11.97 8 Yomif Kejelcha 13:12.09 9 Joshua Cheptegei 13:13.12 10 Daniel Ebenyo 13:16.64 11 Abdihamid Nur 13:18.05 12 Selemon Barega 13:19.62 13 Muktar Edris 13:24.67 14 Marc Scott 13:41.04 15 Sam Parsons 13:45.89
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