Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 10,000 metres

Women's 10,000 metres at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Athens Olympic Stadium
Dates	27 August
Competitors	31 from 20 nations
Winning time	30:24.36
Medalists
Xing Huina   China   Ejagayehu Dibaba   Ethiopia   Derartu Tulu   Ethiopia

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men
Wheelchair races

The women's 10,000 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium on August 27. No preliminary rounds were held at this distance, since the number of competitors allowed a direct final.^[1]

Like Fernanda Ribeiro at the 2000 Summer Olympics, defending champion Derartu Tulu was not able to maintain her title, finishing in the third place behind compatriot (and cousin) Ejegayehu Dibaba and the winner Xing Huina.^[2][3] In Athens, Ribeiro did not finish the race due to fatigue, along with British marathon world record holder Paula Radcliffe.^[2] Throughout the race, Xing marked the Ethiopian favorites, not taking the lead until the home stretch with a final kick Dibabba could not match. Xing's final lap was just under 63 seconds.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Wang Junxia (CHN)	29:31.78	Beijing, China	8 September 1993
Olympic record	Derartu Tulu (ETH)	30:17.49	Sydney, Australia	30 September 2000

No new records were set during the competition.

Qualification

The qualification period for athletics was 1 January 2003 to 9 August 2004. For the women's 5000 metres, each National Olympic Committee was permitted to enter up to three athletes that had run the race in 31:45.00 or faster during the qualification period. If an NOC had no athletes that qualified under that standard, one athlete that had run the race in 32:17.00 or faster could be entered.

Schedule

All times are Greece Standard Time (UTC+2)

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Xing Huina	China	30:24.36	PB
02 !	Ejegayehu Dibaba	Ethiopia	30:24.98	PB
03 !	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	30:26.42	SB
4	Werknesh Kidane	Ethiopia	30:28.30
5	Lornah Kiplagat	Netherlands	30:31.92
6	Sun Yingjie	China	30:54.37	SB
7	Jeļena Prokopčuka	Latvia	31:04.10	NR
8	Lidiya Grigoryeva	Russia	31:04.62
9	Lucy Wangui	Kenya	31:05.90	PB
10	Helena Javornik	Slovenia	31:06.63	NR
11	Mihaela Botezan	Romania	31:11.24	NR
12	Kathy Butler	Great Britain	31:41.13
13	Megumi Oshima	Japan	31:42.18
14	Marie Davenport	Ireland	31:50.49
15	Sabrina Mockenhaupt	Germany	32:00.85
16	Alice Timbilil	Kenya	32:12.57
17	Sally Barsosio	Kenya	32:14.00
18	Harumi Hiroyama	Japan	32:15.12
19	Elva Dryer	United States	32:18.16
20	Anikó Kálovics	Hungary	32:21.47
21	Kate O'Neill	United States	32:24.04
22	Galina Bogomolova	Russia	32:25.10
23	Adriana Fernández	Mexico	32:29.57
24	Benita Johnson	Australia	32:32.01
25	Haley McGregor	Australia	33:35.27
26	Kayoko Fukushi	Japan	33:48.66
27	Natalia Cerches	Moldova	34:04.97
28	Souad Aït Salem	Algeria	DNF
29	Natalya Berkut	Ukraine	DNF
30	Paula Radcliffe	Great Britain	DNF
31	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	DNF

References

External links

• IAAF Athens 2004 Olympic Coverage