Athletics — 5,000 metres, Women

Times held 7
Total participants 229
Total countries 69

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1996 5,000 metres, Women Olympic 46 25
2000 5,000 metres, Women Olympic 49 32
2004 5,000 metres, Women Olympic 41 28
2008 5,000 metres, Women Olympic 31 19
2012 5,000 metres, Women Olympic 35 21
2016 5,000 metres, Women Olympic 33 18
2020 5,000 metres, Women Olympic 38 21

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1996 Wang JunxiaCHN Pauline KongaKEN Roberta BrunetITA
2000 Gabriela SzaboROU Sonia O'SullivanIRL Gete WamiETH
2004 Meseret DefarETH Isabella OchichiKEN Tirunesh DibabaETH
2008 Tirunesh DibabaETH Meseret DefarETH Sylvia KibetKEN
2012 Meseret DefarETH Vivian CheruiyotKEN Tirunesh DibabaETH
2016 Vivian CheruiyotKEN Hellen ObiriKEN Almaz AyanaETH
2020 Sifan HassanNED Hellen ObiriKEN Gudaf TsegayETH

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Ethiopia ETH 3 1 5 9
Kenya KEN 1 5 1 7
Netherlands NED 1 0 0 1
People's Republic of China CHN 1 0 0 1
Romania ROU 1 0 0 1
Ireland IRL 0 1 0 1
Italy ITA 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Meseret Defar ETH 2 1 0 3
Vivian Cheruiyot KEN 1 1 0 2
Tirunesh Dibaba ETH 1 0 2 3
Wang Junxia CHN 1 0 0 1
Gabriela Szabo ROU 1 0 0 1
Sifan Hassan NED 1 0 0 1