Dibaba Wins 10,000m and Makes History by Winning 5 World Championship titles on Track

World Distance Running Queen, Tirunesh Dibaba, of Ethiopia with a massive kick of 59 seconds over the last lap, won her 3rd 10000m world championship title in Moscow. She has now won total of 5 world titles on the track - 2 in 5000m and 3 in 10000m. No other distance runner in the world has done it.

Second place took Kenyan Gladys Cherono 30:45.17and 3rd place took Belaynesh Oljira of Ethiopia 30:46.98. Hitomi Niiya of Japan, who led the most of the race up until last 500m faded to 5th place in the final lap, but ran a brilliant pr of 30:56.7.

Final  Results 

1	Tirunesh Dibaba	ETH	30:43.35
2	Gladys Cherono	KEN	30:45.17
3	Belaynesh Oljira	ETH	30:46.98
4	Emily Chebet	KEN	30:47.02	PB
5	Hitomi Niiya	JPN	30:56.70	PB
6	Shitaye Eshete	BRN	31:13.79	SB
7	Selly Chepyego Kaptich	KEN	31:22.11	PB
8	Shalane Flanagan	USA	31:34.83
9	Ababel Yeshaneh	ETH	32:02.09
10	Christelle Daunay	FRA	32:04.44	SB
11	Marisol Romero	MEX	32:16.36
12	Jordan Hasay	USA	32:17.93
13	Ana Dulce Félix	POR	32:36.73
14	Amy Hastings	USA	32:51.19
15	Karolina Jarzynska	POL	32:54.15
16	Juliet Chekwel	UGA	32:57.02	NR
17	Gulshat Fazlitdinova	RUS	33:31.49
	Sabrina Mockenhaupt	GER	DNF
	Lara Tamsett	AUS	DNF