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The Women's 10,000 metres at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Daegu Stadium on August 27.

Kenya entered a strong team including the 2009 champion Linet Masai, the reigning 5000 metres world champion Vivian Cheruiyot, and Sally Kipyego – the fastest 10,000 m runner that year. The next strongest competitors were the Ethiopian women, which included the 2009 runner-up Meselech Melkamu and Meseret Defar. The United States was represented by 2007 World bronze medallist Kara Goucher and 2008 Olympic third placer Shalane Flanagan (who was the second fastest that year).^[1]

An American trio of Goucher, Flanagan and Jen Rhines set the pace in the initial stages of the competition. After around 3000 metres, the Kenyan and Ethiopian teams asserted themselves and it was only Flanagan and Shitaye Eshete who maintained the positions with them. The leading pack reached the halfway point in 15:47.04 minutes and the pace became increasingly quicker at this point – a fact which saw Tigist Kiros fall away from the pack. Flanagan and Eshete were the next to trail away, then Meseret Defar dropped out entirely with stomach pains, reducing the leading pack to the four Kenyans (Masai, Cheruiyot, Kipyego and Priscah Jepleting Cherono) and Meselech Melkamu. In the final lap, it was Cheruiyot and Kipyego who surged away into the lead. Cheruiyot held off her compatriot near the finish line to win the gold with a personal best of 30:48.98 minutes in what was only her third ever race over the distance. Kipyego took second, while Masai had a late run to take the bronze for a Kenyan sweep of the medals. Cherono was the fourth woman across the line and Meselech took fifth.^[2]^[3] Eshete ran a Bahraini record of 31:21.57 minutes for sixth.

Kenya became only the third country to have its athletes take positions one through four in an event (the other two being Ethiopia in the women's 5000 metres and the United States in the men's 200 metres, both at 2005 World Championships).^[2] The podium sweep was also unique in that it was the first time any nation had won all the medals on one day of the championships, as Kenyan women had taken all three medals in the women's marathon (the only other final of the first day).^[3]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Vivian Cheruiyot Kenya (KEN)	Sally Kipyego Kenya (KEN)	Linet Masai Kenya (KEN)

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:

World record	Junxia Wang (CHN)	29:31.78	Beijing, China	8 September 1993
Championship record	Berhane Adere (ETH)	30:04.18	Paris, France	23 August 2003
World Leading	Sally Kipyego (KEN)	30:38.35	Palo Alto, CA, United States	29 May 2011
African record	Meselech Melkamu (ETH)	29:53.80	Utrecht, Netherlands	14 June 2009
Asian record	Junxia Wang (CHN)	29:31.78	Beijing, China	8 September 1993
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Shalane Flanagan (USA)	30:22.22	Beijing, China	15 August 2008
South American record	Simone da Silva (BRA)	31:16.56	São Paulo, Brazil	3 August 2011
European record	Elvan Abeylegesse (TUR)	29:56.34	Beijing, China	15 August 2008
Oceanian record	Kim Smith (NZL)	30:35.54	Palo Alto, CA, United States	4 May 2008

Qualification standards

A time	B time
31:45.00	32:00.00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 27, 2011	21:00	Final

Results

KEY:	q	Fastest non-qualifiers	Q	Qualified	NR	National record	PB	Personal best	SB	Seasonal best

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya (KEN)	30:48.98	PB
	Sally Kipyego	Kenya (KEN)	30:50.04
	Linet Masai	Kenya (KEN)	30:53.59	SB
4	Priscah Jepleting Cherono	Kenya (KEN)	30:56.43	PB
5	Meselech Melkamu	Ethiopia (ETH)	30:56.55	SB
6	Shitaye Eshete	Bahrain (BHR)	31:21.57	NR
7	Shalane Flanagan	United States (USA)	31:25.57
8	Ana Dulce Félix	Portugal (POR)	31:37.03
9	Jennifer Rhines	United States (USA)	31:47.59
10	Jessica Augusto	Portugal (POR)	32:06.68	SB
11	Tigist Kiros	Ethiopia (ETH)	32:11.37
12	Christelle Daunay	France (FRA)	32:22.20
13	Kara Goucher	United States (USA)	32:29.58
14	Hikari Yoshimoto	Japan (JPN)	32:32.22
15	Kayo Sugihara	Japan (JPN)	32:53.89
16	Krisztina Papp	Hungary (HUN)	32:56.02
17	Megumi Kinukawa	Japan (JPN)	34:08.37	SB
	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia (ETH)	DNF
	Eloise Wellings	Australia (AUS)	DNS