The Women's 5,000 meter race was introduced to the Olympic schedule in 1996, where it replaced the 3,000 meter race, which had been a feature in the 1984, 1988 and 1992 games. Since 1996, Ethiopian athletes have seen the most success in this event, taking three golds and nine overall medals. Meseret Defar of Ethiopia is the event's most successful athlete, winning two golds and one bronze medal between 2004 and 2012. Turkey's Elvan Abeylegesse is the only athlete to have been stripped of a medal won in this event, after it was announced in 2017 that she had tested positive for a banned substance.
Medal count by country in the Women's 5,000m at the Summer Olympics from 1996 to 2020
This data was collected using the official Olympic.org site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (available here), 2012 and 2016 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).
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olympic.org, & The Guardian. (August 9, 2021). Medal count by country in the Women's 5,000m at the Summer Olympics from 1996 to 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 23, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117726/olympics-womens-5-000m-medal-table-since-1996/
olympic.org, und The Guardian. "Medal count by country in the Women's 5,000m at the Summer Olympics from 1996 to 2020." Chart. August 9, 2021. Statista. Accessed December 23, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117726/olympics-womens-5-000m-medal-table-since-1996/
olympic.org, The Guardian. (2021). Medal count by country in the Women's 5,000m at the Summer Olympics from 1996 to 2020. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 23, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117726/olympics-womens-5-000m-medal-table-since-1996/
olympic.org, and The Guardian. "Medal Count by Country in The Women's 5,000m at The Summer Olympics from 1996 to 2020." Statista, Statista Inc., 9 Aug 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117726/olympics-womens-5-000m-medal-table-since-1996/
olympic.org & The Guardian, Medal count by country in the Women's 5,000m at the Summer Olympics from 1996 to 2020 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117726/olympics-womens-5-000m-medal-table-since-1996/ (last visited December 23, 2024)
Medal count by country in the Women's 5,000m at the Summer Olympics from 1996 to 2020 [Graph], olympic.org, & The Guardian, August 9, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117726/olympics-womens-5-000m-medal-table-since-1996/
