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IAAF World Athletics Final: Men’s 5000m

Posted September 23rd, 2007 at 9:20 AM by Jimmie R. Markham

Section: News & Results, Track & Field

With many of the same actors, the men’s 5000m of the IAAF World Athletics Final in Stuttgart, Germany seemed like a sequel to the 3000m run that was held the previous day. Edwin Cheruiyot Soi (KEN) the winner of the 7.5 lap race (winning time: 7:49.70), was also in the 12.5 lapper, as were Joseph Ebuya (KEN), Mohammed Farah (GBR), Craig Mottram (AUS), Thomas Pkemei Longosiwa (KEN) and Eliud Kipchoge (KEN). They must have been tired from the previous day’s race, because they ran the first 1000m in 2:57.99, a pedestrian 4:46 per mile pace, with Kenya’s Shadrack Kosgei taking the early pacing duties.

Ethiopian Sileshi Sihine then stepped up the pace a notch, going through 2000m in 5:46.66 (1000m split: 2:48.67, per-mile pace: 4:31). It was at least becoming a respectable race.
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