2012 European Athletics Championships – Women's 10,000 metres

Women's 10,000 metres at the European Athletics Championships

The women's 10,000 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 1 July.

Medalists

Gold	Ana Dulce Félix Portugal
Silver	Joanne Pavey Great Britain
Bronze	Olha Skrypak Ukraine

Records

Standing records prior to the 2012 European Athletics Championships
World record	Wang Junxia (CHN)	29:31.78	Beijing, China	8 September 1993
European record	Elvan Abeylegesse (TUR)	29:56.34	Beijing, China	15 August 2008
Championship record	Paula Radcliffe (GBR)	30:01.09	Munich, Germany	8 August 2002
World Leading	Tirunesh Dibaba (ETH)	30:24.39	Eugene, United States	1 June 2012
European Leading	Yelizaveta Grechishnikova (RUS)	31:07.88	Moscow, Russia	11 June 2012

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
1 July 2012	17:25	Final

Results

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Ana Dulce Félix	Portugal	31:44.75
	Joanne Pavey	Great Britain	31:49.03
	Olha Skrypak	Ukraine	31:51.32	NUR
4	Fionnuala Britton	Ireland	32:05.54
5	Sabrina Mockenhaupt	Germany	32:16.55
6	Charlotte Purdue	Great Britain	32:28.46
7	Ana Dias	Portugal	32:35.82
8	Elena Romagnolo	Italy	32:42.31
9	Gemma Steel	Great Britain	32:46.32
10	Leonor Carneiro	Portugal	33:05.92	PB
11	Lidia Rodríguez	Spain	33:09.53
12	Tetyana Holovchenko	Ukraine	33:18.15
13	Marta Silvestre	Spain	34:21.24
14	Patricia Morceli Bühler	Switzerland	34:24.82
	Nadia Ejjafini	Italy	DNF
	Krisztina Papp	Hungary	DNF

References

• Final Results