2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres

The women's 10,000 metres event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on 25 August 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan.

In August 2015, the Turkish Athletic Federation confirmed that an anti-doping test sample collected from Elvan Abeylegesse during these World Championships had been retested and found to be positive for a controlled substance and that the athlete had been temporarily suspended pending retesting of her "B-sample".^[1] On 29 March 2017, the International Association of Athletics Federations confirmed the positive test and expunged her results from 25 August 2007 until 25 August 2009.^[2]

Medallists

Gold	Tirunesh Dibaba Ethiopia (ETH)
Silver	Kara Goucher United States (USA)
Bronze	Jo Pavey Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)

Records

World record	29:31.78	Wang Junxia	Beijing, China	September 8, 1993
Championship record	30:04.18	Berhane Adere	Paris, France	August 23, 2003

Results

Victory ceremony

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Tirunesh Dibaba	Ethiopia (ETH)	31:55.41	SB
	Kara Goucher	United States (USA)	32:02.05	SB
	Joanne Pavey	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	32:03.81
5	Kimberley Smith	New Zealand (NZL)	32:06.89
6	Deena Kastor	United States (USA)	32:24.58
7	Ejegayehu Dibaba	Ethiopia (ETH)	32:30.44
8	Philes Ongori	Kenya (KEN)	32:30.74
9	Emily Chebet	Kenya (KEN)	32:31.21	SB
10	Kayoko Fukushi	Japan (JPN)	32:32.85
11	Nathalie De Vos	Belgium (BEL)	32:38.60
12	Inga Abitova	Russia (RUS)	32:40.39
13	Katie McGregor	United States (USA)	32:44.76
14	Megumi Kinukawa	Japan (JPN)	32:45.19
15	Akane Wakita	Japan (JPN)	32:48.68
16	Asmae Leghzaoui	Morocco (MAR)	32:51.30
17	Benita Johnson	Australia (AUS)	32:55.94	SB
18	Aheza Kiros	Ethiopia (ETH)	33:06.60
19	Evelyne Nganga	Kenya (KEN)	33:17.12
—	Volha Krautsova	Belarus (BLR)	DNF
—	Mestawet Tufa	Ethiopia (ETH)	DNF
—	Nora Rocha	Mexico (MEX)	DNS
—	Elvan Abeylegesse	Turkey (TUR)	31:59.40	DQ