2000 metres

Athletics 2000 metres
World records
Men	Hicham El Guerrouj 4:44:79 (1999)
Women	Genzebe Dibaba 5:23.75 (2017)

The 2000 metres or 2000-metre run is a track running event where five laps are completed around an outdoor 400 m track or ten laps around a 200 m indoor track. In distance covered, the outdoor event roughly equates to the mile run plus one additional lap.

The global governing body World Athletics recognises official world records for the distance, and it is also recorded in continental and national record settings. The men's world record his held by Morocco's Hicham El Guerrouj, who ran a time of 4:44.79 minutes in 1999, while the women's world record is held by Ethiopia's Genzebe Dibaba who finished the distance in 5:23.75 minutes in 2017. The distance regularly features on event programmes of professional one-day track and field meetings, serving as a comparatively novel event with greater scope for record-breaking performances. It is also used at lower level competitions, such as school and youth tournaments.

Despite its world record status, it has never featured as a world championship level event indoors or outdoors. The event was briefly held at national level in the mid-1960s at the Spanish Indoor and Soviet Indoor Athletics Championships.

Records

World records

Division	Time	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Location
Men	4:44.79	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	7 September 1999	Berlin
Women	5:23.75	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	7 February 2017	Edinburgh

Continental records

Type	Men's time	Men's athlete	Men's nationality	Women's time	Women's athlete	Women's nationality
African	4:44.79	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	5:23.75	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia
Asian	4:55.57	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	5:29.41	Wang Junxia	China
European	4:50.01	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	5:25.36	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland
North, Central American and Caribbean	4:52.44	Jim Spivey	United States	5:32.7	Mary Slaney	United States
Oceanian	4:50.76	Craig Mottram	Australia	5:37.71	Benita Willis	Australia
South AMerican	5:03.34	Hudson de Souza	Brazil	5:59.96	Niusha Mancilla	Bolivia

All-time top ten performances

Men

Rank	Time	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Location
1	4:44.79	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	7 September 1999	Berlin
2	4:46.88	Ali Saïdi-Sief	Algeria	19 June 2001	Strasbourg
3	4:47.88	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3 July 1995	Paris
4.	4:48.69	Vénuste Niyongabo	Burundi	12 July 1995	Nice
5	4:48.74	John Kibowen	Kenya	1 August 1998	Hechtel
6	4:50.01	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	11 June 2020	Oslo
7	4:50.08	Noah Ngeny	Kenya	30 July 1999	Stockholm
8	4:50.76	Craig Mottram	Australia	9 March 2006	Melbourne
9	4:50.81	Saïd Aouita	Morocco	16 July 1987	Paris
10	4:51.30	Daniel Komen	Kenya	5 June 1998	Milan

Women

Rank	Time	Athlete	Nationality	Date	Location
1	5:23.75	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	7 February 2017	Sabadell
2	5:25.36	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	8 July 1994	Edinburgh
3	5:26.93	Yvonne Murray	United Kingdom	8 July 1994	Edinburgh
4	5:27.50	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	17 July 2014	Ostrava
5	5:28.69	Maricica Puică	Romania	11 July 1986	London
6	5:28.72	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	4 August 1984	Moscow
7	5:29.64	Tatyana Pozdnyakova	Soviet Union	4 August 1984	Moscow
8	5:30.19	Zola Budd	South Africa	11 July 1986	London
9	5:30.19	Gelete Burka	Ethiopia	4 September 2009	Brussels

References

General

• Records by Event 2000 metres. World Athletics. Retrieved 2020-07-05.