Carlsbad 5000

The Carlsbad 5000 is a 5 -kilometer road race, which is held annually in Carlsbad in the U.S. state of California since 1986.

The organizers called the race World 's Fastest 5K (fastest 5 - kilometer race in the world). In fact, the track records of Sammy Kipketer and Defar are the fastest ever way past times with a 5 -kilometer road race. However, the Athletics IAAF leads over this distance no official record lists. The claim of the organizers that a total of 16 world records were set in Carlsbad, therefore, formally, is wrong.

The route is a flat loop with the start of the Grand Avenue and Carlsbad Village Drive on the target and runs mostly on Carlsbad Boulevard along the Pacific coast.

Statistics

Track records

  • Men: 13:00 min, Sammy Kipketer (KEN ), 2000
  • Women: 14:46 min, Meseret Defar (ETH ), 2006

List of winners

Source for results before 2000: ARRS

Carlsbad, California Gelete Burka Dejen Gebremeskel Eliud Kipchoge Bekana Daba Abreham Cherkos Tirunesh Dibaba Isabella Ochichi Deena Kastor Paul Koech Sally Barsosio Angela Chalmers Ismael Kirui Rose Cheruiyot Josephat Machuka Colleen De Reuck Doug Padilla Elly van Hulst Yobes Ondieki Lorraine Moller New Zealand Steve Scott (athlete)
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