| Event: | Women's 5000 metres |
| Competition: | European Athletics Championships |
The women's 5000 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 28 June.
Source:[1]
| Gold | Olga Golovkina | |
| Silver | Sara Moreira Portugal | |
| Bronze | Julia Bleasdale |
| Standing records prior to the 2012 European Athletics Championships | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| World record | 14:11.15 | Oslo, Norway | 6 June 2008 | ||
| European record | 14:23.75 | Kazan, Russia | 19 July 2008 | ||
| Championship record | 14:52.20 | Barcelona, Spain | 1 August 2010 | ||
| World Leading | 14:35.62 | Rome, Italy | 31 May 2012 | ||
| European Leading | 15:08.33 | Watford, Great Britain | 9 June 2012 | ||
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15:11.70 | |||||
| Sara Moreira | 15:12.05 | ||||
| Julia Bleasdale | 15:12.77 | PB | |||
| 4 | Roxana Bârcă | 15:13.40 | PB | ||
| 5 | Nadia Ejjafini | 15:16.54 | PB | ||
| 6 | Almensh Belete | 15:22.15 | SB | ||
| 7 | 15:24.38 | ||||
| 8 | 15:27.62 | SB | |||
| 9 | 15:29.71 | ||||
| 10 | 15:33.49 | ||||
| 11 | 15:33.68 | ||||
| 12 | 15:33.88 | SB | |||
| 13 | 15:39.23 | ||||
| 14 | 15:49.13 | SB | |||
| 15 | 15:52.74 | ||||
| 16 | 16:07.73 | ||||
| Doping | |||||
| DQ | Lyudmyla Kovalenko | Doping | |||