Athletics at the 2003 Summer Universiade – Women's 5000 metres

Athletics at the 2003 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Half marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 5000 metres event at the 2003 Summer Universiade was held on 29 August in Daegu, South Korea.

The winning margin was 0.43 seconds as it would be in the 2015 edition of these games. As of 2024, these are the only two occasions where the women's 5,000 metres has been won by less than a second at these games.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Eloise Poppett	Australia	15:47.19
	Zhang Yuhong	China	15:47.62
	Cristina Casandra	Romania	15:50.44
4	Hayley McGregor	Australia	15:51.82
5	Judith Plá	Spain	15:55.97
6	Poppy Mlambo	South Africa	16:02.34
7	Sonia Bejarano	Spain	16:10.44
8	Tomoko Horioka	Japan	16:22.17
9	Rebecca Stallwood	Canada	16:40.46
10	Eleni Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	16:52.45
11	Fatima Boufares	Morocco	17:15.76
12	Karla Silva	Peru	17:18.33
	Inês Monteiro	Portugal	DNF

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