the olympic records for the event are 12:57.82 minutes for men, set by kenenisa bekele in 2008, and 14:40.79 minutes for women, set by gabriela szabo in 2000. at the inaugural 1912 olympic 5000 metres, hannes kolehmainen set the first official iaaf world record for the event. however, this remains the only time that the 5000 metres world record has been broken in olympic competition. the best time recorded for the women's olympic 3000 m was 8:26.53 minutes by tetyana dorovskikh (then samolenko) at the 1988 seoul olympics; the world record for that event was not improved during an olympic race.