The Netherlands' top track athletes failed to contend for medals at the World Athletics Road Running Championships (a biennial event held on open city streets rather than a track) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Diane van Es finished sixteenth in the women's 5km, won by Ethiopia's Likina Amebaw, while Stefan Nillessen — the European 1500m champion — placed seventeenth in the men's mile, though he set a new Dutch national record of 3:57.84. Mike Foppen achieved a national record of 13:15 in the men's 5km, finishing twelfth, as gold went to Eritrea's Dawit Seare, who edged Norwegian favourite Jakob Ingebrigtsen by three seconds.