  We report the formation of Bose-Einstein condensates into non-equilibrium
states. Our condensates are much longer than equilibrium condensates with the
same number of atoms, show strong phase fluctuations, and have a dynamical
evolution similar to that of quadrupole shape oscillations of regular
condensates. The condensates emerge in elongated traps as the result of local
thermalization when the nucleation time is short compared to the axial
oscillation time. We introduce condensate focusing as a powerful method to
extract the phase-coherence length of Bose-Einstein condensates.
