1987 World Championships in Athletics - Women's 3000 metres

These are the official results of the Women's 3.000 metres
3000 metres
The 3000 metres is a popular amateur middle distance track event where 7.5 laps are completed around a 400 metre track. This event is generally classified as middle distance, but it could be classed as a long distance event in many high schools, since they do not promote races such as the 5000 and...

event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships
1987 World Championships in Athletics
The 2nd World Championships in Athletics under the auspices of the International Association of Athletics Federations were held in the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, Italy between August 28 and September 6, 1987.-Track:1983 | 1987 | 1991 | 1993 | 1995...

in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 31 participating athletes, with two qualifying heats and the final held on Tuesday 1987-09-01.

Medalists

Gold	Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh Soviet Union Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991.... (URS)
Silver	Maricica Puică Maricica Puica Maricica Puică is a Romanian former middle distance athlete, who won the 3000 meters gold medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, a race also remembered for the collision of Mary Decker and Zola Budd.... Romania Romania Romania is a country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeastern Europe, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea... (ROU)
Bronze	Ulrike Bruns East Germany (GDR)

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World record		8:22.62	Leningrad Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea... , USSR Soviet Union The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....	August 26, 1984
Championship record		8:34.62	Helsinki Helsinki Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is... , Finland Finland Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...	August 10, 1983

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
		8:38.73
		8:39.45
		8:40.30
4.		8:40.31
5.		8:41.33
6.		8:42.56
7.		8:43.94
8.		8:45.85
9.		8:49.91
10.		8:50.99
11.		8:55.16
12.		8:57.92
13.		8:58.63
14.		9:14.61
—		DNF

Qualifying heats

Held on Saturday 1987-08-29

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.		8:46.88
2.		8:47.15
3.		8:47.95
4.		8:48.11
5.		8:48.44
6.		8:49.61
7.		8:49.61
8.		8:52.45
9.		8:54.17
10.		8:57.24
11.		9:01.15
12.		9:01.83
13.		9:16.28
14.		9:26.11
15.		10:44.15

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.		8:44.79
2.		8:45.00
3.		8:45.20
4.		8:45.20
5.		8:45.55
6.		8:46.11
7.		8:47.43
8.		8:48.63
9.		8:50.68
10.		8:51.20
11.		8:51.34
12.		8:51.98
13.		8:57.85
14.		9:09.34
—		DNF
—		DNS

Medalists

Records

Final

Qualifying heats

See also