1991 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres

Events at the
1991 World Championships
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men
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
Marathon men women
10 km walk women
20 km walk men
50 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men
 

These are the official results of the Women's 3.000 metres event at the 1991 IAAF World Championships in Tokyo, Japan. There were a total number of 40 participating athletes, with three qualifying heats and the final held on Monday August 26, 1991.

Contents

Medalists

Gold Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh
Soviet Union (URS)
Silver Yelena Romanova
Soviet Union (URS)
Bronze Susan Sirma
Kenya (KEN)

Schedule

Heats
24.08.1991 – 18:20h
Final
26.08.1991 – 19:25h

Final

RANK FINAL TIME
 Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh (URS) 8:35.82
 Yelena Romanova (URS) 8:36.06
 Susan Sirma (KEN) 8:39.41
4.  Päivi Tikkanen (FIN) 8:41.30
5.  Margareta Keszeg (ROM) 8:42.02
6.  Roberta Brunet (ITA) 8:42.64
7.  Judi St. Hilaire (USA) 8:44.02
8.  Annette Peters (USA) 8:44.02
9.  Gitte Karlshøj (DEN) 8:44.35
10.  Yvonne Murray (GBR) 8:44.52
11.  Alison Wyeth (GBR) 8:44.73
12.  Pauline Konga (KEN) 8:46.66
13.  Lyudmila Borisova (URS) 8:51.49
14.  Shelly Steely (USA) 8:53.70
15.  Marie-Pierre Duros (FRA) 9:08.31

Qualifying heats

RANK HEAT 1 TIME
1.  Susan Sirma (KEN) 8:46.56
2.  Yelena Romanova (URS) 8:46.84
3.  Shelly Steely (USA) 8:48.54
4.  Roberta Brunet (ITA) 8:51.41
5.  Anke Schaning (GER) 8:56.02
6.  Catherina McKiernan (IRL) 9:00.05
7.  Iulia Ionescu (ROM) 9:00.72
8.  Daria Nauer (SUI) 9:05.08
9.  Khin Khin Htwe (MYA) 9:07.34
10.  Leah Pells (CAN) 9:10.10
11.  Minori Hayakari (JPN) 9:14.02
12.  Vilma Peña (CRC) 9:54.49
13.  Mirna El Hagg (LIB) 11:34.81
RANK HEAT 2 TIME
1.  Yvonne Murray (GBR) 9:00.86
2.  Lyudmila Borisova (URS) 9:00.94
3.  Päivi Tikkanen (FIN) 9:00.98
4.  Annette Peters (USA) 9:01.01
5.  Derartu Tulu (ETH) 9:01.04
6.  Jana Kučeríková (TCH) 9:05.69
7.  Carmen de Oliveira (BRA) 9:09.71
8.  Zheng Lijuan (CHN) 9:17.78
9.  Robyn Meagher (CAN) 9:20.38
10.  Roisin Smyth (IRL) 9:40.13
11.  Ama Amewo (TOG) 11:17.85
 Jane Ngotho (KEN) DNS
 Priscilla Mamba (SWZ) DNS
RANK HEAT 3 TIME
1.  Gitte Karlshøj (DEN) 8:50.01
2.  Marie-Pierre Duros (FRA) 8:50.05
3.  Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh (URS) 8:50.39
4.  Margareta Keszeg (ROM) 8:50.61
5.  Alison Wyeth (GBR) 8:50.69
6.  Judi St. Hilaire (USA) 8:54.19
7.  Pauline Konga (KEN) 8:54.67
8.  Jenny Lund (AUS) 8:57.86
9.  Julia Vaquero (ESP) 8:58.90
10.  Fernanda Ribeiro (POR) 9:01.90
11.  Bigna Samuel (VIN) 10:04.96
12.  Ana Isabel Elias (ANG) 10:13.42
13.  Jen Allred (GUM) 10:18.44
 Marie Phoebe Juillet (HAI) DNF

See also

References