1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres

Events at the 1987 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 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 30 participating athletes and one non-starter, with two qualifying heats and the final held on Tuesday 1987-09-01.

Medalists

Gold	Tetyana Samolenko Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Maricica Puică Romania (ROU)
Bronze	Ulrike Bruns East Germany (GDR)

Records

Existing records at the start of the event.

World record	Tatyana Kazankina (URS)	8:22.62	Leningrad, USSR	August 26, 1984
Championship record	Mary Decker-Slaney (USA)	8:34.62	Helsinki, Finland	August 10, 1983

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Tetyana Samolenko (URS)	8:38.73
	Maricica Puică (ROU)	8:39.45
	Ulrike Bruns (GDR)	8:40.30
4.	Cornelia Bürki (SUI)	8:40.31
5.	Yelena Romanova (URS)	8:41.33
6.	Elly van Hulst (NED)	8:42.56
7.	Yvonne Murray (GBR)	8:43.94
8.	Wendy Sly (GBR)	8:45.85
9.	Lynn Williams (CAN)	8:49.91
10.	Mary Knisely (USA)	8:50.99
11.	Vera Michallek (FRG)	8:55.16
12.	Christine Tranter-Benning (GBR)	8:57.92
13.	Debbie Scott-Bowker (CAN)	8:58.63
14.	Marie-Pierre Duros (FRA)	9:14.61
—	Olga Bondarenko (URS)	DNS

Qualifying heats

• Held on Saturday 1987-08-29

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Debbie Scott-Bowker (CAN)	8:46.88
2.	Ulrike Bruns (GDR)	8:47.15
3.	Cornelia Bürki (SUI)	8:47.95
4.	Olga Bondarenko (URS)	8:48.11
5.	Yvonne Murray (GBR)	8:48.44
6.	Vera Michallek (FRG)	8:49.61
7.	Mary Knisely (USA)	8:49.61
8.	Annette Sergent (FRA)	8:52.45
9.	Cindy Bremser (USA)	8:54.17
10.	Jackie Perkins (AUS)	8:57.24
11.	Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)	9:01.15
12.	Dorina Calenic (ROU)	9:01.83
13.	Satu Levelä (FIN)	9:16.28
14.	Monica Regonesi (CHI)	9:26.11
15.	Raj Kumari Pandey (NEP)	10:44.15

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Wendy Sly (GBR)	8:44.79
2.	Yelena Romanova (URS)	8:45.00
3.	Tetyana Samolenko (URS)	8:45.20
4.	Elly van Hulst (NED)	8:45.20
5.	Maricica Puică (ROU)	8:45.55
6.	Marie-Pierre Duros (FRA)	8:46.11
7.	Lynn Williams (CAN)	8:47.43
8.	Christine Tranter-Benning (GBR)	8:48.63
9.	Wang Xiuting (CHN)	8:50.68
10.	Paula Ivan (ROU)	8:51.20
11.	Leslie Seymour (USA)	8:51.34
12.	Radka Naplatanova (BUL)	8:51.98
13.	Agnese Possamai (ITA)	8:57.85
14.	Andri Avraam (CYP)	9:09.34
—	Martine Fays (FRA)	DNF
—	Fanny Gidiyoni (MAW)	DNS

See also

• 1983 Women's World Championships 3.000 metres (Helsinki)
• 1984 Women's Olympic 3.000 metres (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Women's European Championships 3.000 metres (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Women's Olympic 3.000 metres (Seoul)
• 1990 Women's European Championships 3.000 metres (Split)
• 1991 Women's World Championships 3.000 metres (Tokyo)

References

• Results