European Athletics Championships 2016/3000 m obstacle women

23rd European Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course
gender	Women
Attendees	27 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Amsterdam
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 8th (preliminary) July 10th (final)
Medalists Gesa Felicitas Krause ( GER )   Luiza Gega ( ALB )   Özlem Kaya ( TUR )

The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam

The 3,000-meter obstacle course for women at the European Athletics Championships 2016 was held on July 8th and 10th, 2016 in the Olympic Stadium in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam .

The European champion was the German World Cup third in 2015 and the European championship third in 2012 Gesa Felicitas Krause . She won ahead of Luiza Gega from Albania . Bronze went to the Turkish woman Özlem Kaya .

Existing records

World record	8: 58.81 min	Gulnara Samitova	OS Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 17, 2008
European record
Championship record	9: 17.57 min	Yulia Saripova	EM Barcelona , Spain	July 30, 2010

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the five fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

First run, moat

July 8, 2016, 1:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gesa Felicitas Krause	Germany	9: 43.81
2	Özlem Kaya	Turkey	9: 44.41
3	Meryem Akdağ	Turkey	9: 45.69
4th	Michele Finn	Ireland	9: 45.93
5	Matylda Kowal	Poland	9: 46.25
6th	Nastassja Pusakowa	Belarus	9: 46.36
7th	Ingeborg Løvnes	Norway	9: 47.50
8th	Lennie Waite	Great Britain	9: 48.46
9	Jana Sussmann	Germany	9: 49.04
10	Camilla Richardsson	Finland	9: 54.80
11	Maëva Danois	France	9: 58.73
12	Irene Sánchez	Spain	10: 08.12
13	Lucie Sekanová	Czech Republic	10: 10.93
14th	Zita Kácser	Hungary	10: 19.74

Runners eliminated in the first heat:

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  Jana Sussmann - ninth place in 9: 49.04 min

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  Camilla Richardsson - tenth place in 9: 54.80 min

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  Lucie Sekanová - thirteenth place in 10: 10.93 min

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  Zita Kácser - fourth place in 10: 19.74 min

Forward 2

Ancuța Bobocel missed the final with her ninth place in the second run in 9: 48.91 minutes by a little more than a second

July 8, 2016, 1:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Luiza Gega	Albania	9: 38.87
2	Fabienne Smurf	Switzerland	9: 40.28
3	Sandra Eriksson	Finland	9: 41.16
4th	Maria Shatalova	Ukraine	9: 41.85
5	Sara Treacy	Ireland	9: 42.16
6th	Kerry O'Flaherty	Ireland	9: 45.53
7th	Diana Martín	Spain	9: 45.90
8th	Maya Rehberg	Germany	9: 47.32
9	Ancuța Bobocel	Romania	9: 48.91
10	Maria Larsson	Sweden	9: 50.16
11	Viktória Gyürkes	Hungary	9: 59.08
12	Rosie Clarke	Great Britain	10: 00.25
DNF	Elif Karabulut	Turkey
DNS	Maruša Mišmaš	Slovenia

final

European champion Gesa Felicitas Krause, 2015 World Championship -Third and
2012 European Championship -Third

July 10, 2016, 5:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gesa Felicitas Krause	Germany	9: 18.65 tbsp
2	Luiza Gega	Albania	9: 28.52
3	Özlem Kaya	Turkey	9: 35.05
4th	Maria Shatalova	Ukraine	9: 38.17
5	Fabienne Smurf	Switzerland	9: 40.01
6th	Nastassja Pusakowa	Belarus	9: 42.91
7th	Michele Finn	Ireland	9: 43.19
8th	Diana Martín	Spain	9: 43.65
9	Sara Treacy	Ireland	9: 45.19
10	Sandra Eriksson	Finland	9: 45.71
11	Ingeborg Løvnes	Norway	9: 45.45
12	Kerry O'Flaherty	Ireland	9: 45.88
13	Meryem Akdağ	Turkey	9: 45.42
14th	Matylda Kowal	Poland	9: 47.27
DSQ	Maya Rehberg	Germany	IAAF Rule 169.7a - Moat not crossed

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  Marija Schatalowa finished fourth

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  Fabienne Schlumpf finished fifth

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  Nastassja Pusakowa reached sixth place

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  Diana Martín came in eighth

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  Sandra Eriksson came in tenth

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  Twelfth place Kerry O'Flaherty

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  Thirteenth place for Meryem Akdağ

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  Maya Rehberg once did not cross the moat in accordance with the rules and was disqualified

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016 at european-athletics.org, accessed on March 9, 2020
• Women 3000m Steeplechase European Championship 2016 Amsterdam on todor66.com, accessed on March 9, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2016 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 9, 2020
• 23rd European Athletics Championships 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands from ifosta.de, accessed on March 9, 2020

Video

• 182 Gesa Felicitas Krause 3000m Steeplechase FINAL HD European Athletics Championships Amsterdam 2016 on youtube.com, accessed on March 9, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 3,000 m obstacle women , accessed on March 9, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 117 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on March 9, 2020