World Athletics Championships 1987/3000 m for women

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 19 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (preliminary) September 1st (final)
Medalists Tetjana Samolenko ( URS )   Maricica Puică ( ROM )   Ulrike Bruns ( GDR )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The 3,000-meter run for women at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on August 29 and September 1, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

The world champion was the Vice European Champion of 1986 over 1500 meters Tetjana Samolenko from the Soviet Union , who also secured the world championship title over 1500 meters five days later . Silver went to the Romanian Olympic champion in 1984 and two-time Vice-European Champion ( 1982 /1986) maricica puică , who won in 1984 and Olympic bronze in 1500 meters. Third place was taken by Ulrike Bruns from the GDR , third in the 1976 Olympics over 1500 meters and third in the European Championship in 1986 over 10,000 meters .

Existing records

World record	8: 22.62 min	Tatiana Kasankina	Leningrad , Soviet Union	August 26, 1984
World championship record	8: 34.62 min	Mary Decker	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 10, 1983

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Preliminary round

August 29, 1987

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 quarter-finals.

Forward 1

Fernanda Ribeiro, who later won multiple medals at World and European Championships as well as the Olympic Games, did not reach the final as eleventh of her preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Debbie Bowker	Canada	8: 46.88
2	Ulrike Bruns	GDR	8: 47.15
3	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	8: 47.95
4th	Olga Bondarenko	Soviet Union	8: 48.11
5	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8: 48.44
6th	Vera Michallek	BR Germany	8: 49.61
7th	Mary Knisely	United States	8: 49.61
8th	Annette Sergent	France	8: 52.45
9	Cindy Brakeman	United States	8: 54.17
10	Jacqueline Perkins	Australia	8: 57.24
11	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	9: 01.15
12	Dorina Calenic	Romania	9: 01.83
13	Satu Levelä	Finland	9: 16.28
14th	Mónica Regonessi	Chile	9: 26.11
15th	Raj Kumari Pandey	Nepal	10: 44.15

Forward 2

As in the 1500 meters , Paula Ivan, the upcoming Olympic runner-up and 1500-meter Olympic champion, failed in the preliminary round

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Wendy Sly	Great Britain	8: 44.79
2	Elena Romanova	Soviet Union	8: 45.00
3	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	8: 45.20
4th	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	8: 45.20
5	Maricica Puică	Romania	8: 45.55
6th	Marie-Pierre Duros	France	8: 46.81
7th	Lynn Williams	Canada	8: 47.43
8th	Christine Benning	Great Britain	8: 48.63
9	Wang Xiuting	People's Republic of China	8: 50.68
10	Paula Ivan	Romania	8: 51.20
11	Leslie Seymour	United States	8: 51.34
12	Radka Naplatanova	Bulgaria	8: 51.98
13	Agnese Possamai	Italy	8: 57.85
14th	Andri Avraam	Cyprus	9: 09.34
DNF	Martine Fays	France
DNS	Fanny Gidiyoni	Malawi

final

Vice World Champion maricica puică - 1984 Olympic champion, twice European Vice Champion ( 1982 / 1986 ) and 1984 and Olympic bronze medalist over 1,500 meters

September 1, 1987

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	8: 38.73
2	Maricica Puică	Romania	8: 39.45
3	Ulrike Bruns	GDR	8: 40.30
4th	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	8: 40.31
5	Elena Romanova	Soviet Union	8: 41.33
6th	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	8: 42.56
7th	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8: 43.94
8th	Wendy Sly	Great Britain	8: 45.85
9	Lynn Williams	Canada	8: 49.91
10	Mary Knisely	United States	8: 50.99
11	Vera Michallek	BR Germany	8: 55.16
12	Christine Benning	Great Britain	8: 57.92
13	Debbie Bowker	Canada	8: 58.63
14th	Marie-Pierre Duros	France	9: 14.61
DNF	Olga Bondarenko	Soviet Union

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  Bronze medalist Ulrike Bruns - 1976 Olympic third over 1500 meters and 1986 European Championship third over 10,000 meters

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  Elly van Hulst (No. 281), eighth over 1500 meters, finished sixth

Video

• 1987 World Rome 3000m Women Final part on youtube.com, accessed April 2, 2020

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 2, 2020
• Women 3000m Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed April 2, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 3000 m, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 280), English, accessed on April 2, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ Track and Field Statistics, Records Progression, World Records Women , at trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed April 2, 2020