World Athletics Championships 1991/3000 m for women

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	38 athletes from 27 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 24th (preliminary) August 26th (final)
Medalists Tetjana Samolenko ( URS )   Jelena Romanowa ( URS )   Susan Sirma ( KEN )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The women's 3,000-meter run at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 24 and 26, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

The Soviet runners recorded a double victory in this competition. World Champion was the defending champion and Olympic champion in 1988 Tetjana Samolenko which also has 1500 meters in 1987 had become world champion and 1988 Olympic bronze medalist. With this she won her third World Cup title. Five days later she was runner-up in the 1500 meter world championship. Silver went to the vice European champion from 1990 Jelena Romanowa , who was also the reigning European champion over 10,000 meters . The Kenyan Susan Sirma , at the Africa Games 1987 winner over 3000 and second over 1500 meters , won the bronze medal.

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.

In the final, the third-placed Kenyan Susan Sirma set a new African record with 8: 39.41.

Preliminary round

August 24, 1991, 6:20 pm

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the three fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the quarter-finals. The three athletes who obtained the right to participate in the finals over their time were all recruited from the last preliminary run, which at the top was not the fastest of the three preliminary races, but in which the gaps behind the four directly qualified participants were significantly narrower than in the two races before.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Susan Sirma	Kenya	8: 46.56
2	Elena Romanova	Soviet Union	8: 46.84
3	Shelly Steely	United States	8: 48.54
4th	Roberta Brunet	Italy	8: 51.41
5	Anke Schäning	Germany	8: 56.02
6th	Catherina McKiernan	Ireland	9: 00.05
7th	Julia Besliu	Romania	9: 00.72
8th	Daria Nauer	Switzerland	9: 05.08
9	Khin Khin Htwe	Myanmar	9: 07.34
10	Leah Pells	Canada	9: 10.10
11	Minori Hayakari	Japan	9: 14.02
12	Vilma Peña	Costa Rica	9: 54.49
13	Mirna El Hagg	Lebanon	11: 34.81

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	9: 00.86
2	Lyudmila Borisova	Soviet Union	9: 00.94
3	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland	9: 00.98
4th	Annette Peters	United States	9: 01.01
5	Derartu Tulu	Ethiopia	9: 01.04
6th	Jana Kučeríková	Czechoslovakia	9: 05.69
7th	Carmem de Oliveira	Brazil	9: 09.71
8th	Zheng Lijuan	People's Republic of China	9: 17.78
9	Robyn Meagher	Canada	9: 20.38
10	Róisín Smyth	Ireland	9: 40.13
11	Ama Amewo	Togo	11: 17.85
DNS	Jane Ngotho	Kenya
	Priscilla Mamba	Swaziland

Forward 3

Fernanda Ribeiro (here in 2006 at a marathon run ) failed as tenth of her race in the preliminary round - her later successful sports career was still at the very beginning

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gitte Karlshoj	Denmark	8: 50.01
2	Marie-Pierre Duros	France	8: 50.05
3	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	8: 50.39
4th	Margareta Keszeg	Romania	8: 50.61
5	Alison Wyeth	Great Britain	8: 50.69
6th	Judi St. Hilaire	United States	8: 54.19
7th	Pauline Konga	Kenya	8: 54.67
8th	Jenny Lund	Australia	8: 57.86
9	Julia Vaquero	Spain	8: 58.90
10	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	9: 01.90
11	Bigna Samuel	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	10: 04.96
12	Isabel Elias	Angola	10: 13.42
13	Jen Allred	Guam	10: 18.44
DNF	Marie Juillet	Haiti

final

August 26, 1991, 7:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	8: 35.82
2	Elena Romanova	Soviet Union	8: 36.06
3	Susan Sirma	Kenya	8: 39.41 AF
4th	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland	8: 41.30
5	Margareta Keszeg	Romania	8: 42.02
6th	Roberta Brunet	Italy	8: 42.64
7th	Judi St. Hilaire	United States	8: 44.02
8th	Annette Peters	United States	8: 44.02
9	Gitte Karlshoj	Denmark	8: 44.35
10	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8: 44.52
11	Alison Wyeth	Great Britain	8: 44.73
12	Pauline Konga	Kenya	8: 46.66
13	Lyudmila Borisova	Soviet Union	8: 51.49
14th	Shelly Steely	United States	8: 53.70
15th	Marie-Pierre Duros	France	9: 08.31

Video

• Women's 3000m Final World Champs in Tokyo 1991 on youtube.com, accessed April 30, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 30, 2020
• Women 3000m Athletics III World Championship Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed April 30, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 3000 m, Tokyo 1991, p. 280f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 30, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ Track and Field Statistics, Records Progression, World Records Women , on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on April 30, 2020