World Athletics Championships 1993 / 10,000 m women

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	10,000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	39 athletes from 28 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 19th (preliminary) August 21st (final)
Medalists Wang Junxia ( CHN )   Zhong Huandi ( CHN )   Sally Barsosio ( KEN )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The women's 10,000-meter run at the 1993 World Athletics Championships was held on August 19 and 21, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

Like five days before over 3000 meters , the Chinese long-distance runners dominated the race and in the end achieved a double victory. After all, her competitors got the bronze medal this time - there were only two Chinese women at the start. Wang Junxia became world champion . She won ahead of the 1991 vice world champion and two-time Asian champion over 3000 meters (1989/1991) Zhong Huandi . Bronze went to Sally Barsosio, a Kenyan who was only fifteen .

Records

Existing records

World record	30: 13.74 min	Ingrid Kristiansen	Oslo , Norway	5th July 1986
World championship record	31: 05.85 min		World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	4th September 1987

Record improvement

The Chinese world champion Wang Junxia improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 21 by 16.55 seconds to 30: 49.30 minutes.

There were also two other records:

• The Kenyan bronze medalist Sally Barsosio set a new junior world record with 31: 15.38 min.
• The eleventh placed Brazilian Carmem de Oliveira set a new South American record with 31: 47.76 minutes.

Preliminary round

August 19, 1993, 8:55 pm

With 39 participants it became necessary to set up a preliminary round. There were two preliminary runs. The first ten 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

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sally Barsosio	Kenya	32: 27.99
2	Lynn Jennings	United States	32: 28.30
3	Wang Junxia	People's Republic of China	32: 28.35
4th	Albertina slides	Portugal	32: 28.39
5	Conceição Ferreira	Portugal	32: 28.42
6th	Naomi Yoshida	Japan	32: 28.66
7th	Carmem de Oliveira	Brazil	32: 29.48
8th	Uta Pippig	Germany	32: 31.90
9	Julia Olteanu	Romania	32: 32.51
10	Olga appeal	Mexico	32: 34.43
11	Rosario Murcia	France	32: 56.24
12	Elaine Van Blunk	United States	33: 06.44
13	Julia Sakara	Zimbabwe	33: 20.16
14th	Junko Kataoka	Japan	33: 21.31
15th	Viktoria Nenasheva	Russia	33: 23.19
16	Lisa Harvey	Canada	33: 24.66
17th	Vikki McPherson	Great Britain	33: 49.51
18th	Jayanthi Palaniappan	Malaysia	33: 56.72
19th	Barbara Moore	New Zealand	34: 38.27
20th	Aura Morales	Guatemala	36: 06.02
DNS	Martha Ernstsdóttir	Iceland

Forward 2

Berhane Adere, reigning African champion , over 3000 meters , was eliminated in fourteenth of her preliminary run - she had to wait a few years for her great successes

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Anne Marie Letko	United States	32: 26.22
2	Zhong Huandi	People's Republic of China	32: 26.40
3	Maria Guida	Italy	32: 26.60
4th	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	32: 26.67
5	Izumi Maki	Japan	32: 26.89
6th	Elana Meyer	South Africa	32: 28.02
7th	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	32: 29.21
8th	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland	32: 51.72
9	Kathrin Weßel	Germany	32: 52.06
10	Suzana Ćirić	Yugoslavia	32: 58.38
11	Catherina McKiernan	Ireland	33: 00.38
12	Gitte Karlshøj	Denmark	33: 05.13
13	Maria Isabel Juarez	Mexico	33: 17.94
14th	Berhane Adere	Ethiopia	33: 20.62
15th	Martha Tenorio	Ecuador	33: 50.68
16	Lesley Morton	New Zealand	33: 54.39
17th	Marilu Salazar	Peru	33: 58.62
18th	Gulsara Dadabaeva	Tajikistan	39: 30.28
19th	Tevdenshigmed Enh-Od	Mongolia	40: 32.86
DNS	Ma Ningning	People's Republic of China
	Tamara Koba	Ukraine

final

Tegla Loroupe reached number four - later she was mainly in the marathon very successful

Uta Pippig finished ninth

August 21, 1993, 6:50 p.m.

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
	Wang Junxia	People's Republic of China	30: 49.30 CR
	Zhong Huandi	People's Republic of China	31: 12.55
	Sally Barsosio	Kenya	31: 15.38 WJ
04th	Tegla Loroupe	Kenya	31: 29.91
05	Lynn Jennings	United States	31: 30.53
06th	Conceição Ferreira	Portugal	31: 30.60
07th	Albertina slides	Portugal	31: 33.03
08th	Anne Marie Letko	United States	31: 37.36
09	Uta Pippig	Germany	31: 39.97
10	Fernanda Ribeiro	Portugal	31: 40.51
11	Carmem de Oliveira	Brazil	31: 47.76 SR
12	Maria Guida	Italy	32: 15.34
13	Kathrin Weßel	Germany	32: 27.38
14th	Olga appeal	Mexico	32: 32.51
15th	Naomi Yoshida	Japan	32: 35.44
16	Julia Olteanu	Romania	32; 40.61
17th	Izumi Maki	Japan	32: 35.44
18th	Rosario Murcia	France	32: 54.65
19th	Suzana Ćirić	Yugoslavia	33: 36.72
20th	Maria Isabel Juarez	Mexico	33: 28.47
21st	Elaine Van Blunk	United States	33: 42.85
22nd	Gitte Karlshøj	Denmark	33: 58.58
DNF	Catherina McKiernan	Ireland
	Päivi Tikkanen	Finland
	Elana Meyer	South Africa

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  The tenth-placed Fernanda Ribeiro won in the coming years a number of Olympic, World Cup - and EM medals

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  The World Cup third in 1987 and Vice European Champion in 1990 Kathrin Weßel, formerly Kathrin Ullrich, was thirteenth

Video

• Women's 10,000m Stuttgart 1993 WC , video posted September 28, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed May 18, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 18, 2020
• Women 10000m Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 10000 m, Stuttgart 1993, p. 286f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 18, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 10,000 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 18, 2020