World Athletics Championships 1993/3000 m for women

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	47 athletes from 33 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 14th (preliminary) August 16th (final)
Medalists Qu Yunxia ( CHN )   Zhang Linli ( CHN )   Zhang Lirong ( CHN )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The 3,000-meter run for women at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held on August 14 and 16, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

In this competition there was a triple success for the Chinese long-distance runner - a dominance that was completely unexpected in this form. The world champion was the Olympic third in 1992 over 1500 meters Qu Yunxia . She won ahead of Zhang Linli . Bronze went to Zhang Lirong .

Records

Existing records

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

Record improvement

The Chinese world champion Qu Yunxia improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 16 by 5.84 seconds to 8: 28.78 minutes.

Preliminary round

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.

Forward 1

Eleventh place was not enough for Elly van Hulst (here in a leading position in a race in 1983) to make it to the final

August 14, 1993, 7:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Zhang Linli	People's Republic of China	8: 48.85
2	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8: 51.30
3	Elena Romanova	Russia	8: 54.81
4th	Esther Kiplagat	Kenya	8: 55.07
5	Luminita Zaituc	Romania	8: 55.66
6th	Claudia Lokar	Germany	8: 55.98
7th	Roberta Brunet	Italy	8: 57.46
8th	Julia Sakara	Zimbabwe	8: 57.59
9	Regina Chistiakova	Lithuania	8: 58.61
10	Ulla Marquette	Canada	9: 00.68
11	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	9: 04.86
12	Katy McCandless	United States	9: 10.13
13	Andrea Sollárová	Slovakia	9: 12.91
14th	Jayanthi Palaniappan	Malaysia	9: 18.42
15th	Martha Portobanco	Nicaragua	10: 48.08
16	Halima Boubacar	Niger	11: 26.13

Forward 2

August 14, 1993, 7:24 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Qu Yunxia	People's Republic of China	8: 49.20
2	Lyudmila Borisova	Russia	8: 50.02
3	Annette Peters	United States	8: 51.67
4th	Alison Wyeth	Great Britain	8: 51.89
5	Annemari Sandell	Finland	8: 54.75
6th	Annette Sergent-Palluy	France	8: 58.15
7th	Elena Fidatof	Romania	8: 58.89
8th	Valentina Tauceri	Italy	9:00:20
9	Julia Vaquero	Spain	9: 05.50
10	Éva Dóczi	Hungary	9: 09.51
11	Daria Nauer	Switzerland	9: 11.28
12	Getenesh Urge	Ethiopia	9: 16.24
13	Marilu Salazar	Peru	9: 32.33
14th	Tevdenshigmed Enh-Od	Mongolia	10: 50.27
DNS	Zahra Ouaziz	Morocco
	Raj Kumarj Pandey	Nepal

Forward 3

Harumi Hiroyama (seen here during a marathon run in 2005) was eliminated as tenth in her preliminary run

August 14, 1993, 7:38 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	8: 50.62
2	Zhang Lirong	People's Republic of China	8: 51.75
3	Paula Radcliffe	Great Britain	8: 52.62
4th	Elena Kopytova	Russia	8: 57.73
5	Margareta Keszeg	Romania	8: 59.21
6th	Farida Fates	France	8: 59.93
7th	Sheila Carrozza	United States	9: 01.41
8th	Estela Estévez	Spain	9: 08.04
9	Nina Christiansen	Denmark	9: 09.06
10	Harumi Hiroyama	Japan	9: 11.77
11	Leah Pells	Canada	9: 16.63
12	Gwen Griffiths	South Africa	9: 33.96
13	Aura Morales	Guatemala	9: 49.08
14th	Shirley Cespedes	Costa Rica	10: 15.01
15th	Gulsara Dadabayeva	Tajikistan	10: 29.69
16	Adelaide Malepa	Lesotho	11: 00.68
DNF	Rawilja Agletdinova	Belarus

final

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  Sonia O'Sullivan came in fourth behind the Chinese overwhelming majority - on the final day, she achieved bronze over 1500 meters

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  Paula Radcliffe came in seventh - despite her lack of acceleration, she achieved many top placings in the years to come

August 16, 1993, 8:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Qu Yunxia	People's Republic of China	8: 28.78 CR
2	Zhang Linli	People's Republic of China	8: 29.25
3	Zhang Lirong	People's Republic of China	8: 31.95
4th	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	8: 33.38
5	Alison Wyeth	Great Britain	8: 38.42
6th	Elena Romanova	Russia	8: 39.69
7th	Paula Radcliffe	Great Britain	8: 40.40
8th	Lyudmila Borisova	Russia	8: 40.78
9	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8: 43.46
10	Annette Peters	United States	8: 45.56
11	Elena Kopytova	Russia	8: 50.49
12	Claudia Lokar	Germany	8: 51.35
13	Annemari Sandell	Finland	8: 53.58
14th	Luminita Zaituc	Romania	9: 01.38
15th	Esther Kiplagat	Kenya	9: 07.05

Video

• Women's 3000m Stuttgart 1993 WC , video published on September 27, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed on May 17, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 17, 2020
• Women 3000m Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 17, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 3000 m, Stuttgart 1993, p. 274f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 17, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ Track and Field Statistics, Records Progression, World Records Women , on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on May 17, 2020