World Athletics Championships 2017/3000 m obstacle women

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course for women
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Participants	42 athletes from 25 countries
Competition phase	August 9, 2017 (preliminary) August 11, 2017 (final)
Medalists
gold	Emma Coburn ( USA )
silver	Courtney Frerichs ( USA )
bronze	Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi ( KEN )

Last crossing of the moat in the
3000 meter obstacle course

The women's 3,000 meter obstacle course at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , United Kingdom on August 9-11, 2017 .

There was a US double victory. Emma Coburn won the world title , Courtney Frerichs came second. Bronze went to the Kenyan Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi .

Records

World record	Ruth Jebet	8: 52.78 min	Paris , France	August 27, 2016
Championship record	Ekaterina Volkova	9: 06.57 min	World Cup in Osaka , Japan	August 27, 2007

Prelims

The fourth of the last World Championships Sofia Assefa was eliminated this time as the fifth of their preliminary round in the preliminary round

No chance of advancing after twelfth place for the Czech Lucie Sekanová

The Danish Anna-Emilie Møller was eliminated as eighth of her preliminary run

The Finn Camílla Richardson, who was leading here in a race in 2018, did not reach the final after her twelfth place in the second heat

Eleventh place in her preliminary run was not enough for the Canadian Maria Bernard to reach the final

From the three preliminary runs, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

August 9, 2017, 7:05 p.m. local time (8:05 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Gesa Felicitas Krause	Germany	9: 39.86
2	Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi	Kenya	9: 39.89
3	Purity Cherotich Kirui	Kenya	9: 40.53
4th	Fadwa Sidi Madane	Morocco	9: 40.61
5	Sofia Assefa	Ethiopia	9: 40.88
6th	Irene Sánchez-Escribano	Spain	9: 46.59
7th	Maëva Danois	France	9: 49.21
8th	Alycia Butterworth	Canada	9: 51.50
9	Maria Shatalova	Ukraine	9: 54.21
10	Lennie Waite	Great Britain	9: 54.97
11	Tigist Getent Mekonen	Bahrain	9: 55.42
12	Lucie Sekanová	Czech Republic	10: 09.67
13	Charlotta Fougberg	Sweden	10: 21.21
DSQ	Colleen Quigley	United States	IAAF Rule 163.3b - Water ditch fault

Run 2

August 9, 2017, 7:22 p.m. local time (8:22 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Beatrice Chepkoech	Kenya	9: 19.03
2	Ruth Jebet	Bahrain	9: 19.52
3	Courtney Frerichs	United States	9: 25.14
4th	Aisha Praught-Leer	Jamaica	9: 26.37
5	Geneviève Lalonde	Canada	9: 31.81 SB
6th	Birtukan Fente	Ethiopia	9: 33.99 SB
7th	Özlem Kaya	Turkey	9: 37.06 SB
8th	Anna Emilie Møller	Denmark	9: 44.12
9	Maria Larsson	Sweden	9: 48.13
10	Amina Bettiche	Algeria	9: 53.06
11	Victoria Mitchell	Australia	10: 00.40
12	Camilla Richardsson	Finland	10: 07.04
13	Teresa Urbina	Spain	10: 21.90
DNS	Luiza Gega	Albania

Run 3

August 9, 2017, 7:22 p.m. local time (8:22 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Celliphine Chepteek Chespol	Kenya	9: 27.35
2	Emma Coburn	United States	9: 27.42
3	Genevieve LaCaze	Australia	9: 27.53 SB
4th	Winfred Mutile Yavi	Bahrain	9: 28.00
5	Etenesh Diro	Ethiopia	9: 31.87
6th	Belén Casetta	Argentina	9: 35.78 SR
7th	Fabienne Smurf	Switzerland	9: 36.08
8th	Peruth Chemutai	Uganda	9: 43.04
9	Rosie Clarke	Great Britain	9: 49.36
10	Viktória Gyürkés	Hungary	9: 52.66
11	Maria Bernard	Canada	9: 59.45
12	Francesca Bertoni	Italy	10: 01.36
13	María José Pérez	Spain	10: 01.84
14th	Tuğba Güvenç	Turkey	10: 13.03

final

August 11, 2017, 9:25 p.m. local time (10:25 p.m. CEST )

An exciting race was expected after the results of the major championships in recent years. The narrow group of favorites included the 2016 Olympic champion Ruth Jebet from Bahrain, the 2015 world champion and 2016 Olympic runner-up Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi from Kenya, the US Olympic third-placed 2016 Emma Coburn and the German 2015 World Cup third-placed Gesa Felicitas Krause. Other young athletes, especially from Africa, would certainly have to be taken into account.

The runners set a high pace from the beginning, which was pulled through to the end. The race was shaped by two incidents that had a decisive impact on the outcome. In the initial phase, the inexperienced Kenyan Beatrice Chepkoech, fourth on the current world annual best list, ran past the moat, turned back when she noticed her mistake and crossed the obstacle in a regular manner. As a result, she lost a lot of time, but quickly reconnected to the field and to the front in spite of the high pace. On the very next lap, Chepkoech crashed into an obstacle after running up again. She herself was able to quickly continue the race afterwards. Some of the runners behind her, however, were significantly impaired by the now necessary stopping and the resulting further falls. Most affected was Krause, who stumbled and was hit on her leg by an unintentional kick by a runner. Although she got up and finished the race with pain, she had no chance to intervene in the fight for top positions.

Due to the falls and the high speed with 1000 meter sections of just over three minutes, the field was now pulled wide apart. The distances increased from lap to lap. In the end, four runners fought for the medals. The two Kenyans Jepkemoi and Chepkoech were ahead of the two Americans Coburn and Courtney Frerichs. Jebet followed at a considerable distance. At the last moat, Coburn accelerated and took the lead. There was a small gap to Frerichs and Jepkemoi. Chepkoech had slight problems with this moat and lost touch with it. On the home stretch, Emma Coburn set herself apart from her competitors and crossed the finish line as the new world champion. With 9: 02.58 min she set a new world championship record, she had mastered the last thousand meters in under three minutes. Meanwhile, the defending champion attacked the second American again. Courtney Frerichs held his own, however, and won the silver medal. Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi came third ahead of Beatrice Chepkoech and Ruth Jebet. With Celliphine Chepteek Chespol, a third Kenyan took sixth place in front of Ethiopian Etenesh Diro and Winfred Mutile Yavi, another runner from Bahrain. Gesa Felicitas Krause came in ninth place.

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
	Emma Coburn	United States	9: 02.58 CR
	Courtney Frerichs	United States	9: 03.77 PB
	Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi	Kenya	9: 04.03
4th	Beatrice Chepkoech	Kenya	9: 10.45
5	Ruth Jebet	Bahrain	9: 13.96
6th	Celliphine Chepteek Chespol	Kenya	9: 15.04
7th	Etenesh Diro	Ethiopia	9: 22.46
8th	Winfred Mutile Yavi	Bahrain	9: 22.67 PB
9	Gesa Felicitas Krause	Germany	9: 23.87
10	Purity Cherotich Kirui	Kenya	9: 25.62
11	Belén Casetta	Argentina	9: 25.99 SR
12	Genevieve LaCaze	Australia	9: 26.25 SB
13	Geneviève Lalonde	Canada	9: 29.99 NO
DSQ	Aisha Praught-Leer	Jamaica	IAAF Rule 163.3b - Water ditch fault
DNS	Birtukan Fente	Ethiopia

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  The Americans Emma Coburn and Courtney Frerichs celebrate their triumph after the race

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  World Champion Emma Coburn, USA - here with her bronze medal from the 2016 Olympic Games

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  Vice World Champion Courtney Frerichs, USA

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  Bronze medalist Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi from Kenya - here after her 2015 World Cup title

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  Fourth place for the Kenyan Beatrice Chepkoech

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  Co-favorite Ruth Jebet from Bahrain finished fifth

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  Celliphine Chepteek Chespol from Kenya came in sixth

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  Ethiopian Etenesh Diro - left, at the 2012 Olympic Games - came seventh

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  Winfred Mutile Yavi from Bahrain finished eighth

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  The German Gesa Felicitas Krause came in ninth after a fall

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  The Kenyan Purity Cherotich Kirui came in tenth

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  The Argentine Belén Casetta came in eleventh

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  The Australian Genevieve Lacaze - middle - took twelfth place

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  The Jamaican Aisha Praught was disqualified for a mistake at the moat

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  The Ethiopian Birtukan Fente had qualified for the final, but did not start

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, 3000 m obstacle women on the IAAF website (English), accessed on December 13, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 13, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 13, 2018

Video

• WCH London 2017 Highlights - 3000m Steeplechase - Women - Final on youtube.com, published on August 13, 2017, accessed on December 13, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules, page 73 (PDF), accessed on December 13, 2018