Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Athletics - 3000 m obstacle (women)
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| sport | athletics | ||||||||
| discipline | 3000 meter obstacle course | ||||||||
| gender | Women | ||||||||
| Attendees | 51 athletes from 37 countries | ||||||||
| Competition location | Beijing National Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | August 15, 2008 (preliminary) August 17, 2008 (final) |
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| Winning time | 8: 58.81 min ( WR ) | ||||||||
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The 3000-meter obstacle course at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was held on August 15 and 17, 2008 in the National Stadium. 51 athletes took part.
The Russian Gulnara Galkina , who was the first runner to run under nine minutes, set a new world record as the Olympic champion at the first staging of this competition at the Olympic Games . The Kenyan Eunice Jepkorir Kertich won the silver medal, and the bronze went to Tatiana Petrowa from Russia.
Current titleholders
| Olympic Champion 2004 | Competition not in the Olympic program | Athens 2004 | |
| World Champion 2007 |
Ekaterina Volkova ( Russia )
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9: 06.57 min | Osaka 2007 |
| European Champion 2006 |
Alesja Turawa ( Belarus )
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9: 26.05 min | Gothenburg 2006 |
| Pan American Champion 2007 |
Sabine Heitling ( Brazil )
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9: 51.13 min | Rio de Janeiro 2007 |
| Central America and Caribbean champion 2008 |
Ángela Figueroa ( Colombia )
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10: 18.23 min | Cali 2008 |
| South American Champion 2007 | Zenaide Vieira ( Brazil )
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10: 07.93 min | São Paulo 2007 |
| Asian Champion 2007 | Zhao Yanni ( People's Republic of China )
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10: 48.18 min | Amman 2007 |
| Africa Champion 2008 | Zemzem Ahmed ( Ethiopia )
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9: 44.58 min | Addis Ababa 2008 |
| Oceania Champion 2008 | Competition not in the championship program | Saipan 2008 | |
Existing records
| World record | 9: 01.59 min |
Gulnara Samitowa ( Russia )
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Heraklion , Greece | 4th July 2004 |
| Olympic record | Competition at the Olympic Games not yet held | |||
doping
There was another doping case in this discipline, which was not determined until years after the Games. The Russian Ekaterina Volkova , who had initially won the bronze medal, was convicted of doping abuse during a follow-up test. Her bronze medal was stripped of her in 2016.
The athletes placed after her in the final each moved up one place in the official ranking. It was no longer possible for the British Helen Clitheroe to retrospectively realize the final participation prevented by the doping fraud.
Preliminary round
There were three preliminary runs. The first four of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the next three fastest athletes - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.
Forward 1
August 15, 2008 , 8:25 pm
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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| 1 | Gulnara Galkina |
Russia
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9: 15.17 min | |
| 2 | Ruth Bisibori Nyangau |
 Kenya
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9: 19.75 min | |
| 3 | Wioletta Frankiewicz |
 Poland
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9: 21.88 min | |
| 4th | Cristina Casandra |
 Romania
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9: 22.38 min | NO |
| 5 | Habiba Ghribi |
 Tunisia
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9: 25.50 min | NO |
| 6th | Helen Clitheroe |
 Great Britain
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9: 29.14 min | NR / actually qualified for the final |
| 7th | Zhu Yanmei |
People's Republic of China
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9: 29.63 min | PB |
| 8th | Lindsey Anderson |
 United States
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9: 36.81 min | |
| 9 | Mekdes Bekele |
Ethiopia
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9: 41.43 min | |
| 10 | Fionnuala Britton |
 Ireland
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9: 43.57 min | |
| 11 | Valentyna Horpynych |
 Ukraine
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9: 43.95 min | |
| 12 | Rosa Morató |
 Spain
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9: 45.33 min | |
| 13 | Victoria Mitchell |
 Australia
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9: 47.88 min | |
| 14th | Türkan Erişmiş |
 Turkey
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9: 48.58 min | |
| 15th | Clarisse Cruz |
 Portugal
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9: 49.45 min | |
| 16 | Minori Hayakari |
 Japan
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9: 49.70 min | |
| 17th | Widad Mendil |
 Algeria
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9: 52.35 min |
Forward 2
August 15, 2008 , 8:37 pm
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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| 1 | Tatiana Petrova |
Russia
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9: 28.85 min | |
| 2 | Roisin McGettigan |
Ireland
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9: 28.92 min | |
| 3 | Jenny Barringer |
United States
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9: 29.20 min | |
| 4th | Zulema Fuentes-Pila |
Spain
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9: 29.40 min | PB |
| 5 | Jéssica Augusto |
Portugal
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9: 30.23 min | |
| 6th | Ancuța Bobocel |
Romania
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9: 35.31 min | |
| 7th | Sophie Duarte |
 France
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9: 38.08 min | |
| 8th | Sofia Assefa |
Ethiopia
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9: 47.02 min | |
| 9 | Muna Durka |
 Sudan
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9: 53.09 min | |
| 10 | Veerle Dejaeghere |
 Belgium
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9: 54.65 min | |
| 11 | Hanane Ouhaddou |
 Morocco
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9: 56.41 min | |
| 12 | Veronica Nyaruai Wanjiru |
Kenya
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10: 01.69 min | |
| 13 | Oxana Juravel |
 Moldova
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10: 04.38 min | |
| 14th | Aslı Çakır Alptekin |
Turkey
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10: 05.76 min | |
| 15th | Eirini Kokkinariou |
 Greece
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10: 22.39 min | |
| 16 | Zhao Yanni |
People's Republic of China
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10: 36.77 min | |
| DNF | Mardrea Hyman |
 Jamaica
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Forward 3
August 15, 2008 , 8:49 pm
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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| 1 | Eunice Jepkorir Kertich |
Kenya
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9: 21.31 min | |
| 2 | Marta Domínguez |
Spain
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9: 22.11 min | |
| 3 | Zemzem Ahmed |
Ethiopia
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9: 25.63 min | PB |
| 4th | Elena Romagnolo |
 Italy
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9: 27.48 min | NO |
| 5 | Anna Willard |
United States
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9: 28.52 min | |
| 6th | Antje Möldner |
 Germany
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9: 29.86 min | DR |
| 7th | Rasa Troup |
 Lithuania
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9: 30.21 min | NO |
| 8th | Donna MacFarlane |
Australia
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9: 32.05 min | |
| 9 | Sara Moreira |
Portugal
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9: 34.39 min | |
| 10 | Katarzyna Kowalska |
Poland
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9: 47.02 min | |
| 11 | Barbara Parker |
Great Britain
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9: 51.93 min | |
| 12 | Li Zhenzhu |
People's Republic of China
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10:04:05 min | |
| 13 | Inna Poluškina |
 Latvia
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10: 18.60 min | |
| DNF | Korine Hinds |
Jamaica
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| Dobrinka Shalamanova |
 Bulgaria
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| Zenaide Vieira |
Brazil
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| DOP | Ekaterina Volkova |
Russia
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in the final, later disqualified |
final
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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| 1 | Gulnara Galkina |
Russia
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8: 58.81 min | WR |
| 2 | Eunice Jepkorir Kertich |
Kenya
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9: 07.41 min | AF |
| 3 | Tatiana Petrova |
Russia
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9: 12.33 min | |
| 4th | Cristina Casandra |
Romania
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9: 16.85 min | NO |
| 5 | Ruth Bisibori Nyangau |
Kenya
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9: 17.35 min | PB |
| 6th | Zemzem Ahmed |
Ethiopia
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9: 17.85 min | NO |
| 7th | Wioletta Frankiewicz |
Poland
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9: 21.76 min | |
| 8th | Jenny Barringer |
United States
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9: 22.26 min | NM |
| 9 | Anna Willard |
United States
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9: 25.63 min | |
| 10 | Elena Romagnolo |
Italy
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9: 30.04 min | |
| 11 | Zulema Fuentes-Pila |
Spain
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9: 35.16 min | |
| 12 | Habiba Ghribi |
Tunisia
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9: 36.43 min | |
| 13 | Roisin McGettigan |
Ireland
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9: 55.89 min | |
| DNF | Marta Domínguez |
Spain
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| DOP | Ekaterina Volkova |
Russia
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August 17, 2008 , 9:30 p.m.
In the final there were two Kenyans, two Russians, Spaniards and US-Americans, as well as one runner each from Ethiopia, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Romania and Tunisia. The third Russian athlete was disqualified for doping abuse in 2016 .
This competition was brand new in the international competition program and was held for the first time at the Olympic Games. So the starting position with regard to a group of favorites was still quite confusing. In any case, the runners from Russia with the world champion from 2007 and vice world champion from 2005 Jekaterina Wolkowa, the vice European champion and vice world champion Tatjana Petrowa and the world record holder and World Cup seventh Gulnara Galkina - former Gulnara Samitova. Of these, however, Volkova was one of the doping sinners of these games convicted of doping in 2016. The participants from Kenya with the World Cup third Eunice Jepkorir and the World Cup fourth Ruth Bisibori Nyangau were also counted among the very narrow favorites. In addition, there were the French World Cup fifth Sophie Duarte and the Romanian Cristina Casandra as World Cup sixth in 2007 and World Cup seventh in 2005. However, Duarte was already eliminated in the run-up. All other favorites had qualified for the finals.
This first 3000-meter obstacle final at the Olympic Games was an unconditional tempo run from the start. Galkina led the field with world record breaking times. She covered the first kilometer in 2: 58.63 minutes and the second in 3: 00.57 minutes. None of her competitors was even close to being able to cope with this high pace. Galkina broke away from her pursuers early on and increased the distance to the rear as the distance increased. The field beyond fell into small groups. At the finish, Gulnara Galkina was the first Olympic champion to have a lead of almost nine seconds over this distance and was the first ever runner to break the 9-minute mark. In the end, Eunice Jepkorir caught the silver medal, Tatjana Petrowa won bronze just five seconds behind the Kenyan after her compatriot Volkova was disqualified. Cristina Casandra came fourth ahead of Ruth Bisibori Nyangau. Sixth place went to Ethiopian Zemzem Ahmed ahead of Wioletta Frankiewicz from Poland and US American Jenny Barringer - later Jenny Simpson.
Olympic champion with world record : Gulnara Galkina from Russia
Silver medal for the Kenyan Eunice Jepkorir
Bronze medalist Tatiana Petrowa from Russia
The Romanian Cristina Cassandra reached fourth place in the final
The Kenyan Ruth Bisibori Nyangau finished fifth in the Olympics
The eighth place American Jenny Barringer
The Italian Elena Romagnolo comes in tenth place
The Olympic twelfth Habiba Ghribi from Tunisia
The Spaniard Marta Domínguez gives up the race before reaching the finish
Web links
- SportsReference 3000m obstacle women , accessed June 26, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website, accessed June 26, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 26, 2018
Video
- Athletics-Women's 3000m Steeplechase - Final , posted August 17, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 26, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 18, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 18, 2018
- ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 18, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 18, 2018
- ↑ IAAF records, 3000 m obstacle women , accessed on June 26, 2018
- ↑ a b c Post-doping tests: obstacle runner Volkova loses bronze ( German ) www.leichtathletik.de. October 27, 2016. Retrieved June 26, 2018.
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