Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 3000 m obstacle (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course
gender	Women
Attendees	44 athletes from 26 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 4, 2012 (preliminary round) August 6, 2012 (final)
Winning time	9: 08.37 min
Medalists Habiba Ghribi ( DO ) Sofia Assefa ( ETH ) Milcah Cheywa ( KEN )

The women's 3000 meter obstacle course at the 2012 Olympic Games in London was held on August 4th and 6th, 2012 in the London Olympic Stadium. 44 athletes took part.

The Tunisian Habiba Ghribi became Olympic champion . She won in front of the Ethiopian Sofia Assefa and the Kenyan Milcah Cheywa .

Gesa Felicitas Krause and Antje Möldner-Schmidt started for Germany . Both reached the final. Möldner-Schmidt came in sixth, Krause seventh.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion	Gulnara Galkina ( Russia )	8: 58.81 min	Beijing 2008
world champion	Habiba Ghribi ( Tunisia )	9: 11.97 min	Daegu 2011
European champion	Gülcan Mıngır ( Turkey )	9: 32.96 min	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champion	Korene Hinds ( Jamaica )	9: 54.67 min	Mayagüez 2011
South America Champion	Ángela Figueroa ( Colombia )	9: 58.00 min	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Minori Hayakari ( Japan )	9: 52.42 min	Kobe 2011
African champion	Mercy Njoroge ( Kenya )	9: 43.26 min	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania champion	Christina Taylor ( New Zealand )	11: 21.94 min	Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record	Gulnara Galkina ( Russia )	8: 58.81 min	Beijing , People's Republic of China	August 17, 2008
Olympic record			Beijing Final , People's Republic of China

Note: All times in this post are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

Doping and those who suffer

There were four doping cases in this discipline:

• In March 2016, Julija Saripowa was subsequently disqualified for doping. Her Olympic victory and the 2011 world championship title were stripped of her . The Tunisian Habiba Ghribi was declared the new Olympic champion. Sofia Assefa received the silver medal, Milcah Cheywa bronze. Ghribi was presented with the gold medals for her Olympic victory and her world championship title during the U-23 Mediterranean Games in Radès, Tunisia, by Nawal El Moutawakel, an Olympic gold medalist in the 1984 hurdles from Morocco, in her role as IOC Vice President.
• The Spaniard Marta Domínguez, who finished twelfth in 9: 36.45 minutes, was subsequently disqualified for doping. The International Court of Justice for Sports (CAS) sentenced Domínguez to a three-year ban for doping in November 2015. In addition, all titles that she had won between August 5, 2009 and January 4, 2013 were stripped of her. This affected, among other things, the world title over 3000 meters obstacle from 2009 and the vice European title from 2010 .
• In May 2015, the Ukrainian Switlana Schmidt - eliminated in eleventh place in the third heat with 10: 01.09 min - was subsequently disqualified because of abnormalities in her biological passport .
• The Turkish woman Binnaz Uslu - who finished last in the first run with 10: 31.00 min - received a lifelong ban in 2014 for repeated doping, which came into effect retrospectively from August 30, 2011.

Since the last two doping offenders mentioned were already eliminated in the preliminary runs, there were no further consequences for other runners. It was very different in the first two cases. In addition to the athletes, who sometimes received their medals several years late, the ones who suffered were the athletes who were denied progress in the heats. These were the Romanian Ancuța Bobocel, who with her time of 9: 31.06 min would have qualified for the final as well as the British Barbara Parker - 9: 32.07 min in lead 1.

Prelims

Three preliminary runs were carried out. The first four athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the three fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

Scene from the first run

August 4, 2012, 11:35 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
0 1	Gesa Felicitas Krause	Germany	9: 24.91
0 2	Etenesh Diro	Ethiopia	9: 25.31
0 3	Milcah Chemos Cheywa	Kenya	9: 27.09
0 4th	Poļina Jeļizarova	Latvia	9: 27.21	NO
0 5	Gulnara Galkina	Russia	9: 28.76
0 6th	Barbara Parker	Great Britain	9: 32.07	actually qualified for the final
0 7th	Li Zhenzhu	People's Republic of China	9: 34.29
0 8th	Diana Martín	Spain	9: 35.77
0 9	Genevieve LaCaze	Australia	9: 37.90
10	Korene Hinds	Jamaica	9: 37.95
11	Salima Elouali Alami	Morocco	9: 44.62
12	Shalaya tilt	United States	9: 48.33
13	Sudha Singh	India	9: 48.86
14th	Svyatlana Kudselitsch	Belarus	9: 54.77
DOP	Binnaz Uslu	Turkey

Forward 2

August 4, 2012, 11:51 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
0 1	Sofia Assefa	Ethiopia	9: 25.42
0 2	Habiba Ghribi	Tunisia	9: 27.42
0 3	Emma Coburn	United States	9: 27.51
0 4th	Clarisse Cruz	Portugal	9: 30.06
0 5	Jelena Orlowa	Russia	9: 33.14
0 6th	Valentina Tschudina	Ukraine	9: 37.90
0 7th	Lydia Rotich	Kenya	9: 42.03
0 8th	Stephanie Reilly	Ireland	9: 44.77
0 9	Gülcan Mıngır	Turkey	9: 47.35
10	Katarzyna Kowalska	Poland	9: 48.60
11	Beverly Ramos	Puerto Rico	9: 55.26
12	Cristina Casandra	Romania	9: 58.83
13	Yin Anna	People's Republic of China	10: 09.10
14th	Ángela Figueroa	Colombia	10: 25.60
DOP	Marta Domínguez	Spain		admitted to the finals

Forward 3

August 4, 2012, 12:07 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
0 1	Hiwot Ayalew	Ethiopia	9: 24.01
0 2	Mercy Wanjiku Njoroge	Kenya	9: 25.99
0 3	Antje Möldner-Schmidt	Germany	9: 26.57
0 4th	Bridget Franek	United States	9: 29.86
0 5	Ancuța Bobocel	Romania	9: 31.06	actually qualified for the final
0 6th	Dorcus Inzikuru	Uganda	9: 35.29
0 7th	Sandra Eriksson	Finland	9: 50.71
0 8th	Eilish McColgan	Great Britain	9: 54.36
0 9	Kaltoum Bouaasayriya	Morocco	9: 58.77
10	Silwija Danekowa	Bulgaria	9: 59.52
11	Özlem Kaya	Turkey	10: 03.52
12	Matylda Szlęzak	Poland	10: 08.84
DOP	Yulia Saripova	Russia		admitted to the finals
	Switlana Schmidt	Ukraine

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  The Jamaican Korene Hinds was eliminated as tenth of her preliminary run

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  The Indian Sudha Singh was thirteenth in her preliminary run and was eliminated

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  Seventh place from her preliminary run was not enough for Kenyan Lydia Rotich to reach the finals

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  The Turkish Gülcan Mıngır failed in the preliminaries as ninth of her race

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  Katarzyna Kowalska from Poland took tenth place in her preliminary run, which was not enough for participation in the finals

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  Beverly Ramos from Puerto Rico failed in the preliminaries with eleventh place

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  The Romanian Cristina Casandra was twelfth of her preliminary and did not reach the final

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  The Romanian Ancuța Bobocel was not able to exercise the right to start the final that she had actually acquired due to the fact that doping sinners were disqualified too late

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  Dorcus Inzikuru from Uganda was eliminated in sixth place in their preliminary round

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  The Finn Sandra Eriksson finished seventh in her preliminary run and did not reach the final

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  A tenth place for Bulgarian Silwija Danekowa in her preliminary run was not enough to make it into the final

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  The doped Ukrainian Switlana Schmidt

final

Gold medal award ceremony for Habiba Ghibri

Starting line-up before the finals (from left to right):
Galkina, Franek, Ayalew, Krause, Cruz, Saripowa, Assefa, Coburn, Möldner-Schmidt, Ghribi, Diro, Jeļizarova, Domínguez, Cheywa, Njorogo

Racing scene (from right to left):
Saripowa, Ayalew, Cheywa, Galkina, Njoroge, Diro, Assefa, Ghribi, Cruz, Domínguez, Coburn, Krause

August 6, 2012, 9:05 pm

All three Ethiopians, two Germans, two Kenyans and two Americans qualified for the final. There was also one participant each from Latvia, Portugal, Russia and Tunisia. In addition, the two runners from Russia and Spain, who were only convicted of doping abuse after the games, took part in the finals. The role of these two athletes will not be considered in the following description of the final event

The favorite was the Russian Julija Saripowa, who was later disqualified as a doping sinner. The Tunisian Habiba Ghribi and the Russian Olympic champion of 2008 and world record holder Gulnara Galkina were her strongest opponents .

The first two kilometers were covered at a not too brisk pace, so that the field could stay together for a long time - first km: 3: 06.24 min / second km: 3: 05.36 min. Only three laps before the end did a seven-man lead group formed. In the front were Ghribi, the Kenyans Mercy Njoroge and Milcah Cheywa and the three Ethiopians Sofia Assefa, Etenesh Diro and Hiwot Ayalew. Galkina had to abandon the race beforehand.

On the last kilometer it got significantly faster, whereupon Njoroge and Diro fell out of the leading group at the moat. Ghribi stayed ahead at high speed, Assefa broke away from her team-mates with a distance to the Tunisian. Cheywa tried again, however, but Assefa was able to maintain her place. Ghribi pulled off her race and won the gold medal with her fast last thousand meters in 2: 56.77 minutes. A new national record also came out for them. Assefa just held her silver spot with a lead of 0.04 s on Cheywa. Ayalew followed three seconds behind in fourth, another six seconds later Diro in front of the two Germans Antje Möldner-Schmidt and Gesa Felicitas Krause.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
0 1	Habiba Ghribi	Tunisia	9: 08.37	NO
0 2	Sofia Assefa	Ethiopia	9: 09.84
0 3	Milcah Chemos Cheywa	Kenya	9: 09.88
0 4th	Hiwot Ayalew	Ethiopia	9: 12.98
0 5	Etenesh Diro	Ethiopia	9: 19.89
0 6th	Antje Möldner-Schmidt	Germany	9: 21.78
0 7th	Gesa Felicitas Krause	Germany	9: 23.52
0 8th	Emma Coburn	United States	9: 23.54
0 9	Mercy Wanjiku Njoroge	Kenya	9: 26.73
10	Clarisse Cruz	Portugal	9: 32.44
11	Poļina Jeļizarova	Latvia	9: 38.56
12	Bridget Franek	United States	9: 45.51
DNF	Gulnara Galkina	Russia
DOP	Yulia Saripova	Russia
	Marta Domínguez	Spain

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  Olympic champion:
  Habiba Ghribi, Tunisia

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  Silver medal:
  Sofia Assefa, Ethiopia

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  Bronze medal:
  Milcah Cheywa from Kenya

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  The Ethiopian Hiwot Ayalew finished fourth in the final

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  The German Antje Möldner-Schmidt was sixth in the Olympics

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  Gesa Felicitas Krause from Germany came in seventh place in the final

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  The American Bridget Franek came in twelfth

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  Julija Saripowa, Russian doping sinner

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  The doped Spaniard Marta Domínguez

Web links

• SportsReference 3000 m obstacle women (English) ,
• Official report (English) ,
• Results on the website of the World Athletics Federation IAAF (English) ,

Videos

• Women's Steeplechase Full Replay - 3000m Round 1 - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 4, 2012, accessed September 22, 2018
• Women's 3000m Steeplechase - London 2012 Olympics on youtube.com, published August 6, 2012, accessed September 22, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015 page 796 (English) , accessed on September 22, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c} press release ( memento of the original from June 25, 2016 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. of the CAS of March 24, 2016 (English), accessed on September 22, 2018 
3. ↑ News from the Daily Mail from June 4, 2016 (English) , accessed on September 22, 2018
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Report in the Spiegel from November 20, 2015 , accessed on September 22, 2018
5. ↑ ^{a b} Doping History of: Binnaz Uslu on olympicgamesstats.com, updated: September 22, 2018 (English), accessed on September 22, 2018
6. ↑ ^{a b} Doping overshadows Turkish athletics Daily Sabah of August 20, 2015 (English), accessed on September 22, 2018