2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres

2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
10,000 m walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 3000 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics will be held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 10 July.^[1][2][3]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kenya	Ethiopia	Emelia Gorecka  Great Britain

Records[]

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record	Zola Pieterse (GBR)	8:28.85	Rome, Italy	7 September 1985
Championship Record	Zhang Linli (CHN)	8:46.86	Seoul, South Korea	20 September 1992
World Junior Leading	Nancy Chepkwemoi (KEN)	8:56.52	Doha, Qatar	11 May 2012

Results[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
		Kenya	9:08.88	PB
		Ethiopia	9:09.27	PB
	Emelia Gorecka	Great Britain	9:09.43	PB
4		Ethiopia	9:10.02	PB
5	Brillian Jepkorir Kipkoech	Kenya	9:14.32	PB
6	Aisling Cuffe	United States	9:19.95
7		New Zealand	9:21.23	PB
8	Miyuki Uehara	Japan	9:21.81
9		United States	9:21.88	PB
10	Li Zhixuan	China	9:24.06	PB
11	Liv Westphal	France	9:24.10	PB
12		Ukraine	9:25.98
13		Ireland	9:26.26	PB
14		China	9:27.89	PB
15		Canada	9:37.84
16	Laura Muir	Great Britain	9:40.81
17		Japan	9:49.84
18		Norway	9:59.69
19		Gabon	13:54.15	PB
–		Uganda	–	DNS

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

References[]

External links[]

• WJC12 3000 metres schedule