1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres

1998 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
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
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

The women's 3000 metres event at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Annecy, France, at Parc des Sports on 28 and 30 July.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Yin Lili  China
Silver	Yimenashu Taye  Ethiopia
Bronze	Edna Kiplagat  Kenya

Results

Final

30 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Yin Lili	China	8:57.09
	Yimenashu Taye	Ethiopia	9:01.70
	Edna Kiplagat	Kenya	9:05.46
4	Lan Lixin	China	9:07.39
5	Yoshiko Fujinaga	Japan	9:15.64
6	Margaret Chepkemboi	Kenya	9:25.38
7	Inês Monteiro	Portugal	9:26.33
8	Melanie Schulz	Germany	9:28.71
9	Genet Teka	Ethiopia	9:33.17
10	Živilė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	9:34.01
11	Eloise Poppet	Australia	9:36.64
12	Seltana Aït Hammou	Morocco	10:15.26

Heats

28 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lan Lixin	China	9:22.19	Q
2	Margaret Chepkemboi	Kenya	9:22.49	Q
3	Yoshiko Fujinaga	Japan	9:22.93	Q
4	Eloise Poppet	Australia	9:23.67	Q
5	Živilė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	9:24.98	q
6	Seltana Aït Hammou	Morocco	9:24.99	q
7	Amber Gascoigne	United Kingdom	9:43.55
8	Demelza Murrihy	New Zealand	9:52.24
9	Catherine Maapela	South Africa	10:06.14

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yin Lili	China	9:17.83	Q
2	Yimenashu Taye	Ethiopia	9:18.80	Q
3	Edna Kiplagat	Kenya	9:23.87	Q
4	Inês Monteiro	Portugal	9:24.78	Q
5	Genet Teka	Ethiopia	9:26.50	q
6	Melanie Schulz	Germany	9:28.98	q
7	Diana Maciusonytė	Lithuania	9:33.08
8	Yelena Tolstygina	Belarus	9:35.17
9	Nicole Chapple	Australia	9:40.62
10	Vanessa Veiga Comesaña	Spain	9:58.46
11	Épiphanie Nyirabaramé	Rwanda	10:39.35

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

References