1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres

Events at the 1992 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
10,000 m		men		women
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
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The women's 3000 metres event at the 1992 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Seoul, Korea, at Olympic Stadium on 18 and 20 September.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Zhang Linli  China
Silver	Gabriela Szabo  Romania
Bronze	Zhang Lirong  China

Results

Final

20 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Zhang Linli	China	8:46.86
	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	8:48.28
	Zhang Lirong	China	8:48.45
4	Paula Radcliffe	United Kingdom	8:51.78
5	Annemari Sandell	Finland	8:56.02
6	Emebet Shiferaw	Ethiopia	9:00.05
7	Jeong Yeong-Im	South Korea	9:00.30
8	Susie Power	Australia	9:04.30
9	Anja Smolders	Belgium	9:08.65
10	Azumi Miyazaki	Japan	9:10.15
11	Friederike Schmidt	Germany	9:18.44
12	Mónika Tóth	Hungary	9:20.83

Heats

18 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Zhang Lirong	China	9:05.02	Q
2	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	9:08.59	Q
3	Anja Smolders	Belgium	9:08.71	Q
4	Jeong Yeong-Im	South Korea	9:08.79	Q
5	Annemari Sandell	Finland	9:09.42	q
6	Yuko Kubota	Japan	9:19.54
7	Yelena Zhilkina	Commonwealth of Independent States	9:29.38
8	Lydia Tanui	Kenya	9:34.53
9	Ana Isabel Gimeno	Spain	9:39.86
10	Andrea Karhoff	Germany	10:04.31
11	Tuelo Setswamorago	Botswana	10:59.39

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Emebet Shiferaw	Ethiopia	9:08.62	Q
2	Paula Radcliffe	United Kingdom	9:10.77	Q
3	Susie Power	Australia	9:11.52	Q
4	Zhang Linli	China	9:11.67	Q
5	Friederike Schmidt	Germany	9:11.89	q
6	Azumi Miyazaki	Japan	9:17.03	q
7	Mónika Tóth	Hungary	9:17.05	q
8	Kathy Butler	Canada	9:29.39
9	Kalekye Mutavi	Kenya	9:35.90
10	Jenny Hopkinson	New Zealand	10:09.06

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

•  Australia (1)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Botswana (1)
•  Canada (1)
•  China (2)
•  Commonwealth of Independent States (1)
•  Ethiopia (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  Germany (2)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Japan (2)
•  Kenya (2)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Romania (1)
•  South Korea (1)
•  Spain (1)
•  United Kingdom (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1992 Seoul KOR Sep 16-20, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 5 Mar 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015