2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase

Events at the 2007 World Championships
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
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
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The Women's 3,000 metres Steeplechase event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 25, 2007 (heats) and August 27, 2007 (final) at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan. The first four of each heat (Q) plus the three fastest times (q) qualified for the final.

Medallists

Gold	Yekaterina Volkova (RUS)
Silver	Tatyana Petrova (RUS)
Bronze	Eunice Jepkorir (KEN)

Records

World record	9:01.59	Gulnara Samitova	Russia	Iraklio, Greece	4 July 2004
Championship record	9:06.57	Yekaterina Volkova	Russia	Osaka, Japan	2005

Results

Final

Place	Athlete	Mark	Notes
1	Yekaterina Volkova (RUS)	9:06.57	CR, WL, PB
2	Tatyana Petrova (RUS)	9:09.19	PB
3	Eunice Jepkorir (KEN)	9:20.09
4	Ruth Bisibori (KEN)	9:25.25	WJR
5	Sophie Duarte (FRA)	9:27.51	NR
6	Cristina Casandra (ROM)	9:29.63
7	Gulnara Samitova-Galkina (RUS)	9:30.24
8	Rosa Morató (ESP)	9:36.84
9	Hanane Ouhaddou (MAR)	9:37.87
10	Roisin McGettigan (IRL)	9:39.80
11	Veerle Dejaeghere (BEL)	9:40.10
12	Fionnuala Britton (IRL)	9:48.09
13	Sara Moreira (POR)	10:00.40
14	Mardrea Hyman (JAM)	10:16.24
	Wioletta Janowska (POL)	DNF

Qualification

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Mark	Notes
1	Eunice Jepkorir (KEN)	9:32.27	Q
2	Tatyana Petrova (RUS)	9:38.80	Q
3	Veerle Dejaeghere (BEL)	9:38.95	Q
4	Roisin McGettigan (IRL)	9:39.41	Q
5	Hatti Dean (GBR)	9:43.23
6	Mekdes Bekele (ETH)	9:50.12
7	Jennifer Barringer (USA)	9:51.04
8	Zulema Fuentes-Pila (ESP)	9:55.62
9	Dobrinka Shalamanova (BUL)	9:58.76
10	Zenaide Vieira (BRA)	10:04.40
11	Nataliya Tobias (UKR)	10:11.58
12	Jin Yuan (CHN)	10:14.46
13	Irini Kokkinariou (GRE)	10:19.62
14	Tebogo Masehla (RSA)	10:41.02
15	Kristine Eikrem Engeset (NOR)	10:56.45
	Minori Hayakari (JPN)	DNF
	Julie Coulaud (FRA)	DNF
	Alesia Turava (BLR)	DNF

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Mark	Notes
1	Rosa Morató (ESP)	9:43.48	Q
2	Wioletta Janowska (POL)	9:43.96	Q
3	Gulnara Samitova-Galkina (RUS)	9:43.98	Q
4	Sara Moreira (POR)	9:44.01	Q
5	Korene Hinds (JAM)	9:44.04
6	Helen Clitheroe (GBR)	9:45.59
7	Ancuta Bobocel (ROM)	9:53.44
8	Türkan Erismis (TUR)	9:54.77
9	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal (NOR)	9:56.41
10	Lindsey Anderson (USA)	9:57.00
11	Li Zhenzhu (CHN)	10:00.55
12	Zemzem Ahmed (ETH)	10:07.77
13	Élodie Olivarès (FRA)	10:08.39
14	Andrea Mayr (AUT)	10:14.22
15	Sabine Heitling (BRA)	10:19.57
	Christin Johansson (SWE)	DNF
	Donna MacFarlane (AUS)	DNF
	Sigrid Vanden Bempt (BEL)	DNF

Heat 3

Place	Athlete	Mark	Notes
1	Cristina Casandra (ROM)	9:29.39	Q
2	Yekaterina Volkova (RUS)	9:30.00	Q
3	Hanane Ouhaddou (MAR)	9:30.61	Q
4	Sophie Duarte (FRA)	9:30.70	Q
5	Ruth Bisibori (KEN)	9:31.20	q PB
6	Mardrea Hyman (JAM)	9:42.23	q
7	Fionnuala Britton (IRL)	9:42.38	q
8	Anna Willard (USA)	9:48.62
9	Elena Romagnolo (ITA)	9:50.79
10	Diana Martín (ESP)	9:53.88
11	Katarzyna Kowalska (POL)	9:58.74
12	Stephanie de Croock (BEL)	10:01.74
13	Zhu Yanmei (CHN)	10:01.77
14	Victoria Mitchell (AUS)	10:06.61
15	Netsanet Achamo (ETH)	10:12.59
16	Valentyna Horpynych (UKR)	10:13.87
17	Silje Fjørtoft (NOR)	10:32.33
18	Yoshika Tatsumi (JPN)	10:32.67

References

• Official results, heats - IAAF.org
• Official results, final - IAAF.org
• Event report - IAAF.org