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

The women's 3000 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  Russia (RUS)
Silver	Tatyana Petrova  Russia (RUS)
Bronze	Eunice Jepkorir  Kenya (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	Nation	Mark	Notes
1	Yekaterina Volkova	Russia (RUS)	9:06.57	CR WL PB
2	Tatyana Petrova	Russia (RUS)	9:09.19	PB
3	Eunice Jepkorir	Kenya (KEN)	9:20.09
4	Ruth Bisibori	Kenya (KEN)	9:25.25	WJR
5	Sophie Duarte	France (FRA)	9:27.51	NR
6	Cristina Casandra	Romania (ROM)	9:29.63
7	Gulnara Samitova-Galkina	Russia (RUS)	9:30.24
8	Rosa Morató	Spain (ESP)	9:36.84
9	Hanane Ouhaddou	Morocco (MAR)	9:37.87
10	Roisin McGettigan	Ireland (IRL)	9:39.80
11	Veerle Dejaeghere	Belgium (BEL)	9:40.10
12	Fionnuala Britton	Ireland (IRL)	9:48.09
13	Sara Moreira	Portugal (POR)	10:00.40
14	Mardrea Hyman	Jamaica (JAM)	10:16.24
—	Wioletta Janowska	Poland (POL)	DNF

Qualification

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Notes
1	Eunice Jepkorir	Kenya (KEN)	9:32.27	Q
2	Tatyana Petrova	Russia (RUS)	9:38.80	Q
3	Veerle Dejaeghere	Belgium (BEL)	9:38.95	Q
4	Roisin McGettigan	Ireland (IRL)	9:39.41	Q
5	Hatti Dean	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	9:43.23
6	Mekdes Bekele	Ethiopia (ETH)	9:50.12
7	Jennifer Barringer	United States (USA)	9:51.04
8	Zulema Fuentes-Pila	Spain (ESP)	9:55.62
9	Dobrinka Shalamanova	Bulgaria (BUL)	9:58.76
10	Zenaide Vieira	Brazil (BRA)	10:04.40
11	Nataliya Tobias	Ukraine (UKR)	10:11.58
12	Jin Yuan	China (CHN)	10:14.46
13	Irini Kokkinariou	Greece (GRE)	10:19.62
14	Tebogo Masehla	South Africa (RSA)	10:41.02
15	Kristine Eikrem Engeset	Norway (NOR)	10:56.45
—	Minori Hayakari	Japan (JPN)	DNF
—	Julie Coulaud	France (FRA)	DNF
—	Alesia Turava	Belarus (BLR)	DNF

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Mark	Notes
1	Rosa Morató	Spain (ESP)	9:43.48	Q
2	Wioletta Janowska	Poland (POL)	9:43.96	Q
3	Gulnara Samitova-Galkina	Russia (RUS)	9:43.98	Q
4	Sara Moreira	Portugal (POR)	9:44.01	Q
5	Korene Hinds	Jamaica (JAM)	9:44.04
6	Helen Clitheroe	Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)	9:45.59
7	Ancuta Bobocel	Romania (ROM)	9:53.44
8	Türkan Erismis	Turkey (TUR)	9:54.77
9	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway (NOR)	9:56.41
10	Lindsey Anderson	United States (USA)	9:57.00
11	Li Zhenzhu	China (CHN)	10:00.55
12	Zemzem Ahmed	Ethiopia (ETH)	10:07.77
13	Élodie Olivarès	France (FRA)	10:08.39
14	Andrea Mayr	Austria (AUT)	10:14.22
15	Sabine Heitling	Brazil (BRA)	10:19.57
—	Christin Johansson	Sweden (SWE)	DNF
—	Donna MacFarlane	Australia (AUS)	DNF
—	Sigrid Vanden Bempt	Belgium (BEL)	DNF

Heat 3

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

References

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