2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres

The women's 3,000 metres at the 2010 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Moncton 2010 Stadium on 19 July.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mercy Cherono  Kenya	Emebet Anteneh  Ethiopia	Layes Abdullayeva  Azerbaijan

Records

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

	Name	Nationality	Time	Location	Date
World junior record	Zola Budd	Great Britain	8:28.83	Rome	September 7, 1985
Championship record	Zhang Linli	China	8:46.46	Seoul	September 20, 1992

no new records were established during the competition.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mercy Cherono	Kenya	8:55.07	WJL
	Emebet Anteneh	Ethiopia	8:55.24	PB
	Layes Abdullayeva	Azerbaijan	8:55.33	NR,NJR
4	Purity Cherotich Rionoripo	Kenya	8:56.91	PB
5	Tejitu Daba	Bahrain	9:01.22	NJR
6	Genet Yalew	Ethiopia	9:01.75	PB
7	Jennifer Wenth	Austria	9:09.20	NJR
8	Hannah Newbould	New Zealand	9:15.68	PB
9	Jordan Hasay	United States	9:15.78	PB
10	Emily Sisson	United States	9:16.80	PB
11	Emelia Gorecka	United Kingdom	9:18.43
12	Haruka Kyuma	Japan	9:22.13
13	Karla Díaz	Mexico	9:23.22	NJR
14	Tuğba Karakaya	Turkey	9:23.65	PB
15	Gulshat Fazlitdinova	Russia	9:25.32
16	Laura Nagel	New Zealand	9:25.91	PB
17	Mojie Cao	China	9:27.96
18	Kanako Fujiishi	Japan	9:28.04	SB
19	Mary Naali	Tanzania	9:42.51	PB
20	Esma Aydemir	Turkey	9:43.03
21	Laura Galván	Mexico	9:47.09
22	Caroline Pfister	Canada	9:47.55	SB

Key: NJR = National junior record, PB = Personal best, SB = Seasonal best, WJL = World junior leading

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

•  Austria (1)
•  Azerbaijan (1)
•  Bahrain (1)
•  Canada (1)
•  China (1)
•  Ethiopia (2)
•  Japan (2)
•  Kenya (2)
•  Mexico (2)
•  New Zealand (2)
•  Russia (1)
•  Tanzania (1)
•  Turkey (2)
•  United Kingdom (1)
•  United States (2)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2010 Moncton CAN Jul 19-25, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 9 March 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

• 3,000 metres results. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-22.
• 13th IAAF World Junior Championships Facts & Figures. IAAF. Retrieved on 2010-07-22.