3000 Metres Summary | 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics

POS	Rank	Heat	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	RESULTS
1	1	2	Wendy Sly	GBR	8:44.79
2	2	2	Yelena Romanova	URS	8:45.00
3	3	2	Tatyana Samolenko-Dorovskikh	URS	8:45.20
3	4	2	Elly van Hulst	NED	8:45.20
5	5	2	Maricica Puica	ROU	8:45.55
6	6	2	Marie-Pierre Duros	FRA	8:46.81
7	1	1	Debbie Scott-Bowker	CAN	8:46.88
8	2	1	Ulrike Bruns	GDR	8:47.15
9	7	2	Lynn Kanuka-Williams	CAN	8:47.43
10	3	1	Cornelia Bürki	SUI	8:47.95
11	4	1	Olga Bondarenko	URS	8:48.11
12	5	1	Yvonne Murray	GBR	8:48.44
13	8	2	Christine Benning	GBR	8:48.63
14	7	1	Mary Knisely	USA	8:49.61
14	6	1	Vera Michallek	FRG	8:49.61
16	9	2	Xiuting Wang	CHN	8:50.68 AR
17	10	2	Paula Ivan	ROU	8:51.20
18	11	2	Leslie Seymour	USA	8:51.34
19	12	2	Radka Naplatanova	BUL	8:51.98
20	8	1	Annette Sergent-Palluy	FRA	8:52.45
21	9	1	Cindy Bremser	USA	8:54.17
22	10	1	Jackie Perkins	AUS	8:57.24
23	13	2	Agnese Possamai	ITA	8:57.85
24	11	1	Fernanda Ribeiro	POR	9:01.15
25	14	2	Andri Avraam	CYP	9:09.34
26	12	1	Satu Levelä	FIN	9:16.28
27	13	1	Monica Regonessi	CHI	9:26.11
28	14	1	Raj Kumari Pandey	NEP	10:44.15
		1	Dorina Calenic-Briand	ROU	DQ
		2	Martine Fays	FRA	DNF
		2	Fanny Gidiyoni	MAW	DNS

3000 Metres women