IAAF:

Order / Lane	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	SB 1997	PB
1	Gabriela Szabo	ROU	14:42.43	14:31.48
2	Adriana Fernández	MEX	15:41.55	15:04.32
3	Laurence Duquenoy	FRA	15:24.03	15:24.03
4	Genet Gebregiorgis	ETH	16:04.40	16:04.40
5	Harumi Hiroyama	JPN	15:07.75	15:03.67
6	Zahra Ouaziz	MAR	15:11.10	14:32.08
7	Roberta Brunet	ITA	14:47.31	14:44.50
8	Gunhild Haugen	NOR	15:18.56	15:09.00
9	Ebru Kavaklioglu	TUR	15:37.19	14:51.69
10	Zalia Aliou	TOG	18:34.45	17:35.69
11	Ayelech Worku	ETH	15:18.19	14:41.23
12	Valerie Vaughan	IRL	15:47.72	15:42.64
13	Paula Radcliffe	GBR	14:45.51	14:29.11
14	Melody Fairchild	USA	15:47.66	15:47.66
15	Maysa Matrood	IRQ		17:17.58
16	Marina Bastos	POR	15:07.29	15:07.29
17	Martha Portoblanco	NCA	19:08.44	16:42.78
18	Elana Meyer	RSA		14:44.05
19	Li Wei	CHN	15:17.02	15:17.02
20	Libbie Johnson-Hickman	USA	15:11.15	15:11.15
21	Nebiat Habtemariam	ERI	18:26.50	15:50.18
22	Justine Nahimana	BDI	17:21.77	17:13.92
23	Kate Anderson-Richardson	AUS	15:10.78	15:10.78

Order / Lane	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	SB 1997	PB
1	Naoko Takahashi	JPN	15:23.64	15:21.15
2	Carol Howe	CAN	15:23.40	15:23.40
3	Hrisostomía Iakóvou	GRE	15:37.14	15:15.32
4	Merima Denboba	ETH	15:11.71	15:06.08
5	Annemari Sandell-Hyrvärinen	FIN	15:17.37	14:56.22
6	Kristina da Fonseca-Wollheim	GER	15:04.73	14:58.43
7	Sonia O'Sullivan	IRL	15:17.56	14:41.02
8	Yuko Kawakami	JPN	15:17.34	15:17.34
9	Lydia Cheromei	KEN	14:46.72	14:46.72
10	Jelena Prokopcuka	LAT	15:40.68	14:47.71
11	Anne Hare	NZL		15:22.31
12	Fernanda Ribeiro	POR	14:53.25	14:36.45
13	Stela Olteanu	ROU	15:24.58	15:18.05
14	Helena Javornik	SLO	16:28.38	15:15.40
15	Restituta Joseph	TAN	15:55.22	15:05.33
16	Amy Rudolph	USA	15:03.18	14:56.04
17	Olivera Jevtic	SRB	15:34.65	15:11.25
18	Jianying Liu	CHN	15:10.64	15:10.64
19	Una English	IRL	15:59.96	15:19.12