1987 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres

Events at the 1987 World Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

These are the official results of the Women's 3.000 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Championships in Rome, Italy. There were a total number of 30 participating athletes and one non-starter, with two qualifying heats and the final held on Tuesday 1987-09-01.

Gold	Tetyana Samolenko Soviet Union (URS)
Silver	Maricica Puică Romania (ROU)
Bronze	Ulrike Bruns East Germany (GDR)

Existing records at the start of the event.

World record	Tatyana Kazankina (URS)	8:22.62	Leningrad, USSR	August 26, 1984
Championship record	Mary Decker-Slaney (USA)	8:34.62	Helsinki, Finland	August 10, 1983

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Tetyana Samolenko (URS)	8:38.73
	Maricica Puică (ROU)	8:39.45
	Ulrike Bruns (GDR)	8:40.30
4.	Cornelia Bürki (SUI)	8:40.31
5.	Yelena Romanova (URS)	8:41.33
6.	Elly van Hulst (NED)	8:42.56
7.	Yvonne Murray (GBR)	8:43.94
8.	Wendy Sly (GBR)	8:45.85
9.	Lynn Williams (CAN)	8:49.91
10.	Mary Knisely (USA)	8:50.99
11.	Vera Michallek (FRG)	8:55.16
12.	Christine Benning (GBR)	8:57.92
13.	Debbie Bowker (CAN)	8:58.63
14.	Marie-Pierre Duros (FRA)	9:14.61
—	Olga Bondarenko (URS)	DNS

• Held on Saturday 1987-08-29

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Debbie Bowker (CAN)	8:46.88
2.	Ulrike Bruns (GDR)	8:47.15
3.	Cornelia Bürki (SUI)	8:47.95
4.	Olga Bondarenko (URS)	8:48.11
5.	Yvonne Murray (GBR)	8:48.44
6.	Vera Michallek (FRG)	8:49.61
7.	Mary Knisely (USA)	8:49.61
8.	Annette Sergent (FRA)	8:52.45
9.	Cindy Bremser (USA)	8:54.17
10.	Jackie Perkins (AUS)	8:57.24
11.	Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)	9:01.15
12.	Dorina Calenic (ROU)	9:01.83
13.	Satu Levelä (FIN)	9:16.28
14.	Monica Regonesi (CHI)	9:26.11
15.	Raj Kumari Pandey (NEP)	10:44.15

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Wendy Sly (GBR)	8:44.79
2.	Yelena Romanova (URS)	8:45.00
3.	Tetyana Samolenko (URS)	8:45.20
4.	Elly van Hulst (NED)	8:45.20
5.	Maricica Puică (ROU)	8:45.55
6.	Marie-Pierre Duros (FRA)	8:46.11
7.	Lynn Williams (CAN)	8:47.43
8.	Christine Benning (GBR)	8:48.63
9.	Wang Xiuting (CHN)	8:50.68
10.	Paula Ivan (ROU)	8:51.20
11.	Leslie Seymour (USA)	8:51.34
12.	Radka Naplatanova (BUL)	8:51.98
13.	Agnese Possamai (ITA)	8:57.85
14.	Andri Avraam (CYP)	9:09.34
—	Martine Fays (FRA)	DNF
—	Fanny Gidiyoni (MAW)	DNS

• 1983 Women's World Championships 3.000 metres (Helsinki)
• 1984 Women's Olympic 3.000 metres (Los Angeles)
• 1986 Women's European Championships 3.000 metres (Stuttgart)
• 1988 Women's Olympic 3.000 metres (Seoul)
• 1990 Women's European Championships 3.000 metres (Split)
• 1991 Women's World Championships 3.000 metres (Tokyo)

• Results