Athletics at the 1985 Summer Universiade – Women's 10,000 metres

Athletics at the 1985 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
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
5000 m walk		women
20 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

The women's 10,000 metres event at the 1985 Summer Universiade was held at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium in Kobe on 30 August 1985.^[1][2] It was the first time that the event was contested by women at the Universiade.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Marina Rodchenkova	Soviet Union	32:58.45
	Svetlana Guskova	Soviet Union	32:59.24
	Kirsten O'Hara	United States	33:05.84
4	Liz Lynch	Great Britain	33:19.14
5	Ute Jamrozy	West Germany	34:14.82
6	Shino Izutsu	Japan	34:50.16
7	Elena Evanoff	Canada	34:54.97
8	Marguerite Buist	New Zealand	34:50.16?
9	Luo Yuxiu	China	36:02.41
10	Chizuko Kuroda	Japan	37:05.18
11	Rosario Ávalos	Mexico	37:18.97
12	Bernadette Madigan	Great Britain	38:16.13
	Robyn Root	United States	DNF