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The following table shows the world record progression in the Women's 3,000 metres. The first record officially recognised by the IAAF was set on 6 July 1974 by Lyudmila Bragina from the Soviet Union. As of June 21, 2009, the IAAF has ratified nine world records in the event. [1]
Lamecha Girma (born 26 November 2000) [2] is an Ethiopian athlete who specialises in the 3,000 metres steeplechase.He is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medallist in the event and won silver medals at the 2019, 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships.
Her international debut came at the 2011 African Cross Country Championships, where she placed sixth in the junior race to complete a Kenyan sweep of the top six. [2] She ran the third fastest time ever for the 2000 metres steeplechase at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics, recording 6:16.41 minutes to take the gold in spite of a heavy fall at the waterjump.
In 2017, Chepkoech won her first Diamond League race, taking 3000 m steeplechase victory in Paris with a time of 9:01.69. [2] At the London World Championships in August, she missed a water jump and had to run back in the final, finishing a disappointing fourth in 9:10.45. [ 6 ]
She won gold in the 3000 m steeplechase at the 2024 Paris Olympics in an Olympic record time of 8:52.76. [ 17 ] [ 18 ] She won at the Rome Diamond League in a time of 8:44.39, breaking her own national record by over 6 seconds and only missing out on the world record by 0.07 seconds. [ 19 ]
A plaque on Vasil Levski National Stadium, Sofia, Bulgaria, commemorating Stefka Kostadinova's high jump world record of 2.08 m set on 31 May 1986. The first world record in the women's high jump was recognised by the Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale (FSFI) in 1922.
3000 m walk (track) 10:43.84 Tom Bosworth Great Britain 21 July 2018 Diamond League: London, United Kingdom [44] 5000 m walk (track) 18:38.97 Dane Bird-Smith Australia 5 March 2016 Melbourne Track Classic: Albert Park, Australia [45] 10,000 m walk (track) 38:20.90 David Smith Australia 15 September 1985 Sydney, Australia 38:06.6 h # 25 ...
The first 3000 m steeplechase world record to be ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was a run of 8:49.6 minutes by Hungarian Sándor Rozsnyói in 1954. [1] Before standardization, Sweden's Josef Ternström was the first to complete the event in under ten minutes with his time of 9:49.8 minutes in 1914.