2023 World Athletics Championships – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase

Women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2023 World Championships
The final underway.
Venue	National Athletics Centre
Dates	23 August (heats) 27 August (final)
Competitors	35 from 22 nations
Winning time	8:54.29
Medalists
Winfred Mutile Yavi    Bahrain   Beatrice Chepkoech    Kenya   Faith Cherotich    Kenya
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The women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on 23 and 27 August 2023. ^[1]

Summary

World record holder Beatrice Chepkoech showed her intention by assuming the lead 50 metres into the race. She proceeded to bang out 72 second laps confident she could burn off any competition. And it worked. Over the next six laps, one by one, they fell off the back, except one. Winfred Yavi refused to go away. Coming in to the bell, Yavi pulled next to Chepkoech. After the bell, Yavi pulled away, slowly, steadily. Yavi jumped the water jump barrier without touching it, she exited faster, looked back over her shoulder to make sure. It was clear would no challenge would be coming. By the time Yavi reached the finish line, Chepkoech was over 20 metres back. Faith Cherotich, the last to fall off the pace was the next to finish to collect bronze.

Yavi's time 8:54.29 was the fifth fastest of all time. Chepkoech had run two superior times, making Yavi the #4 performer of all time. Cherotich became #12. Fifth place Alice Finot became #19 and sixth place Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimšek became #20.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows: ^[2]

Record	Athlete & Nat.	Perf.	Location	Date
World record	Beatrice Chepkoech  (KEN)	8:44.32	Fontvieille, Monaco	20 July 2018
Championship record	Norah Jeruto  (KAZ)	8:53.02	Eugene, United States	20 July 2022
World Leading	Jackline Chepkoech  (KEN)	8:57.35	London, United Kingdom	23 July 2023
African Record	Beatrice Chepkoech  (KEN)	8:44.32	Fontvieille, Monaco	20 July 2018
Asian Record	Ruth Jebet  (BHR)	8:52.78	Paris, France	27 August 2016
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Courtney Frerichs  (USA)	8:57.77	Eugene, United States	21 August 2021
South American Record	Tatiane Raquel da Silva  (BRA)	9:24.38	Watford, United Kingdom	11 June 2022
European Record	Gulnara Samitova-Galkina  (RUS)	8:58.81	Beijing, China	17 August 2008
Oceanian record	Genevieve Lacaze  (AUS)	9:14.28	Paris, France	27 August 2016

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 9:23.00. ^[3]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

Date	Time	Round
23 August	19:53	Heats
27 August	21:05	Final

Results

Heats

The first 5 athletes in each heat (Q) qualify to the final. ^[4]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Jackline Chepkoech	Kenya  (KEN)	9:16.41	Q
2	3	Zerfe Wondemagegn	Ethiopia  (ETH)	9:16.97	Q
3	3	Luiza Gega	Albania  (ALB)	9:17.71	Q
4	1	Winfred Mutile Yavi	Bahrain  (BHR)	9:19.18	Q
5	1	Beatrice Chepkoech	Kenya  (KEN)	9:19.22	Q
6	2	Faith Cherotich	Kenya  (KEN)	9:19.55	Q
7	2	Sembo Almayew	Ethiopia  (ETH)	9:19.60	Q
8	2	Peruth Chemutai	Uganda  (UGA)	9:20.03	Q
9	1	Lomi Muleta	Ethiopia  (ETH)	9:20.13	Q
10	3	Alice Finot	France  (FRA)	9:20.27	Q
11	1	Courtney Wayment	United States  (USA)	9:20.60	Q
12	2	Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimšek	Slovenia  (SLO)	9:21.79	Q
13	1	Marwa Bouzayani	Tunisia  (TUN)	9:23.07	Q
14	1	Alicja Konieczek	Poland  (POL)	9:23.45	PB
15	3	Olivia Gürth	Germany  (GER)	9:24.28	Q, PB
16	2	Parul Chaudhary	India  (IND)	9:24.29	Q, PB
17	1	Aimee Pratt	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	9:26.37
18	1	Regan Yee	Canada  (CAN)	9:26.39
19	2	Ceili McCabe	Canada  (CAN)	9:29.30
20	2	Cara Feain-Ryan	Australia  (AUS)	9:29.60	PB
21	3	Greta Karinauskaitė	Lithuania  (LTU)	9:30.28
22	3	Kristlin Gear	United States  (USA)	9:30.61
23	3	Amy Cashin	Australia  (AUS)	9:31.07	PB
24	1	Marta Serrano	Spain  (ESP)	9:31.82
25	3	Irene Sánchez-Escribano	Spain  (ESP)	9:31.97
26	2	Carolina Robles	Spain  (ESP)	9:34.41
27	2	Flavie Renouard	France  (FRA)	9:39.91
28	2	Emma Coburn	United States  (USA)	9:41.52
29	2	Aneta Konieczek	Poland  (POL)	9:45.61
30	2	Daisy Jepkemei	Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	9:46.23
31	1	Tuğba Güvenç	Turkey  (TUR)	9:50.96
32	1	Brielle Erbacher  [ de ]	Australia  (AUS)	9:57.11
33	1	Nataliya Strebkova	Ukraine  (UKR)	10:02.20
34	3	Juliane Hvid	Denmark  (DEN)	10:09.41
35	3	Tatiane Raquel da Silva	Brazil  (BRA)	10:19.80

Final

The final was started on 27 August at 21:05. ^[5]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Winfred Mutile Yavi	Bahrain  (BHR)	8:54.29	WL
	Beatrice Chepkoech	Kenya  (KEN)	8:58.98	SB
	Faith Cherotich	Kenya  (KEN)	9:00.69	PB
4	Zerfe Wondemagegn	Ethiopia  (ETH)	9:05.51
5	Alice Finot	France  (FRA)	9:06.15	NR
6	Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimšek	Slovenia  (SLO)	9:06.37	NR
7	Peruth Chemutai	Uganda  (UGA)	9:10.26	PB
8	Luiza Gega	Albania  (ALB)	9:10.27	SB
9	Jackline Chepkoech	Kenya  (KEN)	9:14.72
10	Marwa Bouzayani	Tunisia  (TUN)	9:15.07
11	Parul Chaudhary	India  (IND)	9:15.31	NR
12	Lomi Muleta	Ethiopia  (ETH)	9:15.36
13	Sembo Almayew	Ethiopia  (ETH)	9:18.25
14	Olivia Gürth	Germany  (GER)	9:20.08	PB
15	Courtney Wayment	United States  (USA)	9:25.90

References

1. "Budapest 23 - World Athletics Timetable" (PDF). World Athletics . 19 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
2. "3000 Metres Steeplechase Women − Records". World Athletics . Archived from the original on 4 October 2023. Retrieved 25 August 2023.
3. "Qualification System and Entry Standards" (PDF). World Athletics . 19 August 2022. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
4. "Summary - 3000 Metres Steeplechase Men - Round 1" (PDF). World Athletics . 19 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 August 2023. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
5. "Results 3000 Metres Steeplechase Women - Final" (PDF). World Athletics . 27 August 2023. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 August 2023. Retrieved 27 August 2023.