2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 3000 metres

Women's 3000 metres
at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Venue Oregon Convention Center
Dates March 20
Competitors 13 from 9 nations
Winning time 8:47.43
Medalists
 Genzebe Dibaba   Ethiopia
 Meseret Defar   Ethiopia
 Shannon Rowbury   United States
Events at the
2016 IAAF World Indoor
Championships
Track events
60 m   men   women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m men women
60 m hurdles men women
4×400 m relay men women
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
Shot put men women
Combined events
Pentathlon women
Heptathlon men
Exhibition events
Masters 800 m men women

The women's 3000 metres at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on March 20, 2016.[1][2]

The favorite was obviously world record holder Genzebe Dibaba, but the Outdoor World Championships revealed an achilles heel, a long, drawn out kick. The finals started off at a jog with Stephanie Twell and then Sviatlana Kudzelich on the front controlling the pace. After six laps of this, Dibaba took off, running a 30 second lap and putting a 12 metre gap on the field. From there, Dibaba maintained the gap then increased it at the end as the clear winner. After Twell was the last to try to hold on to Dibaba, Meseret Defar was the last to chase. Too familiar a situation from the past with Defar chasing a Dibaba, but those were Genzebe's older sister Tirunesh. Defar had to take silver, still clear of the rest of the field. It was her seventh medal in this event, dating back to 2003. Behind them, Shannon Rowbury used her best 1500 metres kick to separate from Maureen Koster for bronze.

Results

The final was started at 13:45.[3]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Genzebe Dibaba  Ethiopia 8:47.43
2nd Meseret Defar  Ethiopia 8:54.26
3rd Shannon Rowbury  United States 8:55.55
4 Maureen Koster  Netherlands 8:56.44
5 Abbey D'Agostino  United States 8:58.40
6 Stephanie Twell  Great Britain 9:00.38
7 Betsy Saina  Kenya 9:01.86
8 Betlhem Desalegn  United Arab Emirates 9:03.30
9 Jessica O'Connell  Canada 9:05.71
10 Nancy Chepkwemoi  Kenya 9:07.63
11 Sviatlana Kudzelich  Belarus 9:17.45
12 Sheila Reid  Canada 9:19.67
13 Josephine Moultrie  Great Britain 9:29.10
N/A Renata Pliś  Poland DNS
Winner Genzebe Dibaba after crossing the finish line

References

  1. ↑ "IAAF World Indoor Championships Timetable". IAAF. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ Start list
  3. ↑ Final results
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