2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Girls' 3000 metres explained

Event:	Girls' 3000 metres
Competition:	2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics
Venue:	Stadium Lille Métropole
Dates:	6 July
Competitors:	16
Win Value:	8:56.36
Gold:	Gotytom Gebreslase
Goldnoc:	ETH
Silver:	Ziporah Wanjiru Kingori
Silvernoc:	KEN
Bronze:	Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui
Bronzenoc:	KEN
Prev:	2009
Next:	2013

The girls' 3000 metres at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadium Lille Métropole on 6 July.^[1]

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Gotytom Gebreslase	Ziporah Wanjiru Kingori	Caroline Chepkoech Kipkirui

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best		8:36.45		6 June 1993
Championship Record		8:53.94	Ostrava, Czech Republic	11 July 2007
World Youth Leading		9:00.87	Marseille, France	4 June 2011

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			8:56.36	WYL
			8:56.82	PB
			8:58.83	PB
			9:01.51	PB
			9:04.32	PB
			9:05.62	PB
			9:11.36
			9:25.11	PB
			9:32.17	PB
			9:34.70	PB
			9:38.65	PB
			9:44.44	PB
			9:55.29
			9:58.41
			10:05.96
			DNS

Intermediate leaders:

1000 m: Tomoka Kimura: 2:58.83
2000 m: Alemitu Heroye: 6:05.35

Notes and References

http://www.iaaf.org/wyc11/results/eventCode=4528/racedate=07-06-2011/sex=W/discCode=3000/combCode=hash/roundCode=f/results.html#detW_3000_hash_f Timetable
Web site: 3000 Metres Girls - Final . . 6 July 2011.