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.

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:

RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record8:44.32Fontvieille, Monaco20 July 2018Championship record8:53.02Eugene, United States20 July 2022World Leading8:57.35London, United Kingdom23 July 2023African Record8:44.32Fontvieille, Monaco20 July 2018Asian Record8:52.78Paris, France27 August 2016North, Central American and Caribbean record8:57.77Eugene, United States21 August 2021South American Record9:24.38Watford, United Kingdom11 June 2022European Record8:58.81Beijing, China17 August 2008Oceanian record9:14.28Paris, France27 August 2016

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 9:23.00.

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

Date Time Round23 August 19:53 Heats27 August 21:05 Final

Results

Heats

The first 5 athletes in each heat (Q) qualify to the final.

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Jackline Chepkoech 9:16.41 Q - 3 Zerfe Wondemagegn 9:16.97 2 3 Luiza Gega 9:17.71 Q 3 1 Winfred Mutile Yavi 9:19.18 Q 4 1 Beatrice Chepkoech 9:19.22 Q 5 2 Faith Cherotich 9:19.55 Q 6 2 Sembo Almayew 9:19.60 Q 7 2 Peruth Chemutai 9:20.03 Q 8 1 Lomi Muleta 9:20.13 Q 9 3 Alice Finot 9:20.27 Q 10 1 Courtney Wayment 9:20.60 Q 11 2 Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimšek 9:21.79 Q 12 1 Marwa Bouzayani 9:23.07 Q 13 1 Alicja Konieczek 9:23.45 14 3 Olivia Gürth 9:24.28 Q, 15 2 Parul Chaudhary 9:24.29 Q, 16 1 Aimee Pratt 9:26.37 17 1 Regan Yee 9:26.39 18 2 Ceili McCabe 9:29.30 19 2 Cara Feain-Ryan 9:29.60 20 3 Greta Karinauskaitė 9:30.28 21 3 Kristlin Gear 9:30.61 22 3 Amy Cashin 9:31.07 23 1 Marta Serrano 9:31.82 24 3 Irene Sánchez-Escribano 9:31.97 25 2 Carolina Robles 9:34.41 26 2 Flavie Renouard 9:39.91 27 2 Emma Coburn 9:41.52 28 2 Aneta Konieczek 9:45.61 29 2 Daisy Jepkemei 9:46.23 30 1 Tuğba Güvenç 9:50.96 31 1 9:57.11 32 1 Nataliya Strebkova 10:02.20 33 3 Juliane Hvid 10:09.41 34 3 Tatiane Raquel da Silva 10:19.80

Final The final was started on 27 August at 21:05.

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Winfred Mutile Yavi 8:54.29 Beatrice Chepkoech 8:58.98 Faith Cherotich 9:00.69 4 Alice Finot 9:06.15 5 Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimšek 9:06.37 6 Peruth Chemutai 9:10.26 7 Luiza Gega 9:10.27 8 Jackline Chepkoech 9:14.72 9 Marwa Bouzayani 9:15.07 10 Parul Chaudhary 9:15.31 11 Lomi Muleta 9:15.36 12 Sembo Almayew 9:18.25 13 Olivia Gürth 9:20.08 14 Courtney Wayment 9:25.90 Zerfe Wondemagegn 9:05.51

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