2010 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
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Thewomen's3000 metres at the2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at theASPIRE Dome on 12 and 13 March.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Meseret Defar  Ethiopia	Vivian Cheruiyot  Kenya	Sentayehu Ejigu  Ethiopia

Standing records prior to the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships
World record	Meseret Defar (ETH)	8:23.72	Stuttgart,Germany	3 February 2007
Championship record	Elly van Hulst (NED)	8:33.82	Budapest,Hungary	4 March 1989
World Leading	Meseret Defar (ETH)	8:24.46	Stuttgart, Germany	6 February 2010
African record	Meseret Defar (ETH)	8:23.72	Stuttgart, Germany	3 February 2007
Asian record	Dong Yanmei (CHN)	8:41.34	Lisbon,Portugal	10 March 2001
European record	Liliya Shobukhova (RUS)	8:27.86	Moscow,Russia	17 February 2006
North and Central American and Caribbean record	Shalane Flanagan (USA)	8:33.25	Boston,United States	27 January 2007
Oceanian record	Kim Smith (NZL)	8:38.14	Boston, United States	27 January 2007
South American record	Letitia Vriesde (SUR)	9:07.08	The Hague,Netherlands	31 January 1993

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to thefinal.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia	8:48.23	Q
2	2	Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet	Kenya	8:48.60	Q
DQ	2	Alemitu Bekele	Turkey	8:48.73	Q,SB, Doping
3	2	Layes Abdullayeva	Azerbaijan	8:49.65	Q, PB
4	2	Jéssica Augusto	Portugal	8:50.81	q
5	2	Desireé Davila	United States	8:51.08	q, PB
6	2	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	8:52.14	q, SB
7	2	Adriënne Herzog	Netherlands	8:53.24	q, PB
8	2	Ancuţa Bobocel	Romania	8:54.08	PB
9	2	Deirdre Byrne	Ireland	8:58.94	PB
10	1	Sentayehu Ejigu	Ethiopia	9:00.34	Q
11	1	Sara Moreira	Portugal	9:01.01	Q
12	1	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya	9:01.35	Q
13	1	René Kalmer	South Africa	9:01.41	Q,NR
14	1	Barbara Parker	Great Britain	9:01.52
15	1	Renata Pliś	Poland	9:02.68
16	1	Sara Hall	United States	9:04.25
17	1	Yelena Zadorozhnaya	Russia	9:09.52
18	2	Gemma Turtle	Great Britain	9:17.55
19	1	Hazel Murphy	Ireland	9:17.60
20	1	Viktoriia Poliudina	Kyrgyzstan	9:30.76	NR

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Meseret Defar	Ethiopia	8:51.17
	Vivian Cheruiyot	Kenya	8:51.85
	Sentayehu Ejigu	Ethiopia	8:52.08
4	Sylvia Jebiwott Kibet	Kenya	8:52.16
DQ	Alemitu Bekele	Turkey	8:53.78	Doping
5	Sara Moreira	Portugal	8:55.34
6	Layes Abdullayeva	Azerbaijan	8:57.59
7	Jéssica Augusto	Portugal	9:01.71
8	René Kalmer	South Africa	9:04.11
9	Desireé Davila	United States	9:07.24
10	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	9:07.80
11	Adriënne Herzog	Netherlands	9:12.99

• Heats Results
• Final Result

• 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships
• 3000 metres at the World Athletics Indoor Championships
• Women's events at the World Athletics Indoor Championships
• 2010 in women's sport of athletics

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