Final | time | | 1. Derartu Tulu | Ethiopia | 31:06.02 | | 2. Elana Meyer | South Africa | 31:11.75 | | 3. Lynn Jennings | United States | 31:19.89 | | 4. Zhong Huandi | China | 31:21.08 | | 5. Liz McColgan | Great Britain | 31:26.11 | | 6. Wang Xiuting | China | 31:28.06 | | 7. Uta Pippig | Germany | 31:36.45 | | 8. Judi St. Hilaire | United States | 31:38.04 | | 9. Hellen Kimaiyo | Kenya | 31:38.91 | | 10.Jill Hunter | Great Britain | 31:46.49 | | 11.Christien Toonstra | Netherlands | 31:47.38 | | 12.Izumi Maki | Japan | 31:55.06 | | 13.Albertina Dias | Portugal | 32:03.93 | | 14.Miki Igarashi | Japan | 32:09.58 | | 15.Lieve Slegers | Belgium | 32:14.17 | | 16.Rosanna Munerotto | Italy | 32:37.91 | | 17.Tegla Loroupe | Kenya | 32:53.09 | | 18.Tigist Moreda | Ethiopia | 34:05.56 | | -. Fernanda Marques | Portugal | DNF | | -. Conceição Ferreira | Portugal | DNF | |
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| Venue: Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc 67,007. | 50 competitors from -- nations. |
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Heat 1 | time | | 1. Hellen Kimaiyo | Kenya | 31:58.63 | | 2. Zhong Huandi | China | 32:04.46 | | 3. Liz McColgan | Great Britain | 32:07.25 | | 4. Uta Pippig | Germany | 32:07.28 | | 5. Christien Toonstra | Netherlands | 32:07.42 | | 6. Izumi Maki | Japan | 32:07.91 | | 7. Judi St. Hilaire | United States | 32:13.99 | | 8. Tigist Moreda | Ethiopia | 32:14.42 | | 9. Conceição Ferreira | Portugal | 32:15.05 | | 10.Rosanna Munerotto | Italy | 32:17.01 | | 11.Carole Rouillard | Canada | 32:52.83 | | 12.Marcianne Mukamurenzi | Rwanda | 33:00.66 | | 13.Gwynneth Coogan | United States | 33:13.13 | | 14.Rosario Murcia | France | 33:16.96 | | 15.Dorthe Rasmussen | Denmark | 33:22.43 | | 16.Lyudmila Matveyeva | United Team | 33:23.02 | | 17.Martha Tenorio | Ecuador | 34:29.03 | | 18.Hiromi Suzuki | Japan | 34:29.64 | | 19.Carmem de Oliveira | Brazil | 34:48.21 | | 20.Rosemary Turare | Papua New Guinea | 42:02.79 | | -. Olga Bondarenko | United Team | DNF | | -. Collard Véronique | Belgium | DNF | | -. Anita Klapote | Latvia | DNF | | -. Tikkanen Päivi | Finland | DNF | | -. Gutierrez Wittmann A. | US Virgin Islands | DNS | |
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Heat 2 | time | | 1. Derartu Tulu | Ethiopia | 31:55.67 | | 2. Elana Meyer | South Africa | 32:05.45 | | 3. Lynn Jennings | United States | 32:18.06 | | 4. Jill Hunter | Great Britain | 32:18.34 | | 5. Wang Xiuting | China | 32:31.91 | | 6. Albertina Dias | Portugal | 32:31.95 | | 7. Tegla Loroupe | Kenya | 32:34.07 | | 8. Fernanda Marques | Portugal | 32:38.16 | | 9. Lieve Slegers | Belgium | 32:40.59 | | 10.Miki Igarashi | Japan | 32:45.47 | | 11.Susan Hobson | Australia | 32:53.61 | | 12.Annette Sergent | France | 32:57.29 | | 13.Kerstin Preßler | Germany | 33:17.88 | | 14.Lydia Cheromei | Kenya | 33:34.05 | | 15.Suzana Ciric | individual | 33:42.26 | | 16.María Luisa Servín | Mexico | 33:42.74 | | 17.Lesley Morton | New Zealand | 33:51.06 | | 18.Lisa Harvey | Canada | 33:55.93 | | 19.Andri Avraam | Cyprus | 34:06.66 | | 20.Griselda González | Argentina | 34:09.42 | | 21.Luchia Yeshak | Ethiopia | 34:12.16 | | 22.Andrea Wallace | Great Britain | 34:29.47 | | -. Yelena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova | United Team | DNF | | -. Kathrin Ullrich | Germany | DNF | | -. Silvia Cortez Tancara | Bolivia | DNS | |
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