Final | time | | 1. Yelena Romanova | United Team | 8:46.04 | | 2. Tetyana Dorovskikh | United Team | 8:46.85 | | 3. Angela Chalmers | Cabada | 8:47.22 | | 4. Sonia O'Sullivan | Ireland | 8:47.41 | | 5. PattiSue Plumer | United States | 8:48.29 | | 6. Yelena Kopytova | United Team | 8:49.55 | | 7. Shelly Steely | United States | 8:52.67 | | 8. Yvonne Murray | Great Britain | 8:55.85 | | 9. Alison Wyeth | Great Britain | 9:00.23 | | 10.Roberta Brunet | Italy | 9:01.26 | | 11.Margareta Keszeg | Romania | 9:03.16 | | -. Marie Pierre Duros | France | DNF | |
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Heat 1 | time | | 1. Yelena Kopytova | United Team | 8:47.21 | | 2. Margareta Keszeg | Romania | 8:47.24 | | 3. PattiSue Plumer | United States | 8:47.58 | | 4. Lisa York | Great Britain | 8:47.71 | | 5. Robyn Meagher | Canada | 8:49.72 | | 6. Gitte Karlshøj | Denmark | 8:54.05 | | 7. Estela Estévez | Spain | 8:55.70 | | 8. Jane Ngotho | Kenya | 9:00.96 | | 9. Zola Pieterse | South Africa | 9:07.10 | | 10.Ana Isabel Elias | Angola | 9:58.82 | | -. Sandra Cortez | Bolivia | DNS | |
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Heat 2 | time | | 1. Marie Pierre Duros | France | 8:42.32 | | 2. Tatyana Dorovskikh | United Team | 8:42.45 | | 3. Angela Chalmers | Canada | 8:42.85 | | 4. Alison Wyeth | Great Britain | 8:43.93 | | 5. Roberta Brunet | Italy | 8:44.21 | | 6. Shelly Steely | United States | 8:44.22 | | 7. Esther Kiplagat | Kenya | 8:44.97 | | 8. Catherina McKiernan | Ireland | 8:57.91 | | 9. Fernanda Ribeiro | Portugal | 9:07.69 | | 10.Inmaculle Naberaho | Rwanda | 10:02.62 | | 11.Rosemary Turare | Papua New Guinea | 11:15.18 | |
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Heat 3 | time | | 1. Sonia O'Sullivan | Ireland | 8:50.08 | | 2. Yvonne Murray | Great Britain | 8:51.16 | | 3. Yelena Romanova | United Team | 8:51.18 | | 4. Annette Peters | United States | 8:52.77 | | 5. Zohra Graziani-Koullou | France | 8:55.21 | | 6. Tikkanen Päivi | Finland | 8:59.60 | | 7. Krishna Stanton | Australia | 9:00.62 | | 8. Pauline Konga | Kenya | 9:02.79 | | 9. Leah Pells | Canada | 9:13.19 | | 10.Khin Khin Htwe | Myanmar | 9:31.70 | | 11.Janeth Caizalitín | Ecuador | 9:32.39 | | 12.Mirsada Burić | Bosnia Herzegovina | 10:03.34 | |
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