1993 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 10,000 metres

None The women's 10,000 metres event featured at the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. There were a total number of 42 participating athletes, with two qualifying heats and the final being held on 21 August 1993. The race was conducted in almost 30 °C temperatures, but the Chinese team took the race out at a pace only seen once before, during Ingrid Kristiansen's world record race 5 years earlier. Zhong Huandi took the pace for her 20 year old country mate Wang Junxia, while the others struggled to keep up. 15 year old Sally Barsosio stayed close to the pace, but her inexperience and erratic movements disrupted the flow for several runners near her. At one point during the race she was shown a yellow card by an umpire to essentially tell her to get out of the way. After getting spiked too many times from Barsosio's back kick, Elana Meyer walked off the track. The fast pace eventually slowed mid-race, then in frustration, Wang took off, separating from the chase pack of Zhong, Barsosio and Tegla Loroupe. Wang began dropping her lap times progressively 72, 71, 70, 69, 68. She capped it off with a 61 final lap for a championship record 30:49.30. Half a lap back, Barsosio had edged ahead of with Loroupe unable to maintain the pace and fading, then Zhong launched into a sprint the loping Barsosio could not match, pulling away to a three second gap for silver. After the race, Barsosio was disqualified, only to be reinstated on appeal. A little over two weeks later, Wang demolished the world record, running 29:31.78, part of a record smashing National Games of China when three major women's distance records were set. Wang's 10,000 record lasted until the 2016 Olympics when it was smashed by Ethiopian Almaz Ayana. Her 3000 metres record from 1993 has never been beaten. 4th place in that 1993 Chinese race was still the #4 time in history until 2019. In 2016, a letter written by Wang in 1995 was published where she is said to have admitted to herself and her Liaoning teammates doping. Zhong trained with a different group in Yunnan. Four years later Barsosio won this race as a 19 year old. Final RANKFINALTIMEImage:Med 1.pngWang Junxia CHN30:49.30 CRImage:Med 2.pngZhong Huandi CHN31:12.55Image:Med 3.pngSally Barsosio KEN31:15.384.Tegla Loroupe KEN31:29.915.Lynn Jennings USA31:30.536.Conceição Ferreira POR31:30.607.Albertina Dias POR31:33.038.Anne Marie Letko USA31:37.369.Uta Pippig GER31:39.9710.Fernanda Ribeiro POR31:40.5111.Carmem de Oliveira BRA31:47.7612.Maria Guida ITA32:15.3413.Kathrin Ullrich-Weßel GER32:27.3814.Olga Appell MEX32:32.5115.Naomi Yoshida JPN32:35.4416.Iulia Negura-Olteanu ROM32:40.6117.Izumi Maki JPN32:53.4118.Rosario Murcia FRA32:54.6519. Suzana Ćirić (IPU)33:36.7220.Isabel Juarez MEX33:28.4721.Elaine Van Blunk USA33:42.8522.Gitte Karlshoj DEN33:58.58—Catherina McKiernan IRLDNF—Päivi Tikkanen FINDNF—Elana Meyer RSA 1928DNF Qualifying heats Held on Thursday 1993-08-19 RANKHEAT 1TIME1.Sally Barsosio KEN32:27.992.Lynn Jennings USA32:28.303.Wang Junxia CHN32:28.354.Albertina Dias POR32:28.395.Conceição Ferreira POR32:28.426.Naomi Yoshida JPN32:28.667.Carmem de Oliveira BRA32:29.488.Uta Pippig GER32:31.909.Iulia Negura-Olteanu ROM32:32.5110.Olga Appell MEX32:34.4311.Rosario Murcia FRA32:56.2412.Elaine Van Blunk USA33:06.4413.Julia Sakara ZIM33:20.16 (NR)14.Junko Kataoka JPN33:21.3115.Viktoriya Nenasheva RUS 199133:23.1916.Lisa Harvey CAN33:24.6617.Vikki McPherson GBR33:49.5118.Jayanthi Palaniappan MAS33:56.7219.Barbara Moore NZL34:38.2720.Aura Morales GUA36:06.02—Martha Ernstsdottir ISLDNS RANKHEAT 2TIME1.Anne Marie Letko USA32:26.222.Zhong Huandi CHN32:26.403.Maria Guida ITA32:26.604.Tegla Loroupe KEN32:26.675.Izumi Maki JPN32:26.896.Elana Meyer RSA 192832:28.027.Fernanda Ribeiro POR32:29.218.Päivi Tikkanen FIN32:51.729.Kathrin Ullrich-Weßel GER32:52.0610.Suzana Ćirić (IPU)32:58.3811.Catherina McKiernan IRL33:00.3812.Gitte Karlshoj DEN33:05.1313.Isabel Juarez MEX33:17.9414.Berhane Adere ETH 197533:20.6215.Martha Tenorio ECU33:50.6816.Lesley Morton NZL33:54.3917.Marilu Salazar PER34:58.6218.Gulsara Dadabayeva TJK39:30.2819.Tevdenshigmed Enh-Od MGL40:32.86—Ma Ningning CHNDNS—Tamara Koba UKRDNS See also 1990 Women's European Championships 10,000 metres (Split) 1991 Women's World Championships 10,000 metres (Tokyo) 1992 Women's Olympic 10,000 metres (Barcelona) 1994 Women's European Championships 10,000 metres (Helsinki) 1995 Women's World Championships 10,000 metres (Gothenburg) 1996 Women's Olympic 10,000 metres (Atlanta) References Results Category:10,000 metres at the World Athletics Championships