Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's 3000 metres steeplechase
| Women's 3000 metres steeplechase at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad
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Left-right: Jepkemoi, Jebet and Coburn
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| Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Date | 13–15 August 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 53 from 32 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 8:59.75 AR | ||||||||||||
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Ruth Jebet |
 Bahrain
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Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi |
 Kenya
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Emma Coburn |
 United States
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The Women's 3000 metres steeplechase competition at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place between 13–15 August at the Olympic Stadium.
Tunisia's Habiba Ghribi returned to defend her 2012 Olympic steeplechase title, though she was outside the top 15 runners on the seasonal lists. The fastest time was held by Ruth Jebet of Bahrain, whose 8:59.97 minutes at the Prefontaine Classic at the end of May made her the second fastest ever in the discipline. The 2015 World Champion Hyvin Jepkemoi of Kenya was four hundredths of a second behind her in that race and had become the third fastest, while America's Emma Coburn had set a national record and was third ranked entering the competition. Ethiopians Etenesh Diro and Sofia Assefa and Kenya's Beatrice Chepkoech rounded out the top six. Gesa Felicitas Krause, a 2015 World medalist and 2016 European Champion, was her continent's best entrant.
Before the competition even began, entrant Silvia Danekova failed a doping test after her arrival in Rio. She submitted an appeal the Court of Arbitration for Sport where she was ruled ineligible for the race.
In the first round Jebet broke clear of the pack, ran her own race, and easily won her heat over Assefa and Krause. Chepkoech, Ghribi and Coburn took the top qualifying spots in the second race. Jepkemoi won the third and slowest heat, with Genevieve LaCaze and Courtney Frerichs taking the automatic qualifying spots. Etenesh Diro lost her shoe in that race after being stood on by an opponent and ran the remainder of the race barefoot; she failed to make the qualifying time but progressed upon appeal, as did Aisha Praught and Sara Louise Treacy. Four national records were broken, including Lalita Shivaji Babar's 9:19.76 minutes for India.
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