2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mercy Chebwogen Kenya	Hiwot Gebrekidan Ethiopia	Emelia Gorecka Great Britain

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Mercy Chebwogen	Kenya	9:08.88	PB
	Hiwot Gebrekidan	Ethiopia	9:09.27	PB
	Emelia Gorecka	Great Britain	9:09.43	PB
4	Haftamnesh Tesfay	Ethiopia	9:10.02	PB
5	Brillian Jepkorir Kipkoech	Kenya	9:14.32	PB
6	Aisling Cuffe	United States	9:19.95
7	Rebekah Greene	New Zealand	9:21.23	PB
8	Miyuki Uehara	Japan	9:21.81
9	Lindsay Crevoiserat	United States	9:21.88	PB
10	Li Zhixuan	China	9:24.06	PB
11	Liv Westphal	France	9:24.10	PB
12	Mariia Khodakivska	Ukraine	9:25.98
13	Sarah Collins	Ireland	9:26.26	PB
14	Wu Xufeng	China	9:27.89	PB
15	Cleo Boyd	Canada	9:37.84
16	Laura Muir	Great Britain	9:40.81
17	Misuzu Nakahara	Japan	9:49.84
18	Karoline Egeland Skatteboe	Norway	9:59.69
19	Stessy Ngouvi Bouanga	Gabon	13:54.15	PB
–	Nancy Cheptegei	Uganda	–	DNS

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.

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