1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres

Medalists

12 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Simona Staicu	Romania	9:09.57
	Liu Shixiang	China	9:10.54
	Hatsumi Matsumoto	Japan	9:11.92
4	Andrea Whitcombe	United Kingdom	9:13.81
5	Andrea Sollárová	Czechoslovakia	9:16.44
6	Azumi Miyazaki	Japan	9:16.76
7	Lydia Tanui	Kenya	9:18.02
8	Brynhild Synstnes	Norway	9:19.40
9	Anikó Javos	Hungary	9:20.23
10	Sarah Schwald	United States	9:25.67
11	Angela White	Australia	9:27.66
12	Tamara Salomon	Canada	9:28.30
13	Kay Gooch	New Zealand	9:38.83
14	Ann Mwangi	Kenya	9:42.15
	Milka Mihailova	Bulgaria	DNF

9 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lydia Tanui	Kenya	9:17.75	Q
2	Angela White	Australia	9:18.19	Q
3	Simona Staicu	Romania	9:18.69	Q
4	Liu Shixiang	China	9:18.77	Q
5	Andrea Whitcombe	United Kingdom	9:21.23	Q
6	Azumi Miyazaki	Japan	9:21.99	Q
7	Sarah Schwald	United States	9:22.57	q
8	Kay Gooch	New Zealand	9:23.10	q
9	Janeth Caizalitín	Ecuador	9:29.28
10	Amina Maanaoui	Morocco	9:31.89
11	Evelina Danaylova	Bulgaria	9:40.14
	Marina Bastos	Portugal	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ann Mwangi	Kenya	9:23.05	Q
2	Anikó Javos	Hungary	9:23.63	Q
3	Brynhild Synstnes	Norway	9:24.48	Q
4	Hatsumi Matsumoto	Japan	9:24.56	Q
5	Tamara Salomon	Canada	9:24.64	Q
6	Milka Mihailova	Bulgaria	9:24.87	Q
7	Andrea Sollárová	Czechoslovakia	9:25.76	q
8	Fatuma Roba	Ethiopia	9:26.63
9	Annemari Sandell	Finland	9:28.46
10	Annie Kagona	Malawi	9:45.25
11	Zhor El-Kamch	Morocco	9:58.26
12	Nicole Corbin	Australia	10:10.58
13	Monica Samila	Tanzania	10:21.15