All-time women's best 3000m

irregular mark

        1      8:38.2     Tatyana Dorovskikh             UKR     12.08.61    1     Vladivostok              10.08.1991

en route to 5000m - indoors

        1      8:41.65    Regina Jacobs                  USA     28.08.63    1      Roxbury                  27.01.2002
        2      8:43.92    Berhane Adere                  ETH     21.07.73    1      Stuttgart                30.01.2004
        3      8:44.30    Tirunesh Dibaba                ETH     01.06.85    1      Boston                   27.01.2007

mixed race

        1      8:44.1     Donna Gould                    AUS     10.06.66          Eugene                   13.07.1984
        2      8:44.9     Elizabeth McColgan             GBR     24.05.64    1     Canberra                 17.01.1990