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3000 metres steeplechase women Odds

Who wins 3000 metres steeplechase women?

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World Championships in Athletics for Women: 3000m Steeplechase

Mechanism:

Athletes make a bunched start in standing position and can break immediately for the inside. The no of laps depends on the position of the water jump; the participants must always clear twenty-eight fixed obstacles and 7 water jumps during the course of the race.

The women’s barriers are 30in (76mm) high. The water jump’s landing area is 12ft long and 70cm at its deepest.

The Past:

The origins of the event can be traced back to Britain; runners would race from the steeple of one town to the next, jumping barriers such as low walls and streams. The current event can be traced to the 2-mile steeplechases run at Oxford University in the 1850s. It was made a track event, with obstacles, at the 1879 English Championships.

The current version of the event for men has been part of the Olympics since 1900; however women were only able to contest as recently as 2008.

Gold standard:

Kenya is the dominant nation in the both men and women events, winning the past 6 men’s Olympic titles and taking thirteen of the eighteen medals on offer in those races.

Icons:

Gulnara Galkina

Russia is also among the strongest nations in the women’s event and Gulnara is the proof of that. Since her arrival at the international stage in '03 with a world record, she improved on it in '04 before taking Olympic gold in 2008 Summer Olympics, becoming the 1st woman in history to cover the distance within 9 minutes.

Beatrice Chepkoech Sitonik

The Kenyan distance runner is the current world record holder in the event running 8:44.32 in '18. With that time she became the 1st woman to break 8:50 and 8:45.

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