1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 3000 metres

The women's 3000 metres event at the 1987 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis on 7 March.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Tatyana Samolenko	Soviet Union	8:46.52	CR
	Olga Bondarenko	Soviet Union	8:47.08
	Maricica Puică	Romania	8:47.92
4	Krishna Wood	Australia	8:48.38	AR
5	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	8:48.43
6	Lynn Williams	Canada	8:50.80	NR
7	Leslie Seymour	United States	8:54.55	PB
8	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	8:57.46
9	Ingrid Delagrange	Belgium	9:19.45
10	Ena Guevara	Peru	9:35.64
11	Cornelia Melis	Aruba	10:24.79	NR
	Brigitte Kraus	West Germany	DNF