List of World Athletics Championships medalists (women)
Championships Gold Silver Bronze
1980 Sittard details Birgit Friedmann ( FRG ) Karoline Nemetz ( SWE ) Ingrid Kristiansen ( NOR )
1983 Helsinki details Mary Decker ( USA ) Brigitte Kraus ( FRG ) Tatyana Kovalenko-Kazankina ( URS )
1987 Rome details Tetyana Samolenko ( URS ) Maricica Puică ( ROU ) Ulrike Bruns ( GDR )
1991 Tokyo details Tetyana Dorovskikh ( URS ) Yelena Romanova ( URS ) Susan Sirma ( KEN )
1993 Stuttgart details Qu Yunxia ( CHN ) Zhang Linli ( CHN ) Zhang Lirong ( CHN )
Track -- 3000 m
Women have contested events at the World Athletics Championships since its inauguration in 1983. The top three athletes in each event win gold, silver and bronze medals, respectively. A one-off edition of the championships was also held the same year at the 1980 Summer Olympics to include the IAAF-approved international women's events in 400 metres hurdles and 3000 metres which were not added to the Olympic athletics programme that year due to a dispute with the International Olympic Committee.