WAAA and National Championships Medallists - 3000 metres

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	First		Second		Third
	WAAA Championships
1968	Carol Firth	10:06.4 NR	Pam Davies	10:19.2	Gabrielle Carpenter	10:28.6
1969	Ann O'Brien IRL	9:47.6	Barbara Banks	9:54.4	Madeleine Ibbotson	10:10.8
1970	Ann O'Brien IRL	9:34.4	Bridget Cushen	9:49.8	Barbara Banks	9:56.0
1971	Joyce Smith	9:23.40 WR	Bronwen Cardy	9:40.83	Ann Barrass	9:48.80
1972	Paula Yeoman	9:30.70	Ann Barrass	9:34.34	Wanda Sosinka	9:37.42
1973	Inger Knutsson SWE	9:08.04	Joyce Smith	9:11.45	Ann Yeoman	9:29.16
1974	Joyce Smith	9:07.15	Ann Yeoman	9:17.21	Paula Yeoman	9:23.65
	(Smith ran 8:55.53 NR in heat 1)
1975	Mary Purcell IRL	9:08.00	Christine Haskett	9:18.32	Ann Yeoman	9:19.86
1976	Mary Purcell IRL	9:07.98	Thelwyn Bateman	9:35.77	Alison Blake	9:46.33
1977	Carol Gould (Firth)	9:20.71	Val Rowe	9:23.32	Annette Roberts	9:24.64
1978	Christine Benning	8:52.33 NR	Ann Ford (Yeoman)	8:53.80	Alison Wright NZL	9:14.72
1979	Deirdre Nagle IRL	9:13.24	Kath Binns	9:13.34	Barbara Moore NZL	9:15.92
1980	Regina Joyce	9:13.82	Vera Duffy IRL	9:25.08	Shireen Samy	9:32.85
1981	Cathie Twomey USA	9:05.39	Val Rowe	9:05.99	Regina Joyce	9:18.02
1982	Debbie Peel	9:04.79	Hilary Hollick	9:06.04	Gillian Dainty	9:10.63
1983	Debbie Peel	9:11.34	Lynne Harvey	9:15.10	Susan Tooby	9:17.56
1984	Debbie Peel	9:15.0	Carole Bradford	9:20.9	Shireen Samy	9:23.8
1985	Zola Budd	8:50.50	Carole Bradford	9:06.30	Jill Clarke	9:19.20
1986	Christine Benning	9:05.13	Jane Shields	9:05.13	Ruth Partridge	9:11.86
1987	Wendy Sly	9:04.83	Christine Benning	9:11.35	Melissa Watson	9:11.53
1988	Yvonne Murray	8:47.34	Jill Hunter	8:51.51	Wendy Sly	8:52.37
1989	Alison Wyeth	9:11.12	Ruth Partridge	9:11.27	Sonia McGeorge	9:12.12
1990	Yvonne Murray	8:48.21	Sonia O'Sullivan IRL	8:53.15	Alison Wyeth	8:54.45
1991	Yvonne Murray	8:46.47	Alison Wyeth	8:54.34	Andrea Whitcombe	8:58.59
	AAA Championships
1992	Lisa York	8:50.18	Kristina Stanton AUS	8:51.39	Alison Wyeth	8:57.16
1993	Yvonne Murray	8:52.28	Alison Wyeth	8:56.87	Sonia McGeorge	9:01.65
1994	Sonia McGeorge	9:03.80	Laura Adam	9:12.16	Wendy Ore	9:14.72
1995	Sarah Bentley	9:27.12	Gaby Collison	9:38.67	Amanda Thorpe	9:40.08
1996	Debbie Gunning	9:26.46	Angela Davies	9:26.75	Rhona Makepeace	9:32.97
1997	Debbie Sullivan	9:34.30	Jillian Jones	9:38.71	Michelle Wannell	9:53.05
1998	Amanda Parkinson	9:34.74	Debbie Sullivan	9:36.90	Jilly Ingman	9:53.98
1999	Jilly Ingman	9:28.21	Sheila Fairweather	9:45.32	Susan Scott	9:51.71

Top Medallists
	1st	2nd	3rd	Total Medals	Years	Year Span
Alison Wyeth	1	2	2	5	1989-1993	4
Yvonne Murray	4			4	1988-1993	5
Ann Yeoman/Ford		2	2	4	1973-1978	5
Debbie Peel	3			3	1982-1984	2
Joyce Smith	2	1		3	1971-1974	3
Christine Benning	2	1		3	1978-1987	9
Sonia McGeorge	1		2	3	1989-1994	5
Other top winners and long spans
Carol Firth/Gould	2			2	1968-1977	9
Ann O'Brien IRL	2			2	1969-1970	1
Mary Purcell IRL	2			2	1975-1976	1

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