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Olympics Adds Women's Steeple
October 28, 2005
     The executive board of the International Olympic Committee (meeting this week in Lausanne, Switzerland) accepted an IAAF request to add the women's 3000m steeplechase to the 2008 Olympic Games which will be held in Beijing, China. This announcement topped an IAAF news release from Monaco on 27 October 2005.
     The Beijing competition will come in the 20th year of women's international steeple competition. Since then, thousands of women's steeple marks have been chronicled by internet including this report.
     Twenty years after men's steepling was introduced to the Olympic Games, with an easier water jump pit than now used, their Olympic record was 10:00.4. Now, using a more difficult pit, more than 90 women have run faster than 10 minutes.
     In 1995 women began using a 76.2cm barrier height instead of 91.4cm while increasing their major distance from 2000m to 3000m for which their record is 9:01.59 -- set in 2004 by Russia's Gulnara Samitova. Male Olympians took 53 years to achieve that mark.

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