1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Road events
20 km	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 3000 metres event at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Deveti Septemvri Stadium on 9 and 12 August.^[1][2]

Gold	Simona Staicu  Romania
Silver	Liu Shixiang  China
Bronze	Hatsumi Matsumoto  Japan

12 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Simona Staicu	Romania	9:09.57
	Liu Shixiang	China	9:10.54
	Hatsumi Matsumoto	Japan	9:11.92
4	Andrea Whitcombe	United Kingdom	9:13.81
5	Andrea Sollárová	Czechoslovakia	9:16.44
6	Azumi Miyazaki	Japan	9:16.76
7	Lydia Tanui	Kenya	9:18.02
8	Brynhild Synstnes	Norway	9:19.40
9	Anikó Javos	Hungary	9:20.23
10	Sarah Schwald	United States	9:25.67
11	Angela White	Australia	9:27.66
12	Tamara Salomon	Canada	9:28.30
13	Kay Gooch	New Zealand	9:38.83
14	Ann Mwangi	Kenya	9:42.15
	Milka Mihailova	Bulgaria	DNF

9 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lydia Tanui	Kenya	9:17.75	Q
2	Angela White	Australia	9:18.19	Q
3	Simona Staicu	Romania	9:18.69	Q
4	Liu Shixiang	China	9:18.77	Q
5	Andrea Whitcombe	United Kingdom	9:21.23	Q
6	Azumi Miyazaki	Japan	9:21.99	Q
7	Sarah Schwald	United States	9:22.57	q
8	Kay Gooch	New Zealand	9:23.10	q
9	Janeth Caizalitín	Ecuador	9:29.28
10	Amina Maanaoui	Morocco	9:31.89
11	Evelina Danaylova	Bulgaria	9:40.14
	Marina Bastos	Portugal	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ann Mwangi	Kenya	9:23.05	Q
2	Anikó Javos	Hungary	9:23.63	Q
3	Brynhild Synstnes	Norway	9:24.48	Q
4	Hatsumi Matsumoto	Japan	9:24.56	Q
5	Tamara Salomon	Canada	9:24.64	Q
6	Milka Mihailova	Bulgaria	9:24.87	Q
7	Andrea Sollárová	Czechoslovakia	9:25.76	q
8	Fatuma Roba	Ethiopia	9:26.63
9	Annemari Sandell	Finland	9:28.46
10	Annie Kagona	Malawi	9:45.25
11	Zhor El-Kamch	Morocco	9:58.26
12	Nicole Corbin	Australia	10:10.58
13	Monica Samila	Tanzania	10:21.15

According to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event.