Athletics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
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
Road events
Marathon	men	women
30 km walk	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 1986 Commonwealth Games was held at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh on 27 July 1986.^[1]

The winning margin was 0.54 seconds which as of 2024 remains the only time the women's 3,000 metres was won by less than a second at these games. This event was discontinued after the 1994 games so this record cannot be broken.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lynn Williams	Canada	8:54.29
	Debbie Bowker	Canada	8:54.83
	Yvonne Murray	Scotland	8:55.32
4	Chris Benning	England	9:03.45
5	Lorraine Moller	New Zealand	9:03.89
6	Christine Pfitzinger	New Zealand	9:09.35
7	Jane Shields	England	9:13.65
8	Wendy Sly	England	9:14.04
9	Marsela Robertson	Scotland	9:51.33