1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 3000 metres

Final

30 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Yin Lili	China	8:57.09
	Yimenashu Taye	Ethiopia	9:01.70
	Edna Kiplagat	Kenya	9:05.46
4	Lan Lixin	China	9:07.39
5	Yoshiko Fujinaga	Japan	9:15.64
6	Margaret Chepkemboi	Kenya	9:25.38
7	Inês Monteiro	Portugal	9:26.33
8	Melanie Schulz	Germany	9:28.71
9	Genet Teka	Ethiopia	9:33.17
10	Živilė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	9:34.01
11	Eloise Poppet	Australia	9:36.64
12	Seltana Aït Hammou	Morocco	10:15.26

Heats

28 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lan Lixin	China	9:22.19	Q
2	Margaret Chepkemboi	Kenya	9:22.49	Q
3	Yoshiko Fujinaga	Japan	9:22.93	Q
4	Eloise Poppet	Australia	9:23.67	Q
5	Živilė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	9:24.98	q
6	Seltana Aït Hammou	Morocco	9:24.99	q
7	Amber Gascoigne	United Kingdom	9:43.55
8	Demelza Murrihy	New Zealand	9:52.24
9	Catherine Maapela	South Africa	10:06.14

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yin Lili	China	9:17.83	Q
2	Yimenashu Taye	Ethiopia	9:18.80	Q
3	Edna Kiplagat	Kenya	9:23.87	Q
4	Inês Monteiro	Portugal	9:24.78	Q
5	Genet Teka	Ethiopia	9:26.50	q
6	Melanie Schulz	Germany	9:28.98	q
7	Diana Maciusonytė	Lithuania	9:33.08
8	Yelena Tolstygina	Belarus	9:35.17
9	Nicole Chapple	Australia	9:40.62
10	Vanessa Veiga Comesaña	Spain	9:58.46
11	Épiphanie Nyirabaramé	Rwanda	10:39.35

According to an unofficial count, 20 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.