London21 wrote:
The Women's 800, 1500 and 3000 were all set by Athletes doped to the gills.
800 1:53:28 Kratochvilova (1983 Czech) is the longest standing record. It's a monster
1500 3:50:46 Yunxia Qu (1993 China) Coach by Ma Zunren. The doping was so bad the chinese authorities shut if down
3000 8:06:11 Junxia wang (1993 China) another Coach Ma athlete. She took 16 seconds off the previous mark!
What about Wang Junxia's 10,000 29:31:78? That record seems absurd...no one has come close.
"On Sept 8, 1993, Wang sliced 42 seconds off the previous 10,000 metres world record at the Chinese national games with a scarcely credible time of 29min 31.78sec. Not only does her mark still stand today, no athlete has got within 22 seconds of it.
But Wang was not finished. Showing no sign of fatigue, she finished second behind compatriot Qu Yunxia in a 1500m race just three days later in which both women broke the old world record. Again, Qu’s mark still stands.
Then, on the subsequent two days, Wang ran successive world records in the heats and final of the 3,000m. And, yes, Wang’s world mark of 8min 6.11sec still stands. No-one has come within 15 seconds of it."
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/sport/shart/100024237/scandal-as-controversial-chinese-athlete-wang-junxia-enters-iaaf-hall-of-fame/