World Record							10000 METRES
	Performance					Athlete	Nat	Place	Date
	29:31.78					Junxia Wang	CHN	Beijing	08 09 1993
World Junior Record							10000 METRES
	Performance					Athlete	Nat	Place	Date
	30:39.41					Lixin Lan	CHN	Shanghai	19 10 1997
Area Records							10000 METRES
Area	Performance					Athlete	Nat	Place	Date
AFRICA	30:17.49					Derartu Tulu	ETH	Sydney	30 09 2000
ASIA	29:31.78					Junxia Wang	CHN	Beijing	08 09 1993
EUROPE	30:01.09					Paula Radcliffe	GBR	München	06 08 2002
NORTH,CENTRAL AMERICA&C.	30:50.32					Deena Drossin	USA	Palo Alto, CA	03 05 2002
OCEANIA	31:11.72					Lisa Martin-Ondieki	AUS	Helsinki	30 06 1992
SOUTH AMERICA	31:47.76					Carmen Souza Oliveira	BRA	Stuttgart	21 08 1993
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