Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

at the Games of the XX Olympiad

Venue

Date

1 and 4 September 1972

Medalists

Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

These are the official results of the men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on 1 and 4 September.

Heats

The top three runners in each of the four heats (blue), advanced to the final round.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tapio Kantanen	Finland	8:24.8	OR
2	Kip Keino	Kenya	8:27.6
3	Takaharu Koyama	Japan	8:29.8
4	Gheorghe Cefan	Romania	8:33.8
5	Andy Holden	Great Britain	8:33.8
6	Toni Feldmann	Switzerland	8:35.8
7	Steve Savage	United States	8:39.0
8	Gérard Buchheit	France	8:41.2
9	Filbert Bayi	Tanzania	8:41.4
10	Vitus Ashaba	Uganda	8:45.0
11	Tadeusz Zieliński	Poland	8:49.8
12	Wigmar Pedersen	Denmark	9:03.0

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Ben Jipcho	Kenya	8:31.6
2	Mikko Ala-Leppilampi	Finland	8:31.8
3	Mikhail Zhelev	Bulgaria	8:35.8
4	Willi Maier	West Germany	8:37.6
5	Akira Takeuchi	Japan	8:40.4
6	Sergey Skripka	Soviet Union	8:41.4
7	Jan Voje	Norway	8:42.0
8	Hans Menet	Switzerland	8:45.4
9	Eddie Leddy	Ireland	8:47.4
10	Kazimierz Maranda	Poland	8:50.4
11	Esau Adenji	Cameroon	9:34.4
12	Kerry O'Brien	Australia	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	8:29.0
2	Romualdas Bitė	Soviet Union	8:30.2
3	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8:30.4
4	Josef Horčic	Czechoslovakia	8:30.6
5	Anders Gärderud	Sweden	8:30.8
6	Willi Wagner	West Germany	8:34.0
7	Paul Thijs	Belgium	8:35.0
8	John Bicourt	Great Britain	8:38.8
9	Doug Brown	United States	8:41.2
10	Panagiotis Nakopoulos	Greece	8:48.4
11	Yohannes Mohamed	Ethiopia	8:52.6
12	Robert Hackman	Ghana	8:57.6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Amos Biwott	Kenya	8:23.8	OR
2	Bronisław Malinowski	Poland	8:28.2
3	Dušan Moravčík	Czechoslovakia	8:33.4
4	Steve Hollings	Great Britain	8:35.0
5	Franco Fava	Italy	8:35.0
6	Hans-Dieter Schulten	West Germany	8:39.8
7	Boualem Rahoui	Algeria	8:41.0
8	Spyridon Kontosoros	Greece	8:41.0
9	Georges Kaiser	Switzerland	8:45.4
10	Mike Manley	United States	8:50.4
11	Sverre Sørnes	Norway	8:54.8
12	Usaia Sotutu	Fiji	9:12.0
13	Julio Quevedo	Guatemala	9:28.4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Kip Keino	Kenya	8:23.6	OR
02 !	Ben Jipcho	Kenya	8:24.6
03 !	Tapio Kantanen	Finland	8:24.8
4	Bronisław Malinowski	Poland	8:28.0
5	Dušan Moravčík	Czechoslovakia	8:29.2
6	Amos Biwott	Kenya	8:33.6
7	Romualdas Bitė	Soviet Union	8:34.6
8	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	8:37.2
9	Takaharu Koyama	Japan	8:37.8
10	Mikko Ala-Leppilampi	Finland	8:41.0
11	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8:46.8
12	Mikhail Zhelev	Bulgaria	9:02.6

3000 metres steeplechase at the Olympic Games

Summary

Men	1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

Women	1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

Other distances: 1900 2500 m 4000 m 1904 (2590 m) 1908 (3200 m)

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