Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Men's 3000 metre steeplechase

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Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics
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
10000 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
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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entrylist of 33 competitors, with three qualifying heats (33 runners) and two semifinals (26) before the final (13) took place on Friday September 30, 1988.

1 Medalists
2 Records
3 Final
4 Semi-Finals
5 See also
6 References

[edit] Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Julius Kariuki Kenya (KEN)	Peter Koech Kenya (KEN)	Mark Rowland Great Britain (GBR)

[edit] Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics.

World Record	8:05.4	Henry Rono	Seattle (USA)	May 13, 1978
Olympic Record	8:08.02	Anders Gärderud	Montreal (CAN)	July 28, 1976

In the final Julius Kariuki set a new Olympic record with 8:05.51 minutes.

[edit] Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Julius Kariuki (KEN)	8:05.51
	Peter Koech (KEN)	8:06.79
	Mark Rowland (GBR)	8:07.96
4.	Alessandro Lambruschini (ITA)	8:12.17
5.	William Van Dijck (BEL)	8:13.99
6.	Henry Marsh (USA)	8:14.39
7.	Patrick Sang (KEN)	8:15.22
8.	Bogusław Mamiński (POL)	8:15.97
9.	Francesco Panetta (ITA)	8:17.79
10.	Hagen Melzer (GDR)	8:19.82
11.	Graeme Fell (CAN)	8:21.73
12.	Raymond Pannier (FRA)	8:23.80
13.	Azzeddine Brahmi (ALG)	8:26.68

[edit] Semi-Finals

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	William Van Dijck (BEL)	8:15.63
2.	Peter Koech (KEN)	8:15.68
3.	Hagen Melzer (GDR)	8:16.27
4.	Patrick Sang (KEN)	8:16.70
5.	Francesco Panetta (ITA)	8:17.23
6.	Bogusław Mamiński (POL)	8:18.28
7.	Henry Marsh (USA)	8:18.94
8.	Hans Koeleman (NED)	8:21.86
9.	Bruno Le Stum (FRA)	8:26.69
10.	Eddie Wedderburn (GBR)	8:28.62
11.	Adauto Domingues (BRA)	8:35.05
12.	Hector Begeo (PHI)	8:35.09
–	Roger Hackney (GBR)	DNF

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Azzeddine Brahmi (ALG)	8:16.54
2.	Alessandro Lambruschini (ITA)	8:16.92
3.	Mark Rowland (GBR)	8:18.31
4.	Julius Kariuki (KEN)	8:18.53
5.	Raymond Pannier (FRA)	8:19.39
6.	Graeme Fell (CAN)	8:19.99
7.	Brian Diemer (USA)	8:23.89
8.	Jens Volkmann (FRG)	8:25.19
9.	Brian Abshire (USA)	8:27.78
10.	Fathi Baccouche (TUN)	8:31.36
11.	Brendan Quinn (IRL)	8:43.34
12.	Hameed Al-Dousari (KSA)	8:44.22
13.	Ramón Lopez (PAR)	8:52.62