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

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Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany
Date 1 and 4 September 1972
Medalists
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1st Kip Keino  Kenya
2nd Ben Jipcho  Kenya
3rd Tapio Kantanen  Finland
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Athletics at the
1972 Summer Olympics
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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.

Heat one

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

Heat two

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

Heat three

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 23x15px Ethiopia 8:52.6
12 Robert Hackman  Ghana 8:57.6

Heat four

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

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Kip Keino  Kenya 8:23.6 OR
2nd Ben Jipcho  Kenya 8:24.6
3rd 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

References

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