Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Men's 3000 metres steeplechase; at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc
Dates	3 August 1992 (heats); 5 August 1992 (semi-finals); 7 August 1992 (final)
Competitors	32 from 24 nations
Winning time	8:08.84
Medalists
	← 1988 1996 →

These are the official results of the men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were a total number of 33 participating athletes, with four qualifying heats.^[1]

At the gun, it seemed like the rest of the world came to run, while the Kenyan team were just tagging along. Starting off slowly, all three Kenyans casually jogged around the outside of the pack and towards the front. William Mutwol continued, breaking away to as much as a 10-metre lead, with Elarbi Khattabi the only one to bridge the gap. On the next lap, Matthew Birir, running in fourth place, went down on the track, but Birir righted himself quickly and was back on his feet before the back of the strung out field had passed him. Within two more barriers, he was back in the same fourth-place position. By the time they reached the same spot on the track where Birir fell, he was in third place as the tail of the three man Kenyan breakaway. Over the next two laps, the only athlete seriously marking the Kenyans was Alessandro Lambruschini. Just after two laps to go, Patrick Sang edged ahead of Mutwol with Lambruschini gaining a little ground between barriers and losing the same amount each time he went over one. With a lap to go, Birir moved into the lead and the Kenyan sweep simply pulled away from Lambruschini, with the rest of the field already disappeared behind. No drama, no hurdling the water jump, no challenges, not even any sprinting. Lambruschini finished fourth for the second Olympics in a row, more than 25 metres behind Mutwol. This became the first Olympic podium sweep by an African nation.

Medalists

Gold	Matthew Birir Kenya
Silver	Patrick Sang Kenya
Bronze	William Mutwol Kenya

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics.

World Record	8:05.35	Peter Koech	Stockholm (SWE)	July 3, 1989
Olympic Record	8:05.51	Julius Kariuki	Seoul (KOR)	September 30, 1988

Final

Held on August 7, 1992

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Matthew Birir (KEN)	8:08.84
	Patrick Sang (KEN)	8:09.55
	William Mutwol (KEN)	8:10.74
4.	Alessandro Lambruschini (ITA)	8:15.52
5.	Steffen Brand (GER)	8:16.60
6.	Tom Hanlon (GBR)	8:18.14
7.	Brian Diemer (USA)	8:18.77
8.	Azzedine Brahmi (ALG)	8:20.71
9.	William Van Dijck (BEL)	8:22.51
10.	Elarbi Khattabi (MAR)	8:23.82
11.	Clodoaldo Lopes do Carmo (BRA)	8:25.92
12.	Ricardo Vera (URU)	8:26.35

Semifinals

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Matthew Birir (KEN)	8:25.55
2.	Steffen Brand (GER)	8:26.12
3.	Patrick Sang (KEN)	8:26.46
4.	William Van Dijck (BEL)	8:26.70
5.	Tom Hanlon (GBR)	8:26.91
6.	Ricardo Vera (URU)	8:27.46
7.	Mark Croghan (USA)	8:30.15
8.	Tom Buckner (GBR)	8:32.89
9.	Ville Hautala (FIN)	8:33.69
10.	João Junqueira (POR)	8:39.17
11.	Daniel Lopez (USA)	8:41.28
12.	Joseph Mahmoud (FRA)	8:52.00

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	William Mutwol (KEN)	8:19.83
2.	Clodoaldo Lopes do Carmo (BRA)	8:20.46
3.	Brian Diemer (USA)	8:23.30
4.	Alessandro Lambruschini (ITA)	8:23.56
5.	Azzedine Brahmi (ALG)	8:25.85
6.	Elarbi Khattabi (MAR)	8:27.00
7.	Vladimir Golias (EUN)	8:30.26
8.	Colin Walker (GBR)	8:34.82
9.	Mohammed Al-Dossary (KSA)	8:36.38
10.	Whaddon Niewoudt (RSA)	8:37.99
11.	Hagen Melzer (GER)	8:38.07
12.	Thierry Brusseau (FRA)	8:42.48

Heats

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	William Mutwol (KEN)	8:26.23
2.	Brian Diemer (USA)	8:28.88
3.	Colin Walker (GBR)	8:29.34
4.	Steffen Brand (GER)	8:30.03
5.	Vladimir Golyas (EUN)	8:32.49
6.	Thierry Brusseau (FRA)	8:33.10
7.	Ville Hautala (FIN)	8:34.10
8.	Michael Buchleitner (AUT)	8:40.46
9.	Graeme Fell (CAN)	8:50.87
10.	Prakash Davendra Singh (FIJ)	9:07.49
—	Abdelaziz Sahere (MAR)	DNS

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Matthew Birir (KEN)	8:23.22
2.	Clodoaldo Lopes do Carmo (BRA)	8:26.31
3.	William Van Dijck (BEL)	8:27.23
4.	Azzeddine Brahmi (ALG)	8:28.01
5.	Tom Buckner (GBR)	8:28.36
6.	Elarbi Khattabi (MAR)	8:28.50
7.	Daniel Lopez (USA)	8:29.01
8.	Hagen Melzer (GER)	8:31.89
9.	Mohammed Al-Dossary (KSA)	8:36.73
10.	Ivan Konovalov (EUN)	8:58.04
11.	Hector Begeo (PHI)	9:14.48

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Patrick Sang (KEN)	8:27.01
2.	Tom Hanlon (GBR)	8:27.46
3.	Ricardo Vera (URU)	8:27.71
4.	Mark Croghan (USA)	8:28.15
5.	Alessandro Lambruschini (ITA)	8:29.64
6.	Joseph Mahmoud (FRA)	8:30.54
7.	Whaddon Niewoudt (RSA)	8:30.61
8.	João Junqueira (POR)	8:32.68
9.	Hamid Sajjadi (IRI)	8:36.87
10.	Marcelo Cascabelo (ARG)	8:38.89
11.	Jamal Abdi Hassan (QAT)	8:54.98

Final ranking

Rank	Name	Nation
	Matthew Birir	Kenya
	Patrick Sang	Kenya
	William Mutwol	Kenya
4	Alessandro Lambruschini	Italy
5	Steffen Brand	Germany
6	Tom Hanlon	Great Britain
7	Brian Diemer	United States
8	Azzedine Brahmi	Algeria
9	William Van Dijck	Belgium
10	Elarbi Khattabi	Morocco
11	Clodoaldo do Carmo	Brazil
12	Ricardo Vera	Uruguay
13	Mark Croghan	United States
14	Vladimir Golyas	Unified Team
15	Tom Buckner	Great Britain
16	Ville Hautala	Finland

Rank	Name	Nation
17	Colin Walker	Great Britain
18	Mohammed Al-Dossary	Saudi Arabia
19	Whaddon Niewoudt	South Africa
20	Hagen Melzer	Germany
21	João Junqueira	Portugal
22	Daniel Lopez	United States
23	Thierry Brusseau	France
24	Joseph Mahmoud	France
25	Hamid Sajjadi	Iran
26	Marcelo Cascabelo	Argentina
27	Michael Buchleitner	Austria
28	Graeme Fell	Canada
29	Jamal Abdi Hassan	Qatar
30	Ivan Konovalov	Unified Team
31	Davendra Singh	Fiji
32	Hector Begeo	Philippines

References

^ "Athletics at the 1992 Barcelona: Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2017.

External links

[SR-1] "Athletics at the 1992 Barcelona: Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2017.

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Athletics at the 1992 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
10,000 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
10 km walk		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
Wheelchair races
v t e

v t e 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 2020 2024
Women	1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Other distances: 1900 2500 m 4000 m 1904 (2590 m) 1908 (3200 m)

v t e Olympic champions in men's 3000 metres steeplechase
2500 m	1900: George Orton (CAN)
4000 m	1900: John Rimmer (GBR)
2590 m	1904: Jim Lightbody (USA)
3200 m	1908: Arthur Russell (GBR)
3460 m	1932: Volmari Iso-Hollo (FIN)
3000 m	1920: Percy Hodge (GBR) 1924: Ville Ritola (FIN) 1928: Toivo Loukola (FIN) 1936: Volmari Iso-Hollo (FIN) 1948: Tore Sjöstrand (SWE) 1952: Horace Ashenfelter (USA) 1956: Chris Brasher (GBR) 1960: Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak (POL) 1964: Gaston Roelants (BEL) 1968: Amos Biwott (KEN) 1972: Kip Keino (KEN) 1976: Anders Gärderud (SWE) 1980: Bronisław Malinowski (POL) 1984: Julius Korir (KEN) 1988: Julius Kariuki (KEN) 1992: Matthew Birir (KEN) 1996: Joseph Keter (KEN) 2000: Reuben Kosgei (KEN) 2004: Ezekiel Kemboi (KEN) 2008: Brimin Kipruto (KEN) 2012: Ezekiel Kemboi (KEN) 2016: Conseslus Kipruto (KEN) 2020: Soufiane El Bakkali (MAR) 2024: Soufiane El Bakkali (MAR)