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Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

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Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
DatesAugust 1 (heats)
August 4 (final)
Competitors22
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Toivo Loukola  Finland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Paavo Nurmi  Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ove Andersen  Finland
← 1924
1932 →

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place August 1 & August 4.

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Ville Ritola  Finland 9:46.6 Q
2 Melvin Dalton  United States 9:58.6 Q
3 Nils Eklöf  Sweden Q
4 Walter Gegan  United States
5 Henry Oliver  Great Britain
6 Nello Bartolini  Italy
7 Jozef Langenus  Belgium
8 Art Keay  Canada

Key: Q = Qualified

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Paavo Nurmi  Finland 9:58.8 Q
2 Lucien Duquesne  France 9:58.9 Q
3 William Spencer  United States Q
4 Norman Biddulph  Great Britain
5 Edgard Viseur  Belgium
6 Henrique Santos  Portugal
Gerry Coughlan  Ireland DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, Q = Qualified

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Toivo Loukola  Finland 9:37.6 Q
2 Ove Andersen  Finland Q
3 Henri Dartigues  France Q
4 Jean-Gunnar Lindgren  Sweden
5 Vernon Morgan  Great Britain
6 Joe Blewitt  Great Britain
7 Jesse Montgomery  United States

Key: Q = Qualified

Final

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Toivo Loukola  Finland 9:21.8 WR
2 Paavo Nurmi  Finland 9:31.2
3 Ove Andersen  Finland 9:35.6
4 Nils Eklöf  Sweden 9:38.0
5 Henri Dartigues  France 9:40.0
6 Lucien Duquesne  France 9:40.5
7 Melvin Dalton  United States
8 William Spencer  United States
Ville Ritola  Finland DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, WR = World record

References