The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2012 European Athletics Championships will held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 27 and 29 June.
Medalists Gold Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad Silver Tarık Langat Akdağ Bronze Víctor García
Records Standing records prior to the 2012 European Athletics ChampionshipsWorld record7:53.63Brussels, Belgium3 September 2004European record8:01.18Berlin, Germany18 August 2009Championship record8:07.87Barcelona, Spain1 August 2010World Leading7:54.31Rome, Italy31 May 2012European Leading8:10.90Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France9 June 2012
Schedule Date Time Round 27 June 2012 18:30 Round 1 29 June 2012 19:05 Final
Results
Round 1 First 4 in each heat (Q) and 7 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Note 1 2 Tarık Langat Akdağ 8:27.31 Q, SB 2 2 Ion Luchianov 8:29.28 Q 3 2 Víctor García 8:29.44 Q 4 2 Łukasz Oślizło 8:29.46 Q 5 2 Abdelaziz Merzougui 8:29.51 q 6 2 Steffen Uliczka 8:29.55 q 7 1 Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad 8:31.05 Q 1 Nordine Gezzar 8:31.33 Q, Doping 8 2 Yuri Floriani 8:32.63 q 9 1 Patrick Nasti 8:34.08 Q 10 1 Łukasz Parszczyński 8:35.05 Q 11 1 Antonio David Jiménez 8:35.44 q 12 2 Kaur Kivistik 8:36.10 q, PB 13 1 Hakan Duvar 8:37.40 q 14 1 Krystian Zalewski 8:37.82 q 15 1 James Wilkinson 8:39.19 16 2 Noureddine Smaïl 8:41.11 17 1 Alberto Paulo 8:41.63 SB 18 2 Itai Maggidi 8:47.29 19 1 Rob Mullett 8:48.38 2 Ildar Minshin 8:52.84 Doping 20 1 Alexandru Ghinea 8:55.88 1 Jukka Keskisalo 1 Halil Akkaş 2 Luke Gunn
Final Rank Name Nationality Time Note Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad 8:33.23 Tarık Langat Akdağ 8:35.24 Víctor García 8:35.87 Nordine Gezzar 8:36.98 Doping Abdelaziz Merzougui 8:38.58 Łukasz Parszczyński 8:38.76 Yuri Floriani 8:39.22 Krystian Zalewski 8:39.35 Hakan Duvar 8:40.05 Steffen Uliczka 8:41.53 10 Ion Luchianov 8:42.06 11 Łukasz Oślizło 8:44.51 12 Patrick Nasti 8:48.37 13 Antonio David Jiménez 8:53.30 14 Kaur Kivistik 8:58.02
References
Round 1 Results Final Results Full results