European Athletics Championships 2002/3000 m obstacle men

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 10th (final)
Medalist Antonio David Jiménez ( ESP )   Simon Vroemen ( NED )   Luis Miguel Martín ( ESP )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The men's 3000 meter obstacle course at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 7th and 10th, 2002 in Munich's Olympic Stadium.

The Spanish obstacle course runners won two gold and bronze medals in this competition. European champion was Antonio David Jiménez . In second place came the Dutch European record holder Simon Vroemen . Bronze went to Luis Miguel Martín .

Existing records

World record	7: 55.28 min	Brahim Boulami	Brussels , Belgium	August 24, 2001
European record	8: 06.91 min	Simon Vroemen	Monaco , Principality of Monaco	July 19, 2002
EM record	8: 12.66 min	Francesco Panetta	EM Split , Yugoslavia	August 30, 1990

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 7, 2002

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

Boštjan Buč did not finish in his preliminary race

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Antonio David Jimenez	Spain	8: 27.61
2	Luis Miguel Martín	Spain	8: 27.66
3	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	8: 28.16
4th	Roman Usow	Russia	8: 28.71
5	Günther Weidlinger	Austria	8: 28.93
6th	Frédéric Denis	France	8: 36.44
7th	Mário Teixeira	Portugal	8: 37.82
8th	Henrik Skoog	Netherlands	8: 40.97
9	Jakub Czaja	Poland	8: 42.25
10	Damian Kallabis	Germany	8: 51.39
11	Angelo Iannelli	Italy	8: 52.45
DNF	Boštjan Buč	Slovenia

Forward 2

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  Jim Svenøy, who was third in the European Championship in 1998 , was tenth not enough to make it to the finals

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  Filmon Ghirmai was twelfth in his preliminary run and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Simon Vroemen	Netherlands	8: 29.64
2	Martin Pröll	Austria	8: 30.03
3	Vincent Le Dauphin	France	8: 30.52
4th	Vadim Slobodenjuk	Ukraine	8: 31,, 08
5	Eliseo Martín	Spain	8: 32.36
6th	Rafał Wójcik	Poland	8: 32.47
7th	Luciano Di Pardo	Italy	8: 33.25
8th	Kim Bergdahl	Finland	8: 36.32
9	Christian Belz	Switzerland	8: 38.19
10	Jim Svenøy	Norway	8: 38.85
11	Manuel Silva	Portugal	8: 42.85
12	Filmon Ghirmai	Germany	8: 44.55

final

Simon Vroemen, a new European record holder, became vice European champion

August 10, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Antonio David Jimenez	Spain	8: 24.34
2	Simon Vroemen	Netherlands	8: 24.45
3	Luis Miguel Martín	Spain	8: 24.72
4th	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	8: 26.86
5	Eliseo Martín	Spain	8: 28.63
6th	Vadim Slobodenjuk	Ukraine	8: 30.16
7th	Martin Pröll	Austria	8: 33.24
8th	Rafał Wójcik	Poland	8: 35.41
9	Vincent Le Dauphin	France	8: 40.39
10	Roman Usow	Russia	8: 42.62
11	Luciano Di Pardo	Italy	8: 46.13
12	Günther Weidlinger	Austria	9: 00.82

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  Bouabdellah Tahri reached fourth place - he won bronze at the two upcoming European championships

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  Eliseo Martín came in fifth - at the 2003 World Championships he was a bronze medalist

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  Martin Pröll (here in a photo from 2013) came in seventh

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  Günther Weidlinger was twelfth in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 28, 2019
• Men 3000m Steeplechase European Championship 2002 Munich on todor66.com, accessed on October 28, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 28, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 3000m Steeplechase European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 481f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 28, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, 3000 m obstacle men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 28, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on October 28, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 3000 m obstacle men , accessed on October 28, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 3000m Steeplechase Men , Spanish / English, p. 19 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 28, 2019