World Athletics Championships 1987/3000 m obstacle men

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course
gender	Men
Attendees	38 athletes from 25 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 3rd (preliminary) September 5th (final)
Medalist Francesco Panetta ( ITA )   Hagen Melzer ( GDR )   William Van Dijck ( BEL )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The men's 3000 meter obstacle course at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on September 3 and 5, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

World champion was the Italian vice European champion from 1986 Francesco Panetta , who had already become vice world champion over 10,000 meters a week earlier . He won before the reigning European champion Hagen Melzer from the GDR . The Belgian William Van Dijck won the bronze medal.

Records

Existing records

World record	8: 05.4 min	Henry Rono	Seattle , USA	May 13, 1978
World championship record	8: 15.06 min	Patriz Ilg	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 12, 1983

Record improvement

World champion Francesco Panetta from Italy improved the existing world championship record in the final on September 5th by 6.49 seconds to 8: 08.57 minutes.

Preliminary round

3rd September 1987

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the three fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Francesco Panetta	Italy	8: 16.08
2	Raymond Pannier	France	8: 16.93
3	William Van Dijck	Belgium	8: 19.19
4th	Patrick Sang	Kenya	8: 22.26
5	Eddie Wedderburn	Great Britain	8: 24.09
6th	Adauto domingues	Brazil	8: 26.67
7th	Béla Vágó	Hungary	8: 27.24
8th	Francisco Sánchez	Spain	8: 34.29
9	Michael Heist	BR Germany	8: 38.80
10	Brian Abshire	United States	8: 39.97
11	Liam O'Brien	Ireland	8: 40.88
12	Herman Hofstee	Netherlands	8: 44.04
13	Emilio Ulloa	Chile	8: 44.51

Forward 2

Bogusław Mamiński did not reach the final as sixth of his prelim

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Joshua Kipkemboi	Kenya	8: 20.75
2	Hagen Melzer	GDR	8: 21.07
3	Alessandro Lambruschini	Italy	8: 21.21
4th	Brian Diemer	United States	8: 21.32
5	Fethi Baccouche	Tunisia	8: 22.75
6th	Bogusław Mamiński	Poland	8: 24.32
7th	Tommy Ekblom	Finland	8: 24.66
8th	Ricardo Vera	Uruguay	8: 36.80
9	Colin Reitz	Great Britain	8: 40.55
10	Sigeyuki Aiko	Japan	8: 41.41
11	Aspen Borge	Norway	8: 47.34
12	Ramón López	Paraguay	9: 10.29
DNF	Flemming Jensen	Denmark

Forward 3

Hans Koeleman came in tenth in the third run and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Patriz Ilg	BR Germany	8: 18.73
2	Graeme fur	Canada	8: 18.87
3	Peter Koech	Kenya	8: 19.28
4th	José Regalo	Portugal	8: 20.70
5	Henry Marsh	United States	8: 20.98
6th	Roger Hackney	Great Britain	8: 21.35
7th	Franco Boffi	Italy	8: 21.69
8th	Bruno Le Stum	France	8: 23.61
9	Valery Wandjak	Soviet Union	8: 30.43
10	Hans Koeleman	Netherlands	8: 41.80
11	Domingo Ramón	Spain	8: 42.35
DNF	Mirosaw Zerkowski	Poland

final

5th September 1987

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Francesco Panetta	Italy	8: 08.57 CR
2	Hagen Melzer	GDR	8: 10.32
3	William Van Dijck	Belgium	8: 12.18
4th	Brian Diemer	United States	8: 14.46
5	Graeme fur	Canada	8: 16.46
6th	Henry Marsh	United States	8: 17.78
7th	Peter Koech	Kenya	8: 20.08
8th	Patrick Sang	Kenya	8: 20.45
9	Alessandro Lambruschini	Italy	8: 24.25
10	Raymond Pannier	France	8: 26.50
11	José Regalo	Portugal	8: 27.64
12	Patriz Ilg	BR Germany	8: 38.46
13	Franco Boffi	Italy	8: 43.60
14th	Roger Hackney	Great Britain	8: 48.86
DNF	Joshua Kipkemboi	Kenya

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 24, 2020
• Men 3000m Steeplechase Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com (English), accessed March 24, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 3000m Steeplechase, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 142), English, accessed on March 24, 2020

Video

• 3,000m Steeplechase Final - World Athletics Championships, Rome 1987 on youtube.com, accessed March 24, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 3,000 m obstacle men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 24, 2020