World Athletics Championships 1993/3000 m obstacle men

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course
gender	Men
Attendees	33 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 19th (preliminary) August 21st (final)
Medalist Moses Kiptanui ( KEN )   Patrick Sang ( KEN )   Alessandro Lambruschini ( ITA )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The men's 3,000-meter obstacle course at the 1993 World Athletics Championships was held on August 19 and 21, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

The obstacle runners from Kenya achieved a double victory in this competition. World champion was the defending champion and world record holder Moses Kiptanui . Second place went to the 1992 Olympic runner-up and 1991 vice world champion Patrick Sang . Bronze went to Alessandro Lambruschini, the Italian third place in the European Championship in 1990 .

Records

Existing records

World record	8: 02.08 min	Moses Kiptanui	Zurich , Switzerland	19th August 1992
World championship record	8: 08.57 min	Francesco Panetta	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	5th September 1987

Record improvement

World champion Moses Kiptanui from Kenya improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 21 by 2.21 seconds to 8: 06.36 minutes.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was carried out in three 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 final.

Forward 1

August 19, 1993, 12:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Patrick Sang	Kenya	8: 24.49
2	Azzedine Brahmi	Algeria	8: 24.73
3	Abdelaziz Sahere	Morocco	8: 24.89
4th	Michael Buchleitner	Austria	8: 24.92
5	Shaun Creighton	Australia	8: 25.29
6th	Tom Buckner	Great Britain	8: 27.26
7th	Vladimir Pronin	Russia	8: 32.26
8th	Kim Farmer	Germany	8: 37.41
9	Wander do Prado Moura	Brazil	8: 46.03
10	Brian Diemer	United States	9: 01.88
11	Davendra Prakash Singh	Fiji	9: 21.15
DNS	Antonio Peula	Spain

Forward 2

August 19, 1993, 12:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Matthew Kiprotich Birir	Kenya	8: 23.11
2	Steffen Brand	Germany	8: 23.27
3	Elarbi Khattabi	Morocco	8: 23.57
4th	Alessandro Lambruschini	Italy	8: 25.46
5	Marc Davis	United States	8: 26.49
6th	Colin Walker	Great Britain	8: 36.22
7th	Bezunen Yae Tura	Ethiopia	8: 37.13
8th	Thierry Brusseau	France	8: 39.82
9	Akira Nakamura	Japan	8: 48.89
10	Eduardo Henriques	Portugal	8: 57.21
DNF	Gustavo Castillo	Mexico

Forward 3

For Jim Svenøy, his eighth place in the third round was not enough for the final

August 19, 1993, 12:36 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	8: 19.08
2	Mark Croghan	United States	8: 19.14
3	Angelo Carosi	Italy	8: 19.66
4th	Martin Strege	Germany	8: 21.24
5	Tom Hanlon	Great Britain	8: 23.16
6th	Ricardo Vera	Uruguay	8: 23.65
7th	João Junqueira	Portugal	8: 28.39
8th	Jim Svenøy	Norway	8: 29.34
9	Ville Hautala	Finland	8: 32.49
10	Saad Al-Asmari	Saudi Arabia	8: 35.06
11	Whaddon Niewoudt	South Africa	8: 36.40

final

Michael Buchleitner (white T-shirt, in a race in 2009) took tenth place in the final

August 21, 1993, 7:35 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	8: 06.36 CR
2	Patrick Sang	Kenya	8: 07.53
3	Alessandro Lambruschini	Italy	8: 08.78
4th	Matthew Kiprotich Birir	Kenya	8: 09.42
5	Mark Croghan	United States	8: 09.76
6th	Steffen Brand	Germany	8: 15.33
7th	Elarbi Khattabi	Morocco	8: 17.96
8th	Angelo Carosi	Italy	8: 23.42
9	Shaun Creighton	Australia	8: 23.45
10	Michael Buchleitner	Austria	8: 25.88
11	Marc Davis	United States	8: 28.74
12	Ricardo Vera	Uruguay	8: 29.00
13	Abdelaziz Sahere	Morocco	8: 29.65
14th	Martin Strege	Germany	8: 34.31
15th	Tom Hanlon	Great Britain	8: 45.62
DNF	Azzedine Brahmi	Algeria

Video

• Men's 3000m Steeplechase World Champs Stuttgart 1993 , video published on December 21, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on May 10, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 10, 2020
• Men 3000m Steeplechase Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 10, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 3000m Steeplechase, Stuttgart 1993, p. 142 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 10, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 3000 m obstacle men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 10, 2020