World Athletics Championships 2001/3000 m obstacle men

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (preliminary) August 8th (final)
Medalist Reuben Kosgei ( KEN )   Ali Ezzine ( MAK )   Bernard Barmasai ( KEN )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The 3000-meter steeplechase of the men at the 2001 World Championships in Athletics was on 6 and 8 August 2001 in Commonwealth Stadium, the Canadian city of Edmonton held.

In this competition, the athletes from Kenya won two medals, gold and bronze. The 2000 Olympic champion, Reuben Kosgei , became world champion . The Moroccan Ali Ezzine won the silver medal here after bronze at the 2000 Olympic Games and the 1999 World Championships . Third place went to the World Cup -third of 1997 and world record holder Bernard Barmasai .

Existing records

World record	7: 55.72 min	Bernard Barmasai	Cologne , Germany	August 24, 1997
World Cup record	8: 04.16 min	Moses Kiptanui	World Cup 1995 in Gothenburg , Sweden	August 11, 1995

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first six athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the three fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

Simon Vroemen couldn't finish his preroll

August 6, 2001, 3:05 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Reuben Kosgei	Kenya	8: 21.96
2	Brahim Boulami	Morocco	8: 21.98
3	Luis Miguel Martín	Spain	8: 25.09
4th	Eliseo Martín	Spain	8: 26.18
5	Ali Ezzine	Morocco	8: 26.86
6th	Joël Bourgeois	Canada	8: 26.92
7th	Tim Broe	United States	8: 27.26
8th	Gaël Pencreach	France	8: 28.54
9	Frédéric Denis	France	8: 41.66
10	Yoshitaka Iwamizu	Japan	8: 45.25
11	Tom Chorny	United States	8: 51.74
DNF	Simon Vroemen	Netherlands

Forward 2

Jim Svenøy's tenth place in the second heat was not enough to make it into the final

August 6, 2001, 3:19 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Antonio David Jimenez	Spain	8: 25.37
2	Raymond Yator	Kenya	8: 25.45
3	Bernard Barmasai	Kenya	8: 25.65
4th	Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin	Qatar	8: 25.83
5	Ralf Assmus	Germany	8: 29.52
6th	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	8: 29.71
7th	Christian Belz	Switzerland	8: 31.57
8th	Elarbi Khattabi	Morocco	8: 32.70
9	Laid Bessou	Algeria	8: 33.40
10	Jim Svenøy	Norway	8: 35.71
11	Anthony Famiglietti	United States	8: 44.54
12	Salvador Miranda	Mexico	8: 49.47
13	Madan Raj Giri	Nepal	9: 34.97

final

August 8, 2001, 8:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Reuben Kosgei	Kenya	8: 15.16
2	Ali Ezzine	Morocco	8: 16.21
3	Bernard Barmasai	Kenya	8: 16.59
4th	Luis Miguel Martín	Spain	8: 18.87
5	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	8: 19.56
6th	Antonio David Jimenez	Spain	8: 19.82
7th	Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin	Qatar	8: 20.01
8th	Raymond Yator	Kenya	8: 20.87
9	Ralf Assmus	Germany	8: 21.73
10	Brahim Boulami	Morocco	8: 21.95
11	Tim Broe	United States	8: 23.07
12	Eliseo Martín	Spain	8: 27.78
13	Christian Belz	Switzerland	8: 31.43
14th	Joël Bourgeois	Canada	8: 36.38
15th	Gaël Pencreach	France	8: 41.51

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  As at the 1997 World Championships , world record holder Bernard Barmasai (right, at the  2006 Amsterdam Marathon ) won the bronze medal

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  Bouabdellah Tahri finished fifth

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  Eliseo Martín came in twelfth place

Video

• 2001 IAAF World Championship Steeplechase on youtube.com, accessed on August 11, 2020

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed August 11, 2020
• Men 3000m Steeplechase Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com (English), accessed August 11, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 3000 m Steeplechase, Edmonton 2001, p. 143f (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on August 11, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 3000 m obstacle men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 11, 2020