1972 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 3000 m obstacle (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course
gender	Men
Attendees	49 athletes from 29 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Munich
Competition phase	September 1st, 1972 (preliminary) September 4th, 1972 (final)
Medalist Kipchoge Keino ( KEN )   Ben Jipcho ( KEN )   Tapio Kantanen ( FIN )

The men's 3000 meter obstacle course at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich was held on September 1st and 4th, 1972 in the Munich Olympic Stadium. 49 athletes took part.

The Kenyan Kipchoge Keino was Olympic champion ahead of his compatriot Ben Jipcho . The Finn Tapio Kantanen won bronze .

For the Federal Republic of Germany - officially Germany - Willi Maier , Willi Wagner and Hans-Dieter Schulten started , all of whom were eliminated in the preliminary stages.
The Swiss Toni Feldmann, Hans Menet and Georges Kaiser were eliminated in the preliminary round.
Runners from the GDR, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Existing records

World record	8: 22.0 min	Kerry O'Brien ( Australia )	Berlin , FR Germany	4th July 1970
Olympic record	8: 30.8 min	Gaston Roelants ( Belgium )	Tokyo finals , Japan	17th October 1964

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a total of four heats on September 1st. The four best runners qualified for the final, which took place on September 4th.

Time schedule

September 1st, 4.30 p.m .: preliminary stages

September 4, 4.40 p.m .: Final

The qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue.

Preliminary round

Date: September 1 from 4.30 p.m., 1972, p.m.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tapio cantans	Finland	8: 24.8 min	OR
2	Kipchoge Keino	Kenya	8: 27.6 min
3	Takaharu Koyama	Japan	8: 29.8 min
4th	Gheorghe Cefan	Romania	8: 33.8 min
5	Andy Holden	Great Britain	8: 33.8 min
6th	Toni Feldmann	Switzerland	8: 35.8 min
7th	Steve Savage	United States	8: 39.0 min
8th	Gérard Buchheit	France	8: 41.2 min
9	Filbert Bayi	Tanzania	8: 41.4 min
10	Vitus Ashaba	Uganda	8: 45.0 min
11	Tadeusz Zieliński	Poland	8: 49.8 min
12	Wigmar Pedersen	Denmark	9: 03.0 min

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ben Jipcho	Kenya	8: 31.6 min
2	Mikko Ala-Leppilampi	Finland	8: 31.8 min
3	Mikhail Shelev	Bulgaria	8: 35.8 min
4th	Willi Maier	BR Germany	8: 37.6 min
5	Akira Takeuchi	Japan	8: 40.4 min
6th	Sergei Skripka	Soviet Union	8: 41.4 min
7th	Jan Voje	Norway	8: 42.0 min
8th	Hans Menet	Switzerland	8: 45.4 min
9	Eddie Leddy	Ireland	8: 47.4 min
10	Kazimierz Maranda	Poland	8: 50.4 min
11	Esau Adenji	Cameroon	9: 34.4 min
DNF	Kerry O'Brien	Australia

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	8: 29.0 min
2	Romualdas Bitė	Soviet Union	8: 30.2 min
3	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8: 30.4 min
4th	Josef Horčic	Czechoslovakia	8: 30.6 min
5	Gärderud is different	Sweden	8: 30.8 min
6th	Willi Wagner	BR Germany	8: 34.0 min
7th	Paul Thijs	Belgium	8: 35.0 min
8th	John Bicourt	Great Britain	8: 38.8 min
9	Doug Brown	United States	8: 41.2 min
10	Panagiotis Nakopoulos	Greece	8: 48.4 min
11	Yohannes Mohamed	Ethiopia	8: 52.6 min
12	Robert Hackman	Ghana	8: 57.6 min

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Amos Biwott	Kenya	8: 23.8 min	OR
2	Bronislaw Malinowski	Poland	8: 28.2 min
3	Dušan Moravčík	Czechoslovakia	8: 33.4 min
4th	Steve Hollings	Great Britain	8: 35.0 min
5	Franco Fava	Italy	8: 35.0 min
6th	Hans-Dieter Schulten	BR Germany	8: 39.8 min
7th	Boualem Rahoui	Algeria	8: 41.0 min
8th	Spyridon Kontosoros	Greece	8: 41.0 min
9	Georges Kaiser	Switzerland	8: 45.4 min
10	Mike Manley	United States	8: 50.4 min
11	Sverre Sørnes	Norway	8: 54.8 min
12	Usaia Sotutu	Fiji	9: 12.0 min
13	Julio Quevedo	Guatemala	9: 28.4 min

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Kipchoge Keino	Kenya	8: 23.6 min	OR
2	Ben Jipcho	Kenya	8: 24.6 min
3	Tapio cantans	Finland	8: 24.8 min
4th	Bronislaw Malinowski	Poland	8: 28.0 min
5	Dušan Moravčík	Czechoslovakia	8: 29.2 min
6th	Amos Biwott	Kenya	8: 33.6 min
7th	Romualdas Bitė	Soviet Union	8: 34.6 min
8th	Pekka Päivärinta	Finland	8: 37.2 min
9	Takaharu Koyama	Japan	8: 37.8 min
10	Mikko Ala-Leppilampi	Finland	8: 41.0 min
11	Jean-Paul Villain	France	8: 46.8 min
12	Mikhail Shelev	Bulgaria	9: 02.6 min

Date: September 4, 4:40 pm 1972, pm

The favorites were the French Jean-Paul Villain, European champion from 1971 , the world record holder Kerry O'Brien, Australia, and the three Kenyans Amos Biwott, Olympic champion from 1968 , Kipchoge Keino, and others. a. 1968 Olympic champion over 1500 meters , and Ben Jipcho. In addition, the Finn Tapio Kantanen came after his Olympic record in the first heat. From this circle of favorites O'Brien could not qualify for the final, he had to cancel his run-up.

The final race was not approached particularly quickly. The first 1000 meters were covered in 2:54 minutes, the second 1000 meter section was even slower at 3:00 minutes. At the front was the Pole Bronislaw Malinowski, who now accelerated the pace and with two laps to go there was a small gap to his competitors. The field was stretched wide. On the penultimate lap, Malinowski, the three Kenyans, the Finn Kantanen and the Czechoslovak Dušan Moravčík formed a leading group of six runners. At the beginning of the last lap, Keino took the lead, Jipcho was behind. Surprisingly, Biwott had already fallen back a bit here. Keino's long spurt could now only be followed by Jipcho and Kantanen. But already in the finish curve Kipchoge Keino broke away from his last pursuers and ran towards the Olympic victory. There was a close duel for the silver medal. Ben Jipcho came in second and the bronze went to Tapio Kantanen two tenths of a second behind. Bronisław Malinowski was fourth, Dušan Moravčík fifth. Kipchoge Keino covered the last 1000 meters in a fast 2:38 minutes and improved Amos Biwott's Olympic record from the fourth heat by two tenths of a second.

Kipchoge Keino and Ben Jipcho ran for the second Kenyan double success in a row in this competition.

literature

• Werner Schneider / Sport-Informations-Dienst / Bertelsmann Sportredaktion, The Olympic Games 1972. Munich - Kiel - Sapporo, Bertelsmann-Verlag, Munich, Gütersloh, Vienna 1972, ISBN 3-570-04559-5 , p. 55

Video

• Men's 3000m steeplechase - Munich 1972 - 50 fps , published on August 20, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed on November 23, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 3000 m obstacle , accessed November 23, 2017
• Official report, Volume 3 "The competitions" , p. 54f, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 23, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009, page 553 ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 43, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 23, 2017 
3. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 54f, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 23, 2017 
4. ↑ Official Report, Volume 3 "The competitions" ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 55, English / French / German (PDF, 28 MB), accessed on November 23, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed November 23, 2017