1996 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 3000 m obstacle (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	3000 meter obstacle course
gender	Men
Attendees	35 athletes from 22 countries
Competition location	Centennial Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 29, 1996 (preliminary round) July 31, 1996 (semi-finals) August 2, 1996 (final)
Medalist Joseph Keter ( KEN )   Moses Kiptanui ( KEN )   Alessandro Lambruschini ( ITA )

The men's 3,000-meter obstacle course at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta was held on July 29th, 31st and August 2nd, 1996 at the Centennial Olympic Stadium . 35 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Kenyan Joseph Keter . He won ahead of his compatriot Moses Kiptanui and the Italian Alessandro Lambruschini .

Kim Bauermeister , Steffen Brand and Martin Strege started for Germany . Bauermeister was eliminated in the semi-finals, Brand and Strege qualified for the final. Brand was sixth, Strege tenth.

Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1992	Matthew Birir ( Kenya )	8: 08.84 min	Barcelona 1992
World Champion 1995	Moses Kiptanui ( Kenya )	8: 04.16 min	Gothenburg 1995
European Champion 1994	Alessandro Lambruschini ( Italy )	8: 22.40 min	Helsinki 1994
Pan American champion 1995	Wander do Prado Moura ( Brazil )	8: 14.41 min	Mar del Plata 1995
Central America and Caribbean champions 1995	Rubén García ( Mexico )	8: 52.91 min	Guatemala City 1995
South American Champion 1995	Clodoaldo do Carmo ( Brazil )	8: 56.87 min	Manaus 1995
Asian champion 1995	Saad Shaddad Al-Asmari ( Saudi Arabia )	8: 24.08 min	Jakarta 1995
African champion 1996	Kipkemboi Cheruiyot ( Kenya )	8: 38.72 min	Yaoundé 1996
Oceania Champion 1994	Harnish Christensen ( New Zealand )	8: 54.74 min	Auckland 1994

Existing records

World record	7: 59.18 min	Moses Kiptanui ( Kenya )	Zurich , Switzerland	August 16, 1995
Olympic record	8: 05.51 min	Julius Kariuki ( Kenya )	Final from Seoul , South Korea	September 30, 1988

Note: All times are Atlanta local time ( UTC − 5 ).

Preliminary round

July 29, 1996, from 7:55 p.m.

The athletes competed in a total of three heats. The six winners in each run qualified for the semifinals. In addition, the six fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Joseph Keter	Kenya	8: 30.23
2	Godfrey Siamusiye	Zambia	8: 30.56
3	Florin Ionescu	Romania	8: 31.34
4th	Alessandro Lambruschini	Italy	8: 31.69
5	Hicham Bouaouiche	Morocco	8: 31.97
6th	Martin Strege	Germany	8: 32.76
7th	Jamal Abdi Hassan	Qatar	8: 32.76
8th	Eduardo Henriques	Portugal	8: 38.58
9	Elisardo de la Torre	Spain	8: 42.75
10	Spencer Duval	Great Britain	8: 46.76
11	Robert Gary	United States	8: 49.68
DNF	Primo Higa	Solomon Islands

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Abdelaziz Sahere	Morocco	8: 26.79
2	Matthew Birir	Kenya	8: 27.09
3	Mark Croghan	United States	8: 27.91
4th	Joël Bourgeois	Canada	8: 28.14
5	Justin Chaston	Great Britain	8: 28.32
6th	Vladimir Pronin	Russia	8: 29.49
7th	Nadir Bosch	France	8: 31.65
8th	Kim Farmer	Germany	8: 36.86
9	Ricardo Vera	Uruguay	8: 40.78
10	Néstor Nieves	Venezuela	8: 47.34
11	Vítor Almeida	Portugal	8: 48.16
12	Clodoaldo do Carmo	Brazil	8: 51.78

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Angelo Carosi	Italy	8: 30.83
2	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	8: 30.87
3	Brahim Boulami	Morocco	8: 30.97
4th	Steffen Brand	Germany	8: 31.18
5	Marc Davis	United States	8: 31.25
6th	Keith Cullen	Great Britain	8: 31.26
7th	Jim Svenøy	Norway	8: 31.30
8th	Christopher Unthank	Australia	8: 31.86
9	Vladimir Golias	Russia	8: 35.50
10	Shadrack Mogotsi	South Africa	8: 46.24
11	Ibrahim Al-Asiri Yahya	Saudi Arabia	8: 46.37

Semifinals

July 31, 1996, from 8:00 p.m.

From the two semi-finals, the first five athletes qualified for each run. for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Marc Davis	United States	8: 26.76
2	Matthew Birir	Kenya	8: 27.16
3	Alessandro Lambruschini	Italy	8: 27.32
4th	Hicham Bouaouiche	Morocco	8: 27.76
5	Martin Strege	Germany	8: 27.99
6th	Florin Ionescu	Romania	8: 28.77
7th	Joël Bourgeois	Canada	8: 31.45
8th	Abdelaziz Sahere	Morocco	8: 33.90
9	Vladimir Golias	Russia	8: 36.85
10	Godfrey Siamusiye	Zambia	8: 37.41
11	Keith Cullen	Great Britain	8: 46.74
12	Kim Farmer	Germany	8: 51.83

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Joseph Keter	Kenya	8: 18.90
2	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	8: 18.91
3	Steffen Brand	Germany	8: 19.11
4th	Jim Svenøy	Norway	8: 19.79
5	Brahim Boulami	Morocco	8: 20.43
6th	Mark Croghan	United States	8: 21.01
7th	Angelo Carosi	Italy	8: 21.86
8th	Christopher Unthank	Australia	8: 25.59
9	Justin Chaston	Great Britain	8: 28.50
10	Vladimir Pronin	Russia	8: 34.79
11	Jamal Abdi Hassan	Qatar	8: 36.40
12	Nadir Bosch	France	8: 47.31

final

The Norwegian Jim Svenøy was Olympic eighth

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Joseph Keter	Kenya	8: 07.12
2	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	8: 08.33
3	Alessandro Lambruschini	Italy	8: 11.28
4th	Matthew Birir	Kenya	8: 17.18
5	Mark Croghan	United States	8: 17.84
6th	Steffen Brand	Germany	8: 18.52
7th	Brahim Boulami	Morocco	8: 23.13
8th	Jim Svenøy	Norway	8: 23.39
9	Angelo Carosi	Italy	8: 29.67
10	Martin Strege	Germany	8: 30.31
11	Hicham Bouaouiche	Morocco	8: 46.22
12	Marc Davis	United States	9: 51.96

2nd August 1996

All three Kenyans had qualified for the final. They ran against two Germans, Italians, Moroccans and US athletes as well as a Norwegian.

The favorites were the Kenyans around world champion and world record holder Moses Kiptanui, who was the first obstacle runner to break the 8-minute mark last year. The country's squad also included 1992 Olympic gold medalists Matthew Birir and Joseph Keter. The contenders for top positions behind the Kenyans were the Italian European champion Alessandro Lambruschini, his compatriot Angelo Carosi, vice European champion, and World Cup fifth and German World Cup fourth Steffen Brand.

Kiptanui took the lead on the first lap. The race was fast with a slightly changing pace. At 1000 meters - passage time 2: 44.36 min - a top group of seven had pulled away a bit. 500 meters further the three Kenyans were clearly in the front. Behind it was a group of four. But at the 2000 meter mark - passage time 5: 29.12 min - Lambruschini had worked his way up to the three leaders again. The second thousand meters were about as fast as the first thousand meters at 2: 44.76 minutes. American Mark Croghan and Moroccan Brahim Boulami followed, about fifteen meters behind. Behind them were Carosi and, with another gap, Brand. At the beginning of the penultimate lap, Croghan also caught up with the leading group. But the picture quickly changed again. Keter, Kiptanui and Lambruschini pulled away in the front, but the Italian struggled to keep up with the accelerated pace and had to let go on the back straight of the last lap. But his distance from the pursuers was great. In the sprint for gold, Joseph Keter prevailed and secured the Olympic victory from Moses Kiptanui. Alessandro Lambruschini defended his big lead and won the bronze medal ahead of Matthew Birir and Mark Croghan. Steffen Brand had divided the race well and finished sixth ahead of Brahim Boulami.

Joseph Keter achieved the fourth Kenyan victory in a row over 3000 meters obstacle .

Overall, it was the sixth Kenyan gold medal and the fifth double victory for Kenya in this discipline.

literature

• Gerd Rubenbauer (ed.), Olympic Summer Games Atlanta 1996 with reports by Britta Kruse, Johannes Ebert, Andreas Schmidt and Ernst Christian Schütt, comments: Gerd Rubenbauer and Hans Schwarz, Chronik Verlag im Bertelsmann Verlag, Gütersloh / Munich 1996, p. 34

Web links

• SportsReference 3000 m obstacle , accessed March 2, 2018
• Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta , p. 85, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 2, 2018

Video

• 3000m Steeplechase Final - Published November 15, 2011, on youtube.com, 1996 , accessed March 2, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 674 , accessed on March 2, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c} Official Report, Part III on the Olympic Games in Atlanta ( Memento of the original from October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been 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. 85, English / French (PDF, 13,520 MB), accessed on March 2, 2018