2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 3000 m obstacle (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 3000 meter obstacle course | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 40 athletes from 29 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadium Australia | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 27, 2000 (preliminary round) September 29, 2000 (final) |
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The men's 3000 meter obstacle course at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 27 and 29, 2000 at Stadium Australia . Forty athletes took part.
The Kenyan Reuben Kosgei became Olympic champion . He won ahead of his compatriot Wilson Boit Kipketer and the Moroccan Ali Ezzine .
While the Swiss Christian Belz was eliminated in the preliminary run, the German Damian Kallabis and the Austrian Günther Weidlinger reached the final. Weidlinger came eighth, Kallabis crossed the finish line in fifteenth.
Athletes from Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1996 | Joseph Keter ( Kenya ) | 8:07:12 min | Atlanta 1996 |
World Champion 1999 | Christopher Koskei ( Kenya ) | 8: 11.76 min | Seville 1999 |
European champion 1998 | Damian Kallabis ( Germany ) | 8: 13.10 min | Budapest 1998 |
Pan American Champion 1999 | Joël Bourgeois ( Canada ) | 8: 35.03 min | Winnipeg 1999 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999 | Salvador Miranda ( Mexico ) | 8: 42.45 min | Bridgetown 1999 |
South American Champion 1999 | Pablo Ramírez ( Ecuador ) | 9: 11.21 min | Bogotá 1999 |
Asian champion 2000 | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin ( Qatar ) | 8: 47.33 min | Jakarta 2000 |
African Champion 2000 | Lofti Turki ( Tunisia ) | 8: 33.29 min | Algiers 2000 |
Oceania Champion 2000 | Primo Higa ( Solomon Islands ) | 9: 58.06 min | Adelaide 2000 |
Existing records
World record | 7: 55.72 min | Bernard Barmasai ( Kenya ) | Cologne , Germany | August 27, 1997 |
Olympic record | 8: 05.51 min | Julius Kariuki ( Kenya ) | Final from Seoul , South Korea | September 30, 1988 |
Note: All times are local Sydney time ( UTC + 10 ).
Preliminary round
A total of three preliminary runs were completed. The first four athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the three 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.
Forward 1
September 27, 2000, 11:55 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Reuben Kosgei | Kenya | 8: 23.17 | |
2 | Ali Ezzine | Morocco | 8: 23.79 | |
3 | Günther Weidlinger | Austria | 8: 24.07 | |
4th | Eliseo Martín | Spain | 8: 24.97 | |
5 | Mark Croghan | United States | 8: 25.88 | |
6th | Bouabdellah Tahri | France | 8: 34.69 | |
7th | Maru Daba | Ethiopia | 8: 35.34 | |
8th | Florin Ionescu | Romania | 8: 37.44 | |
9 | Sergi Redko | Ukraine | 8: 40.51 | |
10 | Christian Stephenson | Great Britain | 8: 46.66 | |
11 | Mourad Benslimani | Algeria | 8: 59.07 | |
12 | Christopher Unthank | Australia | 9: 11.19 | |
13 | Primo Higa | Solomon Islands | 9: 44.12 |
Forward 2
September 27, 2000, 12:08 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Bernard Barmasai | Kenya | 8: 23.08 | |
2 | Jim Svenøy | Norway | 8: 23.61 | |
3 | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin | Qatar | 8: 23.94 | |
4th | Luis Miguel Martín | Spain | 8: 24.04 | |
5 | Damian Kallabis | Germany | 8: 24.48 | |
6th | Gaël Pencreach | France | 8: 25.35 | |
7th | Joël Bourgeois | Canada | 8: 28.07 | |
8th | Christian Belz | Switzerland | 8: 33.45 | |
9 | Rafał Wójcik | Poland | 8: 33.51 | |
10 | Anthony Cosey | United States | 8: 35.25 | |
11 | El Arbi Khattabi | Morocco | 8: 43.46 | |
12 | Georgios Giannelis | Greece | 9: 19.14 | |
DNF | Stathis Stasi | Cyprus |
Forward 3
September 27, 2000, 12:21 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Laid Bessou | Algeria | 8: 21.14 | |
2 | Wilson Boit Kipketer | Kenya | 8: 22.07 | |
3 | Simon Vroemen | Netherlands | 8: 22.13 | |
4th | Brahim Boulami | Morocco | 8: 24.43 | |
5 | Manuel Silva | Portugal | 8: 25.70 | |
6th | Pascal Dobert | United States | 8: 29.52 | |
7th | Justin Chaston | Great Britain | 8: 31.01 | |
8th | Lofti Turki | Tunisia | 8: 34.84 | |
9 | Salvador Miranda | Mexico | 8: 35.79 | |
10 | Marco Cepeda | Spain | 8: 40.01 | |
11 | Iaroslav Muşinschi | Moldova | 8: 42.04 | |
12 | Giuseppe Maffei | Italy | 8: 48.88 | |
13 | Vladimir Pronin | Russia | 8: 57.69 | |
14th | Eduardo Buenavista | Philippines | 9: 13.71 |
final
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Reuben Kosgei | Kenya | 8: 21.43 | |
2 | Wilson Boit Kipketer | Kenya | 8: 21.77 | |
3 | Ali Ezzine | Morocco | 8: 22.15 | |
4th | Bernard Barmasai | Kenya | 8: 22.23 | |
5 | Luis Miguel Martín | Spain | 8: 22.75 | |
6th | Eliseo Martín | Spain | 8: 23.00 | |
7th | Brahim Boulami | Morocco | 8: 24.32 | |
8th | Günther Weidlinger | Austria | 8: 26.70 | |
9 | Jim Svenøy | Norway | 8: 27.20 | |
10 | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin | Qatar | 8: 30.89 | |
11 | Laid Bessou | Algeria | 8: 33.07 | |
12 | Simon Vroemen | Netherlands | 8: 37.87 | |
13 | Manuel Silva | Portugal | 8: 38.63 | |
14th | Gaël Pencreach | France | 8: 41.19 | |
15th | Damian Kallabis | Germany | 9: 09.78 |
September 29, 2000, 7:25 pm
All three Kenyans as well as two Moroccans and two Spaniards had qualified for the final. The starting field was completed by one participant each from Algeria, Germany, France, Qatar, the Netherlands, Norway, Austria and Portugal.
The favorites were the Kenyans, who had been setting the tone on this route for years. In particular, vice world champion Wilson Boit Kipketer and world record holder Bernard Barmasai were given the greatest chances of winning the Olympic gold, but Reuben Kosgei was also to be expected. A medal candidate was also the World Cup third Ali Ezzine from Morocco.
In the final race there was an incident right at the beginning. The German European champion Damian Kallabis hit the first obstacle and fell. He was able to continue, but was now running behind the field and ended up being fifteenth and last in this final by a clear margin.
The three Kenyans initially controlled the race. After a lap and a half, the Moroccan Ali Ezzine took the lead. The Spaniard Luis Miguel Martín and the Dutchman Simon Vroemen now finished second and third. After another one and a half laps Kosgei, Kipketer and with them the Austrian Günther Weidlinger replaced the leaders. The pace was not particularly fast, the first thousand meters were covered in 2: 55.85 minutes. Then it got a little faster, the time for the second 1000 meter section was 2: 48.06 minutes.
In the penultimate lap the Spaniard Eliseo Martín tried an attack, but was intercepted by Kosgei and Martín came back into the field. At the beginning of the last lap, the Kenyans moved forward as one, closely followed by Ezzine. Another attack followed on the back straight, this time from Luis Miguel Martín. However, he could not move away, he was level with Kosgei at the moat. Kipketer and Barmasai followed directly behind them. On the home stretch, Martín ran out of strength and fell significantly behind. At the last obstacle, Kipketer pushed himself into the leading position. However, there was contact with Kosgei, which threw Kipketer off balance. Reuben Kosgei was now able to break away decisively and win the race. Wilson Boit Kipketer was second ahead of Ali Ezzine, who over-sprinted Bernard Barmasai and prevented the Kenyans from achieving complete success. Fifth and sixth were the two Spaniards Luis Miguel Martín and Eliseo Martín.
Reuben Kosgei became the seventh Kenyan Olympic champion over 3000 meters obstacle . It was the fifth success in a row for Kenya in this discipline, at the same time the fourth double success in a row.
Web links
- SportsReference 3000 m obstacle , accessed March 21, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed on March 21, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on March 21, 2018
Video
- 2000 Sydney olympics , 3000 meter obstacle, published November 23, 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 21, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 674 , accessed on March 21, 2018