2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 3000 m obstacle (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 3000 meter obstacle course | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 39 athletes from 25 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Athens Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 21, 2004 (preliminary round) August 24, 2004 (final) |
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The men's 3000 meter obstacle course at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 21 and 24, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 39 athletes took part.
All medals went to runners from Kenya. Olympic champion was Ezekiel Kemboi ahead of Brimin Kipruto and Paul Kipsiele Koech .
For Austria, Martin Pröll , who was eliminated in the preliminary round, started.
Athletes from Germany, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic Champion 2000 | Reuben Kosgei ( Kenya ) | 8: 21.43 min | Sydney 2000 |
World Champion 2003 | Saif Saaeed Shaheen ( Qatar ) | 8: 04.39 min | Paris 2003 |
European Champion 2002 | Antonio David Jiménez ( Spain ) | 8: 24.34 min | Munich 2002 |
Pan American Champion 2003 | Néstor Nieves ( Venezuela ) | 8: 34.26 min | Santo Domingo 2003 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 2003 | 3000 m obstacle not held as a championship competition | St. George’s 2003 | |
South American Champion 2003 | Néstor Nieves ( Venezuela ) | 8: 46.41 min | Barquisimeto 2003 |
Asian champion 2003 | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin ( Qatar ) | 8: 51.60 min | Manila 2003 |
African champion 2004 | David Chemweno ( Kenya ) | 8: 17.31 min | Brazzaville 2004 |
Oceania Champion 2002 | Neville Smith ( New Zealand ) | 9: 47.07 min | Christchurch 2002 |
Existing records
World record | 7: 55.28 min | Brahim Boulami ( Morocco ) | Brussels , Belgium | August 24, 2001 |
Olympic record | 8: 05.51 min | Julius Kariuki ( Kenya ) | Final from Seoul , South Korea | September 30, 1988 |
Note: All times are given in Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).
Preliminary round
A total of three preliminary runs were completed. The first three athletes of each run qualified for the final. 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
August 21, 2004, 10:05 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin | Qatar | 8: 17.89 | |
2 | Ezekiel Kemboi | Kenya | 8: 18.20 | |
3 | Bouabdellah Tahri | France | 8: 18.98 | |
4th | Daniel Lincoln | United States | 8: 19.62 | |
5 | Ali Ezzine | Morocco | 8: 20.18 | |
6th | Eliseo Martín | Spain | 8: 21.88 | |
7th | Radosław Popławski | Poland | 8: 22.16 | |
8th | Martin Pröll | Austria | 8: 26.01 | |
9 | Ivan Lukyanov | Moldova | 8: 26.17 | NO |
10 | Boštjan Buč | Slovenia | 8: 37.29 | |
11 | Pavel Potapovich | Russia | 8: 52.65 | |
DNF | Giuseppe Maffei | Italy | ||
DNS | Roberto Mandje | Equatorial Guinea | ||
Lotfi Turki | Tunisia |
Forward 2
August 21, 2004, 10:18 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Brimin Kipruto | Kenya | 8: 15.11 | |
2 | Simon Vroemen | Netherlands | 8: 15.28 | |
3 | Luis Miguel Martín | Spain | 8: 16.90 | |
4th | Mustafa Mohamed | Sweden | 8: 19.37 | |
5 | Vincent Le Dauphin | France | 8: 20.13 | |
6th | Jan Zakrzewski | Poland | 8: 23.72 | |
7th | Roman Usow | Russia | 8: 24.19 | |
8th | Wadym Slobodenjuk | Ukraine | 8: 24.84 | |
9 | Abdelatif Chemlal | Morocco | 8: 29.36 | |
10 | Tewodros Shiferaw | Ethiopia | 8: 33.15 | |
11 | Abdelhakim Maazouz | Algeria | 8: 36.12 | |
12 | Robert Gary | United States | 8: 38.01 | |
13 | Ruben Ramolefi | South Africa | 8: 46.17 | |
14th | Bashir Ibrahim | Kuwait | 8: 48.65 | NO |
Forward 3
August 21, 2004, 10:31 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Musa Amer Obaid | Qatar | 8: 23.94 | |
2 | Antonio David Jimenez | Spain | 8: 24.13 | |
3 | Paul Kipsiele Koech | Kenya | 8: 24.98 | |
4th | Zouhair Ouerdi | Morocco | 8: 27.55 | |
5 | Justin Chaston | Great Britain | 8: 28.35 | |
6th | Yoshitaka Iwamizu | Japan | 8: 29.07 | |
7th | Peter Nowill | Australia | 8: 29.14 | |
8th | Anthony Famiglietti | United States | 8: 31.59 | |
9 | Alexander Greaux | Puerto Rico | 8: 33.62 | |
10 | Jim Svenøy | Norway | 8: 33.97 | |
11 | Manuel da Silva | Portugal | 8: 38.31 | |
12 | Luleseged whales | Ethiopia | 8: 50.73 | |
13 | Jakub Czaja | Poland | 8: 56.24 |
final
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Ezekiel Kemboi | Kenya | 8: 05.81 | |
2 | Brimin Kipruto | Kenya | 8: 06.11 | |
3 | Paul Kipsiele Koech | Kenya | 8: 06.64 | |
4th | Musa Amer Obaid | Qatar | 8: 07.18 | |
5 | Luis Miguel Martín | Spain | 8: 11.64 | |
6th | Simon Vroemen | Netherlands | 8: 13.25 | |
7th | Bouabdellah Tahri | France | 8: 14.26 | |
8th | Ali Ezzine | Morocco | 8: 15.58 | |
9 | Eliseo Martín | Spain | 8: 15.77 | |
10 | Vincent Le Dauphin | France | 8: 16.15 | |
11 | Daniel Lincoln | United States | 8: 16.86 | |
12 | Radosław Popławski | Poland | 8: 17.32 | |
13 | Mustafa Mohamed | Sweden | 8: 18.05 | |
14th | Antonio David Jimenez | Spain | 8: 22.63 | |
15th | Khamis Abdullah Saifeldin | Qatar | 8: 36.66 |
August 24, 2004, 9:40 pm
All three Kenyans and all three Spaniards as well as two French and two runners from Qatar had qualified for the final. The starting field was completed by one participant each from Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden and the USA.
The clear favorite would actually have been Saif Saaeed Shaheen, who started for Qatar in 2002 . He had adopted Qatar's citizenship after previously running under his maiden name Stephen Cherono for his native Kenya. Under his new name he became world champion in 2003 and also world record holder in September after the Athens Games . The IOC banned Shaheen for the 2004 Games and then passed a regulation that bans athletes from participating in an international competition for a period of three years if they had previously started for another country in such a competition. This rule can only be overridden with the consent of the athlete and the two associations involved. In Shaheen's case, however, the Kenyan Athletics Federation refused to allow a start in Athens. The favorites in Athens were therefore the runners from Kenya, who had dominated this competition for years. Vice world champions Ezekiel Kemboi, Brimin Kipruto and Paul Kipsiele Koech were the names of the three Kenyan representatives and they hardly had to fear competition. The most likely candidates were the Spanish World Cup third Eliseo Martín, the French World Cup fourth Bouabdellah Tahri, the Moroccan vice world champion in 2001 Ali Ezzine and the Dutch vice European champion Simon Vroemen.
It didn't take long in the final before the three Kenyans took command and supported each other. The 1000-meter intermediate time of 2: 42.55 min showed a quick race from the start. The field of runners lengthened accordingly early, many athletes fell behind and could not keep up with this pace. The Kenyans' racing tactics with irregular running allowed the field to catch up a bit in the slower phases. But this kind of running was grueling and in the long run there were bigger and bigger gaps among the different smaller groups that got together. Even before the last kilometer, in addition to the three Kenyans, only the Katari Musa Amer Obaid, also born in Kenya, was in the top group. The second thousand meters were run in 2: 41.72 minutes. The four leaders were followed by a group of two with the Spaniard Luis Miguel Martín and Ezzine, about fifteen meters behind. Tahri ran another ten meters behind and tried to catch up. On the penultimate lap, Obaid had to struggle to keep contact with the front, although this lap was not overly fast. At the beginning of the final round, Martín had even made friends again. Koech led to the end of the back straight, the race was now getting faster and faster, there was a long sprint and Martín fell back again. Shortly before the start of the finish curve, Kemboi took the lead, but didn't seem to really be serious. He encouraged his compatriots with a show of hands, Obaid was still in contact as fourth. But at the beginning of the home straight, Kemboi pushed the pace again significantly. At first Kipruto was able to follow, while Koech and Obaid fought for bronze. But in the last fifty meters it was clear that Ezekiel Kemboi had the gold medal for sure. In the end, he no longer had to spend himself fully. Brimin Kipruto safely finished second, Paul Kipsiele Koech clearly won the race for bronze. Musa Amer Obaid was fourth ahead of Luis Miguel Martín. Simon Vroemen was able to fight his way up to sixth place ahead of Bouabdellah Tahri. Ali Ezzine took eighth place ahead of Eliseo Martín. At 2: 41.54 minutes, the last kilometer was roughly within the scope of the first two kilometer sections. In the end, only three tenths of a second were missing from the Olympic record .
Ezekiel Kemboi won the eighth Kenyan gold medal over 3000 meters obstacle . It was the sixth in a row for Kenya. For the second time since 1992 , the Kenyan team achieved a triple success in this discipline. It was the third triple success overall on this route. In 1928 three Finns won all three medals.
Web links
- SportsReference 3000 m obstacle , accessed April 25, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 25, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on April 25, 2018
Video
- 3000m Steeplechase Final - 2004 , published November 14, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed April 25, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 674 , accessed on April 25, 2018
- ↑ Dana Mulhauser on Legalaffairs.com in July 2004 (English) , accessed on April 25, 2018