Olympic Summer Games 2008 / Athletics - 3000 m obstacle (men)
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sport | athletics |
discipline | 3000 meter obstacle course |
gender | Men |
place | Beijing National Stadium |
Attendees | 39 athletes from 28 countries |
Competition phase | August 16 and 18, 2008 |
Medalist | |
gold | Brimin Kiprop Kipruto ( KEN ) |
silver | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad ( FRA ) |
bronze | Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong ( KEN ) |
The 3000-meter obstacle course at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was held on August 16 and 18, 2008 in the Beijing National Stadium. 39 athletes took part.
Olympic champion was Brimin Kiprop Kipruto from Kenya, silver went to French Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad and bronze to Kenyan Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong .
Current title holders
Olympic champion 2004 | Ezekiel Kemboi ( Kenya ) | 8: 05.81 min | Athens 2004 |
World Champion 2007 | Brimin Kiprop Kipruto ( Kenya ) | 8: 13.82 min | Osaka 2007 |
European champion 2006 | Jukka Keskisalo ( Finland ) | 8: 24.89 min | Gothenburg 2006 |
Pan American Champion 2007 | Joshua McAdams ( USA ) | 8: 30.49 min | Rio de Janeiro 2007 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 2008 | José Alberto Sánchez ( Cuba ) | 8: 53.24 min | Cali 2008 |
South America Champion 2007 | Sergio Lobos ( Chile ) | 8: 37.83 min | São Paulo 2007 |
Asian champion 2007 | Ali al-Amri ( Saudi Arabia ) | 8: 54.25 min | Amman 2007 |
Africa Champion 2008 | Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong ( Kenya ) | 8: 31.61 min | Addis Ababa 2008 |
Oceania Champion 2008 | Tim Rogers ( Norfolk Island ) | 12: 18.36 min | Saipan 2008 |
Existing records
World record | 7: 53.63 min | Saif Saaeed Shaheen ( Qatar ) | Brussels , Belgium | September 3, 2004 |
Olympic record | 8: 05.51 min | Julius Kariuki ( Kenya ) | Final from Seoul , South Korea | September 30, 1988 |
Prelims
There were three preliminary runs. The first four runners - highlighted in light blue - as well as the three fastest athletes - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.
Forward 1
August 16, 2008 , 9:20 am
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Bouabdellah Tahri | France | 8: 23.43 min | |
2 | Brimin Kiprop Kipruto | Kenya | 8: 23.53 min | |
3 | Abdelkader Hachla | Morocco | 8: 23.62 min | |
4th | Ali Tareq Mubarak Taher | Brunei | 8: 23.66 min | |
5 | Nahom Mesfin | Ethiopia | 8: 23.82 min | |
6th | Ildar Minishin | Russia | 8: 26.85 min | |
7th | Tomasz Szymkowiak | Poland | 8: 29.37 min | |
8th | Rabia Makhloufi | Algeria | 8: 29.74 min | |
9 | Yoshitaka Iwamizu | Japan | 8: 29.80 min | |
10 | Valērijs Žolnerovičs | Latvia | 8: 37.65 min | |
11 | Alberto Paulo | Portugal | 8: 39.11 min | |
12 | Rubén Palomequ | Spain | 8: 38.50 min | |
DNF | Matteo Villani | Italy |
Forward 2
August 16, 2008 , 9:32 am
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Yakob Jarso | Ethiopia | 8: 16.88 min | PB |
2 | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | France | 8: 16.95 min | |
3 | Anthony Famiglietti | United States | 8: 17.34 min | PB |
4th | Ezekiel Kemboi | Kenya | 8: 17.55 min | |
5 | Mustafa Mohamed | Sweden | 8: 17.80 min | |
6th | Youcef Abdi | Australia | 8: 17.97 min | PB |
7th | Ivan Lukyanov | Moldova | 8: 18.97 min | NO |
8th | Bostjan Buc | Slovenia | 8: 21.24 min | |
9 | Brahim Taleb | Morocco | 8: 23.09 min | |
10 | Andrew Lemoncello | Great Britain | 8: 36.06 min | |
11 | William Nelson | United States | 8: 36.66 min | |
12 | José Luis Blanco | Spain | 8: 37.37 min | |
13 | Ali Ahmed Al-Amri | Saudi Arabia | 9: 09.73 min | |
DNS | Jukka Keskisalo | Finland |
Forward 3
August 16, 2008 , 9:44 am
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Ruben Ramolefi | South Africa | 8: 19.86 min | PB |
2 | Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong | Kenya | 8: 19.87 min | |
3 | Benjamin Kiplagat | Uganda | 8: 20.22 min | |
4th | Abubaker Ali Kamal | Qatar | 8: 21.85 min | |
5 | Eliseo Martín | Spain | 8: 23.19 min | |
6th | Hamid Ezzine | Morocco | 8: 27.45 min | |
7th | Vincent Zouaqui-Dandrieux | France | 8: 27.91 min | |
8th | Roba Gary | Ethiopia | 8: 28.27 min | |
9 | Joshua McAdams | United States | 8: 33.26 min | |
10 | Pavel Potapovich | Russia | 8: 36.29 min | |
11 | Pieter Desmet | Belgium | 8: 37.99 min | |
12 | Halil Akkaş | Turkey | 8: 44.70 min | |
13 | Itay Magidi | Israel | 9:05.02 min |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Brimin Kiprop Kipruto | Kenya | 8: 10.34 min | |
2 | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | France | 8: 10.49 min | PB |
3 | Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong | Kenya | 8: 11.01 min | |
4th | Yacob Jarso | Ethiopia | 8: 13.47 min | NO |
5 | Bouabdellah Tahri | France | 8: 14.79 min | |
6th | Youcef Abdi | Australia | 8: 16.36 min | PB |
7th | Ezekiel Kemboi | Kenya | 8: 16.38 min | |
8th | Abubaker Ali Kamal | Qatar | 8: 16.59 min | |
9 | Benjamin Kiplagat | Uganda | 8: 20.27 min | |
10 | Mustafa Mohamed | Sweden | 8: 20.69 min | |
11 | Ali Tareq Mubarak Taher | Brunei | 8: 21.59 min | |
12 | Ivan Lukyanov | Moldova | 8: 27.82 min | |
13 | Anthony Famiglietti | United States | 8: 31.21 min | |
14th | Ruben Ramolefi | South Africa | 8: 34.58 min | |
15th | Abdelkader Hachla | Morocco | 9:02.06 min |
August 18, 2008 , 9:10 p.m.
The favorites for this race were clear: As medal candidates, there were hardly any other athletes than the runners from Kenya, who had dominated this competition for many years. There was one exception. In 2005, Qatar had provided the world champion with the current world record holder Saif Saaeed Shaheen . But Shaheen had only changed from the Kenyan to the Qatari athletics federation after already major successes and had at the same time changed his name from Stephen Cherono to Saif Saaeed Shaheen . Shaheen was not on the starting list here in Beijing . The first three of the last World Championships Brimin Kiprop Kipruto, Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong and Ezekiel Kemboi had qualified for Kenya . As the reigning world champion, Kipruto was slightly favored, but Kemboi as runner-up world champion and Olympic champion in 2004 and Mateelong as third world champion were seen as strong competitors. Other candidates for top positions were the Swedish World Cup fourth Mustafa Mohamed, who immigrated to Sweden from Somalia many years ago, as well as the French World Cup fifth and EM third Bouabdellah Tahri.
In the final, three Kenyans, two French and one runner each from Ethiopia, Australia, Bahrain, Qatar, Morocco, Moldova, Sweden, South Africa, Uganda and the United States competed.
The race did not start quickly. The Kenyans initially let their opponents have their own way and focused on increasing the pace towards the end of the competition. I always positioned them in the best possible starting position with contact to the top. The first kilometer was run with the South African Ruben Ramolefi in the lead in 2: 46.97 minutes, which would have resulted in an end time of approx. 8:31 minutes. So it went on. The second 1000 meter section showed an almost identical speed of 2: 46.87 minutes. After two kilometers, Mustafa led. But now the Kenyans were getting serious and the pace was picking up. In the last lap the field was finally blown up. Five runners were still together at the front when the decision was made on the back straight. The three Kenyans, the Ethiopian Yacob Jarso and, surprisingly, also the French Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad fought for the medals. In the final corner, Jarso and Kemboi lost contact with the three leaders, who were almost on a line next to each other on the home straight. Outside world champion Kipruto sprinted, inside his compatriot Mateelong and in between the Frenchman Mekhissi-Benabbad. Brimin Kiprop Kipruto finally prevailed and fully lived up to his role as an Olympic champion. Very surprisingly, Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad won the silver medal behind him, bronze went to Richard Kipkemboi Mateelong. Kipruto ran the last thousand meters in 2: 36.50 minutes. Yacob Jarso was able to maintain his fourth place, while Ezekiel Kemboi fell back to seventh place, with Bouabdellah Tahri in fifth and Australian Youcef Abdi in sixth.
Brimin Kiprop Kipruto won the ninth gold medal for Kenya over 3000 meters obstacle . It was the seventh in a row.
Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad's silver medal was the second for France and France's fourth overall in this discipline, if you include Jean Chastanié's 1900 bronze over a 2500 meter obstacle.
The Kenyan Olympic champion from 2004 Ezekiel Kemboi - here in 2009 - is seventh this time
Web links
- SportsReference 400m hurdles , accessed June 4, 2018
- Olympedia 3000 m obstacle , accessed July 31, 2020
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 4, 2018
Video
- Athletics 3000m Steeplechase Men - Final , posted August 18, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 4, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 4, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 4, 2018
- ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 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. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 4, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 4, 2018
- ^ IAAF, 3000 m obstacle men , accessed on June 4, 2018
- ↑ Saif Saaeed Shaheen, 3000m steeplechase world record holder resigns on africanews.com (English), accessed on June 4, 2018