Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 3000 m obstacle (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 3000 meter obstacle course | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 39 athletes from 27 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium London | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 3, 2012 (preliminary round) August 5, 2012 (final) |
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The men's 3000 meter obstacle course at the 2012 London Olympics was held on August 3rd and 5th, 2012 in the London Olympic Stadium. 39 athletes took part.
The gold medal was won by the Kenyan Ezekiel Kemboi . Silver went to the French Mahiedine Mekhissi , the Kenyan Abel Mutai won bronze.
Steffen Uliczka started for Germany and was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion | Brimin Kipruto ( Kenya ) | 8: 10.34 min | Beijing 2008 |
World Champion | Ezekiel Kemboi ( Kenya ) | 8: 14.85 min | Daegu 2011 |
European champion | Mahiedine Mekhissi ( France ) | 8: 33.23 min | Helsinki 2012 |
Central America and Caribbean champions | Luis Enrique Ibarra ( Mexico ) | 8: 55.86 min | Mayagüez 2011 |
South America champion | Hudson de Souza ( Brazil ) | 8: 36.53 min | Buenos Aires 2011 |
Asian champion | Abubaker Ali Kamal ( Qatar ) | 8: 30.23 min | Kobe 2011 |
African champions | Abel Mutai ( Kenya ) | 8: 16.05 min | Porto-Novo 2012 |
Oceania Champion | Theo Houdret ( New Caledonia ) | 10: 13.80 min | Cairns 2012 |
Existing records
World record | Saif Saaeed Shaheen ( Qatar ) | 7: 53.63 min | Brussels , Belgium | September 3, 2004 |
Olympic record | Julius Kariuki ( Kenya ) | 8: 05.51 min | Seoul , South Korea | September 30, 1988 |
Note:
All times in this post are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).
leader
Three preliminary runs were carried out. 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 athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
August 3, 2012, 1:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Mahiedine Mekhissi | France | 8: 16.23 | |
2 | Evan Jager | United States | 8: 16.61 | |
3 | Abel Mutai | Kenya | 8: 17.70 | |
4th | Tarık Langat Akdağ | Turkey | 8: 17.85 | NO |
5 | Nahom Mesfin | Ethiopia | 8: 18.16 | |
6th | Benjamin Kiplagat | Uganda | 8: 18.44 | |
7th | Cupid Ben Yahia | Tunisia | 8: 22.70 | |
8th | José Peña | Venezuela | 8: 24.06 | NO |
9 | Ali al-Amri | Saudi Arabia | 8: 26.22 | |
10 | Hicham Sigueni | Morocco | 8: 35.89 | |
11 | Ángel Mullera | Spain | 8: 38.07 | |
12 | Alberto Paulo | Portugal | 8: 40.74 | |
13 | Steffen Uliczka | Germany | 8: 41.08 |
Forward 2
August 3, 2012, 1:15 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Brimin Kipruto | Kenya | 8: 28.62 | |
2 | Yuri Floriani | Italy | 8: 29.01 | |
3 | Brahim Taleb | Morocco | 8: 29.02 | |
4th | Jukka Keskisalo | Finland | 8: 29.13 | |
5 | Nikolai Chavkin | Russia | 8: 29.72 | |
6th | Youcef Abdi | Australia | 8: 29.81 | |
7th | Jacob Araptany | Uganda | 8: 35.85 | |
8th | Vincent Zouaoui-Dandrieux | France | 8: 36.96 | |
9 | Kyle Alcorn | United States | 8: 37.11 | |
10 | Artyom Kosinov | Kazakhstan | 8: 42.27 | |
11 | Mario Bazan | Puerto Rico | 8: 51.95 | |
12 | Abdelaziz Merzougui | Spain | 8: 58.20 | |
DNF | Birhan Getahun | Ethiopia |
Forward 3
August 3, 2012, 1:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Roba Gari | Ethiopia | 8: 20.68 | |
2 | Ezekiel Kemboi | Kenya | 8: 20.97 | |
3 | Hamid Ezzine | Morocco | 8: 21.25 | |
4th | Donald Cabral | United States | 8: 21.46 | NO |
5 | Ion Luchianov | Moldova | 8: 22.09 | |
6th | Mohamed Khaled Belabbas | Algeria | 8: 22.32 | |
7th | Alex Genest | Canada | 8: 22.62 | |
8th | Vadim Slobodenjuk | Ukraine | 8: 23.35 | |
9 | Łukasz Parszczyński | Poland | 8: 30.08 | |
10 | Weynay ghebresilasia | Eritrea | 8: 37.57 | |
11 | Albert Minczér | Hungary | 8: 40.74 | |
12 | Stuart Stokes | Great Britain | 8: 43.04 | |
DNF | Víctor García | Spain |
final
August 5, 2012, 9:25 pm
All three Kenyans, two Ethiopians, two Moroccans and two Americans qualified for the final. There were also participants from Finland, France, Italy, Moldova, Turkey and Uganda.
The Kenyans with the 2008 Olympic champion Brimin Kipruto, the reigning world champion Ezekiel Kemboi and Africa champion Abel Mutai were considered the favorites.
The final wasn't a quick race at first. The US athlete Donald Cabral took the lead on the first two laps. His 1000 meter intermediate time was 2: 52.70 min, which would have resulted in an end time of about 8:39 min. With three laps to go, Mutai took the lead and accelerated the pace. Kemboi, Kipruto and the Ethiopian Roba Gari kept up. The second kilometer with Mutai at the top was only slightly faster than the first at 2: 50.56 minutes. With two laps to go, Kipruto had to let go, while the French European Champion Mahiedine Mekhissi continued to work his way up and was able to catch up with Gari, Mutai and Kemboi at the beginning of the last lap. With him, the American Evan Jager came forward. On the back straight Kemboi took the lead, Gari and Jager now fell behind. On the last jump over the moat, Kemboi had a lead of ten meters over Mutai and Mekhissi. In fourth place, Gari made the gap to Mutai and Mekhissi smaller again, while Ezekiel Kemboi won the race. On the home stretch, Mekhissi passed Mutai and won silver. Mutai was able to fend off the attack of Gari, who had come forward again. Kipruto finished fifth, Jager sixth. Kemboi had covered the last kilometer in 2: 35.306 minutes, about fifteen seconds faster than on the first two 1000 meter sections. After slow start, however, no better ending time more was possible, who still of 1,988 originated Olympic record of his countryman Julius Kariuki was faster by more than thirteen seconds.
Ezekiel Kemboi ran for the tenth Kenyan Olympic victory in this discipline. It was Kenya's eighth win in a row.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Ezekiel Kemboi | Kenya | 8: 18.56 | |
2 | Mahiedine Mekhissi | France | 8: 19.08 | |
3 | Abel Mutai | Kenya | 8: 19.73 | |
4th | Roba Gari | Ethiopia | 8: 20.00 | |
5 | Brimin Kipruto | Kenya | 8: 23.03 | |
6th | Evan Jager | United States | 8: 23.87 | |
7th | Hamid Ezzine | Morocco | 8: 24.90 | |
8th | Donald Cabral | United States | 8: 25.91 | |
9 | Tarık Langat Akdağ | Turkey | 8: 27.64 | |
10 | Ion Luchianov | Moldova | 8: 28.15 | |
11 | Brahim Taleb | Morocco | 8: 32.40 | |
12 | Nahom Mesfin | Ethiopia | 8: 35.12 | |
13 | Yuri Floriani | Italy | 8: 40.07 | |
DNF | Jukka Keskisalo | Finland | ||
DSQ | Benjamin Kiplagat | Uganda | IAAF Rule 163.3 b - crossing the gauge |
Web links
- SportsReference 3000 m obstacle (English) , accessed on September 12, 2018
- Official report , accessed September 12, 2018
- Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English) , accessed on September 12, 2018
Videos
- Previews on youtube.com, published August 3, 2012, accessed September 12, 2018
- Finale on youtube.com, published August 5, 2012, accessed September 12, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 674 , accessed on September 12, 2018
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 73 , accessed on September 12, 2018