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Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

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Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
at the Games of the XX Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany
Date1 and 4 September 1972
Competitors49 from 29 nations
Winning time8:23.6 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kipchoge Keino
 Kenya
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ben Jipcho
 Kenya
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tapio Kantanen
 Finland
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Athletics at the
1972 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 mmenwomen
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400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
5000 mmen
10,000 mmen
100 m hurdleswomen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmen
3000 m
steeplechase		men
4 × 100 m relaymenwomen
4 × 400 m relaymenwomen
Road events
Marathonmen
20 km walkmen
50 km walkmen
Field events
Long jumpmenwomen
Triple jumpmen
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmen
Shot putmenwomen
Discus throwmenwomen
Javelin throwmenwomen
Hammer throwmen
Combined events
Pentathlonwomen
Decathlonmen

These are the official results of the men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on 1 and 4 September.[1]

Heats

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The top three runners in each of the four heats (blue), advanced to the final round.

Heat one

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Tapio Kantanen  Finland 8:24.8 OR
2 Kip Keino  Kenya 8:27.6
3 Takaharu Koyama  Japan 8:29.8
4 Gheorghe Cefan  Romania 8:33.8
5 Andy Holden  Great Britain 8:33.8
6 Toni Feldmann  Switzerland 8:35.8
7 Steve Savage  United States 8:39.0
8 Gérard Buchheit  France 8:41.2
9 Filbert Bayi  Tanzania 8:41.4
10 Vitus Ashaba  Uganda 8:45.0
11 Tadeusz Zieliński  Poland 8:49.8
12 Wigmar Pedersen  Denmark 9:03.0

Heat two

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Rank Name Nationality Time
1 Ben Jipcho  Kenya 8:31.6
2 Mikko Ala-Leppilampi  Finland 8:31.8
3 Mikhail Zhelev  Bulgaria 8:35.8
4 Willi Maier  West Germany 8:37.6
5 Akira Takeuchi  Japan 8:40.4
6 Sergey Skripka  Soviet Union 8:41.4
7 Jan Voje  Norway 8:42.0
8 Hans Menet  Switzerland 8:45.4
9 Eddie Leddy  Ireland 8:47.4
10 Kazimierz Maranda  Poland 8:50.4
11 Esau Adenji  Cameroon 9:34.4
12 Kerry O'Brien  Australia DNF

Heat three

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Rank Name Nationality Time
1 Pekka Päivärinta  Finland 8:29.0
2 Romualdas Bitė  Soviet Union 8:30.2
3 Jean-Paul Villain  France 8:30.4
4 Josef Horčic  Czechoslovakia 8:30.6
5 Anders Gärderud  Sweden 8:30.8
6 Willi Wagner  West Germany 8:34.0
7 Paul Thijs  Belgium 8:35.0
8 John Bicourt  Great Britain 8:38.8
9 Doug Brown  United States 8:41.2
10 Panagiotis Nakopoulos  Greece 8:48.4
11 Yohannes Mohamed  Ethiopia 8:52.6
12 Robert Hackman  Ghana 8:57.6

Heat four

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Amos Biwott  Kenya 8:23.8 OR
2 Bronisław Malinowski  Poland 8:28.2
3 Dušan Moravčík  Czechoslovakia 8:33.4
4 Steve Hollings  Great Britain 8:35.0
5 Franco Fava  Italy 8:35.0
6 Hans-Dieter Schulten  West Germany 8:39.8
7 Boualem Rahoui  Algeria 8:41.0
8 Spyridon Kontosoros  Greece 8:41.0
9 Georges Kaiser  Switzerland 8:45.4
10 Mike Manley  United States 8:50.4
11 Sverre Sørnes  Norway 8:54.8
12 Usaia Sotutu  Fiji 9:12.0
13 Julio Quevedo  Guatemala 9:28.4

Final

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Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kip Keino  Kenya 8:23.6 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Ben Jipcho  Kenya 8:24.6
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tapio Kantanen  Finland 8:24.8
4 Bronisław Malinowski  Poland 8:28.0
5 Dušan Moravčík  Czechoslovakia 8:29.2
6 Amos Biwott  Kenya 8:33.6
7 Romualdas Bitė  Soviet Union 8:34.6
8 Pekka Päivärinta  Finland 8:37.2
9 Takaharu Koyama  Japan 8:37.8
10 Mikko Ala-Leppilampi  Finland 8:41.0
11 Jean-Paul Villain  France 8:46.8
12 Mikhail Zhelev  Bulgaria 9:02.6

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1972 Munich: Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 November 2017.
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