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Athletics — 3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men

Athletics — 3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men

Times held	25
Total participants	649
Total countries	89

Participants

Year	Event	Status	Participants	NOCs
1920	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	16	6
1924	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	20	9
1928	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	22	10
1932	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	15	8
1936	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	28	13
1948	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	26	12
1952	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	35	19
1956	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	23	13
1960	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	32	20
1964	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	29	19
1968	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	40	27
1972	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	49	29
1976	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	24	16
1980	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	31	18
1984	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	35	25
1988	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	32	24
1992	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	32	23
1996	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	35	22
2000	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	40	29
2004	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	39	25
2008	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	39	26
2012	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	39	27
2016	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	45	25
2020	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	44	22
2024	3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men	Olympic	36	20

Medal winners

Year	Gold		Silver		Bronze
1920	Percy Hodge	👁 Image GBR	Pat Flynn	👁 Image USA	Ernesto Ambrosini	👁 Image ITA
1924	Ville Ritola	👁 Image FIN	Elias Katz	👁 Image FIN	Paul Bontemps	👁 Image FRA
1928	Toivo Loukola	👁 Image FIN	Paavo Nurmi	👁 Image FIN	Ove Andersen	👁 Image FIN
1932	Volmari Iso-Hollo	👁 Image FIN	Tom Evenson	👁 Image GBR	Joe McCluskey	👁 Image USA
1936	Volmari Iso-Hollo	👁 Image FIN	Kalle Tuominen	👁 Image FIN	Alfred Dompert	👁 Image GER
1948	Tore Sjöstrand	👁 Image SWE	Erik Elmsäter	👁 Image SWE	Göte Hagström	👁 Image SWE
1952	Horace Ashenfelter	👁 Image USA	Vladimir Kazantsev	👁 Image URS	John Disley	👁 Image GBR
1956	Chris Brasher	👁 Image GBR	Sándor Rozsnyói	👁 Image HUN	Ernst Larsen	👁 Image NOR
1960	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak	👁 Image POL	Nikolay Sokolov	👁 Image URS	Semyon Rzhishchin	👁 Image URS
1964	Gaston Roelants	👁 Image BEL	Maurice Herriott	👁 Image GBR	Ivan Belyayev	👁 Image URS
1968	Amos Biwott	👁 Image KEN	Benjamin Kogo	👁 Image KEN	George Young	👁 Image USA
1972	Kip Keino	👁 Image KEN	Ben Jipcho	👁 Image KEN	Tapio Kantanen	👁 Image FIN
1976	Anders Gärderud	👁 Image SWE	Bronisław Malinowski	👁 Image POL	Frank Baumgartl	👁 Image GDR
1980	Bronisław Malinowski	👁 Image POL	Filbert Bayi	👁 Image TAN	Eshetu Tura	👁 Image ETH
1984	Julius Korir	👁 Image KEN	Joseph Mahmoud	👁 Image FRA	Brian Diemer	👁 Image USA
1988	Julius Kariuki	👁 Image KEN	Peter Koech	👁 Image KEN	Mark Rowland	👁 Image GBR
1992	Matthew Birir	👁 Image KEN	Patrick Sang	👁 Image KEN	William Mutwol	👁 Image KEN
1996	Joseph Keter	👁 Image KEN	Moses Kiptanui	👁 Image KEN	Alessandro Lambruschini	👁 Image ITA
2000	Reuben Kosgei	👁 Image KEN	Wilson Boit Kipketer	👁 Image KEN	Ali Ezzine	👁 Image MAR
2004	Ezekiel Kemboi	👁 Image KEN	Brimin Kipruto	👁 Image KEN	Paul Kipsiele Koech	👁 Image KEN
2008	Brimin Kipruto	👁 Image KEN	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	👁 Image FRA	Richard Mateelong	👁 Image KEN
2012	Ezekiel Kemboi	👁 Image KEN	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	👁 Image FRA	Abel Mutai	👁 Image KEN
2016	Conseslus Kipruto	👁 Image KEN	Evan Jager	👁 Image USA	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	👁 Image FRA
2020	Soufiane El-Bakkali	👁 Image MAR	Lamecha Girma	👁 Image ETH	Benjamin Kigen	👁 Image KEN
2024	Soufiane El-Bakkali	👁 Image MAR	Kenneth Rooks	👁 Image USA	Abraham Kibiwot	👁 Image KEN

Medals by country

NOC		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Kenya	👁 Image KEN	11	7	6	24
Finland	👁 Image FIN	4	3	2	9
Great Britain	👁 Image GBR	2	2	2	6
Sweden	👁 Image SWE	2	1	1	4
Poland	👁 Image POL	2	1	0	3
Morocco	👁 Image MAR	2	0	1	3
United States	👁 Image USA	1	3	3	7
Belgium	👁 Image BEL	1	0	0	1
France	👁 Image FRA	0	3	2	5
Soviet Union	👁 Image URS	0	2	2	4
Ethiopia	👁 Image ETH	0	1	1	2
Hungary	👁 Image HUN	0	1	0	1
United Republic of Tanzania	👁 Image TAN	0	1	0	1
Italy	👁 Image ITA	0	0	2	2
East Germany	👁 Image GDR	0	0	1	1
Germany	👁 Image GER	0	0	1	1
Norway	👁 Image NOR	0	0	1	1

Top medallists

Athlete	Nat	Gold	Silver	Total
Volmari Iso-Hollo	👁 Image FIN	2	0	2
Ezekiel Kemboi	👁 Image KEN	2	0	2
Soufiane El-Bakkali	👁 Image MAR	2	0	2
Bronisław Malinowski	👁 Image POL	1	1	2
Brimin Kipruto	👁 Image KEN	1	1	2

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.

Country		Games	Athlete/Team	Placement
Algeria	👁 Image ALG	1992 Summer Olympics	Azzedine Brahmi	8	See all
Andorra	👁 Image AND	2024 Summer Olympics	Nahuel Carabaña	7h2 r1/2	See all
Argentina	👁 Image ARG	1984 Summer Olympics	Pedro Cáceres	10 h1 r1/3	See all
1992 Summer Olympics	Marcelo Cascabelo	10 h3 r1/3
Australia	👁 Image AUS	1968 Summer Olympics	Kerry O'Brien	4	See all
Austria	👁 Image AUT	2000 Summer Olympics	Günther Weidlinger	8	See all
Bahrain	👁 Image BRN	2008 Summer Olympics	Tareq Mubarak Taher	11	See all
Belgium	👁 Image BEL	1964 Summer Olympics	Gaston Roelants	1	Gold	See all
Brazil	👁 Image BRA	2016 Summer Olympics	Altobeli Silva	9	See all
Bulgaria	👁 Image BUL	1968 Summer Olympics	Mihail Zhelev	6	See all
Cameroon	👁 Image CMR	1972 Summer Olympics	Esau Adenji	11 h2 r1/2	See all
Canada	👁 Image CAN	2020 Summer Olympics	Matt Hughes	6	See all
Chile	👁 Image CHI	1984 Summer Olympics	Emilio Ulloa	8 h2 r2/3	See all
Colombia	👁 Image COL	2020 Summer Olympics	Carlos San Martín	12 h1 r1/2	See all
Congo	👁 Image CGO	1984 Summer Olympics	Emmanuel M'Pioh	11 h1 r1/3	See all
Cyprus	👁 Image CYP	1984 Summer Olympics	Filippos Filippou	12 h1 r2/3	See all
Czechia	👁 Image CZE	2024 Summer Olympics	Tomáš Habarta	DNF	See all
Czechoslovakia	👁 Image TCH	1972 Summer Olympics	Dušan Moravčík	5	See all
Côte d'Ivoire	👁 Image CIV	1964 Summer Olympics	Jean Toffey	9 h1 r1/2	See all
Denmark	👁 Image DEN	1948 Summer Olympics	Alf Olesen	5 h2 r1/2	See all
Djibouti	👁 Image DJI	2016 Summer Olympics	Mohamed Ismail Ibrahim	12 h3 r1/2	See all
East Germany	👁 Image GDR	1976 Summer Olympics	Frank Baumgartl	3	Bronze	See all
El Salvador	👁 Image ESA	1968 Summer Olympics	Efraín Cordero	13 h2 r1/2	See all
Equatorial Guinea	👁 Image GEQ	2004 Summer Olympics	Roberto Caracciolo Mandje	DNS	See all
Eritrea	👁 Image ERI	2020 Summer Olympics	Yemane Haileselassie	5	See all
Estonia	👁 Image EST	2016 Summer Olympics	Kaur Kivistik	13 h2 r1/2	See all
Ethiopia	👁 Image ETH	2020 Summer Olympics	Lamecha Girma	2	Silver	See all
Fiji	👁 Image FIJ	1992 Summer Olympics	Davendra Prakash Singh	10 h1 r1/3	See all
Finland	👁 Image FIN	1924 Summer Olympics	Ville Ritola	1	Gold	See all
1928 Summer Olympics	Toivo Loukola	1	Gold
1932 Summer Olympics	Volmari Iso-Hollo	1	Gold
1936 Summer Olympics	Volmari Iso-Hollo	1	Gold
France	👁 Image FRA	1984 Summer Olympics	Joseph Mahmoud	2	Silver	See all
2008 Summer Olympics	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	2	Silver
2012 Summer Olympics	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	2	Silver
Germany	👁 Image GER	1936 Summer Olympics	Alfred Dompert	3	Bronze	See all
Ghana	👁 Image GHA	1972 Summer Olympics	Robert Hackman	12 h3 r1/2	See all
Great Britain	👁 Image GBR	1920 Summer Olympics	Percy Hodge	1	Gold	See all
1956 Summer Olympics	Chris Brasher	1	Gold
Greece	👁 Image GRE	1960 Summer Olympics	Georgios Papavasileiou	4 h1 r1/2	See all
Guatemala	👁 Image GUA	1984 Summer Olympics	Hugo Allan García	11 h2 r1/3	See all
Hungary	👁 Image HUN	1956 Summer Olympics	Sándor Rozsnyói	2	Silver	See all
Iceland	👁 Image ISL	1976 Summer Olympics	Ágúst Ásgeirsson	11 h1 r1/2	See all
India	👁 Image IND	2024 Summer Olympics	Avinash Sable	11	See all
Ireland	👁 Image IRL	1984 Summer Olympics	Liam O'Brien	11 h1 r2/3	See all
1988 Summer Olympics	Brendan Quinn	11 h2 r2/3
Islamic Republic of Iran	👁 Image IRI	1952 Summer Olympics	Ali Baghbanbashi	6 h2 r1/2	See all
Israel	👁 Image ISR	1984 Summer Olympics	Yehuda Zadok	9 h3 r1/3	See all
Italy	👁 Image ITA	1920 Summer Olympics	Ernesto Ambrosini	3	Bronze	See all
1996 Summer Olympics	Alessandro Lambruschini	3	Bronze
Jamaica	👁 Image JAM	1968 Summer Olympics	Carlton Anglin	DNS	See all
Japan	👁 Image JPN	2020 Summer Olympics	Ryuji Miura	7	See all
Kazakhstan	👁 Image KAZ	2012 Summer Olympics	Artyom Kosinov	9 h2 r1/2	See all
Kenya	👁 Image KEN	1968 Summer Olympics	Amos Biwott	1	Gold	See all
1972 Summer Olympics	Kip Keino	1	Gold
1984 Summer Olympics	Julius Korir	1	Gold
1988 Summer Olympics	Julius Kariuki	1	Gold
1992 Summer Olympics	Matthew Birir	1	Gold
1996 Summer Olympics	Joseph Keter	1	Gold
2000 Summer Olympics	Reuben Kosgei	1	Gold
2004 Summer Olympics	Ezekiel Kemboi	1	Gold
2008 Summer Olympics	Brimin Kipruto	1	Gold
2012 Summer Olympics	Ezekiel Kemboi	1	Gold
2016 Summer Olympics	Conseslus Kipruto	1	Gold
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia	👁 Image KSA	1992 Summer Olympics	Mohamed Barak Al-Dosari	9 h2 r2/3	See all
Kuwait	👁 Image KUW	2004 Summer Olympics	Bashar Omar	14 h2 r1/2	See all
Latvia	👁 Image LAT	1936 Summer Olympics	Voldemārs Vītols	7	See all
Luxembourg	👁 Image LUX	1948 Summer Olympics	Paul Frieden	8 h3 r1/2	See all
Malaysia	👁 Image MAS	1964 Summer Olympics	Dilbagh Singh Kler	10 h3 r1/2	See all
Mexico	👁 Image MEX	2000 Summer Olympics	José Salvador Miranda	9 h3 r1/2	See all
Morocco	👁 Image MAR	2020 Summer Olympics	Soufiane El-Bakkali	1	Gold	See all
2024 Summer Olympics	Soufiane El-Bakkali	1	Gold
Netherlands	👁 Image NED	2004 Summer Olympics	Simon Vroemen	6	See all
New Zealand	👁 Image NZL	1976 Summer Olympics	Euan Robertson	6	See all
Norway	👁 Image NOR	1956 Summer Olympics	Ernst Larsen	3	Bronze	See all
Oman	👁 Image OMA	1984 Summer Olympics	Abdullah Azzan Al-Akbary	12 h1 r1/3	See all
Pakistan	👁 Image PAK	1960 Summer Olympics	Mubarak Shah	9 h2 r1/2	See all
Paraguay	👁 Image PAR	1988 Summer Olympics	Ramón López	13 h2 r2/3	See all
Peru	👁 Image PER	2012 Summer Olympics	Mario Bazán	10 h2 r1/2	See all
Philippines	👁 Image PHI	1988 Summer Olympics	Héctor Begeo	12 h1 r2/3	See all
Poland	👁 Image POL	1960 Summer Olympics	Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak	1	Gold	See all
1980 Summer Olympics	Bronisław Malinowski	1	Gold
Portugal	👁 Image POR	1964 Summer Olympics	Manuel Oliveira	4	See all
Puerto Rico	👁 Image PUR	1984 Summer Olympics	Carmelo Ríos	12 h2 r2/3	See all
Qatar	👁 Image QAT	2004 Summer Olympics	Musa Amer	4	See all
Republic of Korea	👁 Image KOR	1988 Summer Olympics	Cha Han-Sik	8 h2 r1/3	See all
Republic of Moldova	👁 Image MDA	2012 Summer Olympics	Ion Luchianov	10	See all
Romania	👁 Image ROU	1980 Summer Olympics	Vasile Bichea	9	See all
Russian Federation	👁 Image RUS	1996 Summer Olympics	Vladimir Golyas	9 h1 r2/3	See all
Seychelles	👁 Image SEY	1980 Summer Olympics	Albert Marie	10 h3 r1/3	See all
Slovenia	👁 Image SLO	2008 Summer Olympics	Boštjan Buč	8 h2 r1/2	See all
Solomon Islands	👁 Image SOL	2000 Summer Olympics	Primo Higa	13 h1 r1/2	See all
South Africa	👁 Image RSA	2008 Summer Olympics	Ruben Ramolefi	14	See all
Soviet Union	👁 Image URS	1952 Summer Olympics	Vladimir Kazantsev	2	Silver	See all
1960 Summer Olympics	Nikolay Sokolov	2	Silver
Spain	👁 Image ESP	1980 Summer Olympics	Domingo Ramón	4	See all
Sudan	👁 Image SUD	2016 Summer Olympics	Abdalla Yousif	14 h2 r1/2	See all
Sweden	👁 Image SWE	1948 Summer Olympics	Tore Sjöstrand	1	Gold	See all
1976 Summer Olympics	Anders Gärderud	1	Gold
Switzerland	👁 Image SUI	1972 Summer Olympics	Toni Feldmann	6 h1 r1/2	See all
Syrian Arab Republic	👁 Image SYR	1980 Summer Olympics	Abdul Karim Joumaa	10 h2 r1/3	See all
Tunisia	👁 Image TUN	2024 Summer Olympics	Mohamed Amin Jhinaoui	4	See all
Türkiye	👁 Image TUR	2012 Summer Olympics	Tarık Akdağ	9	See all
Uganda	👁 Image UGA	2008 Summer Olympics	Benjamin Kiplagat	9	See all
Ukraine	👁 Image UKR	2004 Summer Olympics	Vadym Slobodeniuk	8 h2 r1/2	See all
2012 Summer Olympics	Vadym Slobodeniuk	8 h3 r1/2
Unified Team	👁 Image EUN	1992 Summer Olympics	Vladimir Golyas	7 h2 r2/3	See all
United Republic of Tanzania	👁 Image TAN	1980 Summer Olympics	Filbert Bayi	2	Silver	See all
United States	👁 Image USA	1952 Summer Olympics	Horace Ashenfelter	1	Gold	See all
Uruguay	👁 Image URU	1992 Summer Olympics	Ricardo Vera	12	See all
Venezuela	👁 Image VEN	2012 Summer Olympics	José Gregorio Peña	8 h1 r1/2	See all
West Germany	👁 Image FRG	1976 Summer Olympics	Michael Karst	5	See all
Yugoslavia	👁 Image YUG	1948 Summer Olympics	Petar Šegedin	6	See all
Zambia	👁 Image ZAM	1996 Summer Olympics	Godfrey Siamusiye	10 h1 r2/3	See all

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