Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Dates	July 23 (heats) July 25 (final)
Medalists
Horace Ashenfelter United States   Vladimir Kazantsev Soviet Union   John Disley Great Britain

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
10 km walk		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games took place July 23 and July 25. The final was won by American Horace Ashenfelter.

Results

Heats

The first round was held on July 23. The four fastest runners from each heat qualified to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Vladimir Kazantsev	Soviet Union	8:58.0	OR
2	Günter Hesselmann	Germany	9:05.0
3	Gunnar Karlsson-Tjörnebo	Sweden	9:05.4
4	Cahit Önel	Turkey	9:06.0
5	Jindřich Roudný	Czechoslovakia	9:06.4
6	Kauko Lusenius	Finland	9:26.8
7	Kenneth Johnson	Great Britain	9:27.0
8	Drago Štritof	Yugoslavia	9:28.0
9	Victor Firea	Romania	9:29.2
10	Guillermo Solá	Chile	9:32.2
11	Pierre Prat	France	9:32.8
12	Gulzara Singh Mann	India	9:48.6
	Bill Ashenfelter	United States	DNF

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	John Disley	Great Britain	8:59.4
2	Olavi Rinteenpää	Finland	8:59.4
3	József Apró	Hungary	9:00.4
4	Helmut Gude	Germany	9:04.2
5	Fyodor Marulin	Soviet Union	9:08.4
6	Ali Baghbanbashi	Iran	9:13.2
7	Jan Kielas	Poland	9:15.4
8	André Lebrun	France	9:17.8
9	Susumu Takahashi	Japan	9:21.6
10	Božidar Đurašković	Yugoslavia	9:23.2
11	Eric Nilsson	Sweden	9:25.0
12	Browning Ross	United States	9:44.0

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Horace Ashenfelter	United States	8:51.0	OR
2	Mikhail Saltykov	Soviet Union	8:55.8
3	Curt Söderberg	Sweden	9:02.4
4	Chris Brasher	Great Britain	9:03.2
5	Urho Julin	Finland	9:09.4
6	László Jeszenszky	Hungary	9:11.2
7	André Paris	France	9:30.0
8	Robert Schoojans	Belgium	9:30.6
9	Petar Šegedin	Yugoslavia	9:40.2
	Víctorio Solares	Guatemala	DNF

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Horace Ashenfelter	United States	8:45.4	WR
	Vladimir Kazantsev	Soviet Union	8:51.6
	John Disley	Great Britain	8:51.8
4	Olavi Rinteenpää	Finland	8:55.2
5	Curt Söderberg	Sweden	8:55.6
6	Günter Hesselmann	Germany	8:55.8
7	Mikhail Saltykov	Soviet Union	8:56.2
8	Helmut Gude	Germany	9:01.4
9	József Apró	Hungary	9:04.2
10	Cahit Önel	Turkey	9:04.4
11	Chris Brasher	Great Britain	9:14.0
12	Gunnar Karlsson-Tjörnebo	Sweden	10:26.4

Key: WR = World record

References

• 1952 Summer Olympics results: Men's 3000 metre steeplechase, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-12-03.