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

Men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the Games of the XX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium, Munich, West Germany
Date	1 and 4 September 1972
Medalists
Kip Keino   Kenya   Ben Jipcho   Kenya   Tapio Kantanen   Finland

Athletics at the 1972 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
100 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		women
Road events
Marathon		men
20 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
Pentathlon				women
Decathlon		men

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.

Heats

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

Heat one

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

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

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

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

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Kip Keino	Kenya	8:23.6	OR
	Ben Jipcho	Kenya	8:24.6
	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

• Sports-reference
• Official report