Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

These are the official results of the men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were a total number of 33 participating athletes, with four qualifying heats.^[1]

Men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc
Dates	3 August 1992 (heats) 5 August 1992 (semi-finals) 7 August 1992 (final)
Competitors	32 from 24 nations
Winning time	8:08.84
Medalists
Matthew Birir  Kenya Patrick Sang  Kenya William Mutwol  Kenya
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At the gun, it seemed like the rest of the world came to run, while the Kenyan team were just tagging along. Starting off slowly, all three Kenyans casually jogged around the outside of the pack and towards the front. William Mutwol continued, breaking away to as much as a 10-metre lead, with Elarbi Khattabi the only one to bridge the gap. On the next lap, Matthew Birir, running in fourth place, went down on the track, but Birir righted himself quickly and was back on his feet before the back of the strung out field had passed him. Within two more barriers, he was back in the same fourth-place position. By the time they reached the same spot on the track where Birir fell, he was in third place as the tail of the three man Kenyan breakaway. Over the next two laps, the only athlete seriously marking the Kenyans was Alessandro Lambruschini. Just after two laps to go, Patrick Sang edged ahead of Mutwol with Lambruschini gaining a little ground between barriers and losing the same amount each time he went over one. With a lap to go, Birir moved into the lead and the Kenyan sweep simply pulled away from Lambruschini, with the rest of the field already disappeared behind. No drama, no hurdling the water jump, no challenges, not even any sprinting. Lambruschini finished fourth for the second Olympics in a row, more than 25 metres behind Mutwol. This became the first Olympic podium sweep by an African nation.

Medalists

Gold	Matthew Birir  Kenya
Silver	Patrick Sang  Kenya
Bronze	William Mutwol  Kenya

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics.

World Record	8:05.35	Peter Koech	Stockholm (SWE)	July 3, 1989
Olympic Record	8:05.51	Julius Kariuki	Seoul (KOR)	September 30, 1988

Final

• Held on August 7, 1992

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Matthew Birir (KEN)	8:08.84
	Patrick Sang (KEN)	8:09.55
	William Mutwol (KEN)	8:10.74
4.	Alessandro Lambruschini (ITA)	8:15.52
5.	Steffen Brand (GER)	8:16.60
6.	Tom Hanlon (GBR)	8:18.14
7.	Brian Diemer (USA)	8:18.77
8.	Azzedine Brahmi (ALG)	8:20.71
9.	William Van Dijck (BEL)	8:22.51
10.	Elarbi Khattabi (MAR)	8:23.82
11.	Clodoaldo Lopes do Carmo (BRA)	8:25.92
12.	Ricardo Vera (URU)	8:26.35

Semifinals

RANK HEAT 1 TIME 1.  Matthew Birir (KEN) 8:25.55 2.  Steffen Brand (GER) 8:26.12 3.  Patrick Sang (KEN) 8:26.46 4.  William Van Dijck (BEL) 8:26.70 5.  Tom Hanlon (GBR) 8:26.91 6.  Ricardo Vera (URU) 8:27.46 7.  Mark Croghan (USA) 8:30.15 8.  Tom Buckner (GBR) 8:32.89 9.  Ville Hautala (FIN) 8:33.69 10.  João Junqueira (POR) 8:39.17 11.  Daniel Lopez (USA) 8:41.28 12.  Joseph Mahmoud (FRA) 8:52.00

RANK HEAT 2 TIME 1.  William Mutwol (KEN) 8:19.83 2.  Clodoaldo Lopes do Carmo (BRA) 8:20.46 3.  Brian Diemer (USA) 8:23.30 4.  Alessandro Lambruschini (ITA) 8:23.56 5.  Azzedine Brahmi (ALG) 8:25.85 6.  Elarbi Khattabi (MAR) 8:27.00 7.  Vladimir Golias (EUN) 8:30.26 8.  Colin Walker (GBR) 8:34.82 9.  Mohammed Al-Dossary (KSA) 8:36.38 10.  Whaddon Niewoudt (RSA) 8:37.99 11.  Hagen Melzer (GER) 8:38.07 12.  Thierry Brusseau (FRA) 8:42.48

Heats

RANK HEAT 1 TIME 1.  William Mutwol (KEN) 8:26.23 2.  Brian Diemer (USA) 8:28.88 3.  Colin Walker (GBR) 8:29.34 4.  Steffen Brand (GER) 8:30.03 5.  Vladimir Golyas (EUN) 8:32.49 6.  Thierry Brusseau (FRA) 8:33.10 7.  Ville Hautala (FIN) 8:34.10 8.  Michael Buchleitner (AUT) 8:40.46 9.  Graeme Fell (CAN) 8:50.87 10.  Prakash Davendra Singh (FIJ) 9:07.49 —  Abdelaziz Sahere (MAR) DNS

RANK HEAT 2 TIME 1.  Matthew Birir (KEN) 8:23.22 2.  Clodoaldo Lopes do Carmo (BRA) 8:26.31 3.  William Van Dijck (BEL) 8:27.23 4.  Azzeddine Brahmi (ALG) 8:28.01 5.  Tom Buckner (GBR) 8:28.36 6.  Elarbi Khattabi (MAR) 8:28.50 7.  Daniel Lopez (USA) 8:29.01 8.  Hagen Melzer (GER) 8:31.89 9.  Mohammed Al-Dossary (KSA) 8:36.73 10.  Ivan Konovalov (EUN) 8:58.04 11.  Hector Begeo (PHI) 9:14.48

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Patrick Sang (KEN)	8:27.01
2.	Tom Hanlon (GBR)	8:27.46
3.	Ricardo Vera (URU)	8:27.71
4.	Mark Croghan (USA)	8:28.15
5.	Alessandro Lambruschini (ITA)	8:29.64
6.	Joseph Mahmoud (FRA)	8:30.54
7.	Whaddon Niewoudt (RSA)	8:30.61
8.	João Junqueira (POR)	8:32.68
9.	Hamid Sajjadi (IRI)	8:36.87
10.	Marcelo Cascabelo (ARG)	8:38.89
11.	Jamal Abdi Hassan (QAT)	8:54.98

Final ranking

Rank Name Nation Matthew Birir  Kenya Patrick Sang  Kenya William Mutwol  Kenya 4 Alessandro Lambruschini  Italy 5 Steffen Brand  Germany 6 Tom Hanlon  Great Britain 7 Brian Diemer  United States 8 Azzedine Brahmi  Algeria 9 William Van Dijck  Belgium 10 Elarbi Khattabi  Morocco 11 Clodoaldo do Carmo  Brazil 12 Ricardo Vera  Uruguay 13 Mark Croghan  United States 14 Vladimir Golyas  Unified Team 15 Tom Buckner  Great Britain 16 Ville Hautala  Finland

Rank Name Nation 17 Colin Walker  Great Britain 18 Mohammed Al-Dossary  Saudi Arabia 19 Whaddon Niewoudt  South Africa 20 Hagen Melzer  Germany 21 João Junqueira  Portugal 22 Daniel Lopez  United States 23 Thierry Brusseau  France 24 Joseph Mahmoud  France 25 Hamid Sajjadi  Iran 26 Marcelo Cascabelo  Argentina 27 Michael Buchleitner  Austria 28 Graeme Fell  Canada 29 Jamal Abdi Hassan  Qatar 30 Ivan Konovalov  Unified Team 31 Davendra Singh  Fiji 32 Hector Begeo  Philippines

See also

• 1990 Men's European Championships 3,000 m Steeplechase (Split)
• 1991 Men's World Championships 3,000 m Steeplechase (Tokyo)
• 1993 Men's World Championships 3,000 m Steeplechase (Stuttgart)
• 1994 Men's European Championships 3,000 m Steeplechase (Helsinki)
• 1995 Men's World Championships 3,000 m Steeplechase (Gothenburg)

References

1. "Athletics at the 1992 Barcelona: Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 25 November 2017.

External links

• Official Report
• Results