2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadium on 10 and 13 July.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Jonathan Ndiku  Kenya
Silver	Benjamin Kiplagat  Uganda
Bronze	Patrick Terer  Kenya

Results

Final

13 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jonathan Ndiku	Kenya	8:17.28
	Benjamin Kiplagat	Uganda	8:19.24
	Patrick Terer	Kenya	8:25.14
4	Dereje Abdi	Ethiopia	8:32.98
5	Legese Lamiso	Ethiopia	8:38.34
6	Abdel Ghani Aït Bahmad	Morocco	8:45.45
7	Krystian Zalewski	Poland	8:45.64
8	Majid Saleh Bashir	Bahrain	8:49.27
9	Dylan Knight	United States	8:52.90
10	Curtis Carr	United States	8:53.79
11	Alexandru Ghinea	Romania	8:55.28
12	Luis Orta	Venezuela	9:03.69

Heats

10 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Legese Lamiso	Ethiopia	8:48.61	Q
2	Benjamin Kiplagat	Uganda	8:49.17	Q
3	Patrick Terer	Kenya	8:50.03	Q
4	Alexandru Ghinea	Romania	8:52.63	Q
5	Luis Orta	Venezuela	8:52.70	q
6	Dylan Knight	United States	8:53.67	q
7	Sebastian Martos	Spain	8:57.85
8	Mohamed Mahcene	Algeria	9:06.03
9	Steven Jardin	France	9:07.00
10	Eduardo Gregório	Uruguay	9:19.70
11	Andreas Van Ham	Belgium	9:32.13

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jonathan Ndiku	Kenya	8:42.32	Q
2	Dereje Abdi	Ethiopia	8:42.46	Q
3	Abdel Ghani Aït Bahmad	Morocco	8:48.05	Q
4	Krystian Zalewski	Poland	8:48.94	Q
5	Majid Saleh Bashir	Bahrain	8:51.31	q
6	Curtis Carr	United States	8:55.28	q
7	Matthew Hughes	Canada	9:01.82
8	Abdelatif Hadjam	France	9:10.32
9	Jonathan Hernández	Spain	9:16.77
10	Jorge Cruz	Portugal	9:23.36

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

•  Algeria (1)
•  Bahrain (1)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Canada (1)
•  Ethiopia (2)
•  France (2)
•  Kenya (2)
•  Morocco (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  Portugal (1)
•  Romania (1)
•  Spain (2)
•  Uganda (1)
•  United States (2)
•  Uruguay (1)
•  Venezuela (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2008 Bydgoszcz POL Jul 8-13, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 24 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015