2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the European Athletics Championships
Venue	Amsterdam
Location	Olympic Stadium
Dates	6 July (round 1) 8 July (final)
Competitors	26 from 15 nations
Winning time	8:25.63
Medalists
Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad    France   Aras Kaya    Turkey   Yoann Kowal    France

The men's 3000 metre steeplechase at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 8 July.^[1]

Records

Standing records prior to the 2014 European Athletics Championships
World record	Saif Saaeed Shaheen (QAT)	7:53.63	Brussels, Belgium	3 September 2004
European record	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad (FRA)	8:00.09	Paris, France	6 July 2013
Championship record	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad (FRA)	8:07.87	Barcelona, Spain	1 August 2010
World Leading	Conseslus Kipruto (KEN)	8:00.12	Birmingham, United Kingdom	5 June 2016
European Leading	Yoann Kowal (FRA)	8:17.83	Rome, Italy	2 June 2016

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
6 July 2016	17:55	Round 1
8 July 2016	21:25	Final

All times are local times (UTC+2)

Results

Round 1

Heat 1

Heat 2

First 5 in each heat (Q) and 5 best performers (q) advance to the Final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	1	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	France	8:31.42	Q
2	1	Krystian Zalewski	Poland	8:31.50	Q
3	1	Sebastián Martos	Spain	8:31.98	Q, SB
4	1	Rob Mullett	Great Britain	8:32.06	Q
5	1	Ole Hesselbjerg	Denmark	8:32.17	Q
6	1	Abdoullah Bamoussa	Italy	8:32.54	q, PB
7	2	Aras Kaya	Turkey	8:33.11	Q
8	1	Hakan Duvar	Turkey	8:33.13	q, SB
DQ	2	Jamel Chatbi	Italy	8:33.25	Q
10	2	Yoann Kowal	France	8:33.51	Q
11	2	Fernando Carro	Spain	8:33.69	Q, SB
12	2	Kaur Kivistik	Estonia	8:33.94	Q, SB
13	1	Abdelaziz Merzoughi	Spain	8:34.34	q
14	1	Emil Blomberg	Sweden	8:34.81	q, PB
15	2	Yuri Floriani	Italy	8:34.82	q
16	1	Tom Erling Kårbø	Norway	8:42.72
17	2	Jeroen D'Hoedt	Belgium	8:42.75
18	1	Tarık Langat Akdağ	Turkey	8:43.81
19	2	Mitko Tsenov	Bulgaria	8:45.55
20	2	Bjørnar Ustad Kristensen	Norway	8:54.73
21	2	Elmar Engholm	Sweden	8:55.21
22	2	Djilali Bedrani	France	8:57.27
23	1	Tomas Cotter	Ireland	9:08.82
24	1	Noam Ne'eman	Israel	9:15.80
	2	Jakob Dybdal Abrahamsen	Denmark	DNF
	2	Vadym Slobodenyuk	Ukraine	DNF

Final

^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	France	8:25.63
	Aras Kaya	Turkey	8:29.91	PB
	Yoann Kowal	France	8:30.79
4	Sebastián Martos	Spain	8:31.93	SB
DQ	Jamel Chatbi	Italy	8:32.43
5	Rob Mullett	Great Britain	8:33.29
6	Kaur Kivistik	Estonia	8:33.75	SB
7	Abdoullah Bamoussa	Italy	8:35.35
8	Yuri Floriani	Italy	8:35.94
9	Fernando Carro	Spain	8:40.73
10	Ole Hesselbjerg	Denmark	8:42.27
11	Hakan Duvar	Turkey	8:44.03
12	Emil Blomberg	Sweden	8:48.98
13	Abdelaziz Merzoughi	Spain	8:51.37
	Krystian Zalewski	Poland	DNS

References

1. "Programme - European Athletics Championships". amsterdam2016.org. Retrieved 2016-06-30.
2. "Heats results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-11-20. Retrieved 2016-07-06.
3. Final results Archived 2016-11-20 at the Wayback Machine

External links

• amsterdam2016.org, official championship site.