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3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men

Date	15 – 17 October 1964
Status	Olympic
Location	Kokuritsu Kyogijo, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Participants	29 from 19 countries

Gaston Roelants (BEL) was favored, having won the 1962 European Championship and broken the world at a meet in Leuven, Belgium in September 1963, running 8:29.6. He had not been beaten in the event since 1961. He took the early lead in the final, leading by five metres at the first kilometer. The field closed slightly but he then surged and had a 12 metre lead after two kilometers. He was comfortably ahead by the last lap, and eased up but still won quite easily over Maurice Herriott (GBR) the silver medalist at the 1962 Commonwealth Games.

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	R1	Final
1	40	Gaston Roelants	BEL	8:33.8 (2 h3)	8:30.8 (1)	Gold	OR
2	173	Maurice Herriott	GBR	8:33.0 (1 h2)	8:32.4 (2)	Silver
3	663	Ivan Belyayev	URS	8:42.0 (2 h1)	8:33.8 (3)	Bronze
4	521	Manuel Oliveira	POR	8:40.8 (1 h1)	8:36.2 (4)
5	730	George Young	USA	8:34.2 (3 h2)	8:38.2 (5)
6	133	Guy Texereau	FRA	8:34.6 (4 h2)	8:38.6 (6)
7	661	Adolfas Aleksejūnas	URS	8:31.8 (1 h3)	8:39.0 (7)
8	568	Lars-Erik Gustafsson	SWE	8:34.2 (2 h2)	8:41.8 (8)
9	434	Ben Assou El-Ghazi	MAR	8:42.8 (3 h1)	8:43.6 (9)
10	174	Ernie Pomfret	GBR	8:45.2 (3 h3)	8:43.8 (10)
4 h1 r1/2	731	Vic Zwolak	USA	8:43.6 (4 h1)	–
4 h3 r1/2	729	Jeff Fishback	USA	8:50.2 (4 h3)	–
5 h1 r1/2	803	Zenji Okuzawa	JPN	8:50.0 (5 h1)	–
5 h2 r1/2	662	Lazar Naroditsky	URS	8:43.0 (5 h2)	–
5 h3 r1/2	392	Benjamin Kogo	KEN	8:51.0 (5 h3)	–
6 h1 r1/2	784	Slavko Špan	YUG	8:57.6 (6 h1)	–
6 h2 r1/2	220	Alfred Döring	GER	8:43.2 (6 h2)	–
6 h3 r1/2	221	Rainer Dörner	GER	8:55.0 (6 h3)	–
7 h1 r1/2	294	József Mácsár	HUN	9:08.8 (7 h1)	–
7 h2 r1/2	801	Taketsugu Saruwatari	JPN	8:46.6 (7 h2)	–
7 h3 r1/2	290	Attila Simon	HUN	8:57.8 (7 h3)	–
8 h1 r1/2	222	Dieter Hartmann	GER	9:09.2 (8 h1)	–
8 h2 r1/2	502	Edward Szklarczyk	POL	8:48.0 (8 h2)	–
8 h3 r1/2	16	Trevor Vincent	AUS	8:58.8 (8 h3)	–
9 h1 r1/2	370	Jean Toffey	CIV	9:47.4 (9 h1)	–
9 h2 r1/2	617	Labidi Ayachi	TUN	9:02.0 (9 h2)	–
9 h3 r1/2	802	Saburo Yokomizo	JPN	9:04.6 (9 h3)	–
10 h2 r1/2	624	Cahit Önel	TUR	9:15.6 (10 h2)	–
10 h3 r1/2	419	Dilbagh Singh Kler	MAS	9:18.8 (10 h3)	–
DNS	567	Bengt Persson	SWE	– (DNS h1)	–

Round One (15 October 1964 — 15:50)

Top three in each heat and next fastest advanced to the final.

Heat One

Pos	Ord	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)
1	10	Manuel Oliveira	POR	8:40.8	Q
2	9	Ivan Belyayev	URS	8:42.0	Q
3	2	Ben Assou El-Ghazi	MAR	8:42.8	Q
4	5	Vic Zwolak	USA	8:43.6
5	3	Zenji Okuzawa	JPN	8:50.0
6	8	Slavko Špan	YUG	8:57.6
7	1	József Mácsár	HUN	9:08.8
8	4	Dieter Hartmann	GER	9:09.2
9	6	Jean Toffey	CIV	9:47.4
DNS	7	Bengt Persson	SWE	–

Heat Two

Pos	Ord	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)
1	5	Maurice Herriott	GBR	8:33.0	QOR
2	1	Lars-Erik Gustafsson	SWE	8:34.2	Q
3	8	George Young	USA	8:34.2	Q
4	10	Guy Texereau	FRA	8:34.6	q
5	9	Lazar Naroditsky	URS	8:43.0
6	2	Alfred Döring	GER	8:43.2
7	6	Taketsugu Saruwatari	JPN	8:46.6
8	7	Edward Szklarczyk	POL	8:48.0
9	3	Labidi Ayachi	TUN	9:02.0
10	4	Cahit Önel	TUR	9:15.6

Heat Three

Pos	Ord	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)
1	3	Adolfas Aleksejūnas	URS	8:31.8	QOR
2	4	Gaston Roelants	BEL	8:33.8	Q
3	8	Ernie Pomfret	GBR	8:45.2	Q
4	5	Jeff Fishback	USA	8:50.2
5	1	Benjamin Kogo	KEN	8:51.0
6	7	Rainer Dörner	GER	8:55.0
7	9	Attila Simon	HUN	8:57.8
8	6	Trevor Vincent	AUS	8:58.8
9	2	Saburo Yokomizo	JPN	9:04.6
10	10	Dilbagh Singh Kler	MAS	9:18.8

Final (17 October 1964 — 16:50)

Pos	Ord	Athlete	NOC	Time (H)
1	8	Gaston Roelants	BEL	8:30.8	OR
2	6	Maurice Herriott	GBR	8:32.4
3	10	Ivan Belyayev	URS	8:33.8
4	3	Manuel Oliveira	POR	8:36.2
5	9	George Young	USA	8:38.2
6	5	Guy Texereau	FRA	8:38.6
7	4	Adolfas Aleksejūnas	URS	8:39.0
8	7	Lars-Erik Gustafsson	SWE	8:41.8
9	1	Ben Assou El-Ghazi	MAR	8:43.6
10	2	Ernie Pomfret	GBR	8:43.8