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3,000 metres Steeplechase, Men

Date	26 – 30 September 1988
Status	Olympic
Location	Ol-lim-pik Ju-gyeong-gi-jang, Seoul Sports Complex, Seoul
Participants	32 from 24 countries

Italy’s Francesco Panetta had won the 1987 World Championships and he took the lead in the final, leading thru 2,000 metres. At that point, Kenyans Julius Kariuki and Peter Koech moved in to the lead, as Panetta faded to an eventual ninth-place finish. Kariuki pulled away from Koech on the penultimate lap and opened a comfortable lead. He eased up on the final straight, narrowly missing the world record set by Henry Rono in 1978. Kariuki later said that the gold medal race was “so easy and not as tough as I expected.”

Pos	Nr	Athlete	NOC	R1	SF	Final
1	653	Julius Kariuki	KEN	8:33.42 (2 h2)	8:18.53 (4 h2)	8:05.51 (1)	Gold	OR
2	659	Peter Koech	KEN	8:31.66 (3 h1)	8:15.68 (2 h1)	8:06.79 (2)	Silver
3	452	Mark Rowland	GBR	8:31.40 (2 h1)	8:18.31 (3 h2)	8:07.96 (3)	Bronze
4	588	Alessandro Lambruschini	ITA	8:32.59 (4 h1)	8:16.92 (2 h2)	8:12.17 (4)
5	87	William Van Dijck	BEL	8:36.80 (5 h3)	8:15.63 (1 h1)	8:13.99 (5)
6	1107	Henry Marsh	USA	8:33.89 (6 h1)	8:18.94 (7 h1)	8:14.39 (6)
7	671	Patrick Sang	KEN	8:36.11 (1 h3)	8:16.70 (4 h1)	8:15.22 (7)
8	850	Bogusław Mamiński	POL	8:45.72 (6 h2)	8:18.28 (6 h1)	8:15.97 (8)
9	595	Francesco Panetta	ITA	8:29.75 (1 h2)	8:17.23 (5 h1)	8:17.79 (9)
10	470	Hagen Melzer	GDR	8:36.45 (3 h3)	8:16.27 (3 h1)	8:19.82 (10)
11	151	Graeme Fell	CAN	8:51.25 (7 h2)	8:19.99 (6 h2)	8:21.73 (11)
12	344	Raymond Pannier	FRA	8:30.94 (1 h1)	8:19.39 (5 h2)	8:23.80 (12)
13	4	Azzedine Brahmi	ALG	8:35.59 (3 h2)	8:16.54 (1 h2)	8:26.68 (13)
7 h2 r2/3	1086	Brian Diemer	USA	8:38.40 (4 h2)	8:23.89 (7 h2)	–
8 h1 r2/3	512	Hans Koeleman	NED	8:35.20 (7 h1)	8:21.86 (8 h1)	–
8 h2 r2/3	395	Jens Volkmann	FRG	8:36.37 (2 h3)	8:25.19 (8 h2)	–
9 h1 r2/3	334	Bruno le Stum	FRA	8:36.95 (6 h3)	8:26.69 (9 h1)	–
9 h2 r2/3	1067	Brian Abshire	USA	8:36.56 (4 h3)	8:27.78 (9 h2)	–
10 h1 r2/3	458	Eddie Wedderburn	GBR	8:38.90 (5 h2)	8:28.62 (10 h1)	–
10 h2 r2/3	1011	Féthi Baccouche	TUN	8:38.67 (7 h3)	8:31.36 (10 h2)	–
11 h1 r2/3	116	Adauto Domingues	BRA	8:32.77 (5 h1)	8:35.05 (11 h1)	–
11 h2 r2/3	557	Brendan Quinn	IRL	8:40.87 (9 h3)	8:43.34 (11 h2)	–
12 h1 r2/3	842	Héctor Begeo	PHI	8:46.60 (8 h1)	8:35.09 (12 h1)	–
12 h2 r2/3	708	Mohamed Barak Al-Dosari	KSA	8:45.24 (10 h3)	8:44.22 (12 h2)	–
13 h2 r2/3	839	Ramón López	PAR	8:56.06 (9 h1)	8:52.62 (13 h2)	–
AC h1 r2/3	423	Roger Hackney	GBR	8:39.30 (8 h3)	– (DNF h1)	–
8 h2 r1/3	678	Cha Han-Sik	KOR	8:59.82 (8 h2)	–	–
9 h2 r1/3	971	Ikaji Salum	TAN	9:10.36 (9 h2)	–	–
10 h1 r1/3	297	Davendra Prakash Singh	FIJ	9:23.50 (10 h1)	–	–
11 h3 r1/3	127	Abdullah Al-Dosari	BRN	9:10.85 (11 h3)	–	–
AC h1 r1/3	739	Abdel Aziz Sahère	MAR	– (DQ h1)	–	–
AC h2 r1/3	194	Emilio Ulloa	CHI	– (DNF h2)	–	–
DNS	538	Béla Vágó	HUN	– (DNS h2)	–	–

Round One (26 September 1988)

Top seven in each heat and next five fastest advanced to the semi-finals.

Heat One (14:35)

Pos	Ord	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Raymond Pannier	FRA	8:30.94	Q
2	3	Mark Rowland	GBR	8:31.40	Q
3	8	Peter Koech	KEN	8:31.66	Q
4	7	Alessandro Lambruschini	ITA	8:32.59	Q
5	4	Adauto Domingues	BRA	8:32.77	Q
6	11	Henry Marsh	USA	8:33.89	Q
7	6	Hans Koeleman	NED	8:35.20	Q
8	1	Héctor Begeo	PHI	8:46.60	q
9	10	Ramón López	PAR	8:56.06	q
10	2	Davendra Prakash Singh	FIJ	9:23.50
DQ	9	Abdel Aziz Sahère	MAR	–

Splits

1000m	2:56	–
2000m	5:49	–

Heat Two (14:50)

Pos	Ord	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	4	Francesco Panetta	ITA	8:29.75	Q
2	2	Julius Kariuki	KEN	8:33.42	Q
3	11	Azzedine Brahmi	ALG	8:35.59	Q
4	1	Brian Diemer	USA	8:38.40	Q
5	8	Eddie Wedderburn	GBR	8:38.90	Q
6	5	Bogusław Mamiński	POL	8:45.72	Q
7	10	Graeme Fell	CAN	8:51.25	Q
8	9	Cha Han-Sik	KOR	8:59.82
9	6	Ikaji Salum	TAN	9:10.36
DNF	7	Emilio Ulloa	CHI	–
DNS	3	Béla Vágó	HUN	–

Splits

1000m	2:48	–
2000m	5:37	Francesco Panetta

Heat Three (15:05)

Pos	Ord	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	5	Patrick Sang	KEN	8:36.11	Q
2	1	Jens Volkmann	FRG	8:36.37	Q
3	11	Hagen Melzer	GDR	8:36.45	Q
4	4	Brian Abshire	USA	8:36.56	Q
5	3	William Van Dijck	BEL	8:36.80	Q
6	9	Bruno le Stum	FRA	8:36.95	Q
7	7	Féthi Baccouche	TUN	8:38.67	Q
8	6	Roger Hackney	GBR	8:39.30	q
9	8	Brendan Quinn	IRL	8:40.87	q
10	2	Mohamed Barak Al-Dosari	KSA	8:45.24	q
11	10	Abdullah Al-Dosari	BRN	9:10.85

Splits

1000m	2:52	–
2000m	5:47	–

Semi-Finals (28 September 1988)

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

Heat One (16:20)

Pos	Ord	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	8	William Van Dijck	BEL	8:15.63	Q
2	10	Peter Koech	KEN	8:15.68	Q
3	3	Hagen Melzer	GDR	8:16.27	Q
4	2	Patrick Sang	KEN	8:16.70	Q
5	9	Francesco Panetta	ITA	8:17.23	Q
6	4	Bogusław Mamiński	POL	8:18.28	q
7	5	Henry Marsh	USA	8:18.94	q
8	12	Hans Koeleman	NED	8:21.86
9	7	Bruno le Stum	FRA	8:26.69
10	1	Eddie Wedderburn	GBR	8:28.62
11	11	Adauto Domingues	BRA	8:35.05
12	6	Héctor Begeo	PHI	8:35.09
DNF	13	Roger Hackney	GBR	–

Splits

1000m	2:43.47	Francesco Panetta
2000m	5:31.26	Francesco Panetta

Heat Two (16:35)

Pos	Ord	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	12	Azzedine Brahmi	ALG	8:16.54	Q
2	3	Alessandro Lambruschini	ITA	8:16.92	Q
3	13	Mark Rowland	GBR	8:18.31	Q
4	2	Julius Kariuki	KEN	8:18.53	Q
5	6	Raymond Pannier	FRA	8:19.39	Q
6	8	Graeme Fell	CAN	8:19.99	q
7	4	Brian Diemer	USA	8:23.89
8	9	Jens Volkmann	FRG	8:25.19
9	5	Brian Abshire	USA	8:27.78
10	11	Féthi Baccouche	TUN	8:31.36
11	7	Brendan Quinn	IRL	8:43.34
12	10	Mohamed Barak Al-Dosari	KSA	8:44.22
13	1	Ramón López	PAR	8:52.62

Splits

1000m	2:47.74	Raymond Pannier
2000m	5:36.30	Jens Volkmann

Final (30 September 1988 — 14:20)

Pos	Ord	Athlete	NOC	Time (A)
1	8	Julius Kariuki	KEN	8:05.51	OR
2	6	Peter Koech	KEN	8:06.79
3	10	Mark Rowland	GBR	8:07.96
4	1	Alessandro Lambruschini	ITA	8:12.17
5	7	William Van Dijck	BEL	8:13.99
6	5	Henry Marsh	USA	8:14.39
7	13	Patrick Sang	KEN	8:15.22
8	2	Bogusław Mamiński	POL	8:15.97
9	12	Francesco Panetta	ITA	8:17.79
10	9	Hagen Melzer	GDR	8:19.82
11	11	Graeme Fell	CAN	8:21.73
12	3	Raymond Pannier	FRA	8:23.80
13	4	Azzedine Brahmi	ALG	8:26.68

Splits

1000m	2:35.33	Henry Marsh
2000m	5:28.29	Francesco Panetta