The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the London Olympic Stadium on 6 and 8 August.Start list
After a temporary retirement announced immediately after the Olympic race, 4-time champion, seven time medalist Ezekiel Kemboi (Kenya), once known for his flamboyant frohawk hairstyles was back, now as a 35-year-old without a hair on his head. His historic record was well known, but his semi-final was his fastest race of the year making him an unknown quantity. In fact, the entire 2015 podium and the 2016 Olympic podium were in this event, though 2008 Olympic champion and 2015 bronze medalist Brimin Kipruto (Kenya) at age 33 didn't make the final.
Summary In the final Conseslus Kipruto (Kenya) went to the front, but he didn't set a blistering pace to burn off the competition, instead he kept control of the race. Jairus Birech (Kenya) and Evan Jager (USA) stayed close behind. After a leisurely 2:51.81 first kilometre, after which entire Ethiopian team of Tesfaye Deriba, Tafese Seboka and Getnet Wale moved ahead to push the pace. Kemboi was biding his time along the rail. Jacob Araptany (Uganda) lost his shoe and stopped in the middle of the track to fix it, taking him completely out of contention.
After four laps, Jager moved to the front and increased the pace, with only Kipruto, Birech, Ezekiel Kemboi and Soufiane El Bakkali (Morocco) staying in the front group with him. Birech, and later Kemboi, dropped away, and Jager led the remaining trio until they reached the beginning of the final backstretch, where Kipruto accelerated past Jager, followed by El Bakkali. By the water jump, El Bakkali had pulled even, but Kipruto had more speed down the final straightaway. Jager held third place despite a late run from Mahiedine Mekhissi.
Records Before the competition records were as follows:
Record Athlete Date LocationWorld7:53.63Saif Saaeed Shaheen3 Sep 2004Brussels, BelgiumChampionship8:00.43Ezekiel Kemboi18 Aug 2009Berlin, GermanyWorld leading8:01.29Evan Jager21 Jul 2017MonacoAfrican7:53.6422 Jul 2011MonacoAsian7:53.63Saif Saaeed Shaheen3 Sep 2004Brussels, BelgiumNACAC8:00.45Evan Jager4 Jul 2015Saint-Denis, FranceSouth American8:14.41Wander do Prado MouraMar del Plata, ArgentinaEuropean8:00.09Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad6 Jul 2013Saint-Denis, FranceOceanian8:14.05Peter Renner29 Aug 1984Koblenz, West Germany
The following records were set at the competition:
Record Athlete Date Iranian8:33.76Hossein Keyhani6 Aug 2017
Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 8:32.00.
Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), was as follows: Date Time Round6 August 10:05 Heats8 August 21:10 Final
Results
Heats The first round took place on 6 August in three heats as follows:
Heat 1 2 3 Start time 10:04 10:22 10:38 Photo finishlinklinklink
The first three in each heat ( Q ) and the next six fastest ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:
Rank Heat Order Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 9 Evan Jager 8:20.36 2 2 4 Tafese Seboka 8:20.48 3 2 5 Yoann Kowal 8:20.60 4 2 11 Ezekiel Kemboi 8:20.61 , 5 1 15 Soufiane El Bakkali 8:22.60 6 1 12 Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad 8:22.83 7 1 13 Getnet Wale 8:23.00 8 2 15 Albert Chemutai 8:23.18 , 9 1 6 Bilal Tabti 8:23.28 10 3 4 Conseslus Kipruto 8:23.80 11 1 4 Jairus Birech 8:23.84 12 3 3 Stanley Kebenei 8:24.19 13 3 12 Matthew Hughes 8:24.79 , 14 3 10 Tesfaye Deriba 8:25.33 15 1 9 Jacob Araptany 8:25.86 16 1 2 Ala Zoghlami 8:26.18 17 3 13 Hillary Bor 8:27.53 18 1 10 Ole Hesselbjerg 8:27.86 19 1 1 Krystian Zalewski 8:28.41 20 2 1 Hicham Bouchicha 8:30.01 21 3 2 Altobeli da Silva 8:31.82 22 1 3 Zak Seddon 8:32.84 23 3 1 Brimin Kipruto 8:33.33 24 1 7 Hossein Keyhani 8:33.76 25 2 10 Mohamed Ismail Ibrahim 8:33.77 26 2 2 Abdoullah Bamoussa 8:34.86 27 3 11 Jakob Ingebrigtsen 8:34.88 28 2 8 Yemane Haileselassie 8:35.73 29 3 14 Napoleon Solomon 8:35.95 30 3 8 Yohanes Chiappinelli 8:36.48 31 1 5 José Peña 8:37.15 32 3 6 Jonathan Romeo 8:38.05 33 2 12 Fernando Carro 8:38.42 34 3 9 Mohamed Tindouft 8:40.99 35 3 5 Boniface Sikowo 8:43.86 36 2 7 Hicham Sigueni 8:44.74 37 2 6 Mitko Tsenov 8:45.21 38 2 3 Hironori Tsuetaki 8:45.81 39 2 13 Raouf Boubaker 8:46.25 40 3 7 Stewart McSweyn 8:47.53 41 3 15 Rob Mullett 8:47.99 42 1 8 Sebastián Martos 8:51.57 43 2 14 Ieuan Thomas 8:52.96 44 1 14 Tarık Langat Akdağ 8:53.42 1 11 Emil Blomberg
Final The final took place on 8 August at 21:11. The results were as follows (photo finish):
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Conseslus Kipruto 8:14.12 Soufiane El Bakkali 8:14.49 Evan Jager 8:15.53 Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad 8:15.80 Stanley Kebenei 8:21.09 Matthew Hughes 8:21.84 Tesfaye Deriba 8:22.12 Tafese Seboka 8:23.02 Getnet Wale 8:25.28 10 Albert Chemutai 8:25.94 11 Ezekiel Kemboi 8:29.38 12 Jairus Birech 8:32.90 13 Yoann Kowal 8:34.53 14 Jacob Araptany 8:49.18 Bilal Tabti
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