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Sports > Olympics > Summer Olympics Through The Years > Event-by-Event > Track & Field > Men's Olympic Track & Field

3000-meter Steeplechase

Year  Time  
1900 George Orton, CAN  7:34.4  
1904 Jim Lightbody, USA  7:39.6 
1908 Arthur Russell, GBR 10:47.8 
1920 Percy Hodge, GBR 10:00.4 OR
1924 Ville Ritola, FIN  9:33.6 OR
1928 Toivo Loukola, FIN  9:21.8 WR
1932 Volmari Iso-Hollo, FIN10:33.4*  
1936 Volmari Iso-Hollo, FIN  9:03.8 WR
1948 Thore Sjöstrand, SWE  9:04.6  
1952 Horace Ashenfelter, USA  8:45.4 WR
1956 Chris Brasher, GBR  8:41.2 OR
1960 Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak, POL  8:34.2 OR
1964 Gaston Roelants, BEL  8:30.8OR
1968 Amos Biwott, KEN  8:51.0 
1972 Kip Keino, KEN  8:23.6OR
1976 Anders Gärderud, SWE  8:08.2WR
1980 Bronislaw Malinowski, POL  8:09.7  
1984 Julius Korir, KEN  8:11.80  
1988 Julius Kariuki, KEN  8:05.51 OR
1992 Matthew Birir, KEN  8:08.84  
1996Joseph Keter, KEN 8:07.12 
2000Reuben Kosgei, KEN 8:21.43 
2004 Ezekiel Kemboi, KEN8:05.81 
*Iso-Hollo ran one extra lap due to lap counter's mistake.
Note: Other steeplechase distances– 2500 meters (1900); 2590 meters (1904); 3200 meters (1908) and 3460 meters (1932).

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