The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1960 Olympic Games took place between September 1 and September 3.
Results
Heats
The fastest three steeplechasers in each of the three heats advanced to the final round.
Heat one Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Nikolay Sokolov 8:43.56 2 Gunnar Tjörnebo 8:48.77 3 Hans Hüneke 8:50.59 4 Georgios Papavasileiou 8:51.46 5 Phil Coleman 8:56.72 6 Vlastimil Brlica 9:00.07 7 Attila Simon 9:02.79 8 Guy Texereau 9:04.23 9 Walter Kammermann 9:11.8 10 Eric Shirley 9:14.8 11 Joaquim Ferreira 9:30.2 Balkrishan Singh
Heat two Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak 8:49.92 2 Ludwig Müller 8:49.86 3 Aleksey Konov 8:50.19 4 George Young 8:50.93 5 Bohumír Zháňal 8:53.01 6 Dave Chapman 8:53.24 7 Pentti Karvonen 9:04.91 8 José Fernández 9:12.8 9 Mubarak Shah 9:20.0 10 Alfredo Tinoco 9:38.0 Walter Steinbach
Heat three Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Semyon Rzhishchin 8:48.11 2 Deacon Jones 8:49.32 3 Gaston Roelants 8:49.52 4 Hermann Buhl 8:49.56 5 Lage Tedenby 8:52.94 6 Franc Hafner 8:55.68 7 Jerzy Chromik 9:06.68 8 Michael Palmer 9:10.68 9 Gerhart Hecker 9:12.4 10 Cahit Önel 9:14.6 11 Mohamed Lahcen 9:29.4 Sebastião Mendes
Final
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak 8:34.30 OR Nikolay Sokolov 8:36.55 Semyon Rzhishchin 8:42.34 4 Gaston Roelants 8:47.45 5 Gunnar Tjörnebo 8:58.87 6 Ludwig Müller 9:01.57 7 Deacon Jones 9:18.22 8 Aleksey Konov 9:18.23 - Hans Hüneke DNF
Key: OR = Olympic record; DNF = did not finish
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