The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games took place July 23 and July 25. The final was won by American Horace Ashenfelter.
Results
Heats The first round was held on July 23. The four fastest runners from each heat qualified to the final.
Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Result Notes 1 Vladimir Kazantsev 8:58.0 OR 2 Günter Heßelmann 9:05.0 3 Gunnar Tjörnebo 9:05.4 4 Cahit Önel 9:06.0 5 Jindřich Roudný 9:06.4 6 Kauko Lusenius 9:26.8 7 Kenneth Johnson 9:27.0 8 Drago Štritof 9:28.0 9 Victor Firea 9:29.2 10 Guillermo Solá 9:32.2 11 Pierre Prat 9:32.8 12 Gulzara Singh Mann 9:48.6 – Bill Ashenfelter
Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Result Notes 1 John Disley 8:59.4 2 Olavi Rinteenpää 8:59.4 3 József Apró 9:00.4 4 Helmut Gude 9:04.2 5 Fyodor Marulin 9:08.4 6 Ali Baghbanbashi 9:13.2 7 Jan Kielas 9:15.4 8 André Lebrun 9:17.8 9 Susumu Takahashi 9:21.6 10 Božidar Đurašković 9:23.2 11 Eric Nilsson 9:25.0 12 Browning Ross 9:44.0 – Augusto Robles
Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Result Notes 1 Horace Ashenfelter 8:51.0 OR 2 Mikhail Saltykov 8:55.8 3 Curt Söderberg 9:02.4 4 Chris Brasher 9:03.2 5 Urho Julin 9:09.4 6 László Jeszenszky 9:11.2 7 André Paris 9:30.0 8 Robert Schoonjans 9:30.6 9 Petar Šegedin 9:40.2 – Víctorio Solares – Vasilis Mavrapostolos – Martin Stokken – Osman Coşgül
Final
Rank Name Nationality Time (hand) Notes Horace Ashenfelter 8:45.4 WR Vladimir Kazantsev 8:51.6 John Disley 8:51.8 4 Olavi Rinteenpää 8:55.2 5 Curt Söderberg 8:55.6 6 Günter Hesselmann 8:55.8 7 Mikhail Saltykov 8:56.2 8 Helmut Gude 9:01.4 9 József Apró 9:04.2 10 Cahit Önel 9:04.4 11 Chris Brasher 9:14.0 12 Gunnar Tjörnebo 10:26.4
Key: WR = World record
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