These are the official results of the men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. The competition was held on 1 and 4 September.
Heats The top three runners in each of the four heats (blue), advanced to the final round.
Heat one Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Tapio Kantanen 8:24.8 OR 2 Kip Keino 8:27.6 3 Takaharu Koyama 8:29.8 4 Gheorghe Cefan 8:33.8 5 Andy Holden 8:33.8 6 Toni Feldmann 8:35.8 7 Steve Savage 8:39.0 8 Gérard Buchheit 8:41.2 9 Filbert Bayi 8:41.4 10 Vitus Ashaba 8:45.0 11 Tadeusz Zieliński 8:49.8 12 Wigmar Pedersen 9:03.0
Heat two Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Ben Jipcho 8:31.6 2 Mikko Ala-Leppilampi 8:31.8 3 Mikhail Zhelev 8:35.8 4 Willi Maier 8:37.6 5 Akira Takeuchi 8:40.4 6 Sergey Skripka 8:41.4 7 Jan Voje 8:42.0 8 Hans Menet 8:45.4 9 Eddie Leddy 8:47.4 10 Kazimierz Maranda 8:50.4 11 Esau Adenji 9:34.4 12 Kerry O'Brien DNF
Heat three Rank Name Nationality Time 1 Pekka Päivärinta 8:29.0 2 Romualdas Bitė 8:30.2 3 Jean-Paul Villain 8:30.4 4 Josef Horčic 8:30.6 5 Anders Gärderud 8:30.8 6 Willi Wagner 8:34.0 7 Paul Thijs 8:35.0 8 John Bicourt 8:38.8 9 Doug Brown 8:41.2 10 Panagiotis Nakopoulos 8:48.4 11 Yohannes Mohamed 8:52.6 12 Robert Hackman 8:57.6
Heat four Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Amos Biwott 8:23.8 OR 2 Bronisław Malinowski 8:28.2 3 Dušan Moravčík 8:33.4 4 Steve Hollings 8:35.0 5 Franco Fava 8:35.0 6 Hans-Dieter Schulten 8:39.8 7 Boualem Rahoui 8:41.0 8 Spyridon Kontosoros 8:41.0 9 Georges Kaiser 8:45.4 10 Mike Manley 8:50.4 11 Sverre Sørnes 8:54.8 12 Usaia Sotutu 9:12.0 13 Julio Quevedo 9:28.4
Final Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Kip Keino 8:23.6 OR Ben Jipcho 8:24.6 Tapio Kantanen 8:24.8 4 Bronisław Malinowski 8:28.0 5 Dušan Moravčík 8:29.2 6 Amos Biwott 8:33.6 7 Romualdas Bitė 8:34.6 8 Pekka Päivärinta 8:37.2 9 Takaharu Koyama 8:37.8 10 Mikko Ala-Leppilampi 8:41.0 11 Jean-Paul Villain 8:46.8 12 Mikhail Zhelev 9:02.6
References
External links Official report