The men's 3000 metre steeplechase at the 2014 European Athletics Championships took place at the Letzigrund on 12 and 14 August. Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad of France won the race, but he was later disqualified after he took off his shirt while running down the home straight. Yoann Kowal (France) was then awarded gold, Krystian Zalewski (Poland) silver and Angel Mullera (Spain) bronze.
Mullera was booed by the public during the medal ceremony. After the French anthem had been played, Kowal joined Zalewski on the silver medal podium step, ostensibly ignoring the Spaniard."Athlétisme : Yoann Kowal pose sur la 2e marche du podium après la disqualification de Mahiedine Mekhissi", Huffington Post, 15 August 2014
Medalists Gold Yoann Kowal Silver Krystian Zalewski Bronze Ángel Mullera
Records Standing records prior to the 2014 European Athletics ChampionshipsWorld record7:53.63Brussels, Belgium3 September 2004European record8:00.09Paris, France6 July 2013Championship record8:07.87Barcelona, Spain1 August 2010World Leading8:02.37Oslo, Norway11 June 2014European Leading8:07.45Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France14 June 2014
Schedule Date Time Round12 August 2014 12:20 Round 114 August 2014 20:45 Final
Results
Round 1
First 5 in each heat (Q) and 5 best performers (q) advance to the Final.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Note 1 2 Mateusz Demczyszak 8:31.62 Q 2 2 Martin Grau 8:32.35 Q 3 2 Yuri Floriani 8:33.05 Q 4 2 Tarık Langat Akdağ 8:33.39 Q 5 2 Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad 8:33.44 Q 6 2 Nikolay Chavkin 8:34.29 q 7 2 Sebastián Martos 8:34.35 q 8 1 Krystian Zalewski 8:35.44 Q 9 1 Mitko Tsenov 8:35.45 Q 10 1 Jukka Keskisalo 8:35.98 Q 11 1 Yoann Kowal 8:36.27 Q 12 2 Ángel Mullera 8:36.33 q, SB 13 2 Janne Ukonmaanaho 8:36.44 q 14 1 Steffen Uliczka 8:36.59 Q 15 1 Ivan Lukyanov 8:37.02 q 16 2 Andrey Farnosov 8:37.31 17 1 James Wilkinson 8:39.78 18 1 Hakan Duvar 8:42.03 19 1 Tom Erling Kårbø 8:42.33 20 1 Daniel Lundgren 8:43.98 21 2 Vadym Slobodenyuk 8:43.99 22 2 Noam Ne'eman 8:45.33 23 1 Patrick Nasti 8:46.80 24 2 Alberto Paulo 8:47.18 25 1 Christian Steinhammer 8:58.58 26 1 Justinas Beržanskis 9:01.56 27 2 Albert Minczér 9:32.13 1 Víctor García
Final Rank Name Nationality Time Note Yoann Kowal 8:26.66 Krystian Zalewski 8:27.11 Ángel Mullera 8:29.16 SB Sebastián Martos 8:30.08 Ivan Lukyanov 8:32.50 Jukka Keskisalo 8:32.70 Steffen Uliczka 8:32.99 Tarık Langat Akdağ 8:33.13 Mitko Tsenov 8:34.16 10 Mateusz Demczyszak 8:34.32 11 Janne Ukonmaanaho 8:42.45 12 Yuri Floriani 8:44.05 13 Martin Grau 8:44.46 14 Nikolay Chavkin 8:45.70 Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad
References
Round 1 Results Final Results