The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene on 15 and 18 July 2022.Timetable

Summary

From the start, the field deferred to Sebastián Martos, marked by Evan Jager, in turn marked by his teammate Hillary Bor. After a slow 2 and a half laps, Lamecha Girma moved up to the point. He too did not push the pace, so defending champion Conseslus Kipruto came forward. Still nobody wanted too push, the pack was packed together at points 5 abreast across the track, waiting for the pace to increase. As they entered the penultimate lap the pace did increase, Leonard Bett tripping and falling out the back of the pack. Yemane Haileselassie took over the lead heading into the bell. At the start of the final lap Getnet Wale took the lead, Hailemariyam Amare came up to join him but fell over the first barrier on the backstretch, where so many runs to victory have been launched. After biding his time for 7 laps, world leader Soufiane El Bakkali went from third place to a two meter lead over Kipruto through the final water jump. Kipruto couldn't accelerate with El Bakkali, Girma went around him to try to chase, but El Bakkali was gone, expanding his lead a couple more meters to the finish. Kipruto was slowing to the finish but was able to hold off a streaking finish by Wale for bronze.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record7:53.63Brussels, Belgium3 September 2004Championship record8:00.43Berlin, Germany18 August 2009World Leading7:58.28Rabat, Morocco5 June 2022African Record7:53.64Monte Carlo, Monaco22 July 2011Asian Record7:53.63Brussels, Belgium3 September 2004North, Central American and Caribbean record8:00.45Paris, France4 July 2015South American Record8:14.41Mar del Plata, Argentina22 March 1995European Record8:00.09Paris, France6 July 2013Oceanian record8:14.05Koblenz, West Germany29 August 1984

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 8:22.00.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:

Date Time Round15 July 17:15 Heats18 July 19:20 Final

Results

Heats

The first 3 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified to the final.Heats Start List

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Soufiane El Bakkali 8:16.65 Q 2 1 Leonard Bett 8:16.94 Q 3 1 Abraham Kibiwot 8:17.04 Q 4 1 Getnet Wale 8:17.49 q 5 3 Hailemariyam Amare 8:18.34 Q 6 3 Evan Jager 8:18.44 Q 7 3 Avinash Sable 8:18.75 Q 8 3 Yemane Haileselassie 8:18.75 q, 9 1 Sebastián Martos 8:18.94 q 10 2 Lamecha Girma 8:19.64 Q 11 2 Conseslus Kipruto 8:20.12 Q 12 2 Hillary Bor 8:20.18 Q 13 2 Mehdi Belhadj 8:20.47 q 14 1 Ahmed Abdelwahed 8:21.04 q 15 3 Daniel Arce 8:21.06 q 16 2 Ryuji Miura 8:21.80 17 1 Benard Keter 8:21.94 18 3 Mohamed Amin Jhinaoui 8:22.00 19 3 Benjamin Kigen 8:22.52 20 2 Edward Trippas 8:23.83 21 3 Karl Bebendorf 8:25.73 22 2 Mohamed Ismail 8:25.85 23 2 Tom Erling Kårbø 8:26.12 24 1 John Gay 8:27.02 25 2 Hichem Bouchicha 8:27.39 26 2 Ahmed Jaziri 8:28.28 27 1 Ben Buckingham 8:29.15 28 1 Kosei Yamaguchi 8:30.92 29 3 Jacob Boutera 8:31.47 30 2 Víctor Ruiz 8:33.42 31 2 Ryan Smeeton 8:33.51 32 3 Vidar Johansson 8:33.51 33 3 Ryoma Aoki 8:33.89 34 1 Bilal Tabti 8:38.45 35 2 Salaheddine Ben Yazide 8:38.46 36 3 Jean-Simon Desgagnés 8:40.90 37 3 Topi Raitanen 8:43.01 38 1 Frederik Ruppert 8:45.55 39 2 Carlos San Martín 8:48.66 40 1 Tim Van De Velde 9:03.11 3 Mohamed Tindouft

Final The final was started on 18 July at 19:22.Final results

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Soufiane El Bakkali 8:25.13 Lamecha Girma 8:26.01 Conseslus Kipruto 8:27.92 4 Getnet Wale 8:28.68 5 Abraham Kibiwot 8:28.95 6 Evan Jager 8:29.08 7 Yemane Haileselassie 8:29.40 8 Hillary Bor 8:29.77 9 Daniel Arce 8:30.05 10 Hailemariyam Amare 8:31.54 11 Avinash Sable 8:31.75 12 Ahmed Abdelwahed 8:33.43 13 Mehdi Belhadj 8:34.49 14 Sebastián Martos 8:36.66 15 Leonard Bett 8:36.74

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