Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase


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
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Nikolay Sokolov8:43.56
2Gunnar Tjörnebo8:48.77
3Hans Hüneke8:50.59
4Georgios Papavasileiou8:51.46
5Phil Coleman8:56.72
6Vlastimil Brlica9:00.07
7Attila Simon9:02.79
8Guy Texereau9:04.23
9Walter Kammermann9:11.8
10Eric Shirley9:14.8
11Joaquim Ferreira9:30.2

Heat two
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak8:49.92
2Ludwig Müller8:49.86
3Aleksey Konov8:50.19
4George Young8:50.93
5Bohumír Zháňal8:53.01
6Dave Chapman8:53.24
7Pentti Karvonen9:04.91
8José Fernández9:12.8
9Mubarak Shah9:20.0
10Alfredo Tinoco9:38.0

Heat three
RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
1Semyon Rzhishchin8:48.11
2Deacon Jones8:49.32
3Gaston Roelants8:49.52
4Hermann Buhl8:49.56
5Lage Tedenby8:52.94
6Franc Hafner8:55.68
7Jerzy Chromik9:06.68
8Michael Palmer9:10.68
9Gerhart Hecker9:12.4
10Cahit Önel9:14.6
11Mohamed Lahcen9:29.4

Final

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak8:34.30OR
Nikolay Sokolov8:36.55
Semyon Rzhishchin8:42.34
4Gaston Roelants8:47.45
5Gunnar Tjörnebo8:58.87
6Ludwig Müller9:01.57
7Deacon Jones9:18.22
8Aleksey Konov9:18.23
-Hans HünekeDNF

Key: OR = Olympic record; DNF = did not finish