2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Events at the
2008 World Junior
Championships in Athletics

Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase
men women
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
10,000 m walk men women
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men women
Long jump men women
Triple jump men women
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Hammer throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadium on 10 and 13 July.[1][2]

Medalists

Gold Jonathan Ndiku
 Kenya
Silver Benjamin Kiplagat
 Uganda
Bronze Patrick Terer
 Kenya

Results

Final

13 July

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Jonathan Ndiku  Kenya 8:17.28
2nd, silver medalist(s) Benjamin Kiplagat  Uganda 8:19.24
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Patrick Terer  Kenya 8:25.14
4 Dereje Abdi  Ethiopia 8:32.98
5 Legese Lamiso  Ethiopia 8:38.34
6 Abdel Ghani Aït Bahmad  Morocco 8:45.45
7 Krystian Zalewski  Poland 8:45.64
8 Majid Saleh Bashir  Bahrain 8:49.27
9 Dylan Knight  United States 8:52.90
10 Curtis Carr  United States 8:53.79
11 Alexandru Ghinea  Romania 8:55.28
12 Luis Orta  Venezuela 9:03.69

Heats

10 July

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Legese Lamiso  Ethiopia 8:48.61 Q
2 Benjamin Kiplagat  Uganda 8:49.17 Q
3 Patrick Terer  Kenya 8:50.03 Q
4 Alexandru Ghinea  Romania 8:52.63 Q
5 Luis Orta  Venezuela 8:52.70 q
6 Dylan Knight  United States 8:53.67 q
7 Sebastian Martos  Spain 8:57.85
8 Mohamed Mahcene  Algeria 9:06.03
9 Steven Jardin  France 9:07.00
10 Eduardo Gregório  Uruguay 9:19.70
11 Andreas Van Ham  Belgium 9:32.13

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Jonathan Ndiku  Kenya 8:42.32 Q
2 Dereje Abdi  Ethiopia 8:42.46 Q
3 Abdel Ghani Aït Bahmad  Morocco 8:48.05 Q
4 Krystian Zalewski  Poland 8:48.94 Q
5 Majid Saleh Bashir  Bahrain 8:51.31 q
6 Curtis Carr  United States 8:55.28 q
7 Matthew Hughes  Canada 9:01.82
8 Abdelatif Hadjam  France 9:10.32
9 Jonathan Hernández  Spain 9:16.77
10 Jorge Cruz  Portugal 9:23.36

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2008 Bydgoszcz POL Jul 8-13, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 24 Feb 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
  2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015
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