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Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

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Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
DatesAugust 1, 1928 (heats)
August 4, 1928 (final)
Competitors22
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Toivo Loukola  Finland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Paavo Nurmi  Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ove Andersen  Finland
← 1924
1932 →

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place August 1 & August 4.[1]

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Ville Ritola  Finland 9:46.6 Q
2 Melvin Dalton  United States 9:58.6 Q
3 Nils Eklöf  Sweden Q
4 Walter Gegan  United States
5 Henry Oliver  Great Britain
6 Nello Bartolini  Italy
7 Jozef Langenus  Belgium
8 Art Keay  Canada

Key: Q = Qualified

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Paavo Nurmi  Finland 9:58.8 Q
2 Lucien Duquesne  France 9:58.9 Q
3 William Spencer  United States Q
4 Norman Biddulph  Great Britain
5 Edgard Viseur  Belgium
6 Henrique Santos  Portugal
Gerry Coughlan  Ireland DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, Q = Qualified

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Toivo Loukola  Finland 9:37.6 Q
2 Ove Andersen  Finland Q
3 Henri Dartigues  France Q
4 Jean-Gunnar Lindgren  Sweden
5 Vernon Morgan  Great Britain
6 Joe Blewitt  Great Britain
7 Jesse Montgomery  United States

Key: Q = Qualified

Final

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Toivo Loukola  Finland 9:21.8 WR
2 Paavo Nurmi  Finland 9:31.2
3 Ove Andersen  Finland 9:35.6
4 Nils Eklöf  Sweden 9:38.0
5 Henri Dartigues  France 9:40.0
6 Lucien Duquesne  France 9:40.5
7 Melvin Dalton  United States
8 William Spencer  United States
Ville Ritola  Finland DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, WR = World record

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam: Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2017.