2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

2012 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
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The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 13 and 15 July.^[1][2][3]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Conseslus Kipruto  Kenya	Gilbert Kiplangat Kirui  Kenya	Hicham Sigueni  Morocco

Prior to the competition^[update], the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record	Saif Saaeed Shaheen (KEN)	7:58.66	Brussels, Belgium	24 August 2001
Championship Record	Willy Rutto Komen (KEN)	8:14.00	Beijing, China	19 August 2006
World Junior Leading	Conseslus Kipruto (KEN)	8:08.92	Doha, Qatar	11 May 2012
Broken records during the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Championship Record & World Junior Leading	Conseslus Kipruto (KEN)	8:06.10	Barcelona, Spain	15 July 2012

Qualification: The first 4 of each heat (Q) and the 4 fastest times (q) qualified

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	2	Conseslus Kipruto	Kenya	8:19.46	Q
2	1	Gilbert Kiplangat Kirui	Kenya	8:26.58	Q
3	2	Weynay Ghebresilasie	Eritrea	8:37.01	Q
4	1	Hicham Sigueni	Morocco	8:37.94	Q
5	1	Meresa Kahsay	Ethiopia	8:38.01	Q, PB
6	2	Jaouad Chemlal	Morocco	8:41.05	Q
7	1	Ahmed Mohammed Burhan	Saudi Arabia	8:48.38	Q
8	1	Zak Seddon	Great Britain	8:49.67	q
9	1	Edward Owens	United States	8:52.99	q, PB
10	2	Bilal Tabti	Algeria	8:54.85	Q, PB
11	2	Szymon Kulka	Poland	8:55.93	q
12	1	Hashim Salah Mohamed	Qatar	8:56.15	q, PB
13	1	Ryan Cassidy	Canada	8:56.88	PB
14	2	Djilali Bedrani	France	8:56.98
15	2	Mitko Tsenov	Bulgaria	8:57.98
16	1	Julien Detre	France	9:00.32
17	2	Malek Ben Amor	Tunisia	9:02.59
18	1	Issam Zeghdane	Algeria	9:03.98
19	1	Italo Quazzola	Italy	9:05.28
20	2	Konstantin Wedel	Germany	9:05.64
21	2	Darren Fahy	United States	9:08.69
22	2	Antoine Thibeault	Canada	9:10.71
23	1	José Nuno Paulo	Portugal	9:11.31
24	1	Jonathan Romeo	Spain	9:14.86
25	1	Adam Lipschitz	South Africa	9:16.17
26	2	Christoph Graf	Switzerland	9:18.31
27	1	Davorin Cimermancic	Slovenia	9:20.28
28	2	Ivan Savka	Ukraine	9:24.97
29	2	Jorge Blanco	Spain	9:31.22
30	2	Bin Yu	China	9:46.23
–	2	Animut Minalu	Ethiopia	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Conseslus Kipruto	Kenya	8:06.10	CR
	Gilbert Kiplangat Kirui	Kenya	8:19.94
	Hicham Sigueni	Morocco	8:30.14
4	Jaouad Chemlal	Morocco	8:30.92
5	Bilal Tabti	Algeria	8:32.08	NJ
6	Weynay Ghebresilasie	Eritrea	8:33.87
7	Meresa Kahsay	Ethiopia	8:36.13	PB
8	Ahmed Mohammed Burhan	Saudi Arabia	8:36.14
9	Zak Seddon	Great Britain	8:45.18
10	Hashim Salah Mohamed	Qatar	8:51.35	PB
11	Edward Owens	United States	8:51.44	PB
-	Szymon Kulka	Poland	DNS

According to an unofficial count, 30 athletes from 23 countries participated in the event.

• WJC12 3000 metres steeplechase schedule