3000_metres_steeplechase_world_record_progression

3000 metres steeplechase world record progression

3000 metres steeplechase world record progression

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The official world records in the 3000 metres steeplechase are held by Lamecha Girma of Ethiopia at 7:52.11 minutes for men and Beatrice Chepkoech of Kenya at 8:44.32 for women.

Former women's record holder Gulnara Samitova-Galkina improved the mark three times.

Although the event had been run for decades and was first contested at the 1920 Olympics, the event was not standardized until 1954, with a requirement for athletes to jump a total of 28 barriers of height 91.1 cm to 91.7 cm, and width 3.66 m (4 hurdle barriers per lap), and jump seven water barriers 3.66 m long and wide with a 91 cm hurdle (1 water barrier per lap). The first 3000 m steeplechase world record to be ratified by the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) was a run of 8:49.6 minutes by Hungarian Sándor Rozsnyói in 1954.[1]

Before standardization, Sweden's Josef Ternström was the first to complete the event in under ten minutes with his time of 9:49.8 minutes in 1914. When he did it, one of the barriers included a stone wall, and the 500-metre course was a figure-eight.[2] Another Swede, Erik Elmsäter, was the first to dip under nine minutes, in 1944.[3] The first person to run the steeplechase in under eight minutes was Moses Kiptanui of Kenya, who ran it in 7:59.18 on 16 August 1995, in Zürich, Switzerland.

The women's 3000 m steeplechase was recognized as an official world record event as of January 1, 2000, recognizing Yelena Motalova's time of 9:48.88 from 1999 as the inaugural record.[2] It was first contested at a World Championships in Athletics in 2005 and made its Olympic debut in 2008. The first sub-10 minute steeplechase was achieved by Romania's Daniela Petrescu in 1998 with a time of 9:55.28 minutes, but this was before the event was recognized by the IAAF.[4] The first sub-nine minute steeplechase for women was by Gulnara Galkina of Russia in 2008 with a clocking of 8:58.81.[2]

On 16 August 2002, Brahim Boulami of Morocco ran 7:53.17 but the performance was not ratified as a record as Boulami tested positive for EPO, a banned substance.[5]

Men

Ratified
Not ratified
Ratified but later rescinded
Pending ratification
Belgium's Gaston Roelants broke the world record the year before and the year after his steeplechase gold medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics.
Until 2023, Saif Saaeed Shaheen was the record holder.
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Auto times to the hundredth of a second were accepted by the IAAF for events up to and including 10,000 m from 1981.

  • nb Until 2002 Saif Saaeed Shaheen was known as Stephen Cherono, and represented Kenya.

Women


Pre-IAAF recognition

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IAAF ratified

Romania's Cristina Casandra set two world records in the event.
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References

  1. [1]
    "12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009" (PDF). Monte Carlo: IAAF Media & Public Relations Department. 2009. pp. Pages 546, 554. Archived from the original (pdf) on June 29, 2011. Retrieved August 4, 2009.
  2. [2]
    Hymans, Richard; Matrahazi, Imre. "IAAF World Records Progression" (pdf) (2015 ed.). International Association of Athletics Federations. Retrieved July 22, 2018.
  3. [3]
    Main > Men, 3000 m Steeplechase > World Records Progression Archived 2014-01-21 at the Wayback Machine. Brinkster Track and Field. Retrieved on 2014-01-18.
  4. [4]
    3000h World records Archived 2012-01-06 at the Wayback Machine. Apulanta. Retrieved on 2014-01-18.
  5. [5]
    Boulami banned after IAAF's appeal Archived 2014-02-03 at the Wayback Machine. CNN (2013-11-19). Retrieved on 2014-01-18.
  6. [6]
    "Main > Men, 3000 m Steeplechase > World Records Progression". Track and Field Statistics [d].
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