Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase was the only steeplechase on the Athletics at the 1964 Summer Olympics program in Tokyo. It was held on 15 October and 17 October 1964. 30 athletes from 19 nations entered, with 1 not starting in the first round. The first round was held on 15 October and the final on 17 October.[1]

Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
at the Games of the XVIII Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
Dates15–17 October
Competitors30 from 19 nations
Medalists
Gaston Roelants  Belgium
Maurice Herriott  Great Britain
Ivan Belyayev  Soviet Union
Athletics at the
1964 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmen
5000 mmen
10,000 mmen
80 m hurdleswomen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmen
3000 m
steeplechase		men
4×100 m relaymenwomen
4×400 m relaymen
Road events
Marathonmen
20 km walkmen
50 km walkmen
Field events
Long jumpmenwomen
Triple jumpmen
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmen
Shot putmenwomen
Discus throwmenwomen
Javelin throwmenwomen
Hammer throwmen
Combined events
Pentathlonwomen
Decathlonmen

New Olympic records for the event were set in two of the three heats as well as in the final, for a total of three out of four races resulting in a new record.

Results

First round

The top three runners in each of the 3 heats as well as the fastest remaining runner advanced.

First round, heat 1
PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Manuel Oliveira Portugal8:40.8
2Ivan Belyayev Soviet Union8:42.0
3Ben Assou El Ghazi Morocco8:42.8
4Vic Zwolak United States8:43.6
5Zenji Okuzawa Japan8:50.0
6Slavko Špan Yugoslavia8:57.6
7József Mácsár Hungary9:08.8
8Dieter Hartmann United Team of Germany9:09.2
9Jean Toffey Ekonian Ivory Coast9:47.4
—Bengt Perssoon SwedenDid not start

First round, heat 2

Gustaffson and Young tied the old Olympic record, but Herriott beat it by 1.2 seconds.

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Maurice Herriott Great Britain8:33.0 OR
2Lars-Erik Gustafsson Sweden8:34.2
3George L. Young United States8:34.2
4Guy Texereau France8:34.6
5Lazar Naroditsky Soviet Union8:43.0
6Alfred Döring United Team of Germany8:43.2
7Taketsugu Saruwatari Japan8:46.6
8Edward Szklarczyk Poland8:48.0
9Labidi Ayachi Tunisia9:02.0
10Cahit Onel Turkey9:15.6

First round, heat 3

Herriott's Olympic record did not last long, as Alexeiunas dropped another 1.2 seconds off of the record in the very next heat.

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Adolfas Aleksejūnas Soviet Union8:31.8 OR
2Gaston Roelants Belgium8:33.8
3Ernie Pomfret Great Britain8:45.2
4Jeffrey Fishback United States8:50.2
5Benjamin Kogo Kenya8:51.0
6Rainer Dörner United Team of Germany8:55.0
7Attila Simon Hungary8:57.8
8Trevor Vincent Australia8:58.8
9Saburo Yokomizo Japan9:04.6
10Dilbagh Singh Kler Malaysia9:18.8

Final

Alexeiunas could not match his record-setting pace from the heats, falling to 7th in the final. Herriott, who had set the record Alexeiunas had broken, improved on his own time but could not reach Alexeiunas's record as he placed second. Roelants, the world record-holder who had run behind Alexeiunas in the heat, turned out victorious in the final, breaking the Soviet's record by a full second to set a third new record in the event.

PlaceAthleteNationTime
1Gaston Roelants Belgium8:30.8 OR
2Maurice Herriott Great Britain8:32.4
3Ivan Belyayev Soviet Union8:33.8
4Manuel Oliveira Portugal8:36.2
5George L. Young United States8:38.2
6Guy Texereau France8:38.6
7Adolf Alexeiunas Soviet Union8:39.0
8Lars-Erik Gustafsson Sweden8:41.8
9Ben Assou El Ghazi Morocco8:43.6
10Ernie Pomfret Great Britain8:43.8

References
  1. "Athletics at the 1964 Tokyo: Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
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