Gold medal times in the 3,000m steeplechase at the Summer Olympics 1920-2020

Gold medal winning times in the Men's and Women's 3,000 meter steeplechase at the Summer Olympics from 1920 to 2020

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Release date

2021

Region

Worldwide

Survey time period

1920 to 2021

Supplementary notes

This data was collected using the official Olympic.org site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (available here), 2012 and 2016 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).

Times in minutes (male listed first) are as follows:
1920 - 10:00:40
1924 - 09:33:60
1928 - 09:21:80
1932 - 10:33:40
1936 - 09:03:80
1948 - 09:04:60
1952 - 08:45:40
1956 - 08:41:20
1960 - 08:34:20
1964 - 08:30:80
1968 - 08:51:00
1972 - 08:23:64
1976 - 08:08:02
1980 - 08:09:70
1984 - 08:11:80
1988 - 08:05:51
1992 - 08:08:84
1996 - 08:07:12
2000 - 08:21:43
2004 - 08:05:81
2008 - 08:10:34 & 08:58:81
2012 - 08:18:56 & 09:08:37
2016 - 08:03:28 & 08:59:75
2020 - 08:08:90 & 09:01:45

The winning athletes (male listed first) and their represented countries are as follows:
1920 - Percy Hodge (Great Britain)
1924 - Ville Ritola (Finland)
1928 - Toivo Loukola (Finland)
1932 - Volmari Iso-Hollo (Finland)
1936 - Volmari Iso-Hollo (Finland)
1948 - Tore Sjöstrand (Sweden)
1952 - Horace Ashenfelter (US)
1956 - Christopher William Brasher (Great Britain)
1960 - Zdzislaw Krzyszowiak (Poland)
1964 - Gaston Roberts (Belgium)
1968 - Amos Biwott (Kenya)
1972 - Kip Keno (Kenya)
1976 - Anders Garderud (Sweden)
1980 - Bronislaw Malinowski (Poland)
1984 - Julius Korir (Kenya)
1988 - Julius Kariuki (Kenya)
1992 - Metthew Birir (Kenya)
1996 - Joseph Keter (Kenya)
2000 - Reuben Kosgei (Kenya)
2004 - Ezekiel Kemboi (Kenya)
2008 - Brimin Kiprop Kipruto (Kenya) & Gulnara Samitova (Russia)
2012 - Ezekiel Kemboi (Kenya) & Habiba Ghribi (Tunisia)
2016 - Conseslus Kipruto (Kenya) & Ruth Jebet (Brunei)
2020 - Soufiane El Bakkali (Morocco) & Peruth Chemutai (Uganda)

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