Main > Men, 3000 m Steeplechase > World Records Progression
All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons.
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  9.49.8 Josef Ternström SWE Malmö Jul 04, 1914
  9.36.0 NWJ Ernesto Ambrosini ITA Paris Jun 09, 1923
  9.33.4 NWJ Paul Bontemps FRA Paris Jun 09, 1924
  9.31.2 NWJ Félix Roman FRA Marselle Jun 07, 1925
  9.25.2 Toivo Loukola FIN Helsinki Jul 09, 1928
  9.21.8 Toivo Loukola FIN Amsterdam Aug 04, 1928
  9.14.5 Joseph McCluskey USA Stanford Jul 16, 1932
  9.09.4 Volmari Iso-Hollo FIN Lahti May 28, 1933
  9.08.2 Harold Manning USA New York Jul 12, 1936
  9.03.8 Volmari Iso-Hollo FIN Berlin Aug 08, 1936
  9.03.4 Erik Elmsäter SWE Ostersund Aug 22, 1943
  8.59.6 Erik Elmsäter SWE Stockholm Aug 04, 1944
  8.49.8 Vladimir Kazantsev URS Moscow Jul 10, 1951
  8.48.6 Vladimir Kazantsev URS Kiev Jun 12, 1952
  8.45.4 Horace Ashenfelter USA Helsinki Jul 25, 1952
  8.44.4 Olavi Rinteenpää FIN Helsinki Jul 02, 1953
8.49.6 Sandor Rozsnyoi HUN Bern Aug 28, 1954
8.47.8 Pentti Karvonen FIN Helsinki Jul 01, 1955
8.45.4 Pentti Karvonen FIN Olso Jul 15, 1955
8.45.4* Vasiliy Vlasenko URS Moskow Aug 18, 1955
8.41.2 Jerzy Chromik POL Brno Aug 31, 1955
8.40.2 Jerzy Chromik POL Budapest Sep 11, 1955
8.39.8 Semyon Rzhishchin URS Moscow Aug 14, 1956
8.35.6 Sandor Rozsnyoi HUN Budapest Sep 16, 1956
8.35.6* Semyon Rzhishchin URS Tallinn Jul 21, 1958
8.32.0 Jerzy Chromik POL Warsaw Aug 02, 1958
8.31.4 Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak POL Tula Jun 26, 1960
8.31.2 Grigoriy Taran URS Kiev May 28, 1961
8.30.4 Zdzislaw Krzyszkowiak POL Walcz Aug 10, 1961
8.29.6 Gaston Roelants BEL Leuven Sep 07, 1963
8.26.4 Gaston Roelants BEL Brussels Aug 07, 1965
8.24.2 Jouko Kuha FIN Stockholm Jul 17, 1968
8.22.2 Vladimir Dudin URS Kiev Aug 19, 1969
8.22.0 Kerry O'Brien AUS Berlin Jul 04, 1970
8.20.8 Anders Gärderud SWE Helsinki Sep 14, 1972
8.19.8 Benjamin Jipcho KEN Helsinki May 19, 1973
8.14.0 Benjamin Jipcho KEN Helsinki Jun 27, 1973
8.10.4 Anders Gärderud SWE Oslo Jun 25, 1975
8.09.8 Anders Gärderud SWE Stockholm Jul 01, 1975
8.08.0 Anders Gärderud SWE Montreal Jul 28, 1976
8.05.4 Henry Rono KEN Seattle May 13, 1978
8.05.35 Peter Koech KEN Stockholm Jul 03, 1989
8.02.08 Moses Kiptanui KEN Zürich Aug 19, 1992
7.59.18 Moses Kiptanui KEN Zürich Aug 16, 1995
7.59.08 Wilson Boit Kipketer KEN Zürich Aug 13, 1997
7.55.72 Bernard Barmasai KEN Köln Aug 24, 1997
7.55.28 Brahim Boulami MAR Brussels Aug 24, 2001
7.53.63 Saif Saaeed Shaheen QAT Brussels Sep 03, 2004
  7.52.11 Lamecha Girma ETH Paris Jun 09, 2023