2014 European Athletics Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

None January 2025 Men's 3000 metres steeplechase European Athletics Championships The men's 3000 metre steeplechase at the 2014 European Athletics Championships took place at the Letzigrund on 12 and 14 August. Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad of France won the race, but he was later disqualified after he took off his shirt while running down the home straight. Yoann Kowal (France) was then awarded gold, Krystian Zalewski (Poland) silver and Angel Mullera (Spain) bronze.https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/athletics/28798269 European Championships: Athlete loses gold for removing shirt 15 August 2014 BBC Sport Mullera was booed by the public during the medal ceremony. After the French anthem had been played, Kowal joined Zalewski on the silver medal podium step, ostensibly ignoring the Spaniard."Athlétisme : Yoann Kowal pose sur la 2e marche du podium après la disqualification de Mahiedine Mekhissi", Huffington Post, 15 August 2014 Medalists Gold Yoann Kowal Silver Krystian Zalewski Bronze Ángel Mullera Records Standing records prior to the 2014 European Athletics ChampionshipsWorld recordSaif Saaeed Shaheen QAT7:53.63Brussels, Belgium3 September 2004European recordMahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad FRA8:00.09Paris, France6 July 2013Championship recordMahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad FRA8:07.87Barcelona, Spain1 August 2010World LeadingJairus Kipchoge Birech KEN8:02.37Oslo, Norway11 June 2014European LeadingMahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad FRA8:07.45Sotteville-lès-Rouen, France14 June 2014 Schedule Date Time Round12 August 2014 12:20 Round 114 August 2014 20:45 Final All times are local times (UTC+2) Results Round 1 First 5 in each heat (Q) and 5 best performers (q) advance to the Final. Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Note 1 2 Mateusz Demczyszak 8:31.62 Q 2 2 Martin Grau 8:32.35 Q 3 2 Yuri Floriani 8:33.05 Q 4 2 Tarık Langat Akdağ 8:33.39 Q 5 2 Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad 8:33.44 Q 6 2 Nikolay Chavkin 8:34.29 q 7 2 Sebastián Martos 8:34.35 q 8 1 Krystian Zalewski 8:35.44 Q 9 1 Mitko Tsenov 8:35.45 Q 10 1 Jukka Keskisalo 8:35.98 Q 11 1 Yoann Kowal 8:36.27 Q 12 2 Ángel Mullera 8:36.33 q, SB 13 2 Janne Ukonmaanaho 8:36.44 q 14 1 Steffen Uliczka 8:36.59 Q 15 1 Ivan Lukyanov 8:37.02 q 16 2 Andrey Farnosov 8:37.31 17 1 James Wilkinson 8:39.78 18 1 Hakan Duvar 8:42.03 19 1 Tom Erling Kårbø 8:42.33 20 1 Daniel Lundgren 8:43.98 21 2 Vadym Slobodenyuk 8:43.99 22 2 Noam Ne'eman 8:45.33 23 1 Patrick Nasti 8:46.80 24 2 Alberto Paulo 8:47.18 25 1 Christian Steinhammer 8:58.58 26 1 Justinas Beržanskis 9:01.56 27 2 Albert Minczér 9:32.13 28 1 Víctor García 9:99.99 DNF Final Rank Name Nationality Time Note Yoann Kowal 8:26.66 Krystian Zalewski 8:27.11 Ángel Mullera 8:29.16 SB 04 4 Sebastián Martos 8:30.08 05 5 Ivan Lukyanov 8:32.50 06 6 Jukka Keskisalo 8:32.70 07 7 Steffen Uliczka 8:32.99 08 8 Tarık Langat Akdağ 8:33.13 09 9 Mitko Tsenov 8:34.16 10 Mateusz Demczyszak 8:34.32 11 Janne Ukonmaanaho 8:42.45 12 Yuri Floriani 8:44.05 13 Martin Grau 8:44.46 14 Nikolay Chavkin 8:45.70 15 Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad 9:99.99 DSQ References Round 1 Results Final Results Category:Steeplechase at the European Athletics Championships Category:Men's events at the 2014 European Athletics Championships