| Host City: Tokyo, Japan |
Format: Top three in each heat and next fastest advanced to the final. |
| Date Started: October 15, 1964 |
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| Date Finished: October 17, 1964 |
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| (Competitors: 29; Countries: 19; Finalists: 10) |
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Venue(s): National Stadium, Shinjuku, Tokyo
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| Overview by IAAF |
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| De Oliveira won the first heat in 8:40.8, before Herriott (8:33.0) and then Aleksejūnas (8:31.8) broke the Olympic record in the other heats. However, it was Roelants who was the favourite, having won his previous 27 races since 1961. The Belgian led by 5m at the end of the first lap, and though the field closed to 0.2 seconds behind at 1000m, Roelants surged in the fifth lap and by 2000m was 12m ahead of his nearest pursuer Texereau. Young was 10m behind the Frenchman, and Herriott was seventh. Roelants went away from the field with 2 laps to go, and led by 40m with a lap to go. He extended the lead by 10m in the next half-lap, but eased back in the last 200m, partially through fatigue, but was still 10m clear of the fast-finishing Herriott at the finish. Belyayev and de Oliveira moved up to overtake Young, second at the bell. |
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| Summary by Sports-reference.com |
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| Gaston Roelants (BEL) was favored, having won the 1962 European Championship and broken the world at a meet in Leuven, Belgium in September 1963, running 8:29.6. He had not been beaten in the event since 1961. He took the early lead in the final, leading by five metres at the first kilometer. The field closed slightly but he then surged and had a 12 metre lead after two kilometers. He was comfortably ahead by the last lap, and eased up but still won quite easily over Maurice Herriott (GBR) the silver medalist at the 1962 Commonwealth Games. |
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Results |
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| 3000 m steeple |
Men |
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Final |
17 October |
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| 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. |
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Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Age |
Records |
Notes |
| 1 |
8.30.8 |
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Gaston Roelants |
Belgium |
BEL |
27 |
OR |
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| 2 |
8.32.4 |
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Maurice Herriott |
Great Britain |
GBR |
25 |
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| 3 |
8.33.8 |
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Ivan Bieliaiev |
Soviet Union |
URS |
29 |
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| 4 |
8.36.2 |
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Manuel de Oliveira |
Portugal |
POR |
23 |
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| 5 |
8.38.2 |
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George Young |
United States |
USA |
27 |
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| 6 |
8.38.6 |
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Guy Texereau |
France |
FRA |
29 |
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| 7 |
8.39.0 |
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Adolfas Aleksejūnas |
Soviet Union |
URS |
27 |
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| 8 |
8.41.8 |
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Lars-Erik Gustafsson |
Sweden |
SWE |
26 |
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| 9 |
8.43.6 |
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Ben Assou El-Ghazi |
Morocco |
MAR |
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| 10 |
8.43.8 |
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Ernie Pomfret |
Great Britain |
GBR |
23 |
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| 3000 m steeple |
Men |
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Round One Heat One |
15 October |
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Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Age |
Records |
Notes |
| 1 |
8.40.8 |
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Manuel de Oliveira |
Portugal |
POR |
23 |
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| 2 |
8.42.0 |
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Ivan Bieliaiev |
Soviet Union |
URS |
29 |
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| 3 |
8.42.8 |
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Ben Assou El-Ghazi |
Morocco |
MAR |
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| 4 |
8.43.6 |
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Vic Zwolak |
United States |
USA |
25 |
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| 5 |
8.50.0 |
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Zenji Okuzawa |
Japan |
JPN |
26 |
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| 6 |
8.57.6 |
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Slavko Špan |
Yugoslavia |
YUG |
26 |
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| 7 |
9.08.8 |
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József Mácsár |
Hungary |
HUN |
26 |
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| 8 |
9.09.2 |
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Dieter Hartmann |
Germany |
GER |
26 |
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| 9 |
9.47.4 |
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Jean Toffey Ekonian |
Cote d'Ivoire |
CIV |
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| 3000 m steeple |
Men |
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Round One Heat Two |
15 October |
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Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Age |
Records |
Notes |
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8.33.0 |
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Maurice Herriott |
Great Britain |
GBR |
25 |
OR |
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8.34.2 |
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Lars-Erik Gustafsson |
Sweden |
SWE |
26 |
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| 3 |
8.34.2 |
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George Young |
United States |
USA |
27 |
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| 4 |
8.34.6 |
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Guy Texereau |
France |
FRA |
29 |
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| 5 |
8.43.0 |
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Lazar Naroditsky |
Soviet Union |
URS |
26 |
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| 6 |
8.43.2 |
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Alfred Döring |
Germany |
GER |
31 |
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| 7 |
8.46.6 |
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Taketsugu Saruwatari |
Japan |
JPN |
21 |
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| 8 |
8.48.0 |
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Edward Szklarczyk |
Poland |
POL |
23 |
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| 9 |
9.02.0 |
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Labidi Ayachi |
Tunisia |
TUN |
26 |
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| 10 |
9.15.6 |
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Cahit Önel |
Turkey |
TUR |
36 |
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| 3000 m steeple |
Men |
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Round One Heat Three |
15 October |
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| Rank |
Mark |
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Athlete |
Country |
NOC |
Age |
Records |
Notes |
| 1 |
8.31.8 |
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Adolfas Aleksejūnas |
Soviet Union |
URS |
27 |
OR |
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| 2 |
8.33.8 |
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Gaston Roelants |
Belgium |
BEL |
27 |
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| 3 |
8.45.2 |
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Ernie Pomfret |
Great Britain |
GBR |
23 |
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| 4 |
8.50.2 |
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Jeff Fishback |
United States |
USA |
22 |
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| 5 |
8.51.0 |
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Benjamin Kogo |
Kenya |
KEN |
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| 6 |
8.55.0 |
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Rainer Dörner |
Germany |
GER |
27 |
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| 7 |
8.57.8 |
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Attila Simon |
Hungary |
HUN |
25 |
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| 8 |
8.58.8 |
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Trevor Vincent |
Australia |
AUS |
26 |
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| 9 |
9.04.6 |
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Saburo Yokomizo |
Japan |
JPN |
24 |
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| 10 |
9.18.8 |
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Dilbagh Singh Kler |
Malaysia |
MAS |
28 |
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