Athletics at the 2019 Pan American Games – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase explained

Event:Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
Games:2019
Venue:Athletics Stadium
Dates:August 10
Competitors:11
Nations:9
Win Value:8:30.73
Win Label:Winning time
Gold:Altobeli da Silva
Goldnoc:BRA
Silver:Carlos San Martín
Silvernoc:COL
Bronze:Mario Bazán
Bronzenoc:PER
Prev:2015
Next:2023

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase competition of the athletics events at the 2019 Pan American Games took place the 10 August at the 2019 Pan American Games Athletics Stadium. The defending Pan American Games champion is Matthew Hughes from Canada.

Summary

Benard Keter took the lead on the first lap. After the second barrier, Altobeli da Silva moved out from the middle of the pack to take the point. Ryan Smeeton followed for the next five laps as others fell off the pace. The crowd was enthusiastic as home town Mario Bazán stayed in the lead group throughout. On the penultimate lap, Travis Mahoney came forward to take the lead down the backstretch and over the water jump. da Silva again took the lead, with Keter moving up to mark. At the bell, the last in the lead group Carlos San Martín began to move forward. Smeeton fell oner the barrier before the backstretch. As Sanmartín moved past Bazán on the backstretch, he picked up a trailer. Both passed Mahoney before the final water jump and were in a race for the bronze medal still 5 meters back of Keter. Still four meters behind at the final barrier, the two made a shoulder to shoulder sprint, past Keter into the finish with Sanmartín having a slight edge he held to take silver.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record7:53.63Brussels, BelgiumSeptember 3, 2004
Pan American Games record8:14.41Mar del Plata, ArgentinaMarch 22, 1995

Results

All times shown are in seconds.

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Final

The results were as follows[1]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
8:30.73 SB
8:32.24 PB
8:32.34
4 8:32.76
5 8:34.77
6 8:41.85
7 8:43.03
8 9:01.21
9 9:02.04
10 9:06.33
11 9:07.97

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Men's 3000 metres steeplechase − Final − Results. www.lima2019.pe. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). 10 Aug 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190811072937/https://wrsd.lima2019.pe/PAG2019/resPAG2019/pdf/PAG2019/ATH/PAG2019_ATH_C73G_ATHM3000MST-----------FNL-000100--.pdf. 11 August 2019. dead.