2003 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2003 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadion on 17 and 19 July. ^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Medalists

Gold	Martin Pröll   Austria
Silver	Radosław Popławski   Poland
Bronze	Jukka Keskisalo   Finland

Results

Final

19 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Martin Pröll	Austria	8:25.86	CR
	Radosław Popławski	Poland	8:27.95
	Jukka Keskisalo	Finland	8:28.53
4	Vadym Slobodenyuk	Ukraine	8:29.00
5	Halil Akkaş	Turkey	8:33.68
6	Ion Luchianov	Moldova	8:35.12
7	Raphael Schäfer	Germany	8:35.66
8	Itai Maggidi	Israel	8:43.92
9	Christian Klein	Germany	8:45.22
10	Koen Wilssens	Belgium	8:51.08
11	Romain Arpin	France	8:55.97
	Matteo Villani	Italy	DQ

Heats

17 July
Qualified: first 4 in each heat and 4 best to the Final

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ion Luchianov	Moldova	8:34.68	Q
2	Radosław Popławski	Poland	8:36.07	Q
3	Vadym Slobodenyuk	Ukraine	8:36.13	Q
4	Christian Klein	Germany	8:36.25	Q
5	Koen Wilssens	Belgium	8:38.14	q
6	Romain Arpin	France	8:43.01	q
7	Sergey Berdnik	Belarus	8:45.58
8	Vitalij Gorlukovič	Lithuania	8:45.60
9	Mariusz Giżyński	Poland	8:50.99
10	Erik Emilsson	Sweden	8:51.43
11	Krijn Van Koolwyk	Belgium	8:59.10
12	Jermaine Mays	Great Britain	9:03.30
13	Máté Németh	Hungary	9:04.56
14	Senaid Hasić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	9:23.09
	Adil El Oualidi	France	DNF

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Martin Pröll	Austria	8:37.53	Q
2	Halil Akkaş	Turkey	8:37.57	Q
3	Jukka Keskisalo	Finland	8:39.39	Q
4	Raphael Schäfer	Germany	8:39.64	Q
5	Itai Maggidi	Israel	8:41.87	q
6	Matteo Villani	Italy	8:44.56	q
7	Pieter Desmet	Belgium	8:45.52
8	Adam Bowden	Great Britain	8:51.06
9	Bjørnar Ustad Kristensen	Norway	8:51.93
10	František Zouhar	Czech Republic	8:54.47
11	Steffen Preuk	Germany	9:06.92
12	Mickaël André	France	9:10.50
13	Mircea Bogdan	Romania	9:21.56
	Hristoforos Merousis	Greece	DNF
	Tomasz Szymkowiak	Poland	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 30 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.

•   Austria (1)
•   Belarus (1)
•   Belgium (3)
•   Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
•   Czech Republic (1)
•   Finland (1)
•   France (3)
•   Germany (3)
•   Great Britain (2)
•   Greece (1)
•   Hungary (1)
•   Israel (1)
•   Italy (1)
•   Lithuania (1)
•   Moldova (1)
•   Norway (1)
•   Poland (3)
•   Romania (1)
•   Sweden (1)
•   Turkey (1)
•   Ukraine (1)

References

1. European Athletics U23 Championships Ostrava 2011 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK - 4th European Athletics U23 Championships - Bydgoszcz, Poland 17.-20. 7. 2003 (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 43–55, retrieved 24 October 2014
2. European Championships U23 - Bydgoszcz/POL - 17.-20.07.03 (PDF), sportfieber.pytalhost.com, archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-11-05, retrieved 4 November 2014
3. European Championships U'23 Bydgoszcz 2003 - Zawisza Stadion - 17 - 20 July 2003 - Result lists - As of 17/07/2003 (PDF), European Athletics Association, 17 July 2003, archived from the original on 7 December 2003, retrieved 4 November 2014
4. European Championships U'23 Bydgoszcz 2003 - Zawisza Stadion - 17 - 20 July 2003 - Result lists - As of 19/07/2003 (PDF), European Athletics Association, 19 July 2003, archived from the original on 7 December 2003, retrieved 4 November 2014