Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	August 1 and August 2, 1932
Competitors	15 from 8 nations
Medalists
Volmari Iso-Hollo   Finland Tom Evenson   Great Britain Joe McCluskey   United States
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The Men's 3000 Metres Steeplechase event at the 1932 Summer Olympics was 3460 metres due to an error in lap counting – the runners did an extra lap of the track. ^{[1] [2]}

Results

Round One

The fastest five athletes in each of the two heats advanced to the Final Round.

Heat One

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tom Evenson	Great Britain	9:18.8	OR, Q
2	Walter Pritchard	United States	9:19.2	Q
3	Verner Toivonen	Finland	9:41.0	Q
4	Giuseppe Lippi	Italy	9:42.0	Q
5	Nello Bartolini	Italy	9:49.0	Q
6	Roger Vigneron	France	9:57.0
-	Luis Oliva	Argentina	DNF

Heat Two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Volmari Iso-Hollo	Finland	9:14.6	OR, Q
2	Joe McCluskey	United States	9:14.8	Q
3	Glen Dawson	United States	9:15.0	Q
4	George Bailey	Great Britain	9:16.0	Q
5	Martti Matilainen	Finland	9:43.0	Q
6	Alfredo Furia	Italy	10:11.0
-	Harold Gallop	Canada	DNF
-	Sonny Murphy	Ireland	DNF

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Volmari Iso-Hollo	Finland	10:33.4
	Tom Evenson	Great Britain	10:46.0
	Joe McCluskey	United States	10:46.2
4	Martti Matilainen	Finland	10:52.4
5	George Bailey	Great Britain	10:53.2
6	Glen Dawson	United States	10:58.0
7	Giuseppe Lippi	Italy	11:04.0
8	Walter Pritchard	United States	11:04.5
9	Verner Toivonen	Finland	11:10.2
10	Nello Bartolini	Italy	11:29.0

References

1. Lynch, Steven. "What was unusual about the 3000-metre steeplechase final at the 1932 Olympics?". www.espn.co.uk. Retrieved June 25, 2012.
2. "Athletics at the 1932 Los Angeles: Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 November 2017.