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

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Men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2019 Pan American Games
VenueAthletics Stadium
DatesAugust 10
Competitors11 from 9 nations
Winning time8:30.73
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Peru.svg  Peru
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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.

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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 record Flag of Qatar.svg  Saif Saaeed Shaheen  (QAT)7:53.63 Brussels, Belgium September 3, 2004
Pan American Games record Flag of Brazil.svg  Wander do Prado Moura  (BRA)8:14.41 Mar del Plata, Argentina March 22, 1995

Schedule

DateTimeRound
August 10, 201916:10 Final

Results

All times shown are in seconds.

KEY:qFastest non-qualifiersQQualifiedNRNational recordPBPersonal bestSBSeasonal bestDQDisqualified

Final

The results were as follows [1]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Altobeli da Silva Flag of Brazil.svg  Brazil 8:30.73SB
Silver medal icon.svg Carlos San Martín Flag of Colombia.svg  Colombia 8:32.24PB
Bronze medal icon.svg Mario Bazán Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 8:32.34
4 Benard Keter Flag of the United States.svg  United States 8:32.76
5 Travis Mahoney Flag of the United States.svg  United States 8:34.77
6 Ryan Smeeton Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 8:41.85
7 Ricardo Estremera Flag of Puerto Rico.svg  Puerto Rico 8:43.03
8 Diego Arévalo Flag of Ecuador.svg  Ecuador 9:01.21
9 José Peña Flag of Venezuela.svg  Venezuela 9:02.04
10 Roberto Tello Flag of Chile.svg  Chile 9:06.33
11 Yuri Labra Flag of Peru.svg  Peru 9:07.97

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References

  1. "Men's 3000 metres steeplechase − Final − Results" (PDF). www.lima2019.pe. Lima Organizing Committee for the 2019 Pan and Parapan American Games (COPAL). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 August 2019. Retrieved 10 Aug 2019.