The 3000 metres steeplechase or 3000-meter steeplechase is the most common distance for the steeplechase in track and field. It is an obstacle race over the distance of the 3000 metres, which derives its name from the horse racing steeplechase.
Milcah Chemos Cheywa is a runner from Kenya who specialises in 3000 metres steeplechase. She was, until 2015, African record holder at the distance and is the gold medalist of the 2013 World Championships in Athletics.
Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal is a Norwegian middle-, long-distance and steeplechase runner. She is a European Championships gold medallist in half marathon, silver medallist in 5000 metres and bronze medallist in 10,000 metres and 3000 metres steeplechase. Grøvdal is a four-time Olympian and represented Norway at the 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024 Olympic Games.
Hyvin Kiyeng Jepkemoi is a Kenyan steeplechase runner. She won gold at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics and 2011 All-Africa Games, and bronze at the 2017 World Championships and 2012 African Championships in Athletics. At the Olympic Games, she won silver in Rio de Janeiro and bronze in Tokyo. As of August 2021, her personal best time of 9:00.01 ranks her 6th on the world all-time list.
The 3000 metres steeplechase has been held as an event at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics in the men's division since 1983 and in the women's division since 2005. It can be noted for a series of lengthy winning streaks in the men's division, where Kenyan born athletes have won every championship between 1991 and 2019. Moses Kiptanui won three in a row between 1987 and 1995, Saif Saaeed Shaheen, born Steven Cherono, won two in 2003 and 2005. The longest winning streak in any event in the World Championships, is four in a row by Ezekiel Kemboi, between 2009 and 2015. More remarkably, Kemboi prefaced that streak with a streak of three silver medals between 2003 and 200. 2007 champion Brimin Kipruto has a complete set of medals, including two bronze. Kenya has also fared well in the women's division winning 9 of the 21 medals issued to date. 2013 women's champion Milcah Chemos Cheywa also has a complete set of medals.
Lamecha Girma is an Ethiopian athlete who specialises in the 3,000 metres steeplechase. He is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medallist in the event and won silver medals at the 2019, 2022 and 2023 World Athletics Championships. Lamecha also won a silver in the 3,000 metres at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. He is the world indoor record holder for the 3,000 metres, which was set in February 2023. In June 2023 at the Meeting de Paris of the Diamond League, he broke the world record for the men's 3,000 metres steeplechase.
Caroline Chepkurui is a Kenyan steeplechase runner. She was the 2006 World Junior and 2007 World Youth champion in the steeplechase, the former of which was done at age 16 running barefoot.
Justus Soget is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner. He was the bronze medalist at the 2018 World U20 Championships in the men's 1500 metres.
Oskar Edlund is a Swedish hurdler specializing in the 400 metres hurdles. He was for a moment the gold medalist at the 2021 World U20 Championships, but he was later disqualified due to a protest.
Flavie Renouard is a French steeplechase runner specializing in the 3000 metres steeplechase. She is the 2021 French Athletics Championships winner and a gold medallist at the 2022 Mediterranean Athletics U23 Championships and 2021 European U23 Championships. Her time of 9:19.07 at the 2023 Anniversary Games qualified her for the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Winnie Jemutai Boinett is a Kenyan middle- and long-distance runner as well as a steeplechase runner. She was the bronze medallist in the 1500 m at the 2021 World U20 Championships, and in 2023 she returned to racing setting the #3 all-time mark in the outdoor 2000 metres steeplechase.
Cara Feain-Ryan is an Australian steeplechase runner. She was the gold medallist over 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2023 World University Games, and her best of 9:29.60 ranks her 6th all-time amongst Australians.
Aude Clavier is a French steeplechase runner. She won a bronze medal for France at the 2023 European U23 Championships in the 3000 metres steeplechase, and she finished runner-up behind Alice Finot at the 2023 French Indoor Championships over 3000 metres.
Frehiwot Gesese Ayana is an Ethiopian steeplechase runner. She won a silver medal in the 2000 metres steeplechase at the 2023 African U18 Championships, and she was 5th at the African Games in 2024.
Sheena Gooding is a Bajan middle-distance runner specializing in the 800 metres. She is a three-time Athletics Association of Barbados national champion in the event and she has represented Barbados at the 2002 Commonwealth Games and 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships.
Mariandrée Chacón, also spelled Mariandre Chacón, is a Guatemalan sprinter specializing in the 100 metres and 200 metres. She is a multiple-time Central American Championships in Athletics winner and she was chosen to represent Guatemala in the 100 metres at the 2024 Summer Olympics.
Angel Perkins-McLean is an American former hurdler and sprinter specializing in the 400 metres and the 2008 World Athletics Indoor Championships bronze medalist in the 4 × 400 m relay. As a prep, she won gold medals at the 2001 World U18 Championships in the 200 m and medley relay, and was described as among the best high school sprinters ever in the 100 m and 200 m. While competing for the Baylor Bears track and field team, she went on to win medals at both the Pan American junior and senior athletics championships before earning World Indoor bronze in 2008.
Kimberly Wall is an English former sprinter specializing in the 400 metres and the 2010 World Athletics Indoor Championships bronze medalist in the 4 × 400 m relay. She also won eight continental medals throughout her career, mostly as a member of the British 4 × 400 m relay team which spanned from the 1990s through her retirement in 2012. She was controversially not selected for the four-woman British 4 × 400 m team at the 2012 Summer Olympics despite finishing 4th at that year's national championships.
Alina Andreea Zaizan is a Romanian former sprinter specializing in the 400 metres and the 2012 World Athletics Indoor Championships bronze medalist in the 4 × 400 m relay. Her team originally crossed the line in 5th, but Ukraine and Russia were both later disqualified, giving Romania its second-ever World Indoor women's 4 × 400 m medal. She was also a ten-time Balkan Athletics Championships and Balkan Indoor Athletics Championships medallist in multiple sprinting disciplines.
Johnny Brackins Jr. is an American long jumper and hurdler and the 2024 USA Indoor Track and Field Championships winner in the long jump. Brackins was a former U.S. U20 champion in the long jump and bronze medallist in the 4 × 100 m at the 2022 World Athletics U20 Championships. Representing the USC Trojans, Brackins also finished runner-up in the 60 meter hurdles at the 2024 NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships.
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