2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
# 2016 European Athletics Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

The men's 3000 metre steeplechase at the 2016 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympic Stadium on 6 and 8 July.

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2014 European Athletics Championships :

| World record | Saif Saaeed Shaheen (QAT) | 7:53.63 | Brussels, Belgium | 3 September 2004 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| European record | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad (FRA) | 8:00.09 | Paris, France | 6 July 2013 |
| Championship record | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad (FRA) | 8:07.87 | Barcelona, Spain | 1 August 2010 |
| World Leading | Conseslus Kipruto (KEN) | 8:00.12 | Birmingham, United Kingdom | 5 June 2016 |
| European Leading | Yoann Kowal (FRA) | 8:17.83 | Rome, Italy | 2 June 2016 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| - | - | - |
| 6 July 2016 | 17:55 | Round 1 |
| 8 July 2016 | 21:25 | Final |

All times are local times (UTC+2)

## Results

### Round 1

First 5 in each heat (Q) and 5 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | France | 8:31.42 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Krystian Zalewski | Poland | 8:31.50 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Sebastián Martos | Spain | 8:31.98 | Q, SB |
| 4 | 1 | Rob Mullett | Great Britain | 8:32.06 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Ole Hesselbjerg | Denmark | 8:32.17 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Abdoullah Bamoussa | Italy | 8:32.54 | q, PB |
| 7 | 2 | Aras Kaya | Turkey | 8:33.11 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | Hakan Duvar | Turkey | 8:33.13 | q, SB |
| DQ | 2 | Jamel Chatbi | Italy | 8:33.25 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | Yoann Kowal | France | 8:33.51 | Q |
| 11 | 2 | Fernando Carro | Spain | 8:33.69 | Q, SB |
| 12 | 2 | Kaur Kivistik | Estonia | 8:33.94 | Q, SB |
| 13 | 1 | Abdelaziz Merzoughi | Spain | 8:34.34 | q |
| 14 | 1 | Emil Blomberg | Sweden | 8:34.81 | q, PB |
| 15 | 2 | Yuri Floriani | Italy | 8:34.82 | q |
| 16 | 1 | Tom Erling Kårbø | Norway | 8:42.72 | |
| 17 | 2 | Jeroen D'Hoedt | Belgium | 8:42.75 | |
| 18 | 1 | Tarık Langat Akdağ | Turkey | 8:43.81 | |
| 19 | 2 | Mitko Tsenov | Bulgaria | 8:45.55 | |
| 20 | 2 | Bjørnar Ustad Kristensen | Norway | 8:54.73 | |
| 21 | 2 | Elmar Engholm | Sweden | 8:55.21 | |
| 22 | 2 | Djilali Bedrani | France | 8:57.27 | |
| 23 | 1 | Tomas Cotter | Ireland | 9:08.82 | |
| 24 | 1 | Noam Ne'eman | Israel | 9:15.80 | |
| | 2 | Jakob Dybdal Abrahamsen | Denmark | DNF | |
| | 2 | Vadym Slobodenyuk | Ukraine | DNF | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | France | 8:25.63 | |
| | Aras Kaya | Turkey | 8:29.91 | PB |
| | Yoann Kowal | France | 8:30.79 | |
| 4 | Sebastián Martos | Spain | 8:31.93 | SB |
| DQ | Jamel Chatbi | Italy | 8:32.43 | |
| 5 | Rob Mullett | Great Britain | 8:33.29 | |
| 6 | Kaur Kivistik | Estonia | 8:33.75 | SB |
| 7 | Abdoullah Bamoussa | Italy | 8:35.35 | |
| 8 | Yuri Floriani | Italy | 8:35.94 | |
| 9 | Fernando Carro | Spain | 8:40.73 | |
| 10 | Ole Hesselbjerg | Denmark | 8:42.27 | |
| 11 | Hakan Duvar | Turkey | 8:44.03 | |
| 12 | Emil Blomberg | Sweden | 8:48.98 | |
| 13 | Abdelaziz Merzoughi | Spain | 8:51.37 | |
| | Krystian Zalewski | Poland | DNS | |
