Athletics_at_the_1952_Summer_Olympics_–_Men's_3000_metres_steeplechase

Men's 3000 metres steeplechase
at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Men's 3000 metres steeplechase; at the Games of the XV Olympiad
Dates	July 23 (heats); July 25 (final)
Medalists
	← 1948 1956 →

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

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The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games took place July 23 and July 25. The final was won by the American Horace Ashenfelter.^[1]

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Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Vladimir Kazantsev	Soviet Union	8:58.0	OR
2	Günter Heßelmann	Germany	9:05.0
3	Gunnar Tjörnebo	Sweden	9:05.4
4	Cahit Önel	Turkey	9:06.0
5	Jindřich Roudný	Czechoslovakia	9:06.4
6	Kauko Lusenius	Finland	9:26.8
7	Kenneth Johnson	Great Britain	9:27.0
8	Drago Štritof	Yugoslavia	9:28.0
9	Victor Firea	Romania	9:29.2
10	Guillermo Solá	Chile	9:32.2
11	Pierre Prat	France	9:32.8
12	Gulzara Singh Mann	India	9:48.6
	Bill Ashenfelter	United States	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result
1	John Disley	Great Britain	8:59.4
2	Olavi Rinteenpää	Finland	8:59.4
3	József Apró	Hungary	9:00.4
4	Helmut Gude	Germany	9:04.2
5	Fyodor Marulin	Soviet Union	9:08.4
6	Ali Baghbanbashi	Iran	9:13.2
7	Jan Kielas	Poland	9:15.4
8	André Lebrun	France	9:17.8
9	Susumu Takahashi	Japan	9:21.6
10	Božidar Đurašković	Yugoslavia	9:23.2
11	Eric Nilsson	Sweden	9:25.0
12	Browning Ross	United States	9:44.0

Rank	Name	Nationality	Result	Notes
1	Horace Ashenfelter	United States	8:51.0	OR
2	Mikhail Saltykov	Soviet Union	8:55.8
3	Curt Söderberg	Sweden	9:02.4
4	Chris Brasher	Great Britain	9:03.2
5	Urho Julin	Finland	9:09.4
6	László Jeszenszky	Hungary	9:11.2
7	André Paris	France	9:30.0
8	Robert Schoonjans	Belgium	9:30.6
9	Petar Šegedin	Yugoslavia	9:40.2
	Víctorio Solares	Guatemala	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Horace Ashenfelter	United States	8:45.4	WR
	Vladimir Kazantsev	Soviet Union	8:51.6
	John Disley	Great Britain	8:51.8
4	Olavi Rinteenpää	Finland	8:55.2
5	Curt Söderberg	Sweden	8:55.6
6	Günter Hesselmann	Germany	8:55.8
7	Mikhail Saltykov	Soviet Union	8:56.2
8	Helmut Gude	Germany	9:01.4
9	József Apró	Hungary	9:04.2
10	Cahit Önel	Turkey	9:04.4
11	Chris Brasher	Great Britain	9:14.0
12	Gunnar Tjörnebo	Sweden	10:26.4

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase