2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Events at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
10,000 m walk		men		women
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Beijing, China, at Chaoyang Sports Centre on 16 and 19 August.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Willy Komen  Kenya
Silver	Bisluke Kipkorir Kiplagat  Kenya
Bronze	Abdel Ghani Aït Bahmad  Morocco

Results

Final

19 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Willy Komen	Kenya	8:14.00
	Bisluke Kipkorir Kiplagat	Kenya	8:18.11
	Abdel Ghani Aït Bahmad	Morocco	8:20.05
4	Nahom Mesfin	Ethiopia	8:28.29
5	Lin Xiangqian	China	8:30.55
6	Benjamin Kiplagat	Uganda	8:34.14
7	László Tóth	Hungary	8:40.93
8	Saad Salem Malek	Qatar	8:43.60
9	Thamer Kamal Ali	Qatar	8:48.73
10	Ali Al-Amri	Saudi Arabia	8:49.88
11	Vincent Chapuis	France	8:55.10
12	Tareq Mubarak Taher	Bahrain	DQ	IAAF rule 141

Heats

16 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Willy Komen	Kenya	8:33.36	Q
2	Thamer Kamal Ali	Qatar	8:33.66	Q
3	Abdel Ghani Aït Bahmad	Morocco	8:34.64	Q
4	Nahom Mesfin	Ethiopia	8:35.05	Q
5	Benjamin Kiplagat	Uganda	8:35.77	q
6	László Tóth	Hungary	8:49.15	q
7	Tsuyoshi Takeda	Japan	8:51.75
8	José Peña	Venezuela	8:52.36
9	Yoann Kowal	France	8:58.74
10	Igor Chernobay	Russia	8:58.81
11	Yang Le	China	9:05.38
12	Shafat Salad	New Zealand	9:11.16
13	Adem Belir	Turkey	9:12.28
14	Aaron Arias	Mexico	9:13.84
15	Jesús Manuel Cardó	Spain	9:42.32
16	Edwin Molepo	South Africa	9:46.06
17	Alexander Mason	United States	9:51.61

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bisluke Kipkorir Kiplagat	Kenya	8:36.34	Q
2	Lin Xiangqian	China	8:41.10	Q
3	Vincent Chapuis	France	8:45.80	Q
4	Saad Salem Malek	Qatar	8:47.59	q
5	Ali Al-Amri	Saudi Arabia	8:49.53	q
6	Osman Omer	Sudan	8:59.92
7	Mario Bazán	Peru	9:02.33
8	Marvin Blanco	Venezuela	9:02.56
9	Marcus Dillon	Canada	9:10.12
10	Atsuro Kikuchi	Japan	9:12.11
11	Osman Bas	Turkey	9:14.52
12	Alessandro Salsi	Italy	9:23.10
13	Cory Thorne	United States	9:24.10
14	José Luis Galván	Spain	9:24.19
15	Messaoud Hamed	Tunisia	9:31.69
16	Ben Ashkettle	Australia	9:33.86
17	Tareq Mubarak Taher	Bahrain	DQ	IAAF rule 141 Q

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 34 athletes from 25 countries participated in the event.

•  Australia (1)
•  Bahrain (1)
•  Canada (1)
•  China (2)
•  Ethiopia (1)
•  France (2)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Italy (1)
•  Japan (2)
•  Kenya (2)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Morocco (1)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Peru (1)
•  Qatar (2)
•  Russia (1)
•  Saudi Arabia (1)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Spain (2)
•  Sudan (1)
•  Tunisia (1)
•  Turkey (2)
•  Uganda (1)
•  United States (2)
•  Venezuela (2)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2006 Beijing CHN Aug 15-20, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 12 March 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015