The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place August 1 & August 4.
Results
Heats
Heat 1
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Ville Ritola 9:46.6 Q 2 Melvin Dalton 9:58.6 Q 3 Nils Eklöf Q 4 Walter Gegan 5 Henry Oliver 6 Nello Bartolini 7 Jozef Langenus 8 Art Keay
Key: Q = Qualified
Heat 2
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Paavo Nurmi 9:58.8 Q 2 Lucien Duquesne 9:58.9 Q 3 William Spencer Q 4 Norman Biddulph 5 Edgard Viseur 6 Henrique Santos Gerry Coughlan DNF
Key: DNF = Did not finish, Q = Qualified
Heat 3
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Toivo Loukola 9:37.6 Q 2 Ove Andersen Q 3 Henri Dartigues Q 4 Jean-Gunnar Lindgren 5 Vernon Morgan 6 Joe Blewitt 7 Jesse Montgomery
Key: Q = Qualified
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Toivo Loukola 9:21.8 WR Paavo Nurmi 9:31.2 Ove Andersen 9:35.6 4 Nils Eklöf 9:38.0 5 Henri Dartigues 9:40.0 6 Lucien Duquesne 9:40.5 7 Melvin Dalton 8 William Spencer Ville Ritola DNF
Key: DNF = Did not finish, WR = World record
References