The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 2026 World Athletics U20 Championships was held at Hayward Field in Eugene, United States on 6 and 9 August 2026.
Records U20 standing records prior to the 2026 World Athletics U20 Championships were as follows: Record Athlete & Nationality Mark Location Date World U20 Record 7:58.66 Brussels, Belgium 24 August 2001 Championship Record 8:06.10 Barcelona, Spain 15 July 2012 World U20 Leading 8:01.61 Rabat, Morocco 31 May 2026
Results Round 1 Round 1 took place in the morning session on 6 August 2026.
Heat 1 Place Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Nicholas Kitum Losiwareng 8:45.26 2 Mohamed Ali Hamdi 8:47.76 , 3 Soheib Dissa 8:48.60 , 4 Bakr El Asri 8:48.65 5 Adam Červinka 8:48.67 6 Levin Saveur 8:50.12 7 Michał Gajdus 8:50.45 8 Basile Astier 8:50.78 9 Takumi Sugimoto 8:51.57 10 Haakon Kamlesh Heltzer Sørstad 9:01.03 11 Lars Oeschger 9:02.33 12 Bradley Andrews-Callec 9:08.07 13 Wilmer Santos 9:15.06 14 Mario Francisco Vazquez 9:39.47 15 Afonso Oliveira 9:45.67
Heat 2 Place Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Emmanuel Lemiso Someki 8:47.61 2 Mahfoud Bellal 8:48.48 3 Jeremiah Kwemoi 8:50.27 , 4 Marti Torregrossa 8:52.16 5 Ulrik Jåvoll Hagen 8:52.21 6 Zakaria Touahria 8:53.08 7 Sota Koga 8:53.42 8 Austen Carrera 8:53.45 , 9 Mathis Dubois 8:53.58 10 Dillon Millard 8:54.75 11 Jonathan Neethling 8:59.19 12 Bence Acsádi 9:02.41 13 Leonardo Oliveira 9:08.76 14 Mohamed Ali Zinoubi 9:15.59 15 Siyabonga Mbeleki 9:18.06 16 Marco Voggenreiter 9:19.81
Final The final took place in the afternoon session on 9 August 2026.
Place Athlete Nation Time Notes Bakr El Asri 8:28.35 Emmanuel Lemiso Someki 8:32.81 Nicholas Kitum Losiwareng 8:38.05 4 Marti Torregrossa 8:38.13 5 Adam Červinka 8:44.77 6 Basile Astier 8:48.68 7 Sota Koga 8:49.72 8 Jeremiah Kwemoi 8:49.84 9 Soheib Dissa 8:50.63 10 Levin Saveur 8:50.91 11 Zakaria Touahria 8:51.00 12 Mohamed Ali Hamdi 8:52.82 13 Mohamed Ali Zinoubi 8:53.38 14 Ulrik Jåvoll Hagen 8:58.32 15 Mahfoud Bellal 9:04.54 16 Austen Carrera 9:05.25 — Michał Gajdus
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