# 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 2000 metres steeplechase

The boys' 2000 metres steeplechase at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 10 and 12 July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Meresa Kahsay Ethiopia | Nicholas Kiptanui Bett Kenya | Justus Lagat Kenya |

## Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.
| World Youth Best | Nabil Ouhaddi (MAR) | 5:21.36 | Rabat, Morocco | 16 July 2006 |
| Championship Record | Abel Mutai (KEN) | 5:24.69 | Marrakech, Morocco | 15 July 2005 |
| World Youth Leading | Nicholas Kiptanui Bett (KEN) | 5:29.2 | Nairobi, Kenya | 11 June 2013 |

## Heats

Qualification rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 6 fastest times (q) qualified.

### Heat 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Meresa Kahsay | Ethiopia | 5:45.10 | Q |
| 2 | Hiroshi Yanokura | Japan | 5:53.85 | Q |
| 3 | Patrick Karl | Germany | 5:55.54 | Q |
| 4 | Mateusz Kaczmarek | Poland | 5:56.46 | q |
| 5 | Haran Dunderdale | Great Britain | 5:56.78 | q |
| 6 | Ben Preisner | Canada | 5:57.60 | |
| 7 | Ömer Tuncer | Turkey | 6:03.96 | PB |
| 8 | Michal Talán | Slovakia | 6:07.03 | PB |
| 9 | Luca Sinn | Austria | 6:07.87 | |
| 10 | Bohdan Shkilnyuk | Ukraine | 6:12.22 | |
| 11 | Samuel Abascal | Spain | 6:13.83 | |
| 12 | Dávid Major | Hungary | 6:14.01 | |
| 13 | Danny Guamán | Ecuador | 6:14.54 | |
| | Salama Modihi | Egypt | DNS | |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Nicholas Kiptanui Bett | Kenya | 5:44.69 | Q |
| 2 | Hicham Chemlal | Morocco | 5:45.84 | Q, PB |
| 3 | Soufien Cherni | Tunisia | 5:50.82 | Q, PB |
| 4 | Tobias Wolter | Canada | 5:51.03 | q, PB |
| 5 | Mohamed Elnazir Ramadan | Qatar | 5:55.83 | q, PB |
| 6 | Andreas Jansson | Sweden | 5:56.04 | q |
| 7 | Ruan Meintjies | South Africa | 6:03.49 | |
| 8 | Patryk Blaszczyk | Poland | 6:04.97 | |
| 9 | Francisco Reyes | Mexico | 6:08.74 | |
| 10 | Giulio Perpetuo | Italy | 6:13.87 | |
| 11 | Serhiy Shevchenko | Ukraine | 6:14.33 | |
| 12 | Julián Sánchez-Pinto | Spain | 6:15.22 | |
| 13 | Rareș Popescu | Romania | 6:15.83 | |
| 14 | Bandula Withanage | Sri Lanka | 6:29.32 | |
| | Nabil El-Hannachi | Algeria | DQ | |

### Heat 3

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Justus Lagat | Kenya | 5:35.22 | Q, PB |
| 2 | Micheale Atsbaha | Ethiopia | 5:39.97 | Q |
| 3 | Filip Sasínek | Czech Republic | 5:45.03 | Q, PB |
| 4 | Bailey Roth | United States | 5:45.20 | q, PB |
| 5 | Konstadinos Migas | Greece | 5:58.30 | |
| 6 | Said Ettaqy | Italy | 6:01.49 | |
| 7 | Weverton Fidelis | Brazil | 6:01.58 | |
| 8 | Daniel Reyes | Mexico | 6:03.11 | PB |
| 9 | Jonnathan Mogroviejo | Ecuador | 6:04.32 | |
| 10 | Matthew Axe | Great Britain | 6:05.28 | |
| 11 | Islam Amangos | Kazakhstan | 6:13.15 | |
| 12 | Luis de la Cruz | Peru | 6:32.10 | |
| 13 | Darius Cristea | Romania | 6:33.22 | |
| 14 | Hansajith Mudiyanselage | Sri Lanka | 6:38.63 | |

## Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Meresa Kahsay | Ethiopia | 5:19.99 | WYB |
| | Nicholas Kiptanui Bett | Kenya | 5:20.92 | PB |
| | Justus Lagat | Kenya | 5:30.00 | PB |
| 4 | Hicham Chemlal | Morocco | 5:32.92 | PB |
| 5 | Micheale Atsbaha | Ethiopia | 5:36.64 | PB |
| 6 | Hiroshi Yanokura | Japan | 5:42.16 | PB |
| 7 | Bailey Roth | United States | 5:45.87 | |
| 8 | Filip Sasínek | Czech Republic | 5:47.90 | |
| 9 | Mohamed Elnazir Ramadan | Qatar | 5:49.79 | PB |
| 10 | Patrick Karl | Germany | 5:49.96 | PB |
| 11 | Soufien Cherni | Tunisia | 5:50.31 | PB |
| 12 | Tobias Wolter | Canada | 5:52.36 | |
| 13 | Andreas Jansson | Sweden | 5:52.44 | PB |
| 14 | Haran Dunderdale | Great Britain | 5:56.23 | |
| 15 | Mateusz Kaczmarek | Poland | 5:58.18 | |