# 2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

The Men's 3.000 metres Steeplechase event at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics took place on August 26, 2007 (heats) and August 28, 2007 (final) at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Brimin Kipruto Kenya | Ezekiel Kemboi Kenya | Richard Mateelong Kenya |

## Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.
| World record | Saif Saaeed Shaheen (QAT) | 7:53.63 | Brussels, Belgium | 3 September 2004 |
| Championship record | Moses Kiptanui (KEN) | 8:04.16 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 11 August 1995 |
| World leading | Paul Kipsiele Koech (KEN) | 7:59.42 | Stockholm, Sweden | 7 August 2007 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| August 26, 2007 | 10:00 | Heats |
| August 28, 2007 | 20:55 | Final |

## Results

| KEY: | q | Fastest non-qualifiers | Q | Qualified | WR | World record | AR | Area record | NR | National record | PB | Personal best | SB | Seasonal best |

### Heats

Qualification: First 3 in each heat(Q) and the next 6 fastest(q) advance to the semifinals.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Tareq Mubarak Taher | Bahrain | 8:19.99 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Abdelkader Hachlaf | Morocco | 8:20.03 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Ezekiel Kemboi | Kenya | 8:20.08 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Bouabdellah Tahri | France | 8:20.09 | q |
| 5 | 1 | Abubaker Ali Kamal | Qatar | 8:21.20 | q, SB |
| 6 | 3 | Brimin Kipruto | Kenya | 8:21.93 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | Halil Akkaş | Turkey | 8:22.37 | Q |
| 8 | 3 | Mustafa Mohamed | Sweden | 8:22.80 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | Ali Ahmed Al-Amri | Saudi Arabia | 8:23.61 | q, SB |
| 10 | 3 | Gary Roba | Ethiopia | 8:23.98 | q |
| 11 | 1 | Eliseo Martín | Spain | 8:24.49 | q |
| 12 | 3 | José Luis Blanco | Spain | 8:25.00 | q |
| 13 | 3 | Filmon Ghirmai | Germany | 8:25.17 | |
| 14 | 3 | Boštjan Buč | Slovenia | 8:26.42 | SB |
| 15 | 3 | Krijn van Koolwijk | Belgium | 8:29.18 | |
| 16 | 2 | Richard Mateelong | Kenya | 8:29.49 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | Nahom Mesfin Tariku | Ethiopia | 8:29.57 | Q |
| 18 | 2 | Brahim Taleb | Morocco | 8:29.64 | Q |
| 19 | 2 | Mircea Bogdan | Romania | 8:30.07 | |
| 20 | 3 | Aaron Aguayo | United States | 8:30.86 | |
| 21 | 2 | Joshua McAdams | United States | 8:32.46 | |
| 22 | 2 | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | France | 8:33.11 | |
| 23 | 1 | Rabia Makhloufi | Algeria | 8:33.88 | |
| 24 | 1 | Bjørnar Ustad Kristensen | Norway | 8:34.84 | |
| 25 | 3 | Vincent Zouaoui Dandrieaux | France | 8:36.05 | |
| 26 | 2 | Yoshitaka Iwamizu | Japan | 8:36.73 | |
| 27 | 1 | Ruben Ramolefi | South Africa | 8:39.50 | |
| 28 | 1 | Benjamin Kiplagat | Uganda | 8:40.65 | |
| 29 | 2 | Zakrya Ali Kamil | Qatar | 8:41.81 | |
| 30 | 2 | Itai Maggidi | Israel | 8:43.00 | |
| 31 | 2 | Antonio David Jiménez | Spain | 8:50.41 | |
| 32 | 1 | Henrik Skoog | Sweden | 8:51.61 | |
| 33 | 2 | Pieter Desmet | Belgium | 8:55.99 | |
| 34 | 1 | Tom Brooks | United States | 8:56.20 | |
| 35 | 3 | Andrew Lemoncello | United Kingdom | 8:58.93 | |
| 36 | 2 | Youcef Abdi | Australia | 9:51.33 | |
| | 1 | Günther Weidlinger | Austria | | DNF |
| | 3 | Hamid Ezzine | Morocco | | DNF |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Brimin Kipruto | Kenya | 8:13.82 | |
| | Ezekiel Kemboi | Kenya | 8:16.94 | |
| | Richard Mateelong | Kenya | 8:17.59 | |
| 4 | Mustafa Mohamed | Sweden | 8:19.82 | |
| 5 | Bouabdellah Tahri | France | 8:20.27 | |
| 6 | Halil Akkaş | Turkey | 8:22.51 | |
| 7 | Eliseo Martín | Spain | 8:22.91 | SB |
| 8 | Tareq Mubarak Taher | Bahrain | 8:22.95 | |
| 9 | Abdelkader Hachlaf | Morocco | 8:24.18 | |
| 10 | Gary Roba | Ethiopia | 8:25.93 | |
| 11 | Abubaker Ali Kamal | Qatar | 8:26.90 | |
| 12 | Nahom Mesfin Tariku | Ethiopia | 8:28.86 | |
| | Brahim Taleb | Morocco | | DSQ |
| | José Luis Blanco | Spain | | DSQ |
| | Ali Ahmed Al-Amri | Saudi Arabia | | DNF |