Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Dates	August 1, 1928 (heats) August 4, 1928 (final)
Competitors	22
Medalists
Toivo Loukola  Finland Paavo Nurmi  Finland Ove Andersen  Finland

Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place August 1 & August 4.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ville Ritola	Finland	9:46.6	Q
2	Melvin Dalton	United States	9:58.6	Q
3	Nils Eklöf	Sweden		Q
4	Walter Gegan	United States
5	Henry Oliver	Great Britain
6	Nello Bartolini	Italy
7	Jozef Langenus	Belgium
8	Art Keay	Canada

Key: Q = Qualified

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Paavo Nurmi	Finland	9:58.8	Q
2	Lucien Duquesne	France	9:58.9	Q
3	William Spencer	United States		Q
4	Norman Biddulph	Great Britain
5	Edgard Viseur	Belgium
6	Henrique Santos	Portugal
	Gerry Coughlan	Ireland		DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, Q = Qualified

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Toivo Loukola	Finland	9:37.6	Q
2	Ove Andersen	Finland		Q
3	Henri Dartigues	France		Q
4	Jean-Gunnar Lindgren	Sweden
5	Vernon Morgan	Great Britain
6	Joe Blewitt	Great Britain
7	Jesse Montgomery	United States

Key: Q = Qualified

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Toivo Loukola	Finland	9:21.8	WR
	Paavo Nurmi	Finland	9:31.2
	Ove Andersen	Finland	9:35.6
4	Nils Eklöf	Sweden	9:38.0
5	Henri Dartigues	France	9:40.0
6	Lucien Duquesne	France	9:40.5
7	Melvin Dalton	United States
8	William Spencer	United States
	Ville Ritola	Finland		DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish, WR = World record