Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Alfred Dompert, Volmari Iso-Hollo and Kaarlo Tuominen after the final race
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 3, 1936 (heats) August 8, 1936 (final)
Competitors	28 from 13 nations
Medalists
Volmari Iso-Hollo  Finland Kaarlo Tuominen  Finland Alfred Dompert  Germany

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeple
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	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	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games took place August 3 and August 8. The final was won by Volmari Iso-Hollo of Finland.^[1]

The fastest four runners in each of the three heats advanced to the final round.

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Alfred Dompert	Germany	9:27.2
2	Martti Matilainen	Finland	9:28.4
3	Voldemārs Vītols	Latvia	9:28.8
4	Glen Dawson	United States	9:29.2
5	Tom Evenson	Great Britain	9:41.2
6	Harry Ekman	Sweden	9:43.2
7	Bedřich Hošek	Czechoslovakia
8	Giuseppe Lippi	Italy
9	Roger Cuzol	France

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Volmari Iso-Hollo	Finland	9:34.0
2	Harold Manning	United States	9:34.8
3	Willi Heyn	Germany	9:41.2
4	Harry Holmqvist	Sweden	9:44.4
5	Jenő Szilágyi	Hungary	9:53.4
6	Oscar Van Rumst	Belgium	10:05.0
7	René Desroches	France
8	Václav Hošek	Czechoslovakia
9	Tetsuo Imai	Japan

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kaarlo Tuominen	Finland	9:40.4
2	Joe McCluskey	United States	9:45.2
3	Roger Rérolle	France	9:50.6
4	Lars Larsson	Sweden	9:52.4
5	James Ginty	Great Britain	9:56.6
6	Hideo Tanaka	Japan	10:00.4
7	Bruno Betti	Italy
8	Josef Hušek	Czechoslovakia
9	Ladislaus Simacek	Austria
	Hans Raff	Germany		DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Volmari Iso-Hollo	Finland	9:03.8	WR
	Kaarlo Tuominen	Finland	9:06.8
	Alfred Dompert	Germany	9:07.2
4	Martti Matilainen	Finland	9:09.0
5	Harold Manning	United States	9:11.2
6	Lars Larsson	Sweden	9:16.6
7	Voldemārs Vītols	Latvia	9:18.8
8	Glen Dawson	United States	9:21.1
9	Willi Heyn	Germany	9:26.4
10	Joe McCluskey	United States	9:29.4
11	Roger Rérolle	France	9:40.8
	Harry Holmqvist	Sweden		DNF

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