Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Tore Sjöstrand
Dates	3 August 1948 (heats) 5 August 1948 (final)
Medalists
Tore Sjöstrand  Sweden Erik Elmsäter  Sweden Göte Hagström  Sweden

Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
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 steeplechase
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
10 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1948 Summer Olympic Games took place on 3 and 5 August. The final was won by Swede Tore Sjöstrand. Sjöstrand's compatriots, Erik Elmsäter and Göte Hagström took 2nd and 3rd place.^[1]

Prior to the competition, the existing Olympic records was as follows.

Volmari Iso-Hollo (FIN)

Olympic record

9:03.8

Berlin, Germany

8 August 1936

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Round 1 was held on 3 August. The first four runners from each heat advanced to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Erik Elmsäter	Sweden	9:15.0	Q
2	Alexandre Guyodo	France	9:17.2	Q
3	Pentti Siltaloppi	Finland	9:22.4	Q
4	Constantino Miranda	Spain	9:24.2	Q
5	Đorđe Stefanović	Yugoslavia	9:39.6
6	John Doms	Belgium	9:41.8
7	Peter Curry	Great Britain
8	Bob McMillen	United States
9	Vasilios Mavrapostolos	Greece

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Raphaël Pujazon	France	9:20.8	Q
2	Göte Hagström	Sweden	9:22.6	Q
3	Petar Šegedin	Yugoslavia	9:25.0	Q
4	Browning Ross	United States	9:30.4	Q
5	Alf Olesen	Denmark	9:33.6
6	Lucien Theys	Belgium	9:37.4
7	Mustafa Özcan	Turkey	(9:38.4est)
8	Paavo Toivari	Finland
9	Geoffrey Tudor	Great Britain

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
1	Tore Sjöstrand	Sweden	9:21.0	Q
2	Aarne Kainlauri	Finland	9:25.8	Q
3	Robert Everaert	Belgium	9:26.4	Q
4	Roger Chesneau	France	9:27.6	Q
5	Cahit Önel	Turkey	9:28.4
6	Whitey Overton	United States	10:14.4
7	Rene Howell	Great Britain
8	Paul Frieden	Luxembourg

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Tore Sjöstrand	Sweden	9:04.6
	Erik Elmsäter	Sweden	9:08.2
	Göte Hagström	Sweden	9:11.8
4	Alexandre Guyodo	France	9:13.6
5	Pentti Siltaloppi	Finland	9:19.6
6	Petar Šegedin	Yugoslavia	9:20.4
7	Browning Ross	United States	9:24.1
8	Constantino Miranda	Spain	9:26.6
9	Robert Everaert	Belgium	9:28.2
10	Aarne Kainlauri	Finland	9:29.0
11	Roger Chesneau	France	9:30.2
	Raphaël Pujazon	France		DNF

Key: DNF = Did not finish

• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.