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 and August 28, 2007 at the Nagai Stadium in Osaka, Japan.
Medalists
Records
Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.| World record | 7:53.63 | Brussels, Belgium | 3 September 2004 | |
| Championship record | 8:04.16 | Gothenburg, Sweden | 11 August 1995 | |
| World leading | 7:59.42 | Stockholm, Sweden | 7 August 2007 |
Schedule
Results
Heats
Qualification: First 3 in each heat and the next 6 fastest advance to the [|semifinals].| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Tareq Mubarak Taher | 8:19.99 | Q | ||
| 1 | Abdelkader Hachlaf | 8:20.03 | Q | ||
| 1 | Ezekiel Kemboi | 8:20.08 | Q | ||
| 1 | Bouabdellah Tahri | 8:20.09 | q | ||
| 1 | Abubaker Ali Kamal | 8:21.20 | q, SB | ||
| 3 | Brimin Kipruto | 8:21.93 | Q | ||
| 3 | Halil Akkaş | 8:22.37 | Q | ||
| 3 | Mustafa Mohamed | 8:22.80 | Q | ||
| 3 | Ali Ahmed Al-Amri | 8:23.61 | q, SB | ||
| 10 | 3 | Gary Roba | 8:23.98 | q | |
| 11 | 1 | Eliseo Martín | 8:24.49 | q | |
| 12 | 3 | José Luis Blanco | 8:25.00 | q | |
| 13 | 3 | Filmon Ghirmai | 8:25.17 | ||
| 14 | 3 | Boštjan Buč | 8:26.42 | SB | |
| 15 | 3 | Krijn van Koolwijk | 8:29.18 | ||
| 16 | 2 | Richard Mateelong | 8:29.49 | Q | |
| 17 | 2 | Nahom Mesfin Tariku | 8:29.57 | Q | |
| 18 | 2 | Brahim Taleb | 8:29.64 | Q | |
| 19 | 2 | Mircea Bogdan | 8:30.07 | ||
| 20 | 3 | Aaron Aguayo | 8:30.86 | ||
| 21 | 2 | Joshua McAdams | 8:32.46 | ||
| 22 | 2 | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | 8:33.11 | ||
| 23 | 1 | Rabia Makhloufi | 8:33.88 | ||
| 24 | 1 | Bjørnar Ustad Kristensen | 8:34.84 | ||
| 25 | 3 | Vincent Zouaoui Dandrieaux | 8:36.05 | ||
| 26 | 2 | Yoshitaka Iwamizu | 8:36.73 | ||
| 27 | 1 | Ruben Ramolefi | 8:39.50 | ||
| 28 | 1 | Benjamin Kiplagat | 8:40.65 | ||
| 29 | 2 | Zakrya Ali Kamil | 8:41.81 | ||
| 30 | 2 | Itai Maggidi | 8:43.00 | ||
| 31 | 2 | Antonio David Jiménez | 8:50.41 | ||
| 32 | 1 | Henrik Skoog | 8:51.61 | ||
| 33 | 2 | Pieter Desmet | 8:55.99 | ||
| 34 | 1 | Tom Brooks | 8:56.20 | ||
| 35 | 3 | Andrew Lemoncello | 8:58.93 | ||
| 36 | 2 | Youcef Abdi | 9:51.33 | ||
| 1 | Günther Weidlinger | DNF | |||
| 3 | Hamid Ezzine | DNF |