1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held at the Népstadion on 20 and 23 August.

Medalists edit

Gold	Damian Kallabis Germany
Silver	Alessandro Lambruschini Italy
Bronze	Jim Svenøy Norway

KEY:	q	Fastest non-qualifiers	Q	Qualified	NR	National record	PB	Personal best	SB	Seasonal best

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Luciano Di Pardo	Italy	8:26.52	Q
2	1	Mark Ostendarp	Germany	8:26.92	Q
3	1	Jim Svenøy	Norway	8:26.92	Q
4	1	Alessandro Lambruschini	Italy	8:27.05	Q, SB
5	2	Luis Martín	Spain	8:27.31	Q
6	1	Eliseo Martín	Spain	8:27.35	q
7	2	Ramiro Morán	Spain	8:27.46	Q, SB
8	2	Damian Kallabis	Germany	8:27.54	Q
9	2	Rafał Wójcik	Poland	8:27.79	Q
10	2	André Green	Germany	8:27.98	q
11	2	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	8:28.30	q
12	2	Angelo Carosi	Italy	8:28.77	q
13	1	Georgios Giannelis	Greece	8:28.81	PB
14	1	Vincent Le Dauphin	France	8:29.08
15	2	Michael Buchleitner	Austria	8:31.54
16	1	João Junqueira	Portugal	8:32.02
17	2	Mohamed Belabbes	France	8:33.64
18	2	Vítor Almeida	Portugal	8:35.05
19	1	Marcel Laros	Netherlands	8:38.89
20	1	Jan Zakrzewski	Poland	8:40.94
21	2	Panagiotis Papoulias	Greece	8:45.01
22	1	Michał Bartoszak	Poland	8:45.70
23	2	Yaroslav Mushinskiy	Moldova	8:47.27
24	1	Konstantin Tomskiy	Russia	8:49.53
25	2	Ville-Veikko Sainio	Finland	8:52.23
26	2	Stathis Stasi	Cyprus	8:52.65	SB
	1	Günther Weidlinger	Austria	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Damian Kallabis	Germany	8:13.10	PB
	Alessandro Lambruschini	Italy	8:16.70	SB
	Jim Svenøy	Norway	8:18.97
4	Luis Martín	Spain	8:20.54	PB
5	Luciano Di Pardo	Italy	8:20.96
6	Ramiro Morán	Spain	8:24.06	PB
7	Eliseo Martín	Spain	8:26.60
8	Rafał Wójcik	Poland	8:27.74
9	Mark Ostendarp	Germany	8:31.72
10	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	8:41.45
11	André Green	Germany	9:03.17
12	Angelo Carosi	Italy	DNF