Athletics at the 1991 Summer Universiade – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1991 Summer Universiade was held at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield on 21 and 23 July 1991.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Shaun Creighton Australia	Akira Nakamura Japan	Gavin Gaynor United States

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Shaun Creighton	Australia	8:33.95	Q
2	2	Akira Nakamura	Japan	8:34.18	Q
3	1	Andreas Fischer	Germany	8:35.09	Q
4	1	Atle Næsheim	Norway	8:35.77	q
5	1	Joël Bourgeois	Canada	8:36.96	q
6	2	Arto Kuusisto	Finland	8:39.41	Q
7	3	Gavin Gaynor	United States	8:39.50	Q
8	1	Ray Pugsley	United States	8:39.96	q
9	2	Henry Klassen	Canada	8:40.13	q
10	3	Jon Azkueta	Spain	8:41.21	Q
11	1	Andrea Bello	Italy	8:41.51	q
12	2	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria	8:42.03	q
13	3	Raphaël Guegano	France	8:42.31
14	3	Angelo Giardiello	Italy	8:43.69
15	2	Inocencio López	Spain	8:45.13
16	2	Vule Maksimović	Yugoslavia	8:45.48
17	3	Christian Stang	Germany	8:47.18
18	2	Hamid Sajjadi	Iran	8:48.39
19	1	David Lee	Great Britain	8:49.46
20	3	José Negrão	Portugal	8:59.45
21	3	Ahmet Çetinbaş	Turkey	8:59.66
22	3	John Kihonge	Kenya	9:06.79
23	2	Mohamed El-Mesbahi	Morocco	9:10.66
24	1	Peter Mwangi	Kenya	9:20.31
25	1	Samuel Huwae	Indonesia	9:24.50
	2	Spencer Duval	Great Britain	DNF

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Shaun Creighton	Australia	8:32.30
	Akira Nakamura	Japan	8:33.50
	Gavin Gaynor	United States	8:34.21
4	Jon Azkueta	Spain	8:34.91
5	Joël Bourgeois	Canada	8:38.82
6	Arto Kuusisto	Finland	8:44.97
7	Azzedine Sakhri	Algeria	8:45.28
8	Andreas Fischer	Germany	8:48.81
9	Ray Pugsley	United States	8:50.75
10	Henry Klassen	Canada	8:52.90
11	Andrea Bello	Italy	8:59.38
	Atle Næsheim	Norway	DNF