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Athletics – 3000m steeplechase
  
Stade de France
Event Medal

FORMAT
Two main rounds only – heats and final. 28 fixed barriers and seven water jumps
Laps of track 7.5

ORIGINS
Percy Hodge (GBR) wins Olympic men’s steeplechase in 1920. Women’s event debuts in 2008, with Gulnara Samitova- Galkina (RUS) winning maiden title

LEGACY
Only two athletes have won multiple Olympic steeplechase gold medals

2020 GOLD
Soufiane El Bakkali (MAR) and Peruth Chemutai (UGA)
          
Volmari Iso-Hollo
FIN
1932, 1936

Ezekiel Kemboi
KEN 
2004, 2012

Gulnara Samitova-Galkina 
RUS   
2008
 
Olympic record
Conseslus Kipruto (KEN) Rio de Janeiro 2016 8:03.28
Gulnara Samitova-Galkina (RUS) Beijing 2008 8:58.81
 
World record
Lamecha Girma (ETH) Paris 2023 7:52.11
Beatrice Chepkoech (KEN) Monaco 2018 8:44.32

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