1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Medalists

1 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Reuben Kosgei	Kenya	8:23.76
	Abraham Cherono	Kenya	8:32.24
	Mustapha Mellouk	Morocco	8:34.91
4	Maru Daba	Ethiopia	8:35.51
5	Chris Dugan	United States	8:38.66
6	Tuomo Lehtinen	Finland	8:41.05
7	Ian Connor	United States	8:42.19
8	Mustafa Mohamed	Sweden	8:42.55
9	Gebremariam Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	8:43.47
10	Henrik Skoog	Sweden	8:44.30
11	Martin Dent	Australia	8:46.66
12	Filmon Ghirmai	Germany	8:53.94

30 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Abraham Cherono	Kenya	8:47.27	Q
2	Ian Connor	United States	8:47.34	Q
3	Henrik Skoog	Sweden	8:55.53	Q
4	Eric Segura	Spain	9:01.89
5	Chris Thompson	United Kingdom	9:07.37
6	Mikael Talasjoki	Finland	9:09.77
7	Kjetil Ramstad	Norway	9:10.64
8	Fethi Meftah	Algeria	9:10.67
9	Jan Bochedi	South Africa	9:23.21
10	Norbert Csorba	Hungary	9:33.17
11	Vaughan Craddock	New Zealand	9:35.83
12	Marcos Silva	Uruguay	9:53.29

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Maru Daba	Ethiopia	8:42.79	Q
2	Reuben Kosgei	Kenya	8:43.07	Q
3	Mustafa Mohamed	Sweden	8:46.27	Q
4	Tuomo Lehtinen	Finland	8:49.49	q
5	Adrián Peña	Spain	8:55.82
6	Lambert Ndayikeza	Burundi	9:06.16
7	Iain Murdoch	United Kingdom	9:07.09
8	Kevin Paulsen	France	9:13.68
9	Juan Carlos de Bastos	Argentina	9:17.96
10	Georg Mlynek	Austria	9:22.32
11	Sofiane Tayane	Algeria	9:44.80
12	Oscar Meza	Paraguay	9:46.34
13	Máté Németh	Hungary	10:01.73

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mustapha Mellouk	Morocco	8:42.94	Q
2	Chris Dugan	United States	8:43.11	Q
3	Filmon Ghirmai	Germany	8:43.15	Q
4	Gebremariam Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	8:43.16	q
5	Martin Dent	Australia	8:48.77	q
6	Jassim Mohamed	United Arab Emirates	8:56.75
7	Pasteur Nyabenda	Burundi	9:05.04
8	Andrey Kuznetsov	Russia	9:07.30
9	Xing Zhonglin	China	9:08.05
10	Laurent Slaviero	France	9:26.46
11	Sakir Kaya	Turkey	9:45.53
	Mahmoud Ibrahim Ali	Qatar	DNF