1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	William Chemitei	Kenya	8:41.61
	Matthew Birir	Kenya	8:44.54
	Arto Kuusisto	Finland	8:46.42
4	Wander Moura	Brazil	8:48.16
5	Leonid Shvetsov	Soviet Union	8:51.01
6	Savino Tondo	Italy	8:56.66
7	Burgas Yordanov	Bulgaria	9:00.65
8	Kim Bauermeister	West Germany	9:01.19
9	Sérgio Ribeiro	Brazil	9:01.97
10	Rorri Currie	Canada	9:04.71
11	Horst Vangermain	East Germany	9:04.96
12	Jason Martin	United States	9:04.96
13	Simretu Alemayehu	Ethiopia	9:05.56
14	Markku Kyyrönen	Finland	9:06.57
15	Vittorio Formenti	Italy	9:08.04

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Vittorio Formenti	Italy	9:03.05	Q
2	Simretu Alemayehu	Ethiopia	9:03.97	Q
3	Arto Kuusisto	Finland	9:07.23	Q
4	Leonid Shvetsov	Soviet Union	9:12.01	Q
5	Spencer Duval	United Kingdom	9:14.65
6	Romain Berthier	France	9:26.20
7	Chad Findley	United States	9:36.40
8	Geir Skari	Norway	9:40.85
9	Hiroyuki Itabashi	Japan	9:51.29
10	Mathevan Maran	Singapore	10:05.18
	Oto Oreško	Czechoslovakia	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Matthew Birir	Kenya	8:54.51	Q
2	Wander Moura	Brazil	9:05.62	Q
3	Horst Vangermain	East Germany	9:07.73	Q
4	Sérgio Ribeiro	Brazil	9:08.74	Q
5	Rorri Currie	Canada	9:08.76	q
6	Bruno Saulnier	France	9:14.44
7	Michael Buchleitner	Austria	9:18.29
8	Greg Collier	Australia	9:19.19
9	Lars Richter	West Germany	9:31.12
10	Michael Johnston	New Zealand	9:39.46
11	Juan Carlos Salcedo	Spain	9:56.71

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	William Chemitei	Kenya	8:53.89	Q
2	Savino Tondo	Italy	9:04.59	Q
3	Burgas Yordanov	Bulgaria	9:05.40	Q
4	Kim Bauermeister	West Germany	9:07.77	Q
5	Jason Martin	United States	9:10.60	q
6	Markku Kyyrönen	Finland	9:12.14	q
7	Carlos Pinto	Portugal	9:22.51
8	Douglas Rountree	New Zealand	9:24.65
9	Maciej Pawlowski	Poland	9:35.14
10	Alfredo Nuñez	Dominican Republic	9:37.45
11	David Paul	Canada	9:44.81

Medalists