2014 European Athletics Championships - 3000m hurdling (men)

Before the start of the competition, the following records were in force.

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Designations: Q - Automatic Qualification | q - Qualification for the result shown | WR - World Record | ER - European Record | CR - European Championship Record | NR - National Record | NUR - National Youth Record | EL - The best result of the season in Europe | PB - Personal Record | SB - The best result of the season | DNS - Not Started | DNF - Not Finished | DQ - Disqualified

Preliminaries

Qualification: the first 5 athletes in each race (Q) plus the top 5 in time (q) went to the finals ^[1] .
At the start in 2 races came 28 athletes.

^a Turkish runner Hakan Duvar was disqualified for 4 years in August 2018. Based on the biological passport indicators, it was concluded that the athlete used doping. All his performances from August 11, 2014 were canceled, including at the 2014 European Championship ^[2] .

Final

The men's 3000m hurdle final was held on August 14, 2014. The race for the most part took place in a tactical manner with a relatively low speed. The participants left the main showdown for medals in the last round. The expected breakthrough of the current European champion, Frenchman Mahidin Mehissi-Benabbad, was as expected no one could support, which allowed him to start the celebration of victory 100 meters before the finish. In a fit of joy, at the finish line he took off his shirt and ended the distance with a bare torso. The chief judge of the competitions considered this behavior unsportsmanlike and showed me a yellow card at the stadium at Mehissi-Benabbad. A little later, the Spaniards filed a protest against the final results, whose representative Angel Muliera became the fourth. The subject of the proceedings was the fact that the Frenchman finished without a T-shirt and badge, which is a violation of paragraphs 143.1 and 143.7 of the IAAF rules governing competition clothing and shoes. The protest was satisfied, Mehissi-Benabbad was deprived of gold, which passed to his teammate Joanne Koval . Muliera eventually received bronze ^[3] .

• European Athletics Championships - 3000m Steeplechase Men . EA . - The results of the competitions on the website of the European Athletics Association. Date of treatment October 21, 2014. Archived on August 19, 2014.