1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Luciano Di Pardo	Italy	8:26.52	Q
2	1	Mark Ostendarp	Germany	8:26.92	Q
3	1	Jim Svenøy	Norway	8:26.92	Q
4	1	Alessandro Lambruschini	Italy	8:27.05	Q, SB
5	2	Luis Martín	Spain	8:27.31	Q
6	1	Eliseo Martín	Spain	8:27.35	q
7	2	Ramiro Morán	Spain	8:27.46	Q, SB
8	2	Damian Kallabis	Germany	8:27.54	Q
9	2	Rafał Wójcik	Poland	8:27.79	Q
10	2	André Green	Germany	8:27.98	q
11	2	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	8:28.30	q
12	2	Angelo Carosi	Italy	8:28.77	q
13	1	Georgios Giannelis	Greece	8:28.81	PB
14	1	Vincent Le Dauphin	France	8:29.08
15	2	Michael Buchleitner	Austria	8:31.54
16	1	João Junqueira	Portugal	8:32.02
17	2	Mohamed Belabbes	France	8:33.64
18	2	Vítor Almeida	Portugal	8:35.05
19	1	Marcel Laros	Netherlands	8:38.89
20	1	Jan Zakrzewski	Poland	8:40.94
21	2	Panagiotis Papoulias	Greece	8:45.01
22	1	Michał Bartoszak	Poland	8:45.70
23	2	Yaroslav Mushinskiy	Moldova	8:47.27
24	1	Konstantin Tomskiy	Russia	8:49.53
25	2	Ville-Veikko Sainio	Finland	8:52.23
26	2	Stathis Stasi	Cyprus	8:52.65	SB
	1	Günther Weidlinger	Austria	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Damian Kallabis	Germany	8:13.10	PB
	Alessandro Lambruschini	Italy	8:16.70	SB
	Jim Svenøy	Norway	8:18.97
4	Luis Martín	Spain	8:20.54	PB
5	Luciano Di Pardo	Italy	8:20.96
6	Ramiro Morán	Spain	8:24.06	PB
7	Eliseo Martín	Spain	8:26.60
8	Rafał Wójcik	Poland	8:27.74
9	Mark Ostendarp	Germany	8:31.72
10	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	8:41.45
11	André Green	Germany	9:03.17
12	Angelo Carosi	Italy	DNF

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