2005 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

Final

16 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Radosław Popławski	Poland	8:32.61
	Halil Akkaş	Turkey	8:37.38
	Pieter Desmet	Belgium	8:41.07
4	Mark Buckingham	United Kingdom	8:41.26
5	Anatoliy Harkovets	Ukraine	8:42.91
6	Luke Gunn	United Kingdom	8:43.79
7	Tomasz Szymkowiak	Poland	8:48.25
8	Norbert Löwa	Germany	8:49.77
9	Christian Klein	Germany	8:50.63
10	Valērijs Žolnerovičs	Latvia	8:52.34
11	Łukasz Parszczyński	Poland	8:54.55
12	Abdelhakim Zilali	France	9:07.00

Heats

14 July
Qualified: first 4 in each heat and 4 best to the Final

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mark Buckingham	United Kingdom	8:43.20	Q
2	Halil Akkaş	Turkey	8:43.36	Q
3	Christian Klein	Germany	8:44.13	Q
4	Pieter Desmet	Belgium	8:46.27	Q
5	Tomasz Szymkowiak	Poland	8:48.57	q
6	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	France	8:49.95
7	Cene Šubic	Slovenia	8:54.02
8	Vitalij Gorlukovič	Lithuania	8:54.81
9	Marcos Peón	Spain	8:55.01
10	Mickaël Fadeau	France	8:56.70

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Radosław Popławski	Poland	8:41.77	Q
2	Anatoliy Harkovets	Ukraine	8:43.34	Q
3	Łukasz Parszczyński	Poland	8:43.50	Q
4	Luke Gunn	United Kingdom	8:43.56	Q
5	Valērijs Žolnerovičs	Latvia	8:44.80	q
6	Norbert Löwa	Germany	8:45.64	q
7	Abdelhakim Zilali	France	8:47.99	q
8	Steffen Uliczka	Germany	8:58.37
9	Enrique Sánchez	Spain	9:00.68
10	Dries Busselot	Belgium	9:10.80
11	Balázs Ott	Hungary	9:20.76

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.