1982 European Athletics Championships – Men's 3000 metres steeplechase

These are the official results of the Men's 3,000 metres Steeplechase event at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece, held at Olympic Stadium "Spiros Louis" on 7 and 10 September 1982.^[1]

Medalists

10 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Patriz Ilg	West Germany	8:18.52
	Bogusław Mamiński	Poland	8:19.22
	Domingo Ramón	Spain	8:20.48
4	Hagen Melzer	East Germany	8:21.33
5	Wolfgang Konrad	Austria	8:21.95
6	Ilkka Äyräväinen	Finland	8:24.19
7	Mariano Scartezzini	Italy	8:24.68
8	Tommy Ekblom	Finland	8:27.15
9	Colin Reitz	United Kingdom	8:28.87
10	Graeme Fell	United Kingdom	8:34.30
11	Juan José Torres	Spain	8:37.84
12	Rainer Schwarz	West Germany	8:41.67

7 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Patriz Ilg	West Germany	8:22.65	Q
2	Mariano Scartezzini	Italy	8:23.11	Q
3	Ilkka Äyräväinen	Finland	8:23.18	Q
4	Colin Reitz	United Kingdom	8:23.86	q
5	Joseph Mahmoud	France	8:27.70
6	Jan Hagelbrand	Sweden	8:28.02
7	Peter Daenens	Belgium	8:28.64
8	Guilherme Alves	Portugal	8:33.32
9	Filippos Filippou	Cyprus	8:42.73

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bogusław Mamiński	Poland	8:31.50	Q
2	Hagen Melzer	East Germany	8:31.99	Q
3	Tommy Ekblom	Finland	8:32.52	Q
4	Francisco Sánchez	Spain	8:33.10
5	Krzysztof Wesołowski	Poland	8:35.33
6	Arsenios Tsiminos	Greece	8:37.44
7	Roger Hackney	United Kingdom	8:39.22
8	Pascal Debacker	France	8:44.79
9	Luciano Carchesio	Italy	8:50.35

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Domingo Ramón	Spain	8:22.11	Q
2	Wolfgang Konrad	Austria	8:23.40	Q
3	Graeme Fell	United Kingdom	8:23.76	Q
4	Juan José Torres	Spain	8:24.08	q
5	Rainer Schwarz	West Germany	8:25.21	q
6	Vesa Laukkanen	Finland	8:29.75
7	Sergey Yepishin	Soviet Union	8:39.38
8	Raymond Pannier	France	8:40.41

According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.