1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Road events
20 km	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 3000 metres steeplechase event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 29 and 31 July.^[1][2]

Gold	William Chemitei  Kenya
Silver	Matthew Birir  Kenya
Bronze	Arto Kuusisto  Finland

31 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	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

29 July

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

According to an unofficial count, 33 athletes from 24 countries participated in the event.