Best steeplechaser to never win an Olympic medal?

Considering the current world record holder and two-time world champion, Saif Saaeed Shaheen, never won an Olympic medal, it's quite obviously him.

It's Henry Marsh and it's not close

10th 1976

80 boycott was a medal favorite

84 seeded second finished 4th

1988 6th

Henry Rono.

Let me rephrase: best CLEAN steeplechaser to never win an Olympic medal

Paul Kipkoech who has run under 8:10 an amazing 68 times

douglas burke wrote:

Paul Kipkoech who has run under 8:10 an amazing 68 times

and under 8:00 9 times

My Bad he won a Bronze in 2004

Kortney Freriks

steeple king wrote:

Bernard Barmasai?

Former world record holder. 4th at Olympics

Accomplished marathoner.

Discus.

Brahim Boulami ran the fastest ever steeple chase over 3000m and he did not win any Olympic medal.

World records wrote:

steeple king wrote:

Bernard Barmasai?

Former world record holder. 4th at Olympics

Accomplished marathoner.

Discus.

Brahim Boulami ran the fastest ever steeple chase over 3000m and he did not win any Olympic medal.

Check the OP.

Dude - the current world record holder has obviously run faster than Boulami. Has also not won an olympic medal.

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/qatar/saif-saaeed-shaheen-171720

Portland beatnik wrote:

It's Henry Marsh and it's not close

10th 1976

80 boycott was a medal favorite

84 seeded second finished 4th

1988 6th

Yup...Ranked #1 in World several years; Screwed in '80. Sick in '84...

SteepleSavant wrote:

Portland beatnik wrote:

It's Henry Marsh and it's not close

10th 1976

80 boycott was a medal favorite

84 seeded second finished 4th

1988 6th

Yup...Ranked #1 in World several years; Screwed in '80. Sick in '84...

Marsh was never going to get through rounds and medal, no matter how healthy he was.

Mnok wrote:

Dude - the current world record holder has obviously run faster than Boulami. Has also not won an olympic medal.

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/qatar/saif-saaeed-shaheen-171720

No, he hasn't. Boulami has run the fastest steeplechase ever.

King George wrote:

Henry Rono.

+1

First person to come to my mind.

ex-runner wrote:

Mnok wrote:

Dude - the current world record holder has obviously run faster than Boulami. Has also not won an olympic medal.

https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/qatar/saif-saaeed-shaheen-171720

No, he hasn't. Boulami has run the fastest steeplechase ever.

Yep, you're right; he ran 7:53.17 in 2002 @ Zurich - which was annulled for an IC-EPO positive:

Portland beatnik wrote:

It's Henry Marsh and it's not close

10th 1976

80 boycott was a medal favorite

84 seeded second finished 4th

1988 6th

"not close" is what I would say Marsh is compared to Shaheen.

Cherono aka Shaheen is the obvious answer but Hard not to be suspicious of a runner switching allegiances to a corrupt country which will do anything to win, secure World Cup bids etc

Boulami was a known doper.

Barmasai, Marsh, Rono are all up there as is Peter Koech.. I’d pick Rono as the ‘best’ as he was on another level for his era.

Don't be suspicious about Shaheen (Always Stephen for me).

He probably is the cleanest WR holder in all athletics.

He Always refused to take any vitamin and any supplement, being confident in his strength only, and for this reason sometimes appeared a little bit arrogant, too.

All the group of Kenyan athletes moving to Qatar (and I remind to everybody that this was fruit of a negotiation between Qatar Ministry of Interior and Kenyan Ministry of Sport, not a choice of Stephen at the beginning) had nothing to do with Qatari doctors or organization. They trained, Always with me, in Kenya for the most part of time, and in Saint Moritz or Italy during the competition period, and nobody of the medical staff worked with us, because I refused to have with me the doctor (who was a Bulgarian, believing too much in the effects of supplements for athletes).

The 1980 Olympic boycott was really, really, a bad deal.