1981 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

The men's 3000 metres event at the 1981 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 22 February. ^[1] The race was stopped one lap short, so the actual distance run was 2820 metres.

Results

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alexandre Gonzalez	France	9:01
	Evgeni Ignatov	Bulgaria	9:02
	Valeriy Abramov	Soviet Union	9:03
4	Francis Gonzalez	France	9:04
5	Christoph Herle	West Germany	9:05
6	Robert Nemeth	Austria	9:06
7	Lubomír Tesáček	Czechoslovakia	9:07
8	Didier Chauvelier	France	9:08
9	Jef Gees	Belgium	9:09
10	Ken Newton	Great Britain	9:10
11	Nikolaos Chalatzis	Greece	9:11

References

1. Results (p. 461)