2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

The men's 3000 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 6 March at 11:25 (heats) and on 7 March at 17:52 (final) local time.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jakob Ingebrigtsen   Norway	Isaac Kimeli   Belgium	Adel Mechaal   Spain

Records

Standing records prior to the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships
World record	Daniel Komen  (KEN)	7:24.90	Budapest, Hungary	6 February 1998
European record	Sergio Sánchez  (ESP)	7:32.41	Valencia, Spain	13 February 2010
Championship record	Ali Kaya  (TUR)	7:38.42	Prague, Czech Republic	7 March 2015
World Leading	Getnet Wale  (ETH)	7:24.98	Liévin, France	9 February 2021
European Leading	Mohamed Katir  (ESP)	7:35.29	Karlsruhe, Germany	29 January 2021

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 3 (q) advance to the Final. ^[1]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Note
1	2	Andrew Butchart	Great Britain	7:46.46	Q
2	2	Adel Mechaal	Spain	7:46.52	Q, SB
3	2	Robin Hendrix	Belgium	7:46.76	Q, PB
4	2	Hugo Hay	France	7:47.30	q, PB
5	2	Seán Tobin	Ireland	7:47.71	q, PB
6	2	Marcel Fehr	Germany	7:48.06	q, PB
7	3	Jimmy Gressier	France	7:48.93	Q
8	3	Isaac Kimeli	Belgium	7:49.46	Q
9	3	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	7:49.52	Q, PB
10	3	Mike Foppen	Netherlands	7:49.99
11	3	Philip Sesemann	Great Britain	7:51.70
12	2	Andreas Vojta	Austria	7:53.07
13	3	Samuel Barata	Portugal	7:53.39	PB
14	1	Mohamed Katir	Spain	7:54.95	Q
15	1	Narve Gilje Nordås	Norway	7:55.03	Q
16	1	Jack Rowe	Great Britain	7:55.67	Q
17	1	Djilali Bedrani	France	7:55.76
18	3	Brian Fay	Ireland	7:56.13
19	2	Joel Ibler Lillesø	Denmark	7:56.30
20	1	Yassin Bouih	Italy	7:56.66
21	1	Jonas Raess	Switzerland	7:57.37
22	2	Isaac Nader	Portugal	7:58.10
23	3	Gonzalo García	Spain	7:59.09
24	2	Bjørnar Sandnes Lillefosse	Norway	8:02.00
25	3	Mikkel Dahl-Jessen	Denmark	8:03.50
26	3	Jonatan Fridolfsson	Sweden	8:03.87
27	1	John Travers	Ireland	8:05.96
28	1	Jakob Dybdal Abrahamsen	Denmark	8:08.04
29	2	John Foitzik	Sweden	8:08.63
30	1	Vidar Johansson	Sweden	8:20.21
31	3	Abdurrahman Gediklioğlu	Turkey	8:23.82
	1	John Heymans	Belgium	DQ
	2	Marcin Lewandowski	Poland	DNS
	1	Michał Rozmys	Poland	DNS

Final

^[2]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	7:48.20	PB
	Isaac Kimeli	Belgium	7:49.41
	Adel Mechaal	Spain	7:49.47
4	Mohamed Katir	Spain	7:49.72
5	Narve Gilje Nordås	Norway	7:50.21	PB
6	Hugo Hay	France	7:51.82
7	Andrew Butchart	Great Britain	7:52.15
8	Jimmy Gressier	France	7:52.43
9	Jack Rowe	Great Britain	7:53.47	SB
10	Marcel Fehr	Germany	7:54.48
11	Seán Tobin	Ireland	7:58.11
12	Robin Hendrix	Belgium	7:59.86

References

1. "Heats results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-06. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
2. "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-07. Retrieved 2021-03-07.