2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 3000 metres

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Women's 3000 metres
at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Venue Omnisport Apeldoorn [1]
Location Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Dates8 March 2025 (round 1)
9 March 2025 (final)
Competitors23 from 13 nations
Winning time8:52.86
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Portugal (official).svg  Portugal
  2023
2027  

The women's 3000 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships is scheduled to be held on the short track of Omnisport in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, on 8 and 9 March 2025. This will be the 25th time the event is contested at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. Athletes can qualify by achieving the entry standard or by their World Athletics Ranking in the event.

Contents

Round 1 is scheduled for 8 March during the morning session. The final is scheduled for 9 March during the evening session.

Background

The women's 3000 metres was contested 24 times before 2025, held every time since the 1982 edition of the European Athletics Indoor Championships. [2] The 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held in Omnisport Apeldoorn in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. [3] The removable indoor athletics track was retopped for these championships in September 2024. [3]

Genzebe Dibaba is the world record holder in the event, with a time of 8:16.60 set in 2021. [4] Laura Muir is the European record holder with a time of 8:26.41, set in 2017. Muir also holds the championships record, set at the 2019 championships.

Records before the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships
RecordAthlete (nation)Time (s)LocationDate
World record [4] Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Genzebe Dibaba  (ETH)8:16.60 Stockholm, Sweden6 February 2014
European record [4] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Laura Muir  (GBR)8:26.41 Karlsruhe, Germany4 February 2017
Championship record [5] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Laura Muir  (GBR)8:30.61 Glasgow, Great Britain1 March 2019
World leading [6] Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Freweyni Hailu  (ETH)8:19.98 Liévin, France13 February 2025
European leading [6] Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Melissa Courtney-Bryant  (GBR)8:28.69 Boston, United States2 February 2025

Qualification

For the women's 3000 metres, the qualification period runs from 25 February 2024 until 23 February 2025. [7] Athletes can qualify by achieving the entry standards of 8:48.00 s indoors or 8:39.00 s outdoors, or by virtue of their World Athletics Ranking for the event. [7] There is a target number of 24 athletes. [7]

Rounds

Round 1

Round 1 is scheduled for 8 March, starting at 10:20 (UTC+1) in the morning. [8] First 6 in each heat (Q) qualify for the final.

Heat 1

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1 Sarah Healy Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 8:55.35 Q
2 Maureen Koster Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 8:55.40 Q
3 Ludovica Cavalli Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 8:55.47 Q
4 Lea Meyer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 8:56.36 Q
5 Innes FitzGerald Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 8:58.44 Q
6 Lisa Rooms Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 9:01.88 Q
7 Idaira Prieto Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 9:04.15
8 Olimpia Breza Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 9:08.83
9 Veerle Bakker Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 9:09.21
10 Linn Söderholm Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 9:15.92
11 Lili Anna Vindics-Tóth Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 9:28.22
Gresa Bakraçi Flag of Kosovo.svg  Kosovo DNS
[9]

Heat 2

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1 Melissa Courtney-Bryant Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 9:08.19 Q
2 Marta García Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 9:08.23 Q
3 Weronika Lizakowska Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 9:08.40 Q
4 Salomé Afonso Flag of Portugal (official).svg  Portugal 9:08.46 Q
5 Sarah Madeleine Flag of France.svg  France 9:08.56 Q
6 Hannah Nuttall Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 9:08.97 Q
7 Águeda Marqués Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 9:09.36
8 Federica Del Buono Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9:11.39
9 Micol Majori Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9:13.01
10 Jodie McCann Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 9:18.73
11 Jennifer Gulikers Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 9:19.22
12 Agate Caune Flag of Latvia.svg  Latvia 9:22.00
[10]

Final

The final is scheduled for 9 March, starting at 17:36 (UTC+1) in the evening. [8]

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Sarah Healy Flag of Ireland.svg  Ireland 8:52.86
Silver medal icon.svg Melissa Courtney-Bryant Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 8:52.92
Bronze medal icon.svg Salomé Afonso Flag of Portugal (official).svg  Portugal 8:53.42
4 Marta García Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 8:53.67
5 Sarah Madeleine Flag of France.svg  France 8:53.96
6 Hannah Nuttall Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 8:54.60
7 Lea Meyer Flag of Germany.svg  Germany 8:55.62
8 Innes FitzGerald Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 8:57.00
9 Lisa Rooms Flag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium 9:04.90
10 Weronika Lizakowska Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 9:06.84
11 Ludovica Cavalli Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 9:07.20
Maureen Koster Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands DNF
[11]

References

  1. "Six months until Apeldoorn! New track surface for 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships", European Athletics , 6 September 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  2. András Szabó, "Statistics Handbook", pp. 6 and 322–323, European Athletics . Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Omnisport with renovated track is ready for European Athletics Indoor Championships 2025". European Athletics Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 2025. 2024-09-06. Archived from the original on 2024-09-07. Retrieved 2024-09-07.
  4. 1 2 3 "All time Top lists – Senior – 3000 Metres women", World Athletics . Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  5. "Women's 1500m - Final Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-03-04. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
  6. 1 2 "Season Top Lists – Senior 2025 – 3000 Metres Short Track women", World Athletics , 2025. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
  7. 1 2 3 "Qualification System and Entry Standards", European Athletics , 29 October 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  8. 1 2 "Competition schedule – European Athletics Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 2025", European Athletics , 15 February 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
  9. "3000m Women - Round 1 - Heat 1 result" (PDF). European Athletics . 8 March 2025. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2025. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  10. "3000m Women - Round 1 - Heat 2 result" (PDF). European Athletics . 8 March 2025. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2025. Retrieved 24 March 2025.
  11. "3000m Women - Final result" (PDF). European Athletics . 9 March 2025. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2025. Retrieved 24 March 2025.