2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

Events at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
60 m hurdles	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Heptathlon	men

The Men's 3000 metres event at the 2011 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 4 and 5 with the final being held on March 5 at 16:50 local time.^[1]

Records

Standing records prior to the 2011 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	Mo Farah (GBR)	7:40.17	Madrid, Spain	7 March 2009
World Leading	Alamirew Yenew (ETH)	7:27.80	Stuttgart, Germany	5 February 2011
European Leading	Mo Farah (GBR)	7:35.81	Boston, United States	5 February 2011

First 3 in each heat and 3 best performers advance to the Final. The heats were held at 11:15.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Hayle Ibrahimov	Azerbaijan	8:00.36	Q
2	2	Florian Carvalho	France	8:00.90	Q
3	3	Yohan Durand	France	8:01.24	Q
4	3	Halil Akkas	Turkey	8:01.38	Q
5	2	Jesús España	Spain	8:01.56	Q
6	3	Andy Baddeley	Great Britain	8:01.56	Q
7	3	Stefano La Rosa	Italy	8:01.89	q
8	2	Mert Girmalegese	Turkey	8:02.12	q
9	1	Mo Farah	Great Britain	8:02.37	Q
10	3	Siarhei Platonau	Belarus	8:02.46	q
11	1	Rui Silva	Portugal	8:02.69	Q
12	1	Daniele Meucci	Italy	8:02.71	Q
13	1	Francisco Javier Alves	Spain	8:02.90
14	2	Łukasz Parszczyński	Poland	8:03.14
15	3	Dan Mulhare	Ireland	8:04.57
16	2	Siarhei Chabiarak	Belarus	8:05.29
17	1	Sergey Ivanov	Russia	8:07.27
18	1	Mykola Labovskyy	Ukraine	8:08.17
19	1	Nordine Gezzar	France	8:10.69
20	3	Víctor García	Spain	8:11.31
21	1	Bjørnar Ustad Kristensen	Norway	8:11.63
22	3	Yegor Nikolayev	Russia	8:13.01	q*
23	2	Jonas Hamm	Finland	8:16.51
24	2	Adil Bouafif	Sweden	8:20.69
25	1	Sevak Yeghikyan	Armenia	8:23.83	NR
26	2	Valentin Smirnov	Russia	8:29.23

Note: Yegor Nikolayev qualified to the final by judge decision as during his race he collided with another athlete competing in different event.

The final was held at 16:50.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Mo Farah	Great Britain	7:53.00
02 !	Hayle Ibrahimov	Azerbaijan	7:53.32
03 !	Halil Akkas	Turkey	7:54.19
04 !4	Andy Baddeley	Great Britain	7:54.49	SB
05 !5	Jesús España	Spain	7:54.66
06 !6	Rui Silva	Portugal	7:59.49
07 !7	Yohan Durand	France	8:02.40
08 !8	Florian Carvalho	France	8:02.92
09 !9	Mert Girmalegese	Turkey	8:04.00
10	Stefano La Rosa	Italy	8:04.12
11	Daniele Meucci	Italy	8:04.82
12	Yegor Nikolayev	Russia	8:05.49
13	Siarhei Platonau	Belarus	8:09.22

3000 metres at the European Athletics Indoor Championships

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