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.
Records Standing records prior to the 2011 European Athletics Indoor ChampionshipsWorld record7:24.90Budapest, Hungary6 February 1998European record7:32.41Valencia, Spain13 February 2010Championship record7:40.17Madrid, Spain7 March 2009World Leading7:27.80Stuttgart, Germany5 February 2011European Leading7:35.81Boston, United States5 February 2011
Results
Heats First 3 in each heat and 3 best performers advance to the Final. The heats were held at 11:15.
Heat 1 Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 2 Hayle Ibrahimov 8:00.36 Q 2 2 Florian Carvalho 8:00.90 Q 3 3 Yohan Durand 8:01.24 Q 4 3 Halil Akkas 8:01.38 Q 5 2 Jesús España 8:01.56 Q 6 3 Andy Baddeley 8:01.56 Q 7 3 Stefano La Rosa 8:01.89 q 8 2 Mert Girmalegese 8:02.12 q 9 1 Mo Farah 8:02.37 Q 10 3 Siarhei Platonau 8:02.46 q 11 1 Rui Silva 8:02.69 Q 12 1 Daniele Meucci 8:02.71 Q 13 1 Francisco Javier Alves 8:02.90 14 2 Łukasz Parszczyński 8:03.14 15 3 Dan Mulhare 8:04.57 16 2 Siarhei Chabiarak 8:05.29 17 1 Sergey Ivanov 8:07.27 18 1 Mykola Labovskyi 8:08.17 19 1 Nordine Gezzar 8:10.69 20 3 Víctor García 8:11.31 21 1 Bjørnar Ustad Kristensen 8:11.63 22 3 Yegor Nikolayev 8:13.01 q* 23 2 Jonas Hamm 8:16.51 24 2 Adil Bouafif 8:20.69 25 1 Sevak Yeghikyan 8:23.83 NR 26 2 Valentin Smirnov 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.
Final The final was held at 16:50. Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Mo Farah 7:53.00 Hayle Ibrahimov 7:53.32 Halil Akkas 7:54.19 Andy Baddeley 7:54.49 SB Jesús España 7:54.66 Rui Silva 7:59.49 Yohan Durand 8:02.40 Florian Carvalho 8:02.92 Mert Girmalegese 8:04.00 10 Stefano La Rosa 8:04.12 11 Daniele Meucci 8:04.82 12 Yegor Nikolayev 8:05.49 13 Siarhei Platonau 8:09.22
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