The boys' 3000 metres at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadium Lille Métropole on 7 and 10 July.
Medalists GoldSilverBronze William Malel Sitonik Patrick Mutunga Mwikya Abrar Osman
Records Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.
World Youth Best7:32.37Lausanne, Switzerland 11 July 2006Championship Record7:51.51Bressanone, Italy12 July 2009World Youth Leading7:51.2Nairobi, Kenya8 June 2011
Heats Qualification rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) plus the 4 fastest times (q) qualified.
Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Patrick Mutunga Mwikya 8:00.00 Q 2 Solomon Deksisa 8:00.11 Q, PB 3 Mohammed Abid 8:01.52 Q 4 Indrajeet Patel 8:14.93 Q, PB 5 Yusuke Uchikoshi 8:18.84 q, PB 6 Abdullah Al-Salhi 8:21.86 q, PB 7 Samuele Dini 8:23.35 PB 8 Bohdan-Ivan Horodyskyi 8:26.71 PB 9 Dino Bošnjak 8:27.01 PB 10 Ismael Quiñones 8:31.22 PB 11 Seyyid Boughalem 8:33.24 PB 12 Matthew Stephenson 8:33.34 13 Zacharias Grassmé Taj 8:37.21 PB 14 Mihai Cosma 8:55.36
Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 William Malel Sitonik 7:54.09 Q 2 Hagos Gebrhiwet 7:54.09 Q, PB 3 Abrar Osman 7:58.00 Q, PB 4 Phillip Kipyeko 8:14.02 Q, PB 5 Yuki Hirota 8:16.05 q, PB 6 Harry Mulenga 8:17.01 q, SB 7 Marouane Kahlaoui 8:22.89 PB 8 Félix Bour 8:23.66 PB 9 Ryan Sleiman 8:28.28 PB 10 Youcef Addouche 8:30.75 PB 11 Artur Bossy 8:30.96 PB 12 Bogdan Motogna 8:40.17 PB 13 Jacob Simonsen 8:49.05 14 Abdallahi Cheikh 10:43.77 PB Khalid Mohammed Ahmed DNF
Final
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes William Malel Sitonik 7:40.10 CR Patrick Mutunga Mwikya 7:40.47 PB Abrar Osman 7:40.89 PB 4 Solomon Deksisa 7:42.10 PB 5 Hagos Gebrhiwet 7:45.11 PB 6 Mohammed Abid 7:57.45 PB 7 Phillip Kipyeko 8:11.12 PB 8 Harry Mulenga 8:11.14 PB 9 Yuki Hirota 8:13.65 PB 10 Yusuke Uchikoshi 8:14.91 PB 11 Abdullah Al-Salhi 8:16.39 PB 12 Indrajeet Patel 8:19.73
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