2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

The Men's 3000 metres event at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 10–12.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kenenisa Bekele Ethiopia	Saif Saaeed Shaheen Qatar	Eliud Kipchoge Kenya

First 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Eliud Kipchoge	Kenya	7:52.57	Q
2	1	Tariku Bekele	Ethiopia	7:52.58	Q
3	1	Saif Saaeed Shaheen	Qatar	7:52.85	Q
4	1	Alistair Cragg	Ireland	7:53.74	Q, SB
5	1	Günther Weidlinger	Austria	7:53.83	q
6	1	Halil Akkas	Turkey	7:54.60	q
7	2	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	7:54.85	Q
8	1	Tareq Mubarak Taher	Bahrain	7:55.10	q
9	2	Shedrack Kibet Korir	Kenya	7:55.14	Q
10	2	Moukheld Al-Outaibi	Saudi Arabia	7:55.14	Q
11	2	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	7:55.18	Q
12	1	Pavel Naumov	Russia	7:55.28	q
13	2	Sergey Ivanov	Russia	7:56.44
14	2	César Pérez	Spain	7:58.06
15	2	Vincent Le Dauphin	France	7:58.60
16	1	Jonathon Riley	United States	7:59.30
17	2	Dieudonné Disi	Rwanda	8:01.73	PB
18	2	Aadam Ismaeel Khamis	Bahrain	8:02.16
19	1	Isaac Kiprop	Uganda	8:05.00	NR
20	2	Iaroslav Muşinschi	Moldova	8:08.35	SB
21	1	Francisco Javier Alves	Spain	8:11.85
22	2	Steve Slattery	United States	8:17.15
23	1	Bjørnar Ustad Kristensen	Norway	8:21.90	PB
24	2	Jorge Cabrera	Paraguay	8:33.95	NR

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Kenenisa Bekele	Ethiopia	7:39.32
	Saif Saaeed Shaheen	Qatar	7:41.28
	Eliud Kipchoge	Kenya	7:42.58
4	Alistair Cragg	Ireland	7:46.43	SB
5	Shedrack Kibet Korir	Kenya	7:47.11
6	Tariku Bekele	Ethiopia	7:47.67
7	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	7:48.01
8	Moukheld Al-Outaibi	Saudi Arabia	7:52.91
9	Pavel Naumov	Russia	7:56.24
10	Günther Weidlinger	Austria	7:57.32
11	Tareq Mubarak Taher	Bahrain	8:04.99
12	Halil Akkas	Turkey	8:10.37