2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

The men's 3000 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 6 March at 11:25 (heats) and on 7 March at 17:52 (final) local time.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jakob Ingebrigtsen Norway	Isaac Kimeli Belgium	Adel Mechaal Spain

Standing records prior to the 2021 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	Ali Kaya (TUR)	7:38.42	Prague, Czech Republic	7 March 2015
World Leading	Getnet Wale (ETH)	7:24.98	Liévin, France	9 February 2021
European Leading	Mohamed Katir (ESP)	7:35.29	Karlsruhe, Germany	29 January 2021

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next fastest 3 (q) advance to the Final.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Note
1	2	Andrew Butchart	Great Britain	7:46.46	Q
2	2	Adel Mechaal	Spain	7:46.52	Q, SB
3	2	Robin Hendrix	Belgium	7:46.76	Q, PB
4	2	Hugo Hay	France	7:47.30	q, PB
5	2	Seán Tobin	Ireland	7:47.71	q, PB
6	2	Marcel Fehr	Germany	7:48.06	q, PB
7	3	Jimmy Gressier	France	7:48.93	Q
8	3	Isaac Kimeli	Belgium	7:49.46	Q
9	3	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	7:49.52	Q, PB
10	3	Mike Foppen	Netherlands	7:49.99
11	3	Philip Sesemann	Great Britain	7:51.70
12	2	Andreas Vojta	Austria	7:53.07
13	3	Samuel Barata	Portugal	7:53.39	PB
14	1	Mohamed Katir	Spain	7:54.95	Q
15	1	Narve Gilje Nordås	Norway	7:55.03	Q
16	1	Jack Rowe	Great Britain	7:55.67	Q
17	1	Djilali Bedrani	France	7:55.76
18	3	Brian Fay	Ireland	7:56.13
19	2	Joel Ibler Lillesø	Denmark	7:56.30
20	1	Yassin Bouih	Italy	7:56.66
21	1	Jonas Raess	Switzerland	7:57.37
22	2	Isaac Nader	Portugal	7:58.10
23	3	Gonzalo García	Spain	7:59.09
24	2	Bjørnar Sandnes Lillefosse	Norway	8:02.00
25	3	Mikkel Dahl-Jessen	Denmark	8:03.50
26	3	Jonatan Fridolfsson	Sweden	8:03.87
27	1	John Travers	Ireland	8:05.96
28	1	Jakob Dybdal Abrahamsen	Denmark	8:08.04
29	2	John Foitzik	Sweden	8:08.63
30	1	Vidar Johansson	Sweden	8:20.21
31	3	Abdurrahman Gediklioğlu	Turkey	8:23.82
	1	John Heymans	Belgium	DQ
	2	Marcin Lewandowski	Poland	DNS
	1	Michał Rozmys	Poland	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	7:48.20	PB
	Isaac Kimeli	Belgium	7:49.41
	Adel Mechaal	Spain	7:49.47
4	Mohamed Katir	Spain	7:49.72
5	Narve Gilje Nordås	Norway	7:50.21	PB
6	Hugo Hay	France	7:51.82
7	Andrew Butchart	Great Britain	7:52.15
8	Jimmy Gressier	France	7:52.43
9	Jack Rowe	Great Britain	7:53.47	SB
10	Marcel Fehr	Germany	7:54.48
11	Seán Tobin	Ireland	7:58.11
12	Robin Hendrix	Belgium	7:59.86

^ "Heats results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-06. Retrieved 2021-03-06.
^ "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-03-07. Retrieved 2021-03-07.