2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

The men's 3000 metres at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the ASPIRE Dome on 12 and 14 March.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bernard Lagat  United States	Sergio Sánchez  Spain	Sammy Alex Mutahi  Kenya

Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships
World record	Daniel Komen (KEN)	7:24.90	Budapest, Hungary	6 February 1998
Championship record	Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)	7:34.71	Paris, France	9 March 1997
World Leading	Augustine Kiprono Choge (KEN)	7:31.75	Stockholm, Sweden	10 February 2010
African record	Daniel Komen (KEN)	7:24.90	Budapest, Hungary	6 February 1998
Asian record	Saif Saaeed Shaheen (QAT)	7:39.77	Pattaya, Thailand	11 February 2006
European record	Sergio Sánchez (ESP)	7:32.41	Valencia, Spain	13 February 2010
North and Central American and Caribbean record	Bernard Lagat (USA)	7:32.43	Birmingham, Great Britain	17 February 2007
Oceanian Record	Craig Mottram (AUS)	7:34.50	Boston, United States	26 January 2008
South American record	Jacinto Navarrete (COL)	7:49.46	Seville, Spain	10 March 1991

Qualification standards

Indoor	Outdoor
7:54.00	7:44.00 or 13:19.00 (5000m)

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
March 12, 2010	17:10	Heats
March 14, 2010	17:05	Final

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Augustine Kiprono Choge	Kenya	7:43.80	Q
2	1	Dejen Gebremeskel	Ethiopia	7:44.26	Q, PB
3	1	Sergio Sánchez	Spain	7:44.33	Q
4	1	James Kwalia	Qatar	7:44.61	Q, PB
5	1	Hais Welday	Eritrea	7:45.44	q, NR
6	1	Hicham Bellani	Morocco	7:50.46	q
7	2	Bernard Lagat	United States	7:59.99	Q, SB
8	2	Tariku Bekele	Ethiopia	8:00.29	Q
9	2	Sammy Alex Mutahi	Kenya	8:00.53	Q
10	2	Jesús España	Spain	8:00.65	Q
11	2	Galen Rupp	United States	8:00.90	q, SB
12	2	Essa Ismail Rashed	Qatar	8:01.08	q
13	2	Gezachw Yossef	Israel	8:03.62	SB
14	1	Hayle Ibrahimov	Azerbaijan	8:05.43	PB
15	2	Scott Overall	Great Britain	8:08.02
16	1	Tareq Mubarak Taher	Bahrain	8:14.67	SB
17	1	Ion Luchianov	Moldova	8:15.91	SB
18	2	Marco Joseph	Tanzania	8:22.18	PB

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Bernard Lagat	United States	7:37.97	SB
	Sergio Sánchez	Spain	7:39.55
	Sammy Alex Mutahi	Kenya	7:39.90
4	Tariku Bekele	Ethiopia	7:40.10
5	Galen Rupp	United States	7:42.40	PB
6	Jesús España	Spain	7:42.82	SB
7	Hicham Bellani	Morocco	7:44.15
8	James Kwalia	Qatar	7:46.12
9	Essa Ismail Rashed	Qatar	7:47.94	SB
10	Dejen Gebremeskel	Ethiopia	7:48.69
11	Augustine Kiprono Choge	Kenya	7:53.42
12	Hais Welday	Eritrea	8:04.10