2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

The men's 3000 metres event at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 9–11.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco	Mohammed Mourhit  Belgium	Alberto García  Spain

Results

Heats

First 5 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Craig Mottram	Australia	7:50.21	Q, AR
2	2	Alberto García	Spain	7:50.84	Q
3	2	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	7:50.93	Q
4	2	Mohammed Mourhit	Belgium	7:50.99	Q
5	2	Saïd Berioui	Morocco	7:51.07	Q
6	2	John Mayock	Great Britain	7:51.10	q
7	2	Mark Carroll	Ireland	7:53.64	q
8	2	Youcef Allem	Algeria	7:56.42
9	2	Eric Dubus	France	7:58.09
10	1	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	8:05.50	Q
11	1	Million Wolde	Ethiopia	8:06.11	Q
12	1	Bouabdallah Tahri	France	8:06.13	Q
13	1	Paul Bitok	Kenya	8:06.13	Q
14	1	Antonio Jiménez	Spain	8:06.18	Q
15	1	Mohamed Khaldi	Algeria	8:06.18	q
16	1	Tim Broe	United States	8:09.37
17	1	Yaroslav Mushinskiy	Moldova	8:21.85
18	1	Tau Khotso	Lesotho	8:26.83
19	2	Oumarou Souley	Niger	8:44.25
20	2	Djamched Rasulov	Tajikistan	8:44.53
	1	Tshindind Kassap	Democratic Republic of the Congo	DNS
	1	Yawo Kloutse	Togo	DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	7:37.74
	Mohammed Mourhit	Belgium	7:38.94	NR
	Alberto García	Spain	7:39.96	PB
4	John Mayock	Great Britain	7:44.08
5	Million Wolde	Ethiopia	7:44.54
6	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	7:45.52
7	Mark Carroll	Ireland	7:46.79
8	Craig Mottram	Australia	7:48.34	AR
9	Mohamed Khaldi	Algeria	7:52.76
10	Paul Bitok	Kenya	7:54.16
11	Bouabdallah Tahri	France	7:57.84
12	Antonio Jiménez	Spain	8:04.01
13	Saïd Berioui	Morocco	8:04.38

References

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