European Indoor Championships 3000 meters

Dates/Venues/Medalists (34 runnings for men, 19 runnings for women)

05/06 Mar 2011, Paris FRA

G	7:53.00	Mohammed Farah (ENG)	8:56.66	Helen Clitheroe (ENG)
S	7:53:32	Hayle Ibrahimov (AZE)	8:56.69	Olesya Syreva (RUS)
B	7:54:19	Halil Akkas (TUR)	8:58.30	Lidia Chojecka (POL)

07/08 Mar 2009, Torino ITA

G	7:40.19	Mohammed Farah (ENG)	8:46.50	Alemitu Bekele Degfa (TUR)
S	7:42.14	Bouabdellah Tahri (FRA)	8:48.18	Sara Moreira (POR)
B	7:43.29	Jesus España (ESP)	8:48.47	Mary Teresa Cullen (IRL)

03/04 Mar 2007, Birmingham ENG

G	8:02.44	Cosimo Caliandro (ITA)	8:43.25	Lidia Chojecka (POL)
S	8:02.85	Bouabdellah Tahri (FRA)	8:44.40	Marta Dominguez (ESP)
B	8:02.91	Jesus España (ESP)	8:44.81	Silvia Weissteiner (ITA)

05/06 Mar 2005, Madrid ESP

G	7:46.32	Alistair Cragg (IRL)	8:43.76	Lidia Chojecka (POL)
S	7:51.46	John Mayock (ENG)	8:46.65	Tezeta Dengersa (TUR)
B	7:51.65	Reyes Estevez (ESP)	8:47.74	Suzanne Pumper (AUT)

02/03 Mar 2002, Vienna AUT

G	7:43.89	Alberto Garcia (ESP)	8:53.87	Marta Dominguez (ESP)
S	7:46.49	Antonio David Jimenez (ESP)	8:53.96	Carla Sacramento (POR)
B	7:48.08	Jesus España (ESP)	8:58.36	Elena Zadorohnaya (RUS)

27 Feb 2000, Ghent BEL

G	7:49.24	Mark Carroll (IRL)	8:42.06	Gabriela Szabo (ROM)
S	7:49.70	Rui Silva (POR)	8:42.42	Lidia Chojecka (POL)
B	7:49.97	John Mayock (ENG)	8:44.08	Marta Dominguez (ESP)

01 Mar 1998, Valencia ESP

G	7:55.09	John Mayock (ENG)	8:49.96	Gabriela Szabo (ROM)
S	7:55.23	Manuel Pancorbo (ESP)	8:51.42	Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)
B	7:55.24	Alberto Garcia (ESP)	8:57.72	Marta Dominguez (ESP)

10 Mar 1996, Stockholm SWE

G	7:50.06	Anacleto Jimenez (ESP)	8:39.49	Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)
S	7:50.19	Christoph Impens (BEL)	8:50.32	Sara Wedlund (SWE)
B	7:50.80	Panayiotis Papoulias (GRE)	8:53.34	Marta Dominguez (ESP)

13/11 Mar 1994, Paris FRA

G	7:52.34	Kim-Lars Bauermeister (GER)	8:50.47	Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)
S	7:52.37	Ovidiu Olteanu (ROM)	8:55.61	Margareta Keszeg (ROM)
B	7:53.99	Rodney Finch (GBR)	8:56.90	Anna Brzezinska (POL)

01 Mar 1992, Genoa ITA

G	7:47.24	Gennaro diNapoli (ITA)	8:59.80	Margareta Keszeg (ROM)
S	7:48.47	John Mayock (ENG)	9:00.15	Tatyana Dorovski (UKR)
B	7:48.82	Jose Luis Gonzalez (ESP)	9:00.99	Rita Marquard (GER)

04/03 Mar 1990, Glasgow SCO

G	7:53.94	Eric Debus (FRA)	8:57.28	Elly vanHulst (NED)
S	7:54.75	Jacque Carlier (FRA)	8:57.50	Margareta Keszeg (ROM)
B	7:54.77	Branco Zorko (CRO)	9:00.31	Andrea Hahmann (GER)

19 Feb 1989, The Hague NED

G	7:50.43	Dieter Baumann (GER)	9:10.01	Elly vanHulst (NED)
S	7:51.18	Abel Anton (ESP)	9:12.37	Nicola Morris (ENG)
B	7:52.23	Jacque Carlier (FRA)	9:15.49	Maricica Puica (ROM)

06 Mar 1988, Budapest HUN

G	7:55.29	Jose Luis Gonzalez (ESP)	8:44.50	Elly vanHulst (NED)
S	7:56.04	Markus Hackensteiner (SUI)	8:46.97	Vera Michallek (GER)
B	7:56.51	Mikhail Dasko (RUS)	8:51.04	Wendy Sly (ENG)

22 Feb 1987, Lievin FRA

G	7:52.27	Jose Luis Gonzalez (ESP)	8:46.06	Yvonne Murray (SCO)
S	7:53.93	Dieter Baumann (GER)	8:51.40	Elly vanHulst (NED)
B	7:54.03	Pascal Thiebault (FRA)	8:53.01	Brigitte Kraus (GER)

23 Feb 1986, Madrid ESP

G	7:59.08	Dietmar Millonig (AUT)	8:54.52	Ines Bibernall (GER)
S	7:59.12	Stefano Mei (ITA)	9:01.31	Yvonne Murray (SCO)
B	7:59.15	Joao Campo (POR)	9:01.72	Regina Chistyakova (LTU)

03 Mar 1985, Piraeus GRE

G	8:10.84	Rob Verbeeck (BEL)	8:55.25	Agnese Possamai (ITA)
S	8:10.88	Thomas Wessinghage (GER)	8:58.03	Olga Bondarenko (RUS)
B	8:10.91	Vitaliy Tishchenko (RUS)	9:00.94	Yvonne Murray (SCO)

04/03 Mar 1984, Göteborg SWE

G	7:53.16	Lubomir Tesacek (SVK)	9:12.07	Brigitte Kraus (GER)
S	7:53.61	Markus Ryffel (SUI)	9:15.04	Tatyana Pozdniakova (UKR)
B	7:54.45	Karl Fleschen (GER)	9:15.71	Ivana Kleinkova (CZE)

06 Mar 1983, Budapest HUN

G	7:54.73	Dragan Zdravkovic (YUG)	9:04.40	Elena Sipatova (RUS)
S	7:57.79	Valeriy Abramov (RUS)	9:04.41	Agnese Possamai (ITA)
B	7:58.11	Uwe Monkemeyer (GER)	9:04.52	Elena Malykhina (RUS)

07/06 Mar 1982, Milan ITA

G	7:53.50	Patrick Ilg (GER)	8:53.77	Agnese Possamai (ITA)
S	7:54.12	Alberto Cova (ITA)	8:54.26	Maricica Puica (ROM)
B	7:54.46	Valeriy Abramov (RUS)	9:03.27	Paula Fudge (ENG)

22 Feb 1981, Grenoble FRA

G	7:22.71	Alexandre Gonzalez (ESP)
S	n/a	Evgeni Ignatov (BUL)
B	n/a	Valeriy Abramov (RUS)

Note: The race was run one lap short.

02 Mar 1980, Sindelfingen GER

G	7:57.5	Karl Fleschen (GER)
S	7:57.9	Klaas Lok (NED)
B	7:59.9	Hans-Jurgen Orthman (GER)

25 Feb 1979, Vienna AUT

G	7:44.43	Markus Ryffel (SUI)
S	7:45.44	Christoph Herle (GER)
B	7:45.50	Aleksandr Fedotkin (BLR)

12 Mar 1978, Milan ITA

G	7:49.5	Markus Ryffel (SUI)
S	7:49.9	Emile Puttemans (BEL)
B	7:50.08	Jörg Peter (GER)

13 Mar 1977, San Sebastian ESP

G	7:57.7	Karl Fleschen (GER)
S	7:59.3	Pekka Paivarinta (FIN)
B	8:00.3	Markus Ryffel (SUI)

22 Feb 1976, Munich GER

G	8:01.6	Ingo Sensburg (GER)
S	8:02.0	Jozef Ziubrak (POL)
B	8:02.2	Raymond Smedley (ENG)

09 Mar 1975, Katowice POL

G	7:58.6	Ian Stewart (SCO)
S	7:58.6	Pekka Paivarinta (FIN)
B	8:01.2	Boris Kuznetzov (RUS)

10 Mar 1974, Göteborg SWE

G	7:48.48	Emile Puttemans (BEL)
S	7:51.76	Paul Thijs (BEL)
B	7:51.79	Pavel Penkava (CZE)

11 Mar 1973, Rotterdam NED

G	7:44.51	Emile Puttemans (BEL)
S	7:51.86	Willy Polleunis (BEL)
B	7:52.97	Pekka Paivarinta (FIN)

12 Mar 1972, Grenoble FRA

G	8:02.85	Juris Grustins (LAT)
S	8:03.20	Yuriy Aleksashin (RUS)
B	8:05.07	Ulrich Brugger (GER)

14 Mar 1971, Sofia BUL

G	7:53.6	Peter Stewart (GBR)
S	7:54.4	Wilfried Scholz (GER)
B	8:01.2	Yuriy Aleksashin (RUS)

15 Mar 1970, Vienna AUT

G	7:46.85	Richard Wilde (ENG)
S	7:49.6	Harald Norpoth (GER)
B	7:52.6	Javier Alvarez (ESP)

09 Mar 1969, Belgrade SER

G	7:55.4	Ian Stewart (SCO)
S	7:56.2	Javier Alvarez (ESP)
B	7:56.8	Werner Girke (GER)

Mar 1968, Madrid ESP

G	8:10.22	Viktor Kudinskiy (RUS)
S	8:11.0	Bernd Diessner (GER)
B	8:11.8	Wolfgang Zur (GER)

12 Mar 1967, Prague CZE

G	7:58.6	Werner Girke (GER)
S	7:59.0	Rashid Sharafetdinov (RUS)
B	8:00.6	Lajos Mecser (HUN)

27 Mar 1966, Dortmund GER

G	7:56.0	Harald Norpoth (GER)
S	7:57.2	Hermann Siegfried (GER)
B	8:05.0	Istvan Kiss (HUN)

Notes: 1966 was the inaugural year. For 1966-69, these were known as the European Indoor Games.

Medal Count by Country

Men
      G   S   B  Score
GER   8   7   7    68
GBR   7   2   3    44
ESP   5   4   7    39
BEL   3   4   0    23
RUS   1   3   6    20
SUI   2   2   1    17
FRA   1   3   2    16
ITA   2   2   0    16
IRL   2   0   0    10
FIN   0   2   1     7
AUT   1   0   0     5
LAT   1   0   0     5
SVK   1   0   0     5
YUG   1   0   0     5
POR   0   1   1     4
AZE   0   1   0     3
BUL   0   1   0     3
NED   0   1   0     3
POL   0   1   0     3
ROM   0   1   0     3
HUN   0   0   2     2
BLR   0   0   1     1
CRO   0   0   1     1
CZE   0   0   1     1
GRE   0   0   1     1
TUR   0   0   1     1

Women
      G   S   B  Score
ROM   3   3   1    25
GBR   2   2   3    19
NED   3   1   0    18
POR   2   3   0    17
GER   2   1   3    16
POL   2   1   2    15
ITA   2   1   1    14
RUS   1   2   2    13
ESP   1   1   3    11
TUR   1   1   0     8
UKR   0   2   0     6
SWE   0   1   0     3
AUT   0   0   1     1
CZE   0   0   1     1
IRL   0   0   1     1
LTU   0   0   1     1

Note: scoring is G = 5, S = 3, B = 1

Multiple Medal Winners

Men
13  Emile Puttemans (BEL)       G (1973) G (1974) S (1978)
12  John Mayock (ENG)           S (1992) G (1998) B (2000) S (2005) 
11  Markus Ryffel (SUI)         B (1977) G (1978) G (1979)
11  Karl Fleschen (GER)         G (1977) G (1980) B (1984)
11  Jose Luis Gonzalez (ESP)    G (1987) G (1988) B (1992)
10  Ian Stewart (SCO)           G (1969) G (1975)
10  Mohammed Farah (ENG)        G (2009) G (2011)
 8  Harald Norpoth (GER)        G (1966) S (1970)
 8  Dieter Baumann (GER)        S (1987) G (1989)
 7  Pekka Paivarinta (FIN)      B (1973) S (1975) S (1977)
 6  Werner Girke (GER)          G (1967) B (1969)
 6  Alberto Garcia (ESP)        B (1998) G (2002)
 6  Bouabdellah Tahri (FRA)     S (2007) S (2009)
 5  Valeriy Abramov (RUS)       B (1981) B (1982) S (1983)
 4  Javier Alvarez (ESP)        S (1969) B (1970)
 4  Yuriy Aleksashin (RUS)      B (1971) S (1972)
 4  Jacque Carlier (FRA)        B (1989) S (1990)
 3  Jesus España (ESP)          B (2002) B (2007) B (2009)

Women
18  Elly vanHulst (NED)         S (1987) G (1988) G (1989) G (1990)
14  Lidia Chojecka (POL)        S (2000) G (2005) G (2007) B (2011)
13  Agnese Possamai (ITA)       G (1982) S (1983) G (1985)
13  Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)      G (1994) G (1996) S (1998)
10  Gabriela Szabo (ROM)        G (1998) G (2000)
 9  Yvonne Murray (SCO)         B (1985) S (1986) G (1987)
 9  Margareta Keszeg (ROM)      B (1990) G (1992) S (1994)
 9  Marta Dominguez (ESP)       B (1996) B (1998) B (2000) G (2002) S(2007)
 6  Brigitte Kraus (GER)        G (1984) B (1987)

Prize Money (ADR qualified runners)
No prize money has been awarded at these championships according to available information.

Competitive Level (1998-date)

Year     Men   Women
2011     541     552
2009     659     686 
2007     618     697 
2005     568     814  
2002     687     784
2000     653     848
1998     648     821

Race Time Bias (sec/km)

Year     Men   Women
2011    +0.3    +0.5
2009    -2.3    -2.7
2007    +3.6    -3.4
2005    -0.9    -2.1
2002    -1.5    -2.3
2000    -1.3    -1.5
1998    -1.1    -1.0
1996    -1.9    -4.6
1994     n/c    -3.3
1992    -0.5    +0.8
1990    -1.0     n/c
1989    +1.1     n/c
1988    +0.8     n/c
1987    -0.0    -0.7
1986    +1.6     n/c
1985    +7.1     n/c
1984    +0.5     n/c
1983    +2.2     n/c
1982    +0.9     n/c
....
1979    -1.4     
1978    +0.5     
....
1976    +1.7
1975    +2.7     
1974    -1.3     
1973    -0.7
....
1970    -2.6     
1969    -1.8
....
1966    -0.9   

Note: Averages and extremes are not indicated since venues differ.

Quality Performances

Men
<7:45       6
<7:50      30
<7:55     129
<8:00     294
<8:05     465
<8:10     532

Women
<8:40       1
<8:50      23
<9:00      92
<9:10     189
<9:20     234
<9:30     244

Note: includes heats

Last Updated on 06 Mar 2011

Contributors: Phil Minshull, Mark Butler, Meric Tafolar, Franco Civai (6), Juraj Gasparovic (13)