European Indoor Championships 3000 meters

Dates/Venues (32 meetings)

Men

Women

Venue

03 Mar 2007

04 Mar 2007

Birmingham ENG

05 Mar 2005

06 Mar 2005

Madrid ESP

02 Mar 2002

03 Mar 2002

Vienna AUT

27 Feb 2000

27 Feb 2000

Ghent BEL

01 Mar 1998

01 Mar 1998

Valencia ESP

10 Mar 1996

09 Mar 1996

Stockholm SWE

12 Mar 1994

12 Mar 1994

Paris FRA

01 Mar 1992

01 Mar 1992

Genoa ITA

03 Mar 1990

03 Mar 1990

Glasgow SCO

19 Feb 1989

19 Feb 1989

The Hague NED

06 Mar 1988

06 Mar 1988

Budapest HUN

21 Feb 1987

21 Feb 1987

Lievin FRA

23 Feb 1986

23 Feb 1986

Madrid ESP

02 Mar 1985

02 Mar 1985

Piraeus GRE

04 Mar 1984

04 Mar 1984

Göteborg SWE

05 Mar 1983

05 Mar 1983

Budapest HUN

07 Mar 1982

06 Mar 1982

Milan ITA

22 Feb 1981

  Grenoble FRA

02 Mar 1980

Sindelfingen GER

25 Feb 1979

Vienna AUT

12 Mar 1978

Milan ITA

13 Mar 1977

San Sebastian ESP

Feb 1976

Munich GER

Mar 1975

Katowice POL

10 Mar 1974

Göteborg SWE

Mar 1973

Rotterdam NED

Mar 1972

Grenoble FRA

14 Mar 1971

Sofia BUL

15 Mar 1970

Vienna AUT

09 Mar 1969

Belgrade YUG

Mar 1968

Madrid ESP

12 Mar 1967

Prague CZE

27 Mar 1966

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

Medalists

2007

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)

2005

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)

2002

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)

2000

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)

1998

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)

1996

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)

1994

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)

1992

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)

1990

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)

1989

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)

1988

G

7:55.29

Jose Luis Gonzalez (ESP)

8:44.30

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)

1987

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)

1986

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)

1985

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)

1984

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)

1983

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)

1982

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)

1981

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.

1980

G

7:57.5

Karl Fleschen (GER)

S

7:57.9

Klaas Lok (NED)

B

7:59.9

Hans-Jurgen Orthman (GER)

1979

G

7:44.43

Markus Ryffel (SUI)

S

7:45.44

Christoph Herle (GER)

B

7:45.50

Aleksandr Fedotkin (BLR)

1978

G

7:49.5

Markus Ryffel (SUI)

S

7:49.9

Emile Puttemans (BEL)

B

7:50.08

Jörg Peter (GER)

1977

G

7:57.7

Karl Fleschen (GER)

S

7:59.3

Pekka Paivarinta (FIN)

B

8:00.3

Markus Ryffel (SUI)

1976

G

8:01.6

Ingo Sensburg (GER)

S

8:02.0

Jozef Ziubrak (POL)

B

8:02.2

Raymond Smedley (ENG)

1975

G

7:58.6

Ian Stewart (SCO)

S

7:58.6

Pekka Paivarinta (FIN)

B

8:01.2

Boris Kuznetzov (RUS)

1974

G

7:48.48

Emile Puttemans (BEL)

S

7:51.76

Paul Thijs (BEL)

B

7:51.79

Pavel Penkava (CZE)

1973

G

7:44.6

Emile Puttemans (BEL)

S

7:51.86

Willy Polleunis (BEL)

B

7:52.97

Pekka Paivarinta (FIN)

1972

G

8:02.85

Juris Grustins (LAT)

S

8:03.20

Yuriy Aleksashin (RUS)

B

8:05.07

Ulrich Brugger (GER)

1971

G

7:53.6

Peter Stewart (GBR)

S

7:54.4

Wilfried Scholz (GER)

B

8:01.2

Yuriy Aleksashin (RUS)

1970

G

7:46.85

Richard Wilde (ENG)

S

7:49.6

Harald Norpoth (GER)

B

7:52.6

Javier Alvarez (ESP)

1969

G

7:55.4

Ian Stewart (SCO)

S

7:56.2

Javier Alvarez (ESP)

B

7:56.8

Werner Girke (GER)

1968

G

8:10.22

Viktor Kudinskiy (RUS)

S

8:11.0

Bernd Diessner (GER)

B

8:11.8

Wolfgang Zur (GER)

1967

G

7:58.6

Werner Girke (GER)

S

7:59.0

Rashid Sharafetdinov (RUS)

B

8:00.6

Lajos Mecser (HUN)

1966

G

7:56.0

Harald Norpoth (GER)

S

7:57.2

Hermann Siegfried (GER)

B

8:05.0

Istvan Kiss (HUN)

Medal Count by Country

Men
      G   S   B  Score
GER   8   7   7    68
ESP   5   4   6    38
GBR   5   2   3    34
BEL   3   4   0    23
RUS   1   3   6    20
SUI   2   2   1    17
ITA   2   2   0    16
FRA   1   2   2    13
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
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


Women
      G   S   B  Score
ROM   3   3   1    25
NED   3   1   0    18
GER   2   1   3    16
POR   2   2   0    14
ITA   2   1   1    14
POL   2   1   1    14
GBR   1   2   3    14
ESP   1   1   3    11
RUS   1   1   2    10
UKR   0   2   0     6
SWE   0   1   0     3
TUR   0   1   0     3
AUT   0   0   1     1
CZE   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)
 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)
 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)
 2  Jesus España (ESP)          B (2002) B (2007)

Women
18  Elly vanHulst (NED)         S (1987) G (1988) G (1989) G (1990)
13  Agnese Possamai (ITA)       G (1982) S (1983) G (1985)
13  Fernanda Ribeiro (POR)      G (1994) G (1996) S (1998)
13  Lidia Chojecka (POL)        S (2000) G (2005) G (2007)
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
2007     618     697 
2005     568     814  
2002     687     784
2000     653     848
1998     648     821

Race Time Bias (sec/km)

Year     Men   Women
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    -1.8     n/c
1990    -1.0     n/c
....
1987    -0.0     n/c
1986    +1.6     n/c
1985    +5.1     n/c
....
1982    -1.2     n/c
....
1979    -3.9     
1978    -1.3     
....
1976    +1.7
1975    +1.5     
1974    -1.3     
1973    -2.3
....
1970    -2.6     
1969    -1.8
....
1966    -0.9     

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

Quality Performances

Men
<7:45       3
<7:50      25
<7:55      97
<8:00     210
<8:05     287
<8:10     318

Women
<8:40       1
<8:50      19
<9:00      70
<9:10     129
<9:20     159
<9:30     174

Note: includes heats


Last Updated on 04 Mar 2007

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