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)