National Records- 3000 meters Outdoor Track
Men
_ww 7:20.67 Daniel Komen 01 Sep 1996 Rieti ITA
ALB 8:17.8 Krenar Mecani 21 Jun 1989 Tirana ALB
ALG 7:25.02 Ali Saidi-Sief 18 Aug 2000 Monte Carlo MON
AND 8:03.69 Antoni Bernado 26 May 2007 Palafrugell ESP
ANG 7:58.50 Joao n'Tyamba 03 Mar 1996 San Diego CA/USA
ARG 7:50.15 Antonio Silio 03 Sep 1990 Jerez ESP
ARM 8:09.8 Artashes Mikoyan 17 Jul 1976 Tiraspol MDA
ARU 8:24.8 Kim Reynierse 06 Jul 1988 Middelburg NED
AUS 7:32.19 Craig Mottram 17 Sep 2006 Athens GRE
AUT 7:43.66 Dietmar Millonig 15 Aug 1980 Lausanne SUI
BDI 7:34.03 Venuste Niyongabo 16 Aug 1996 Koln GER
BEL 7:26.62 Mohammed Mourhit 18 Aug 2000 Monte Carlo MON
BIH 8:07.15 Vinko Pokrajcic 02 Jun 1981 Maribor SLO
BLR 7:46.3 Aleksandr Fedotkin 24 Jun 1978 Vilnius LTU
BOL 8:35.05 César Fernández 25 Apr 2007 Santiago CHI
BOT 7:51.8 Matthews Motswarateu 15 Feb 1979 Stellenbosch RSA
BRA 7:39.70 Hudson deSouza 02 Jul 2002 Lausanne SUI
BRN 7:35.99 Salim Jawher 25 Jul 2007 Fontvielle MON
BRU 9:48.21 Hj Mohd Syahmi Fakrullah 15 May 2007 Darwin AUS
BUL 7:46.34 Evgeni Ignatov 04 Jul 1987 Oslo NOR
CAN 7:41.61 Kevin Sullivan 22 Jul 2008 Stockholm SWE
CHI 7:54.39 Mauricio Diaz 20 Aug 2002 San Sebastian ESP
CHN 7:56.19 Guo-wei Zhang 23 Jun 1987 Prague CZE
COD 7:57.52 Patrick n'Tambwe 11 Jun 2002 Sotteville FRA
COL 7:53.8 Victor Manuel Mora 18 Jun 1976 Firenze ITA
COM 8:21.82 Mohamed Ahmed 07 May 1995 Aix-les-Bains FRA
CRC 8:07.3 Eric Quiros 29 May 2001 Richmond CAN
CRO 7:48.72 Branco Zorko 01 Jun 1998 Hengelo NED
CUB 8:05.6 Jose Cobo 16 Jun 1977 Budapest HUN
CYP 7:59.11 Marios Kassianidis 01 Sep 1982 Athens GRE
CZE 7:46.72 Jan Pesava 27 Jun 1998 St Petersburg RUS
DEN 7:43.78 Mogens Guldberg 13 Sep 1989 Jerez ESP
DJI 7:54.95 Ibrahim Ali Foulier 24 Jun 1998 Saint Maur FRA
DMA 8:03.05 Stephen Agar 25 Jun 1995 Kitchener CAN
ECU 7:54.69 Byron Piedra 14 Jun 2008 Iquique CHI
EGY 8:24.0 Abdel Hamid Khamis 28 Mar 1969 Alexandria EGY
ENG 7:32.79 Dave Moorcroft 17 Jul 1982 London ENG
ERI 7:39.93 Tadesse Zerisenay 13 May 2005 Doha QAT
ESP 7:29.34 Isaac Viciosa 09 Jul 1998 Oslo NOR
EST 7:48.94 Toomas Turb 29 Jul 1981 Budapest HUN
ETH 7:25.09 Haile Gebreselasie 28 Aug 1998 Brussels BEL
FIJ 8:13.6 Usaia Sotutu 04 Jul 1971 Celje SLO
FIN 7:43.2 Lasse Viren 27 Jul 1972 Oulu FIN
7:43.20 Ari Paunonen 22 Jun 1977 Koln GER
FRA 7:30.78 Mustapha Essaid 08 Aug 1998 Monte Carlo MON
GBR 7:32.79 Dave Moorcroft 17 Jul 1982 London ENG
GBS 8:59.43 Raffik Baldé 31 May 2008 Lisbon POR
GEO 7:56.10 Oleg Strizhakov 09 Jun 1984 Sochi RUS
GER 7:30.50 Dieter Baumann 08 Aug 1998 Monte Carlo MON
GRE 7:44.26 Panayiotis Papoulias 12 Jul 1996 Bellinzona SUI
GRL 8:09.5 Kim Godtfredsen 27 Aug 1996 Copenhagen DEN
GUA 8:05.99 Ivan Gomez 25 Jun 1995 Kitchener CAN
GUE 8:00.51 Lee Merrien 28 Jul 2006 Leverkusen GER
HUN 7:47.4 Gabor Szabo 15 Sep 1983 Debrecen HUN
INA 8:35.19 Eduardus Nabunome 28 Sep 1988 Seoul KOR
IND 7:56.74 Bahadur Prasad 05 Jul 1992 London ENG
IRI 8:07.05 Mehdi Zarenezhad 12 Jul 2002 Budapest HUN
IRL 7:30.36 Mark Carroll 04 Aug 1999 Monte Carlo MON
ISL 8:05.63 Jon Didriksson 28 Aug 1983 Cologne GER
ISR 7:55.0 Dov Kremer 25 Jun 1988 Aalst BEL
ITA 7:39.54 Gennaro diNapoli 18 May 1996 Formia ITA
JAM 7:55.78 Mark Elliott 24 Jun 1989 Lucerne SUI
JOR 8:25.4 Awad Hasini 17 Aug 1994 Kandel GER
JPN 7:41.87 Toshinari Takaoka 28 May 1999 Seville ESP
KAZ 7:48.35 Sergey Navolokin 14 Jul 1982 Klagenfurt AUT
KEN 7:20.67 Daniel Komen 01 Sep 1996 Rieti ITA
KGZ 8:05.98 Denis Bagrev 09 Jul 2004 Kazan RUS
KOR 8:13.12 Chung-Woo Hong 25 Jun 2003 Fukugawa JPN
LAO 10:11.54 Khammouaoue Javue 23 Feb 2007 Vientiane LAO
LAT 8:00.88 Martins Alksnis 25 Jun 2002 Warsaw POL
LBA 8:16.13 Ali Zaied 02 Jun 1996 Banska Bystrica SVK
LES 8:02.27 Thabang Baholo 16 Oct 1990 Port Elizabeth RSA
LIE 8:10.63 Guenther Hasler 01 May 1976 Zug SUI
LTU 7:46.2 Romas Sausaltis 19 Jun 1982 Podolsk RUS
LUX 7:54.2 Justin Gloden 09 Jul 1982 Troisdorf GER
MAR 7:23.09 Hicham El Guerrouj 03 Sep 1999 Brussels BEL
MDA 7:52.5 Anatoliy Mamontov 28 Apr 1980 Sochi RUS
MEX 7:35.71 Arturo Barrios 10 Jul 1989 Nice FRA
MNE 8:09.33 Goran Stojilkovic 06 Sep 2002 Barcelona ESP
MRI 8:10.23 Guyto-Jean Cesar 18 Jun 1988 Querqueville MRI
NAM 8:13.86 Ruben Indongo 09 Jun 2004 Saint Maur FRA
NCL 8:13.2 Alain Lazare 06 Oct 1979 Noumea NCL
NED 7:37.48 Gert-Jan Liefers 29 May 2005 Hengelo NED
NIR 7:49.1 Paul Lawther 27 Jun 1978 Oslo NOR
NOR 7:40.77 Marius Bakken 24 Aug 2001 Brussels BEL
NZL 7:37.49 John Walker 17 Jul 1982 London ENG
PAK 8:05.65 Muhammad Younis 18 Sep 1971 Dormagen GER
PAR 8:20.4 Jorge Cabrera 25 Feb 2006 Asunción PAR
PER 7:57.95 Mario Bazan 14 Jun 2008 Iquique CHI
PHI 8:17.14 Eduardo Buenavista 26 May 2002 Manila PHI
PLE 8:02.16 Mohammed Baket 16 Aug 1996 Utrecht NED
POL 7:42.4 Bronislaw Malinowski 04 Jul 1974 Oslo NOR
POR 7:39.69 Antonio Leitao 26 Aug 1983 Brussels BEL
PRK 8:14.9 Gen-Ho Lee 13 Aug 1989 Pyongyang PRK
PUR 7:53.5 Antonio Colon 12 Jul 1976 Montreal CAN
QAT 7:30.76 Jamal Salem 13 May 2005 Doha QAT
REU 7:48.9 Jean-Louis Prianon 07 Aug 1985 St Maur FRA
ROM 7:53.19 Valentin Coroja 18 Jun 1989 Warsaw POL
RSA 7:41.06 Juan vanDeventer 22 Jul 2008 Stockholm SWE
RUS 7:39.24 Vyacheslav Shabunin 12 Jul 1995 Nice FRA
RWA 7:41.64 Mathias Ntawulikuri 16 Aug 1992 Koln GER
SAU 7:44.57 Alyan Al Qahtani 16 Aug 1996 Koln GER
SCO 7:43.90 Ian Stewart 26 Jun 1982 Oslo NOR
SER 7:40.49 Dragan Zdravkovic 09 Jul 1983 Oslo NOR
SLO 7:51.35 Stanko Lisec 06 Jul 1978 Goteborg SWE
SOM 7:42.18 Abdi Bile 21 Aug 1994 Cologne GER
SRI 8:09.68 Chaminda Wijekoon 12 Feb 2006 Colombo SRI
STV 9:11.19 Delohmmi Samuel 08 Apr 2007 Providenciales TKS
SUD 7:48.03 Omar Khalifa 11 Jul 1987 Formia ITA
SUI 7:41.00 Markus Ryffel 18 Jul 1979 Lausanne SUI
SVK 7:46.83 Robert Stefko 14 Jun 1997 Sopot POL
SWE 7:42.24 Dan Glans 05 Jul 1979 Oslo NOR
SWZ 7:57.53 Sipho Dlamini 23 Jul 1994 Nivelles BEL
TAN 7:39.27 Filbert Bayi 01 Jul 1980 Oslo NOR
THA 8:17.89 Boonthung Srisung 19 Jun 2007 Bangkok THA
TJK 7:57.03 Yevgeniy Stakanov 09 Jul 2004 Kazan RUS
TKM 8:07.44 Marly Sopyev 07 Jun 1996 Moscow RUS
TKS 10:17.94 Robert Jennings 08 Apr 2007 Providenciales TKS
TUN 7:46.17 Fethi Baccouche 22 Jul 1986 Paris FRA
TUR 7:47.52 Zeki Ozturk 21 Jul 1990 Udine ITA
UAE 8:13.88 Mohamed Ahmed Amer 03 Jul 1992 Betzdorf GER
UGA 7:32.03 Moses Kipsiro 25 Jul 2007 Fontvielle MON
UKR 7:35.06 Sergey Lebed 19 Jul 2002 Monte Carlo MON
URU 7:56.88 Ricardo Vera 13 Jun 1989 Pontevedra ESP
USA 7:30.84 Robert Kennedy 08 Aug 1998 Monte Carlo MON
UZB 8:12.49 Ruslan Nazipov 09 Jul 2004 Kazan RUS
VEN 7:47.18 Fred Gonzalez 14 Aug 1982 Nice FRA
VIE 8:49.97 Nguyen Dang Duc Bao 30 Jun 2008 Hanoi VIE
WAL 7:46.40 Ian Hamer 20 Jan 1990 Auckland NZL
ZAM 7:49.51 Tony Wamulwa 06 Jun 2008 Turin ITA
ZIM 7:42.06 Phillimon Hanneck 18 Jul 1992 Hechtel BEL
Women
_ww 8:06.11 Jun-xia Wang 13 Sep 1993 Beijing CHN
ALB 9:14.2 Pavlina Evro 19 Oct 1986 Tirana ALB
ALG 8:47.99 Souad ait-Salem 22 Jun 2006 Algiers ALG
ANG 9:28.35 Rosa Saul 22 May 2004 l'Hospitalet de Llobreget ESP
ARG 9:11.68 Valeria Rodriguez 15 Mar 2003 Mar del Plata ARG
AUS 8:38.06 Benita Willis 13 Jul 2003 Gateshead ENG
AUT 8:47.04 Susanne Pumper 08 Aug 2000 Linz AUT
AZE 9:11.6 Tatyana Gridnyeva 26 May 1981 Kishinyov RUS
BAN 11:08.2 Halima Khanum Bithi 04 Mar 2003 Mirpur BAN
BDI 9:13.47 Anesie Kwizera Aug 2003 Garoua CMR
BEL 8:49.31 Veerle Dejaeghere 15 Jun 2000 Helsinki FIN
BIH 9:05.42 Marica Mrsic 25 Jun 1983 Izmir TUR
BLR 8:32.89 Alesya Turova 06 Jul 2001 St Denis FRA
BOL 9:16.03 Niusha Carmen Mancilla 08 Jun 2002 Seville ESP
BRA 9:02.37 Delirde Maria Bernardi 04 Jul 1994 Linz AUT
BRN 8:28.87 Maryam Yusuf Jamal 29 Jul 2005 Oslo NOR
BUL 8:30.59 Daniela Yordanova 06 Jul 2001 St Denis FRA
CAN 8:32.17 Angela Chalmers 23 Aug 1994 Victoria CAN
CAY 9:35.52 Michele Bush 16 Aug 1987 Indianapolis IN/USA
CHI 9:15.31 Alejandra Ramos 28 Jun 1992 Valencia CHI
CHN 8:06.11 Jun-xia Wang 13 Sep 1993 Beijing CHN
CMR 9:15.43 Florence Djepe 25 May 2002 Lisbon POR
COL 9:19.04 Bertha Sanchez 27 May 2006 Ponce PUR
CRC 9:54.01 Shirley Cespedes 24 Mar 1993 Gaineville FL/USA
CRO 9:12.33 Liljana Culibrk 01 Jun 2004 Rijeka CRO
CUB 9:20.1 Yesenia Centeno 09 Oct 1993 Havana CUB
CYP 9:02.18 Andri Avraam 23 Sep 1988 Seoul KOR
CZE 8:52.05 Andrea Suldesova 30 Aug 1998 Rieti ITA
DEN 8:42.3 Loa Olafsson 27 Jun 1978 Oslo NOR
ECU 9:21.70 Marie Elena Calle 22 Apr 1999 Philadelphia PA/USA
ENG 8:22.20 Paula Radcliffe 19 Jul 2002 Monte Carlo MON
ERI 9:25.54 Nebiat Habtemariam 25 Jul 2001 Barcelona ESP
ESP 8:28.80 Marta Dominguez 11 Aug 2000 Zürich SUI
EST 8:55.75 Ille Kukk 08 Sep 1984 Donyetsk UKR
ETH 8:24.66 Meseret Defar 25 Jul 2006 Stockholm SWE
FIN 8:41.30 Paivi Tikkanen 26 Aug 1991 Tokyo JPN
FRA 8:35.41 Bouchra Ghezielle 01 Jul 2005 Paris FRA
GBR 8:22.20 Paula Radcliffe 19 Jul 2002 Monte Carlo MON
GBS 11:02.48 Aparecida Mendes 19 Jan 2008 Lagos POR
GEO 9:06.64 Elena Shapovalova 18 Jun 1983 Moscow RUS
GER 8:30.39 Irina Mikitenko 11 Aug 2000 Zürich SUI
GRE 8:55.77 Constantina Efentaki 23 Aug 2005 Linz AUT
GUA 9:42.33 Elsa Elizabeth Monterosso 29 Oct 1994 Mar del Plata ARG
HKG 9:14.00 Maggie (Man-yee) Chan 16 Apr 1999 Walnut CA/USA
HUN 8:32.70 Katalin Szentgyörgy 06 Jul 2001 St Denis FRA
INA 9:30.17 Supriati Sutono 08 Jun 1998 Manila PHI
IND 9:06.42 Molly Chacko 11 Oct 1994 Hiroshima JPN
IRI 10:30.29 Leila Ebrahimi 09 Sep 2007 IRI
IRL 8:21.64 Sonia O'Sullivan 15 Jul 1994 London GBR
IRQ 9:29.9 Maisaa Hussein 27 Aug 1993 Bagdad IRQ
ISL 8:58.00 Ragnheidur Olafsdottir 04 Jun 1987 Baton Rouge LA/USA
ISR 9:19.52 Nili Avramski 22 Jun 2002 Belgrade YUG
ITA 8:35.65 Roberta Brunet 16 Aug 1997 Monte Carlo MON
JAM 8:37.07 Yvonne Graham 16 Aug 1995 Zurich SUI
JPN 8:44.40 Kayoko Fukushi 05 Jul 2002 St Denis FRA
KAZ 8:48.2 Natalya Sorokivaskaya 20 Aug 1988 Odessa UKR
KEN 8:23.23 Edith Masai 19 Jul 2002 Monte Carlo MON
KGZ 9:05.18 Irina Bogacheva 17 Jul 1987 Bryansk RUS
KOR 9:00.3 Young-Im Jung 19 Sep 1992 Seoul KOR
LAT 8:42.86 Jelena Prokopchuka 25 Jul 2006 Stockholm SWE
LIB 10:34.73 Maria Pia Nehme 03 Mar 2007 Beyrouth LIB
LIE 9:23.12 Helen Ritter 29 Aug 1984 Koblenz GER
LTU 8:39.25 Regina Chistyakova 06 Jul 1986 Moscow RUS
LUX 9:12.87 Daniele Kaber 06 Aug 1986 Koblenz GER
MAR 8:26.48 Zhara Ouaziz 11 Aug 1999 Zurich SUI
MAS 9:18.42 Jayanthi Palaniappan 14 Aug 1993 Stuttgart GER
MAW 9:11.89 Catherine Chikwakwa 25 Jul 2006 Stockholm SWE
MDA 8:29.36 Svetlana Guskova 25 Jul 1982 Kiev UKR
MDV 12:18.6 Fathimath Hashma 28 Dec 2005 Male MDV
MEX 8:53.53 Adriana Fernandez 25 Jun 2000 Portland OR/USA
MLT 9:39.97 Carol Galea 11 Jun 1994 Dublin IRL
MOZ 9:27.37 Maria Mutola 08 Jun 1991 Springfield IL/USA
MRI 9:14.37 Josiane Boulle 01 Sep 1988 Annaba ALG
MYA 9:04.56 Khin Khin Htwe 11 Oct 1994 Hiroshima JPN
NAM 9:30.98 Susilia Iikango 17 Jul 1998 Moscow RUS
NCL 9:09.44 Nadia Prasad 04 Jul 1994 Le Celle FRA
NED 8:33.97 Elly vanHulst 17 Aug 1988 Zurich SUI
NGR 9:41.28 Itsemhike Anwalimhobor 22 Mar 1989 Benin City NGR
NIR 9:18.67 Avril McClung 31 May 1984 Eugene OR/USA
NMA 12:23.2 Danbi Choi 12 May 2007 Susupi NMA
NOR 8:31.75 Grete Waitz 17 Jul 1979 Oslo NOR
NRU 14:18.9 Bianca Ika 15 Jun 2007 Bairiki KIR
NZL 8:35.31 Kimberley Smith 25 Jul 2007 Fontvielle MON
PAN 9:49.13 Andrea Ferris 29 Mar 2008 Valdivia CHI
PER 9:19.92 Jessica Quispe 11 Sep 2004 Lima PER
POL 8:31.69 Lidia Chojecka 30 Aug 2002 Brussels BEL
POR 8:30.22 Carla Sacramento 04 Aug 1999 Monte Carlo MON
PRK 8:57.63 Chun-Mae Kim 01 Oct 1990 Beijing CHN
REU 8:59.91 Chantal Dallenbach 16 Jul 1997 Nice FRA
ROM 8:21.42 Gabriela Szabo 19 Jul 2002 Monte Carlo MON
RSA 8:32:00 Elana Meyer 29 Apr 1991 Durban RSA
RUS 8:22.62 Tatiana Kazankina 26 Aug 1984 Leningrad RUS
RWA 8:59.90 Marciana Mukamurenzi 27 Jul 1991 Dijon FRA
SCO 8:29.02 Yvonne Murray 25 Sep 1988 Seoul KOR
SER 9:00.13 Sonja Stolic 06 Sep 2002 Barcelona ESP
SLO 8:50.71 Helena Javornik 08 Jul 2000 Bydgoszcz POL
STV 9:31.37 Bigna Samuel 15 Apr 1994 Walnut CA/USA
SUD 9:33.50 Hind Musa 01 Sep 2005 Tunis TUN
SUI 8:35.83 Anita Weyermann 07 Jul 1999 Rome ITA
SUR 9:15.64 Letitia Vriesde 18 May 1991 Leiden NED
SVK 8:56.49 Jana Bauckmannova 08 Jul 1986 Cork IRL
SWE 8:48.87 Sara Wedlund 29 Jun 1996 Bergen NOR
SWZ 9:59.2 Dudu Simelane 10 Jun 2007 Maputo MOZ
TAN 8:39.91 Zakia Mrisho 19 Aug 2005 Zurich SUI
TJK 8:35.74 Alla Libutina 25 Jul 1982 Kiev UKR
TKS 10:59.56 Shanrika Williams 08 Apr 2007 Providenciales TKS
TUN 8:58.92 Habiba Ghribi 10 Sep 2008 Rovereto ITA
TUR 8:31.94 Elvan Abeylegesse 30 Aug 2002 Brussels BEL
UGA 8:46.29 Dorcus Inzikuru 04 Jul 2003 Saint Denis FRA
UKR 8:26.53 Tatiana Samolenko 25 Sep 1988 Seoul KOR
USA 8:25.83 Mary Slaney 07 Sep 1985 Rome ITA
UZB 8:26.78 Svetlana Ulmasova 25 Jul 1982 Kiev UKR
VEN 9:39.76 Maria Isabel Montilla 14 Jun 2008 Iquique CHI
WAL 8:45.39 Hayley Tullett 15 Jul 2000 Gateshead ENG
YEM 12:02.79 Fatma Al-Orafi 12 Apr 2008 Amman JOR
ZIM 8:57.69 Julia Sakala 14 Aug 1993 Stuttgart GER
Last Updated on 13 Sep 2008
Contributors: Winfied Kramer, Meric Talofar, György Csiki