1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
60 m hurdles	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Heptathlon	men
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The men's 3000 metres event at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 7–9.

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Haile Gebrselassie  Ethiopia	Paul Bitok  Kenya	Ismaïl Sghyr  Morocco

Results[]

Heats[]

First 4 of each heat (Q) and next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the final.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	7:50.14	Q
2	2	Ismaïl Sghyr	Morocco	7:50.42	Q
3	2	Paul Bitok	Kenya	7:51.53	Q
4	2	John Mayock	Great Britain	7:51.69	Q
5	2	Saïd Chébili	France	7:52.55	q, PB
6	2		Italy	7:52.60	q
7	1	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	7:52.72	Q
8	2	Anacleto Jiménez	Spain	7:52.95	q, SB
9	1	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	7:52.98	Q
10	2		Russia	7:53.99	q
11	1	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	7:53.24	Q
12	1	El Hassan Lahssini	Morocco	7:53.53	Q
13	1	Carlos García	Spain	7:54.01
14	2		Finland	7:54.07
15	1	Robert K. Andersen	Denmark	7:54.72
16	1	Kamiel Maase	Netherlands	7:54.79	PB
17	1		Great Britain	7:56.30	PB
18	2		Canada	7:56.75
19	1	Reuben Reina	United States	7:57.00
20	2	Ahmed Ibrahim Warsama	Qatar	8:00.64
21	1	Mark Ostendarp	Germany	8:02.47
22	2		Sweden	8:04.29
23	1	Mark Carroll	Ireland	8:05.49
24	2	Réda Benzine	Algeria	8:05.55
25	1	Cândido Maia	Portugal	8:06.58
26	1		Tanzania	8:18.28
27	2	Marc Davis	United States	8:20.37

Final[]

^[2]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	7:34.71	CR
	Paul Bitok	Kenya	7:38.84
	Ismaïl Sghyr	Morocco	7:40.01
4	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	7:41.05	NR
5	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	7:41.87
6	John Mayock	Great Britain	7:44.31
7	Fita Bayisa	Ethiopia	7:49.47
8	El Hassan Lahssini	Morocco	7:50.54
9	Anacleto Jiménez	Spain	7:52.55	SB
10		Russia	7:56.38
11	Saïd Chébili	France	7:58.57
12		Italy	8:10.49

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