2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

The men's 3000 metres event at the 2000 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on February 25–27.

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mark Carroll Ireland	Rui Silva Portugal	John Mayock Great Britain

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Mohammed Mourhit	Belgium	7:54.09	Q
2	2	Mark Carroll	Ireland	7:54.86	Q
3	2	John Mayock	Great Britain	7:55.10	Q
4	2	Andrés Manuel Díaz	Spain	7:55.46	Q
5	2	Yousef El Nasri	Spain	7:56.21	q
6	2	Nadir Bosch	France	7:56.47	q
7	2	Sergey Drygin	Russia	7:56.76	q, SB
8	1	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	7:57.06	Q
9	1	Jesus de la Fuente	Spain	7:57.19	Q
10	1	Rui Silva	Portugal	7:57.27	Q
11	1	Kent Claesson	Sweden	7:57.37	Q
12	1	Miroslav Vanko	Slovakia	7:57.54	q
13	1	Christian Nemeth	Belgium	8:03.81	PB
14	1	Jan Fitschen	Germany	8:04.36
15	2	Ovidiu Olteanu	Romania	8:04.67
16	2	Harald Steindorfer	Austria	8:04.78
17	1	Rob Whalley	Great Britain	8:06.59
18	2	Martins Alksnis	Latvia	8:06.94	PB
19	1	Dmitro Baranovskiy	Ukraine	8:07.41
20	1	Sander Schutgens	Netherlands	8:13.31
21	2	Salvatore Vincenti	Italy	8:13.64
	1	Panagiotis Papoulias	Greece	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mark Carroll	Ireland	7:49.24
	Rui Silva	Portugal	7:49.70
	John Mayock	Great Britain	7:49.97	SB
4	Mohammed Mourhit	Belgium	7:49.99
5	Andrés Manuel Díaz	Spain	7:53.97	SB
6	Yousef El Nasri	Spain	7:55.37
7	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	7:55.51
8	Jesus de la Fuente	Spain	7:56.13	SB
9	Miroslav Vanko	Slovakia	7:59.52
10	Kent Claesson	Sweden	7:59.60
11	Sergey Drygin	Russia	8:05.59
	Nadir Bosch	France	DNS