2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

The men's 3000 metres event at the 2003 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 14–16.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Haile Gebrselassie  Ethiopia	Alberto García  Spain	Luke Kipkosgei  Kenya

Results

Heats

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Luke Kipkosgei	Kenya	7:47.50	Q
2	2	Abiyote Abate	Ethiopia	7:47.57	Q
3	2	Alberto García	Spain	7:50.95	Q
4	1	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	7:51.43	Q
5	2	Jaouad Gharib	Morocco	7:51.59	Q, PB
6	2	Günther Weidlinger	Austria	7:51.94	q
7	1	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	7:51.95	Q
8	1	Jesús España	Spain	7:52.41	Q
9	1	John Mayock	Great Britain	7:52.59	Q
10	1	Mohamed Khaldi	Algeria	7:53.33	q
11	1	Leonard Mucheru Maina	Kenya	7:53.41	q
12	1	Abderrahim Goumri	Morocco	7:54.02	q
13	2	Khoudir Aggoune	Algeria	7:54.59	SB
14	1	Bolota Asmerom	United States	7:55.36
15	2	Jonathon Riley	United States	8:02.94
16	1	Michael Aish	New Zealand	8:03.17
17	2	Lorenzo Perrone	Italy	8:04.00
18	2	Thomas Mayo	Great Britain	8:07.37
19	2	Wu Wen-Chien	Chinese Taipei	8:14.61
20	1	Joseph Simuchimba	Zambia	8:20.10
21	2	Euclides Varela	Cape Verde	8:29.10
22	1	Chris Votu	Solomon Islands	9:03.84
23	2	Ajmal Amirov	Tajikistan	9:04.53
	1	Mohammed Yagoub	Sudan	DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	7:40.97
	Alberto García	Spain	7:42.08
	Luke Kipkosgei	Kenya	7:42.56
4	Jesús España	Spain	7:42.70	PB
5	Abiyote Abate	Ethiopia	7:43.21
6	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	7:44.34	NR
7	Leonard Mucheru Maina	Kenya	7:44.83	SB
8	John Mayock	Great Britain	7:45.32	SB
9	Abderrahim Goumri	Morocco	7:47.43
10	Günther Weidlinger	Austria	7:53.59
11	Mohamed Khaldi	Algeria	7:56.05
12	Jaouad Gharib	Morocco	8:01.01

References

• Results