2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships

The Men's 3000 metres event at the 2004 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 5–6.

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bernard Lagat Kenya	Rui Silva Portugal	Markos Geneti Ethiopia

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	7:47.70	Q
2	2	Craig Mottram	Australia	7:48.09	Q, NR
3	2	Abiyote Abate	Ethiopia	7:48.25	Q
4	2	Sergio Gallardo	Spain	7:48.27	Q, PB
5	2	Serhiy Lebid	Ukraine	7:48.28	q
6	2	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	7:48.38	q
7	2	Mohammed Amyn	Morocco	7:49.92	q
8	1	Markos Geneti	Ethiopia	7:52.08	Q
9	1	Rui Silva	Portugal	7:52.14	Q
10	1	Antonio David Jiménez	Spain	7:52.25	Q
11	1	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	7:52.75	Q
12	1	Hicham Bellani	Morocco	7:53.10	q
13	1	Boaz Kisang Cheboiywo	Kenya	7:53.69
14	1	Bolota Asmerom	United States	7:53.86
15	1	Vyacheslav Shabunin	Russia	7:53.92	SB
16	1	John Mayock	Great Britain	7:54.41
17	2	Jonathon Riley	United States	7:55.58	SB
18	1	Khoudir Aggoune	Algeria	7:55.94	SB
19	2	Günther Weidlinger	Austria	7:59.92
20	2	Thomas Mayo	Great Britain	8:03.88
21	1	Euclides Varela	Cape Verde	8:19.17	NR
22	2	Ajmal Amirov	Tajikistan	8:38.37
	1	Dieudonné Disi	Rwanda	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	7:56.34
	Rui Silva	Portugal	7:57.08
	Markos Geneti	Ethiopia	7:57.87
4	Antonio David Jiménez	Spain	7:58.23
5	Sergio Gallardo	Spain	7:58.96
6	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	8:02.86
7	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	8:03.34
8	Mohammed Amyn	Morocco	8:03.50
9	Hicham Bellani	Morocco	8:03.73
10	Craig Mottram	Australia	8:03.82
11	Abiyote Abate	Ethiopia	8:09.71
12	Serhiy Lebid	Ukraine	8:14.32