2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships

The Men's 3000 metres event at the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on March 6–7.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mo Farah Great Britain	Bouabdellah Tahri France	Jesús España Spain

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	7:52.58	Q
2	1	Sergio Sánchez	Spain	7:52.75	Q
3	1	Selim Bayrak	Turkey	7:52.93	Q
4	1	Nick McCormick	Great Britain	7:53.35	Q
5	1	Mark Draper	Great Britain	7:53.91	q, PB
6	1	Gezachw Yossef	Israel	7:59.44	q, PB
7	1	Albert Minczér	Hungary	8:00.94	q
8	2	Olle Walleräng	Sweden	8:02.09	Q
9	2	Jesús España	Spain	8:02.99	Q
10	2	Mo Farah	Great Britain	8:03.26	Q
11	2	Francisco España	Spain	8:03.96	Q
12	2	Martin Pröll	Austria	8:04.84	q
13	1	Oskar Käck	Sweden	8:05.42
14	1	Noureddine Smaïl	France	8:07.17
15	1	Martin Steinbauer	Austria	8:08.03
16	2	Tiidrek Nurme	Estonia	8:08.81
17	2	Willem Van Hoof	Belgium	8:10.07
18	2	Aleksandr Orlov	Russia	8:12.12
19	2	Johan Wallerstein	Sweden	8:12.65
20	2	Ali Topkara	Turkey	8:23.57
	1	Yuri Floriani	Italy	DNF
	1	Serhiy Lebid	Ukraine	DNF
	2	Mohamed-Khaled Belabbas	France	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mo Farah	Great Britain	7:40.17
	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	7:42.14
	Jesús España	Spain	7:43.29	SB
4	Sergio Sánchez	Spain	7:45.29
5	Selim Bayrak	Turkey	7:45.46	NR
6	Nick McCormick	Great Britain	7:52.07
7	Olle Walleräng	Sweden	7:56.44
8	Gezachw Yossef	Israel	8:01.78
9	Francisco España	Spain	8:03.45
10	Martin Pröll	Austria	8:04.03
11	Mark Draper	Great Britain	8:10.19
12	Albert Minczér	Hungary	8:10.55