1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 3000 metres

Events at the 1998 European Athletics 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
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

The men's 3000 metres event at the 1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 27 February–1 March.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
John Mayock  Great Britain	Manuel Pancorbo  Spain	Alberto García  Spain

Results

Heats

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Alberto García	Spain	7:56.56	Q
2	2	Serhiy Lebid	Ukraine	7:57.14	Q
3	2	John Mayock	Great Britain	7:58.57	Q
4	2	Ovidiu Olteanu	Romania	7:58.99	Q
5	2	Éric Dubus	France	8:00.38	q
6	1	Massimo Pegoretti	Italy	8:01.62	Q
7	1	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	8:01.64	Q
8	1	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	8:01.76	Q
9	1	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	8:01.80	Q
10	1	Panayiotis Papoulias	Greece	8:02.01	q
11	2	Halez Taguelmint	France	8:02.21	q
12	2	Hristos Papapetrou	Cyprus	8:02.61	q
13	1	Jim Svenøy	Norway	8:03.00
14	1	Ian Gillespie	Great Britain	8:03.28
15	1	Sergey Drygin	Russia	8:12.02
16	2	Carsten Schütz	Germany	8:20.07

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	John Mayock	Great Britain	7:55.09
	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	7:55.23
	Alberto García	Spain	7:55.24
4	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	7:55.45
5	Serhiy Lebid	Ukraine	7:55.62
6	Ovidiu Olteanu	Romania	7:56.09
7	Massimo Pegoretti	Italy	7:56.27
8	Bouabdellah Tahri	France	7:59.17
9	Panayiotis Papoulias	Greece	8:01.14
10	Éric Dubus	France	8:02.36
11	Halez Taguelmint	France	8:02.99
12	Hristos Papapetrou	Cyprus	8:13.98

References

1. Results (p. 559–560)