Fastest run 3,000 metres (male) (indoors)

Fastest run 3,000 metres (male) (indoors)
Who
Lamecha Girma
What
7:23.81 minute(s):second(s)
Where
France (Liévin)
When
15 February 2023

The fastest run 3,000 metres (male) (indoors) is 7 minutes 23.81 seconds, by Lamecha Girma (Ethiopia) at a World Athletics Indoor Tour meeting in Liévin, France, on 15 February 2023.

Girma broke Daniel Komen’s mark of 7:24.90, which had stood for 25 years, by more than one second. He won a last-lap duel with Mohamed Katir, who also ran inside Komen’s mark. Girma, known as a 3000-m steeplechase specialist, had previously won two world championship medals and one Olympic silver in the event.