3000 metres race walk


The 3000 metres race walk is a racewalking event. The event is competed as a track race and was part of the athletics programme for women at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics until 1993. Athletes must always keep in contact with the ground and the supporting leg must remain straight until the raised leg passes it. 3000 meters is 1.86 miles.

World records

IAAF just ratified world records for women's indoor marks. On January 30, 1999, Claudia Stef of Romania set the 3000 m race walk world indoor record in Bucharest in a time of 11:40.33. The all-time men's best 3000 m race-walk mark was also set indoors and is held by Tom Bosworth of the United Kingdom, at 10:30.28.

All-time top 25 racewalkers

RankResultAthleteNationalityDatePlaceRef
110:30.28 iTom BosworthGreat Britain25 February 2018Glasgow
210:31.42 iAndreas ErmGermany4 February 2001Halle
310:47.08Lebogang ShangeSouth Africa21 July 2018London
410:47.11Giovanni De BenedictisItaly19 May 1990San Giovanni Valdarno
510:49.33 iChristopher LinkeGermany9 February 2018Erfurt
610:52.15 iNils BrembachGermany9 February 2018Erfurt
710:52.77 iCallum WilkinsonGreat Britain25 February 2018Glasgow
810:54.61 iCarlo MattioliItaly6 February 1980Milan
910:54.70Dane Bird-SmithAustralia11 February 2017Brisbane
1010:56.22Andrew JachnoAustralia7 February 1991Melbourne
1110:56.30 iMarius ŽiukasLithuania25 February 2018Glasgow
1210:56.34Roman MrázekCzechoslovakia
Slovakia		14 Jun 1989Bratislava
1310:56.77+ iIvano BrugnettiItaly21 Feb 2009Turin
1410:56.88 iReima SalonenFinland5 February 1984Turku
1510:57.32 iMatej TóthSlovakia12 February 2011Vienna
1610:58.16Kévin CampionFrance8 Jul 2014Cork
1710:58.47Alex WrightIreland8 Jul 2014Cork
1810:58.89 iDawid TomalaPoland25 February 2018Glasgow
1910:59.04Luke AdamsAustralia8 Jul 2014Cork
2011:00.2 Jozef PribilinecSlovakia30 August 1985Banská Bystrica
2111:00.56David SmithAustralia24 Jan 1987Perth
2211:00.68Antón KučmínSlovakia21 August 2013Dubnica nad Váhom
2311:00.86+ iFrants KostyukevichBelarus28 February 1992Genoa
2411:03.01Vladimir AndreyevRussia13 July 1997Formia
2511:04.52 iRobert KorzeniowskiPoland1 February 2003Mondeville

Women

RankResultAthleteNationalityDatePlaceRef
111:35.34 iGillian O'SullivanIreland15 February 2003Belfast
211:40.33 iClaudia StefRomania30 January 1999Bucharest
311:41.85 iNorica CâmpeanRomania6 February 1999Bucharest
411:44.00 iAlina Ivanova
511:44.10 iAnisya KirdyapkinaRussia5 February 2012Moscow
611:49.73 iYelena Nikolayeva
711:50.08 iEleonora Giorgi
811:50.30Marina PandakovaRussia1 March 1989Moscow
911:50.48 iMelanie Seeger
1011:50.90 iBeate Gummelt
1111:51.26Kerry Saxby-Junna
1211:52.38Anežka Drahotová
1311:53.23 iIleana Salvador
1411:54.32 iAnna Rita Sidoti
1511:55.30 iAntonella PalmisanoItaly17 February 2018Ancona
1611:56.59 iIrina Yumanova
1711:57.00 iElisa Rigaudo
1811:57.48 iYelena Arshintseva
1911:57.71 iSvetlana Vasilyeva-
2011:57.80Erica Alfridi-
2111:57.89 iMarina Pandakova
2211:58.17Elisabetta Perrone
2311:58.44 iVera Sokolova
2411:58.9 Yelena Gruzinova
2511:59.25Olimpiada Ivanova