2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 3000 metres
# 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 3000 metres

The Women's 3000 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 4th of March, 2021 at 19:30 (heats), and on 5th of March, 2019 at 21:00 (final) local time.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Amy-Eloise Markovc Great Britain | Alice Finot France | Verity Ockenden Great Britain |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships :

| World record | Genzebe Dibaba (ETH) | 8:16.60 | Stockholm, Sweden | 6 February 2014 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| European record | Laura Muir (GBR) | 8:26.41 | Karlsruhe, Germany | 4 February 2017 |
| Championship record | Laura Muir (GBR) | 8:30.61 | Glasgow, United Kingdom | 1 March 2019 |
| World Leading | Gudaf Tsegay (ETH) | 8:22.65 | Madrid, Spain | 24 February 2021 |
| European Leading | Sifan Hassan (NED) | 8:33.62 | Liévin, France | 9 February 2021 |

## Results

### Heats

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | Verity Ockenden | Great Britain | 8:52.60 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Amelia Quirk | Great Britain | 8:53.21 | PB, Q |
| 3 | 2 | Viktória Wagner-Gyürkés | Hungary | 8:55.72 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Amy-Eloise Markovc | Great Britain | 8:56.26 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Elena Burkard | Germany | 8:56.56 | PB, Q |
| 6 | 2 | Lucía Rodríguez | Spain | 8:56.71 | PB, Q |
| 7 | 1 | Meraf Bahta | Sweden | 8:56.85 | SB, Q |
| 8 | 1 | Maureen Koster | Netherlands | 8:56.91 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | Selamawit Bayoulgn | Israel | 8:57.26 | q |
| 10 | 1 | Alice Finot | France | 8:57.28 | q |
| 11 | 2 | Nataliya Strebkova | Ukraine | 8:59.15 | q, PB |
| 12 | 2 | Mariana Machado | Portugal | 8:59.39 | q, PB |
| 13 | 1 | Alberte Kjær Pedersen | Denmark | 9:00.80 | NR |
| 14 | 1 | Marta García | Spain | 9:02.00 | PB |
| 15 | 2 | Lea Meyer | Germany | 9:05.13 | |
| 16 | 1 | Michelle Finn | Ireland | 9:05.44 | |
| 17 | 2 | Linn Nilsson | Sweden | 9:06.55 | SB |
| 18 | 1 | Klara Lukan | Slovenia | 9:06.82 | |
| 19 | 2 | Blanca Fernández | Spain | 9:11.06 | |
| 20 | 1 | Ludovica Cavalli | Italy | 9:14.85 | |
| 21 | 1 | Samrawit Mengsteab | Sweden | 9:15.10 | |
| 22 | 2 | Giulia Aprile | Italy | 9:17.66 | |
| | 2 | Roxana Rotaru | Romania | DNF | |
| | 2 | Maruša Mišmaš-Zrimsek | Slovenia | DQ | |
| | 2 | Jip Vastenburg | Netherlands | DQ | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Amy-Eloise Markovc | Great Britain | 8:46.43 | PB |
| | Alice Finot | France | 8:46.54 | PB |
| | Verity Ockenden | Great Britain | 8:46.60 | PB |
| 4 | Meraf Bahta | Sweden | 8:48.78 | SB |
| 5 | Amelia Quirk | Great Britain | 8:48.82 | PB |
| 6 | Selamawit Bayoulgn | Israel | 8:49.13 | |
| 7 | Elena Burkard | Germany | 8:51.09 | PB |
| 8 | Lucía Rodríguez | Spain | 8:53.90 | PB |
| 9 | Nataliya Strebkova | Ukraine | 8:54.18 | PB |
| 10 | Viktória Wagner-Gyürkés | Hungary | 9:02.81 | |
| 11 | Mariana Machado | Portugal | 9:19.61 | |
| | Maureen Koster | Netherlands | DNF | |
