3000 m (indoor), men

What to remember

At the Millrose Games in New York City, on February 8, 2025, American Grant Fisher covered the 15 laps of a 200 m indoor track in 7 min 22.91 s. That indoor 3000 m was run at an average of 24.384 km/h.

The 3000 m sits on the line between middle and long distance. At elite level its pace is closer to that of the 5000 m than to mile pace, yet it also requires a high tolerance to lactic acid, as the shorter races do. For men, the distance has never been an individual Olympic event: only a 3000 m team race featured at the Games of 1912, 1920 and 1924.

Fisher ran for Stanford University from 2015 to 2019 and won the 5000 m at the 2017 NCAA Outdoor Championships. At the 2024 Paris Olympics he took bronze in both the 5000 m and the 10,000 m, the first American to medal in both events at the same Games. Indoors, he also broke the 5000 m world record.