3000 metres race walk
Racewalking event
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The 3000 metres race walk is a racewalking event. The event is competed as a track race. It was a part of the athletics programme for women at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in Athletics until 1993. In this event, 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.[1]
Tom Bosworth 10:30.28 i (2018)
Gillian O'Sullivan 11:35.34 i (2003)| Athletics 3000 metres race walk | |
|---|---|
| World records | |
| Men | Tom Bosworth 10:30.28 i (2018) |
| Women | Gillian O'Sullivan 11:35.34 i (2003) |
The imperial equivalent of the 3000 m walk is the 2 miles race walk, which was contested at the USA Indoor Track and Field Championships until 1987. The distance has also been contested at racewalking events in Moscow.[2]
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.
- Updated 21 May 2026.[3]
| Area | Time | Season | Athlete |
|---|---|---|---|
| World | 11:40.33 | 1999 |  Claudia Ștef (ROU) |
| Area records | |||
| Africa (records) | 14:13.46 | 2018 |  Tahani Ghazal (TUN) |
| Asia (records) | 12:42.65 | 1994 |  Yuko Sato (JPN) |
| Europe (records) | 11:40.33 | 1999 | Claudia Ștef (ROU) |
| North, Central America and Caribbean (records) |
12:20.79 | 1993 |  Debbi Lawrence (USA) |
| Oceania (records) | none | ||
| South America (records) | 13:24.0h | 2023 |  Ángela Castro (BOL) |
All-time top 25
- + = en route to 5000 m performance
- i = indoor performance
- h = hand timing
- A = affected by altitude
Men
| Rank | Result | Athlete | Nationality | Date | Place | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10:30.28 i | Tom Bosworth | Great Britain |
25 February 2018 | Glasgow | [6] |
| 2 | 10:31.42 i | Andreas Erm |  Germany |
4 February 2001 | Halle | |
| 3 | 10:47.08 | Lebogang Shange |  South Africa |
21 July 2018 | London | [7] |
| 4 | 10:47.11 | Giovanni De Benedictis |  Italy |
19 May 1990 | San Giovanni Valdarno | |
| 5 | 10:49.33 i | Christopher Linke | Germany |
9 February 2018 | Erfurt | [8] |
| 6 | 10:52.15 i | Nils Brembach | Germany |
9 February 2018 | Erfurt | [9] |
| 7 | 10:52.77 i | Callum Wilkinson | Great Britain |
25 February 2018 | Glasgow | [10] |
| 8 | 10:54.61 i | Carlo Mattioli | Italy |
6 February 1980 | Milan | |
| 9 | 10:54.70 | Dane Bird-Smith |  Australia |
11 February 2017 | Brisbane | [11] |
| 10 | 10:56.22 | Andrew Jachno | Australia |
7 February 1991 | Melbourne | |
| 11 | 10:56.30 i | Marius Žiukas |  Lithuania |
25 February 2018 | Glasgow | [12] |
| 12 | 10:56.34 | Roman Mrázek |  Czechoslovakia Slovakia |
14 Jun 1989 | Bratislava | |
| 13 | 10:56.77+ i | Ivano Brugnetti | Italy |
21 Feb 2009 | Turin | |
| 14 | 10:56.88 i | Reima Salonen |  Finland |
5 February 1984 | Turku | |
| 15 | 10:57.32 i | Matej Tóth | Slovakia |
12 February 2011 | Vienna | |
| 16 | 10:57.77 | Francesco Fortunato | Italy |
9 June 2022 | Rome | [13] |
| 17 | 10:58.16 | Kévin Campion |  France |
8 Jul 2014 | Cork | |
| 18 | 10:58.47 | Alex Wright | Ireland |
8 Jul 2014 | Cork | |
| 19 | 10:58.89 i | Dawid Tomala |  Poland |
25 February 2018 | Glasgow | [14] |
| 20 | 10:59.04 | Luke Adams | Australia |
8 Jul 2014 | Cork | |
| 21 | 10:59.91 | Gianluca Picchiottino | Italy |
9 June 2022 | Rome | [15] |
| 22 | 11:00.2 h | Jozef Pribilinec | Slovakia |
30 August 1985 | Banská Bystrica | |
| 23 | 11:00.50+ | Paquillo Fernández |  Spain |
8 June 2007 | Villeneuve-d'Ascq | |
| 24 | 11:00.56 | David Smith | Australia |
24 Jan 1987 | Perth | |
| 25 | 11:00.68 | Antón Kučmín | Slovakia |
21 August 2013 | Dubnica nad Váhom |
Notes
Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 11:00.68:
- Tom Bosworth also walked 10:43.84 (2018), 10:58.21i (2016).
- Dane Bird-Smith also walked 10:56.06 (2018).
- Christopher Linke also walked 10:58.94 (2022).
- Callum Wilkinson also walked 10:59.00 (2019).
Women
| Rank | Result | Athlete | Nationality | Date | Place | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11:35.34 i[18] | Gillian O'Sullivan | Ireland |
15 February 2003 | Belfast | |
| 2 | 11:40.33 i | Claudia Stef | Romania |
30 January 1999 | Bucharest | |
| 3 | 11:41.85 i | Norica Câmpean | Romania |
6 February 1999 | Bucharest | |
| 4 | 11:44.00 i | Alina Ivanova | ||||
| 5 | 11:44.10 i | Anisya Kirdyapkina |  Russia |
5 February 2012 | Moscow | |
| 6 | 11:49.73 i | Yelena Nikolayeva | ||||
| 7 | 11:50.08 i | Eleonora Giorgi | ||||
| 8 | 11:50.30 | Marina Pandakova | Russia |
1 March 1989 | Moscow | |
| 9 | 11:50.48 i | Melanie Seeger | ||||
| 10 | 11:50.90 i | Beate Gummelt | ||||
| 11 | 11:51.26 | Kerry Saxby-Junna | ||||
| 12 | 11:52.38 | Anežka Drahotová | ||||
| 13 | 11:53.23 i | Ileana Salvador | ||||
| 14 | 11:54.32 i | Anna Rita Sidoti | ||||
| 15 | 11:55.30 i | Antonella Palmisano | Italy |
17 February 2018 | Ancona | [19] |
| 16 | 11:56.59 i | Irina Yumanova | ||||
| 17 | 11:57.00 i | Elisa Rigaudo | ||||
| 18 | 11:57.48 i | Yelena Arshintseva | ||||
| 19 | 11:57.71 i | Svetlana Vasilyeva | ||||
| 20 | 11:57.80 | Erica Alfridi | ||||
| 21 | 11:57.89 i | Marina Pandakova | ||||
| 22 | 11:58.17 | Elisabetta Perrone | ||||
| 23 | 11:58.44 i | Vera Sokolova | ||||
| 24 | 11:58.9 h | Yelena Gruzinova | ||||
| 25 | 11:59.25 | Olimpiada Ivanova |
Notes
Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 11:54.80:
- Claudia Stef also walked 11:40.99 (1999), 11:43.72 (1999).
- Alina Ivanova also walked 11:49.99 (1992).
- Beate Gummelt also walked 11:52.01 (1993), 11:53.03i (1996).
- Yelena Nikolayeva also walked hand-timed 11:54.8 (1992).