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Men, 3000 m World    World Indoor    Europe    Olympic    World Champ.    Europe Champ. All records considered statistically valid, but some of them, were unratified for various reasons. •   - Record was ratified           *   - Record was repeated     8.52.4 George Bonhag USA New York Mar 04, 1911   8.35.0 George Bonhag USA New York Dec 06, 1911   8.31.4 Joseph Ray USA New York Feb 18, 1922   8.31.2 Joseph Ray USA New York Feb 10, 1923   8.26.8 Paavo Nurmi FIN New York Jan 15, 1925   8.26.4 Paavo Nurmi FIN New York Mar 12, 1925   8.22.4 Edvin Wide SWE Philadelphia Mar 19, 1927   8.17.7 Horace Ashenfelter USA New York Feb 06, 1954   8.16.4 Klaus Richtzenhein GDR Dortmund Feb 23, 1957   8.09.4 Friedrich Janke GDR Berlin East Mar 16, 1958   7.58.7 Siegfried Herrmann GDR Berlin East Mar 22, 1959   7.58.6 Siegfried Herrmann GDR Berlin East Feb 16, 1964   7.53.2 Siegfried Herrmann GDR Berlin East Feb 14, 1965   7.49.0 Siegfried Herrmann GDR Berlin East Feb 27, 1966   7.47.8 Bernd Diessner GDR Berlin East Feb 16, 1969   7.46.85 Richard Wilde GBR Wien Mar 15, 1970   7.45.2 Emiel Puttemans BEL Leiden Feb 10, 1973 • 7.39.2 Emiel Puttemans BEL Berlin West Feb 18, 1973 • 7.37.31 Moses Kiptanui KEN Seville Feb 21, 1992 • 7.35.15 Moses Kiptanui KEN Gent Feb 12, 1995 • 7.30.72 Haile Gebrselassie ETH Stuttgart Feb 04, 1996 • 7.26.14 Haile Gebrselassie ETH Karlsruhe Jan 25, 1998 • 7.24.90 Daniel Komen KEN Budapest Feb 06, 1998