Events at the 2024 World U20 Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
	mixed
10000 m walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 3000 metres at the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships was held at the Estadio Atlético de la VIDENA in Lima, Peru on 29 August 2024.

U20 standing records prior to the 2024 World Athletics U20 Championships were as follows:^[1]

Record	Athlete & Nationality	Mark	Location	Date
World U20 Record	Yomif Kejelcha (ETH)	7:28.19	Paris, France	27 August 2016
Championship Record	Tadese Worku (ETH)	7:42.09	Nairobi, Kenya	18 August 2021
World U20 Leading	Biniam Mehary (ETH)	7:33.04	Liévin, France	10 February 2024

The final was scheduled to start at 18:17.^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Andreas Halvorsen	Norway	8:20.56
	Denis Kipkoech	Kenya	8:20.79
	Edward Bird	Great Britain	8:21.00
4	Ybeltal Gashahun	Ethiopia	8:21.02
5	Harbert Kibet	Uganda	8:21.54
6	Karl Ottfalk	Sweden	8:23.14
7	Osama Er-Radouani	Morocco	8:23.24
8	Abrha Gebru	Ethiopia	8:23.60
9	Yamato Hamaguchi	Japan	8:24.60
10	Mick Wolvekamp	Netherlands	8:24.88
11	Clinton Ngetich	Kenya	8:25.51
12	Titus Musau	Uganda	8:26.16
13	Oscar Gaitan	Spain	8:28.87
14	Lionel Nihimbazwe	Burundi	8:29.36
15	Simon Jeukenne	Belgium	8:32.35
16	Ky Hehir	Australia	8:32.89
17	Kristian Bråthen Børve	Norway	8:32.89
18	Juan Zijderlaan	Netherlands	8:34.89
19	Luis Huaman	Peru	8:45.22
20	Lokoro Dario	ART	9:06.53	PB
21	Henry Dover	Great Britain	9:14.73
–	Tetsu Sasaki	Japan	DNS

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