The NAIA Indoor Championships 2021 took place on Friday 5 March and Saturday 6 March 2021 at the Mount Marty facility in Yankton, South Dakota, USA. NAIA is the acronym of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics.
The scheduled walking races took place as follows:
- 3.000m women's indoor walk on Friday 5th March
- 3.000m indoor walk men on Saturday 6th March
3.000m indoor walk women
Sixteen athletes at the start.
Victory to Loanie Cellard (USA) in 14:33.43
Second place to Jolene Jensen in 14:53:55
Third place went to Maria Alarcon in 15:16:33
Fifteen athletes completed the race and 1 DQ
3.000m indoor walk men
Sixteen athletes at the start.
Victory to Steven Smith (USA) in 12:26.92 new personal best (previous of 12:36.13, on a 200m oval, obtained in Winston Salem, NC (USA) on 19.1.2020)
Second place to Jordan Crawford (USA) in 13:09.40
Third place went to Dean Freitag (USA) in 13:21.30
Eleven athletes completed the race, 1 DNF and 4 DQ.