  Massive renormalizable Yang-Mills theories in three dimensions are analysed
within the algebraic renormalization in the Landau gauge. In analogy with the
four dimensional case, the renormalization of the mass operator A^2 turns out
to be expressed in terms of the fields and coupling constant renormalization
factors. We verify the relation we obtain for the operator anomalous dimension
by explicit calculations in the large N_f. The generalization to other gauges
such as the nonlinear Curci-Ferrari gauge is briefly outlined.
