Fermín Cacho

Fermín Cacho
Fermin Cacho 2011
Full name	Fermín Cacho Ruiz
nation	Spain
birthday	16th February 1969
place of birth	Ágreda ,  Spain
size	175 cm
Weight	65 kg
Career
discipline	1500 meter run
society	Joma sport
Trainer	Enrique Pascual
National squad	since 1990
status	resigned
End of career	2000
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 0 × EM medals 1 × 0 × 1 × Indoor World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 × Indoor European Championship medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold 1992 Barcelona 1500 m silver 1996 Atlanta 1500 m  World championships silver 1993 Stuttgart 1500 m silver 1997 Athens 1500 m  European championships gold 1994 Helsinki 1500 m bronze 1998 Budapest 1500 m  Indoor world championships silver 1991 Seville 1500 m  European Indoor Championships silver 1990 Glasgow 1500 m

Fermín Cacho Ruiz (born February 16, 1969 in Ágreda , Soria province ) is a former Spanish middle-distance runner and Olympic champion in the 1500-meter run .

biography

Cacho celebrated his first success in 1990 when he finished second at the European Indoor Championships in Glasgow . In 3: 44.61 min he was just behind Jens-Peter Herold , who was the last GDR indoor European champion in this race. At the European Championships in Split , Cacho was eleventh in 3: 42.21 minutes. The following year he won silver at the World Indoor Championships in Seville in 3: 42.68 minutes behind the Algerian Noureddine Morceli . At the World Championships in Tokyo he was fifth in 3: 35.62 minutes.

Before the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , Cacho was not one of the contenders for victory. But the race over 1500 meters was run extremely slowly. Cacho was able to position himself perfectly on the final round, sprinted over all opponents and won the gold medal in a time of 3: 40.12 minutes.

At the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart , Cacho finished second behind Morceli in 3: 35.56 minutes. The following year he won the title at the European Championships in Helsinki . With 3: 35.27 min he had a clear lead over his compatriot Isaac Viciosa at the finish . After finishing sixth in 3: 45.46 minutes at the 1995 World Indoor Championships in Barcelona , Cacho achieved a disappointing eighth place at the World Championships in Gothenburg in 3: 37.02 minutes.

At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , he was again not considered a favorite, although he was the defending champion. On the third lap of the 1500 meter race, Hicham El Guerrouj fell . Cacho was forced to jump over the stumbled man so as not to fall himself, and as a result he lost crucial meters on Noureddine Morceli . In the end, Cacho was second in 3: 36.40 minutes.

At the 1997 World Championships in Athens , Cacho finished second again, this time behind El Guerrouj in 3: 36.62 minutes. A week later at the Weltklasse Zürich meeting on August 13, 1997, Cacho ran a European record of 3: 28.95 minutes, which lasted until July 19, 2013. At the European Championships in Budapest in 1998 he won bronze in 3: 42.13 minutes behind his compatriot Reyes Estévez and the Portuguese Rui Silva . At the 1999 World Championships in Seville , Cacho was in a world championship final for the fifth time in a row and came in a thankless fourth place in 3: 31.34 minutes. Cacho injured his Achilles tendon , had to forego participation in the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney and ended his athletic career.

From 1989 to 1993 as well as 1995 and 1996 he was Spanish champion over 1500 meters.

Fermín Cacho is 1.75 m tall and weighed 65 kg during his playing days. He was trained by Enrique Pascual.

Personal bests

• 800 m : 1: 45.37 min, September 8, 1991, Albacete
• 1000 m : 2: 16.13 min, September 6, 1993, Andújar
• 1500 m: 3: 28.95 min, August 13, 1997, Zurich (European record)
  • Hall: 3: 35.29 min, February 28, 1991, Seville
• 1 mile : 3: 49.56 min, July 5, 1996, Oslo
• 2000 meters: 5: 02.68 min, May 21, 1997, Granada
• 3000 m : 7: 37.02 min, May 28, 1999, Seville
  • Hall: 7: 36.61 min, February 4, 1996, Stuttgart (former European record)
• 5000 m : 13: 46.65 min, June 8, 2002, Seville

literature

• Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2002. Worcester 2002, ISBN 1899807-13-6

Web links

• Fermín Cacho in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Fermín Cacho in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )