European Athletics Championships 1994/1500 m men

16th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	25 athletes from 15 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 7th (preliminary) August 9th (final)
Medalist Fermín Cacho ( ESP )   Isaac Viciosa ( ESP )   Branko Zorko ( CRO )

Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's 1500-meter run at the European Athletics Championships in 1994 was held on August 7th and 9th, 1994 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

The Spanish middle distance runners achieved a double victory in this competition. European champion was the Olympic champion from 1992 and vice world champion from 1993 Fermín Cacho . Second place went to Isaac Viciosa . Bronze went to the Croatian Branko Zorko .

Records

Existing records

World record	3: 28.86 min	Noureddine Morceli	Rieti , Italy	September 6, 1992
European record	3: 29.67 min	Steve Cram	Nice , France	July 16, 1985
Championship record	3: 35.59 min	Steve Ovett	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	3rd September 1978

Record improvement

European champion Fermín Cacho improved the existing EM record in the final on August 9th by 32 hundredths of a second to 3: 35.27 minutes.  

Preliminary round

August 7, 1994

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. All athletes who qualified for the final over their time came from the faster first heat.

Forward 1

Defending champion Jens-Peter Herold (center) no longer had the shape of the years before and was eliminated in the run-up

As seventh of his prelim, Samir Benfarès did not reach the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 37.18
2	Niall Bruton	Ireland	3: 37.54
3	Abdelkader Chékhémani	France	3: 37.75
4th	Gary Lough	Great Britain	3: 37.83
5	Rüdiger Stenzel	Germany	3: 37.84
6th	Eric Dubus	France	3: 38.02
7th	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	3: 38.33
8th	Branko Zorko	Croatia	3: 39.84
9	Mogens Guldberg	Denmark	3: 40.89
10	Christophe Impens	Belgium	3: 41.25
11	Werner Edler-Muhr	Austria	3: 43.08
12	Sami Alans	Finland	3: 43.58
13	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	3: 46.39

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	3: 39.72
2	David Strand	Great Britain	3: 39.96
3	Andrij Bulkovsky	Ukraine	3: 40.05
4th	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	3: 40.06
5	Kevin McKay	Great Britain	3: 40.19
6th	Jens-Peter Herold	Germany	3: 40.24
7th	Samir Benfarès	France	3: 40.43
8th	Marcus O'Sullivan	Ireland	3: 40.58
9	Azat Rakipau	Belarus	3: 41.41
10	Davide Tirelli	Italy	3: 42.03
11	Vyacheslav Shabunin	Russia	3: 42.91
12	Milan Drahonovský	Czech Republic	3: 43.66

final

After the Olympic victory in 1992 and the vice world championship in 1993 , Fermín Cacho now won the European Championship (here in 2011)

August 9, 1994

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 35.27 CR
2	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	3: 36.01
3	Branko Zorko	Croatia	3: 36.86
4th	Eric Dubus	France	3: 37.44
5	Andrij Bulkovsky	Ukraine	3: 37.81
6th	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	3: 38.16
7th	Rüdiger Stenzel	Germany	3: 38.36
8th	Abdelkader Chékhémani	France	3: 38.42
9	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	3: 39.96
10	Niall Bruton	Ireland	3: 41.22
11	Gary Lough	Great Britain	3: 43.09
12	David Strand	Great Britain	3: 50.27

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 1994 at european-athletics.org, accessed on 23 September 2019
• Men 1500m European Championship 1994 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed September 23, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1994 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on September 23, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 1500m European Championship 1994 Helsinki, p. 461 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on September 23, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1994, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on September 23, 2019
• 16th European Athletics Championships 1994 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on September 23, 2019

Video

• Men's 1500m Final European Champs Helsinki 1994 on youtube.com (English), accessed on September 23, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m men , accessed September 23, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 12 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on September 23, 2019