European Athletics Championships 1998/1500 m men

17th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	24 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Budapest
Competition location	Népstadion
Competition phase	August 18th (preliminary) August 20th (final)
Medalist Reyes Estévez ( ESP )   Rui Silva ( POR )   Fermín Cacho ( ESP )

Népstadion in Budapest

The men's 1,500-meter run at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held on August 18 and 20, 1998 in the Népstadion in the Hungarian capital, Budapest .

In this competition, the Spanish middle distance athletes won two medals, gold and bronze. European champion was the World Cup -Third of 1997 Reyes Estévez . He won in front of the Portuguese Rui Silva . Bronze went to the defending champion, Olympic champion from 1992 , Olympic champion from 1996 , vice world champion from 1997 and European coordinator Fermín Cacho .

Existing records

World record	3: 26.00 min	Hicham El Guerrouj	Rome , Italy	July 14, 1998
European record	3: 28.95 min	Fermín Cacho	Zurich , Switzerland	August 13, 1997
Championship record	3: 35.27 min		EM Helsinki , Finland	August 9, 1994

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

Preliminary round

August 18, 1998

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 semifinals. All athletes who achieved their time in the finals came from the second somewhat faster run-up.

Forward 1

Gert-Jan Liefers did not reach sixth place in the first run for the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3: 41.53
2	John Mayock	Great Britain	3: 41.69
3	Anthony Whiteman	Great Britain	3: 41.71
4th	Rui Silva	Portugal	3: 41.87
5	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	3: 42.21
6th	Andrei Zadorozhni	Russia	3: 42.77
7th	Peter Philipp	Switzerland	3: 43.30
8th	Panayiótis Stroubákos	Greece	3: 44.01
9	Nadir Bosch	France	3: 46.00
10	Dirk Heinze	Germany	3: 46.11
11	Darko Radomirović	Yugoslavia	3: 46.86
12	Werner Edler-Muhr	Austria	3: 47.62

Forward 2

Luís Feiteira (here at a marathon race in 2012) was eliminated in ninth place in his preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 38.52
2	Andrés Manuel Díaz	Spain	3: 38.65
3	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	3: 38.97
4th	Branko Zorko	Croatia	3: 39.31
5	Vyacheslav Shabunin	Russia	3: 39.45
6th	Rüdiger Stenzel	Germany	3: 39.57
7th	Niall Bruton	Ireland	3: 39.58
8th	Abdelkader Chékhémani	France	3: 39.77
9	Luís Feiteira	Portugal	3: 45.00
10	Alexandru Vasile	Romania	3: 46.95
11	Balázs Tölgyesi	Hungary	3: 47.01
DNF	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy

final

The 1997 World Cup third-placed Reyes Estévez won this race - in 1999 he was again third in the World Cup and vice-European champion in 2002

August 20, 1998

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3: 41.31
2	Rui Silva	Portugal	3: 41.54
3	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 42.13
4th	Anthony Whiteman	Great Britain	3: 42.27
5	John Mayock	Great Britain	3: 42.58
6th	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	3: 42.63
7th	Rüdiger Stenzel	Germany	3: 42.73
8th	Abdelkader Chékhémani	France	3: 42.92
9	Vyacheslav Shabunin	Russia	3: 42.98
10	Branko Zorko	Croatia	3: 43.95
11	Andrés Manuel Díaz	Spain	3: 46.99
12	Niall Bruton	Ireland	3: 47.48

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  Vice European Champion Rui Silva - he received bronze twice at the European Championships in 2002 and the Olympic Games in 2004

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  This time, bronze was won by the European record holder Fermín Cacho, defending champion, Olympic champion in 1992 , second in 1996 and vice world champion in 1997

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  Anthony Whiteman finished fourth

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  Andrés Manuel Díaz was eleventh in this final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Budapest 1998 at european-athletics.org, accessed October 8, 2019
• Men 1500m European Championship 1998 Budapest on todor66.com, accessed October 8, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 1998 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed October 8, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 1500m European Championship 1998 Budapest, p. 471 (PDF, 13.363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 8, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 1998, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 8, 2019
• 17th European Athletics Championships 1998 in Budapest, Hungary from ifosta.de, accessed on October 8, 2019

Video

• Men's 1500m Final European Champs Budapest 1998 on youtube.com (English), accessed on October 8, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m men , accessed October 8, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 12 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 8, 2019