European Athletics Championships 2002/1500 m men

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	21 athletes from 13 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (preliminary) August 8th (final)
Medalist Mehdi Baala ( FRA )   Reyes Estévez ( ESP )   Rui Silva ( POR )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The men's 1500 meter run at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held on August 6th and 8th, 2002 in the Munich Olympic Stadium.

The French Mehdi Baala became European champion . The Spanish defending champion and World Cup third in 1999 Reyes Estévez won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Portuguese vice European champion from 1998 Rui Silva .

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 6, 2002

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.

Forward 1

Luís Feiteira, who later switched to the marathon as shown in the photo , missed the final by one place

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Mehdi Baala	France	3: 46.71
2	José Antonio Redolat	Spain	3: 46.94
3	Marko Koers	Netherlands	3: 47.16
4th	Anthony Whiteman	Great Britain	3: 47.40
5	Luís Feiteira	Portugal	3: 47.66
6th	Ivan Heschko	Ukraine	3: 47.76
7th	Panayiótis Stroubákos	Greece	3: 47.94
8th	James Nolan	Ireland	3: 48.48
9	Franek Haschke	Germany	3: 48.56
10	Lorenzo Lazzari	Italy	3: 49.06
11	Aleš Tomić	Slovenia	3: 50.19

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3: 40.47
2	Rui Silva	Portugal	3: 40.84
3	Fouad Chouki	France	3: 41.36
4th	Christian Obrist	Italy	3: 41.63
5	Michael East	Great Britain	3: 41.83
6th	John Mayock	Great Britain	3: 42.82
7th	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain	3: 42.82
8th	Lorenzo Perrone	Italy	3: 43.02
9	Peter Philipp	Switzerland	3: 44.30
10	Mattias Norling	Sweden	3: 45.28

final

First European Championship title for Mehdi Baala - in 2006 there was a second, in 2003 he was also vice world champion and in 2008 Olympic third

August 8, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Mehdi Baala	France	3: 45.25
2	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3: 45.25
3	Rui Silva	Portugal	3: 45.43
4th	Fouad Chouki	France	3: 45.46
5	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain	3: 45.81
6th	Michael East	Great Britain	3: 46.30
7th	Christian Obrist	Italy	3: 46.57
8th	Marko Koers	Netherlands	3: 46.68
9	Anthony Whiteman	Great Britain	3: 47.10
10	Lorenzo Perrone	Italy	3: 47.43
11	José Antonio Redolat	Spain	3: 47.43
12	John Mayock	Great Britain	3: 48.41

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  Reyes Estévez, defending champion and third in 1999 World Cup , won silver this time

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  Bronze medalist Rui Silva,
  1998 Vice European Champion

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  Juan Carlos Higuero finished fifth

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  Christian Obrist came in seventh

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  Marko Koers reached eighth place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 27, 2019
• Men 1500m European Championship 2002 Munich on todor66.com, accessed October 27, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 27, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 1500m European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 481 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 27, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 27, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on October 27, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m men , accessed October 27, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 12 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on October 27, 2019