European Athletics Championships 2012/1500 m men
| 21st European Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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| discipline | 1500 meter run | ||||||||
| gender | Men | ||||||||
| Attendees | 28 athletes from 19 countries | ||||||||
| venue |
 Helsinki
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| Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
| Competition phase | June 30th (preliminary) July 1st (final) |
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The men's 1500-meter race at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held on July 30th and 1st, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .
European champion was the Norwegian Henrik Ingebrigtsen . Silver went to the Frenchman Florian Carvalho . The Spaniard David Bustos came in third.
Existing records
| World record | 3: 26.00 min |
 Hicham El Guerrouj
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Rome , Italy | July 14, 1998 |
| European record | 3: 28.95 min |
 Fermín Cacho
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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
June 30, 2012
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. Since the first heat was a few seconds faster than the second, the athletes who reached the final over time were all recruited from this first race.
Forward 1
The first eight runners were not even eight tenths of a second apart at the finish.
| space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Andreas Vojta |
 Austria
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3: 41.24 |
| 2 | İlham Tanui Özbilen |
 Turkey
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3: 41.38 |
| 3 | Dmitrijs Jurkevičs |
 Latvia
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3: 41.45 |
| 4th | Florian Carvalho |
 France
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3: 41.50 |
| 5 | Helio Gomes |
 Portugal
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3: 41.56 |
| 6th | Abdellah Haidane |
 Italy
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3: 41.61 |
| 7th | Bartosz Nowicki |
 Poland
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3: 41.82 |
| 8th | Goran Nava |
 Serbia
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3: 41.96 |
| 9 | Andreas Bueno |
 Denmark
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3: 42.81 |
| 10 | Mateusz Demczyszak |
Poland
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3: 43.97 |
| 11 | Carsten Snakes |
 Germany
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3: 46.52 |
| 12 | Siarhei Hrylau |
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3: 44.93 |
| 13 | Thomas Solberg oath |
 Norway
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3: 54.46 |
| DNF | Manuel Olmedo |
Spain
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Mateusz Demczyszak, who was tenth in his preliminary run, did not reach the final
Carsten Schlangen, vice European champion in 2010 , failed in the preliminary round as tenth in his race this time
The Norwegian Thomas Solberg Eide ended up thirteenth in his lead
Manuel Olmedo did not finish in the first heat
Forward 2
His tenth place in the second heat was not enough for Tom Lancashire to participate in the final
Krzysztof Żebrowski (here in a leading position in a cross-country run) was eliminated in eleventh place in his preliminary run
Kemal Koyuncu (red jersey, middle) did not reach the final as twelfth in the second heat
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| space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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| 1 | Niclas Sandells |
Finland
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3: 45.74 |
| 2 | Florian Orth |
Germany
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3: 45.87 |
| 3 | David Bustos |
Spain
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3: 46.12 |
| 4th | Henrik Ingebrigtsen |
Norway
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3: 46.14 |
| 5 | Álvaro Rodríguez |
Spain
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3: 46.33 |
| 6th | Raul Botezan |
 Romania
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3: 46.39 |
| 7th | Gregory Bends |
France
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3: 46.53 |
| 8th | Brenton Rowe |
Austria
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3: 47.18 |
| 9 | Paul Robinson |
 Ireland
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3: 47.26 |
| 10 | Tom Lancashire |
 Great Britain
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3: 47.80 |
| 11 | Krzysztof Żebrowski |
Poland
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3: 48.00 |
| 12 | Kemal Koyuncu |
Turkey
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3: 48.01 |
| 13 | Stefan Breit |
 Switzerland
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3: 50.79 |
| 14th | David Karonei |
 Luxembourg
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3: 50.93 |
final
July 1, 2012, 6:50 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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| 1 | Henrik Ingebrigtsen |
Norway
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3: 46.20 |
| 2 | Florian Carvalho |
France
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3: 46.33 |
| 3 | David Bustos |
Spain
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3: 46.45 |
| 4th | Helio Gomes |
Portugal
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3: 46.50 |
| 5 | Bartosz Nowicki |
Poland
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3: 46.69 |
| 6th | İlham Tanui Özbilen |
Turkey
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3: 46.85 |
| 7th | Dmitrijs Jurkevičs |
Latvia
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3: 47.36 |
| 8th | Goran Nava |
Serbia
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3: 47.74 |
| 9 | Abdellah Haidane |
Italy
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3: 47.79 |
| 10 | Andreas Vojta |
Austria
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3: 53.23 |
| 11 | Florian Orth |
Germany
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3: 58.54 |
| 12 | Niclas Sandells |
Finland
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4: 03.34 |
Vice European Champion Florian Carvalho
Bronze medalist David Bustos
Hélio Gomes finished fourth
İlham Tanui Özbilen finished sixth
Goran Nava (with the number three) reached eighth place here after his twelfth place in 2010
Andreas Vojta came in tenth place
The eleventh placed Florian Orth
Web links
- European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed January 10, 2020
- Men 1500m European Championship 2012 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed January 10, 2020
- Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 10, 2020
- European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 1500m European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 511 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 10, 2020
- Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on January 10, 2020
- 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 10, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m men , accessed January 10, 2020
- ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 12 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on January 10, 2019