European Athletics Championships 2014/1500 m men

22nd European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	32 athletes from 20 countries
venue	Zurich
Competition location	Letzigrund Stadium
Competition phase	August 15th (preliminary) August 17th (final)
Medalist Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad ( FRA )   Henrik Ingebrigtsen ( NOR )   Chris O'Hare ( GBR )

The Letzigrund stadium in Zurich

The 1,500-meter race of the men at the 2014 European Athletics Championships was on 15 and 17 August 2014 in the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich held.

European champion who was Frenchman Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad , who previously worked as European champion in 2012 , Olympic silver medalist from 2012 and two-time World Cup -Dritter ( 2011 / 2013 many) successes over 3000-meter steeplechase had won. He won ahead of the Norwegian defending champion Henrik Ingebrigtsen . Bronze went to the Briton Chris O'Hare .

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. The heats were faster than the finale, which was purely a track race.

Preliminary round

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. In addition, the two runners, Soufiane El Kabbouri and David Bustos, who were placed fourteen and fifteen, were admitted to the final after they had been hindered by Andreas Vojta and thus missed a better place.

Forward 1

August 15, 2014, 11:50 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Henrik Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3: 39.32
2	Charlie Da'Vall Grice	Great Britain	3: 39.41
3	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	France	3: 39.43
4th	Tarik Moukrime	Belgium	3: 39.50
5	Stanislaw Maslow	Ukraine	3: 39.63
6th	Jakub Holuša	Czech Republic	3: 39.64
7th	Ciarán Ó Lionáird	Ireland	3: 39.79
8th	Florian Orth	Germany	3: 39.99
9	Pieter-Jan Hannes	Belgium	3: 40.34
10	Goran Nava	Serbia	3: 41.43
11	Emanuel Rolim	Portugal	3: 42.22
12	Mohad Abdikadar Sheikh Ali	Italy	3: 46.09
13	Nobility Mechaal	Spain	3: 47.60
14th	John Travers	Ireland	3: 49.73
15th	Amine Khadiri	Cyprus	3: 50.15
16	Kelvin Gomez	Gibraltar	4: 05.71

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  First run: the runners on the route

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  Goran Nava (right) took tenth place in his run and was eliminated

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  Emanuel Rolim did not reach the final with his eleventh place from the second heat

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  Adel Mechaal failed as thirteenth of his preliminary round in the preliminary round

Forward 2

August 15, 2014, 12:05 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Chris O'Hare	Great Britain	3: 39.24
2	Homiyu Tesfaye	Germany	3: 39.64
3	Timo Benitz	Germany	3: 39.83
4th	Paul Robinson	Ireland	3: 39.83
5	İlham Tanui Özbilen	Turkey	3: 40.09
6th	Florian Carvalho	France	3: 40.39
7th	Manuel Olmedo	Spain	3: 40.48
8th	Filip Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3: 41.06
9	Isaac Kimeli	Belgium	3: 41.96
10	Andreas Bueno	Denmark	3: 42.06
11	Jan Hochstrasser	Switzerland	3: 43.89
12	Dmitrijs Jurkevičs	Latvia	3: 45.92
13	Jonas Leanderson	Sweden	3: 49.64
14th	Soufiane El Kabbouri	Italy	4: 02.76	admitted to the final due to disability by Andreas Vojta
15th	David Bustos	Spain	4: 21.39
DSQ	Andreas Vojta	Austria		IAAF ARule 163.2 - Disability

Photo gallery: runners eliminated in the second heat

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  İlham Tanui Özbilen - fifth place

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  Florian Carvalho - sixth

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  Manuel Olmedo - seventh place

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  Filip Ingebrigtsen - eighth place

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  Isaac Kimeli - ninth place

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  Jonas Leandersson - thirteenth place

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  Andreas Vojta - disqualified

final

During his excursion on the 1500 m course, obstacle specialist Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad became European champion

August 17, 2014, 3:05 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	France	3: 45.60
2	Henrik Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3: 46.10
3	Chris O'Hare	Great Britain	3: 46.18
4th	Paul Robinson	Ireland	3: 46.35
5	Homiyu Tesfaye	Germany	3: 46.46
6th	David Bustos	Spain	3: 46.92
7th	Timo Benitz	Germany	3: 47.26
8th	Tarik Moukrime	Belgium	3: 47.33
9	Soufiane El Kabbouri	Italy	3: 51.98
10	Florian Orth	Germany	3: 54.35
11	Stanislaw Maslow	Ukraine	3: 54.59
12	Charlie Da'Vall Grice	Great Britain	4: 04.81
DNF	Ciarán Ó Lionáird	Ireland
DNS	Jakub Holuša	Czech Republic

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  Second place for defending champion Henrik Ingebrigtsen

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  Bronze medalist Chris O'Hare

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  Homiyu Tesfaye was fifth

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  Sixth placed David Bustos

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  Timo Benitz reached seventh place

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  Florian Orth came in tenth place

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  Charlie Da'Vall Grice was twelfth

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  Ciarán Ó Lionáird (green jersey) could not finish the race

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  Jakub Holuša did not appear in the final

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Zurich 2014 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 2, 2020
• Men 1500m European Championship 2014 Zurich on todor66.com, accessed on February 2, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2014 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 2, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2014, 1500 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on February 2, 2020
• 22nd European Athletics Championships 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on February 2, 2020

Video

• 1500m Men Final European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 Mekhissi GOLD on youtube.com, accessed on February 2, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m men , accessed February 2, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 12 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on February 2, 2019
3. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 88 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on February 2, 2020