European Athletics Championships 2018/1500 m men

discipline	1500 meter run of men
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Attendees	34 athletes from 19 countries
Competition phase	August 8, 2018 (preliminary) August 10, 2018 (final)
Medalist
gold	Jakob Ingebrigtsen ( NOR )
silver	Marcin Lewandowski ( POL )
bronze	Jake Wightman ( GBR )

Three brothers from Norway in the 1500 m final:
Henrik, Jakob and Filip Ingebrigtsen

The men's 1500 meter run at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place between August 8 and 10 in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

The Norwegian Jakob Ingebrigtsen won . Marcin Lewandowski from Poland became vice European champion. Bronze went to the Briton Jake Wightman .

Records

World record	Hicham El Guerrouj	3: 26.00 min	Rome , Italy	July 14, 1998
European record	Mo Farah	3: 28.81 min	Monaco	19th July 2013
Championship record	Fermín Cacho	3: 35.27 min	EM in Helsinki , Finland	August 9, 1994

Prelims

The Czech Jakub Holuša was eliminated as fifth in his preliminary run

Charles Grethen from Luxembourg did not reach the final as sixth of his preliminary run

His sixth place in the second heat was not enough for the Swede Kalle Berglund to be in the final

After finishing eighth in his preliminary round, the German Marius Probst was eliminated in the preliminary round

From the three preliminary runs, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the three fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

August 8, 2018, 12:05 p.m. local time

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Chris O'Hare	Great Britain	3: 49.06
2	Homiyu Tesfaye	Germany	3: 49.28
3	Henrik Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3: 49.54
4th	Johan Rogestedt	Sweden	3: 49.73
5	Jakub Holuša	Czech Republic	3: 49.82
6th	Charles Grethen	Luxembourg	3: 49.97
7th	Ferdinand Kvan Edman	Norway	3: 50.26
8th	Baptiste Mischler	France	3: 50.96
9	Volodymyr Kyz	Ukraine	3: 52.77
10	Peter Callahan	Belgium	3: 54.23
11	Dario Ivanovski	Macedonia	3: 57.52
12	Carles Gomez	Andorra	4:00:02

Run 2

August 8, 2018, 12:25 p.m. local time

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Marcin Lewandowski	Poland	3: 40.74
2	Charlie Grice	Great Britain	3: 40.80
3	Filip Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3: 40.88
4th	Timo Benitz	Germany	3: 41.01
5	Mohad Abdikadar Sheikh Ali	Italy	3: 41.09
6th	Kalle Berglund	Sweden	3: 41.25
7th	Isaac Kimeli	Belgium	3: 42.77
8th	Adrian Ben	Spain	3: 42.81
9	Amine Khadiri	Cyprus	3: 45.97
10	Alexis Miellet	France	3: 51.61
11	Benjamin Kovács	Hungary	3: 54.29

Run 3

August 8, 2018, 12:15 p.m. local time

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
1	Jake Wightman	Great Britain	3: 40.73
2	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3: 40.81
3	Joao Capistrano Maria Bussotti Neves Junior	Italy	3: 40.87
4th	Simas Bertašius	Lithuania	3: 40.95
5	Ishmael Debjani	Belgium	3: 41.09
6th	Simon Denissel	France	3: 41.67
7th	Elmar Engholm	Sweden	3: 42.01
8th	Marius Probst	Germany	3: 42.37
9	Jan Hochstrasser	Switzerland	3: 42.80
10	Tamás Kazi	Hungary	3: 42.98
11	Harvey Dixon	Gibraltar	3: 54.70

final

August 10, 2018, 9:50 p.m. CEST

From the beginning, the Lithuanian Simas Bertašius took over the leadership. The pace was not particularly high, however, the first two laps were covered in about 60 seconds each. The field stayed together accordingly. Shortly before the end of the second round, all three Ingebrigtsen brothers oriented themselves forward, Jakob replaced the Lithuanian at the top, his two brothers followed him, and the German Homiyu Tesfaye came fourth. The field was broadly fanned out when the last lap started, everyone was looking for a good starting position for the final sprint. The outcome of the race was still completely open in the finish curve. On the home stretch, 17-year-old Jakob Ingebrigtsen, who was still leading, pulled away and seemed to be running towards victory. But it got tight again. Lewandowski and the Briton Jake Wightman stormed up from behind and came threateningly close to the Norwegian. But this saved himself to the finish and became the new European champion. Marcin Lewandowski won the silver medal just four hundredths of a second behind him. Jake Wightman finished third ahead of the 2012 European Champion Henrik Ingebrigtsen. Briton Charlie Grice and Simas Bertašius finished fifth and sixth. The German Timo Benitz was seventh ahead of the Belgian Ismael Debjani.

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3: 38.10
	Marcin Lewandowski	Poland	3: 38.14
	Jake Wightman	Great Britain	3: 38.25
4th	Henrik Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3: 38.50
5	Charlie Grice	Great Britain	3: 38.65
6th	Simas Bertašius	Lithuania	3: 39.04
7th	Timo Benitz	Germany	3: 39.28
8th	Ishmael Debjani	Belgium	3: 39.48
9	Chris O'Hare	Great Britain	3: 39.53
10	Mohad Abdikadar Sheikh Ali	Italy	3: 39.95
11	Joao Capistrano Maria Bussotti Neves Junior	Italy	3: 41.31
12	Filip Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3: 41.66
13	Homiyu Tesfaye	Germany	3: 47.83

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  European champion
  Jakob Ingebrigtsen, Norway

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  Vice European Champion
  Marcin Lewandowski, Poland

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  Bronze medalist
  Jake Wightman, Great Britain

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  The Norwegian Henrik Ingebrigtsen finished fourth

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  5th place for the Briton Charlie Grice

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  The German Timo Benitz came in seventh place

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  The Belgian Ismael Debjani finished eighth

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  The Briton Chris O'Hare finished ninth

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  Joao Bussotti Neves, Italy - eleventh place

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  Filip Ingebrigtsen - Twelfth place

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  Homiyu Tesfaye - rank thirteen

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 kB), accessed on December 31, 2018
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 31, 2018
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 31, 2018

Video

• 1500 m: Three Ingebrigtsens in the final, Junior wins, European Championships 2018, sports show on youtube.com, published on August 10, 2018, accessed on December 31, 2018