World Athletics Championships 1991/1500 m men

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	39 athletes from 30 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (preliminary) August 40th (semi-finals) September 1st (final)
Medalist Noureddine Morceli ( ALG )   Wilfred Kirochi ( KEN )   Hauke ​​Fuhlbrügge ( GER )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's 1500-meter race at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held from August 29 to September 1, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

World champion was the Algerian Noureddine Morceli , who celebrated his first major success here. For a few years, Morceli played a decisive role in what happened on this route. Second place went to Kenyan Wilfred Kirochi . A surprising third was the German Hauke ​​Fuhlbrügge , who snatched the bronze medal from his compatriot Jens-Peter Herold , the reigning European champion , with the last steps after Herold had already jubilantly stretched his arms up and was happy too early.

Records

Existing records

World record	3: 29.46 min	Said Aouita	Berlin , FR Germany	23rd August 1985
World championship record	3: 35.67 min	Abdi Bile	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	4th September 1987

Record improvement

The Algerian world champion Noureddine Morceli improved the existing world championship record in the final on September 1st by 2.83 seconds to 3: 32.84 minutes.

Preliminary round

August 29, 1991, 4:50 pm

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first six athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals. After a protest following the preliminary rounds, Steve Cram, who was seventh in the first heat, was also allowed to start in the semifinals - also highlighted in light green.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3: 43.45
2	Teofilo Benito	Spain	3: 43.88
3	Said Aouita	Morocco	3: 43.93
4th	Peter Rono	Kenya	3: 44.47
5	Pat Scammell	Australia	3: 44.60
6th	Mikael Svensson	Sweden	3: 44.66
7th	Steve Cram	Great Britain	3: 44.69
8th	Karol Dudij	Poland	3: 44.89
9	Mbigyani Thee	Botswana	3: 45.04
10	Edgar de Oliveira	Brazil	3: 45.59
11	Alex Geissbühler	Switzerland	3: 46.38
12	Terrance Herrington	United States	3: 47.28
13	Dale Jones	Antigua and Barbuda	3: 55.41
14th	Lucas Elonga	Equatorial Guinea	4: 31.24
DNS	Abdi Bile	Somalia

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jens-Peter Herold	Germany	3: 41.21
2	José Luis González	Spain	3: 41.48
3	Simon Doyle	Australia	3: 41.50
4th	Pascal Thiebaut	France	3: 41.50
5	Wilfred Kirochi	Kenya	3: 41.64
6th	Davide Tirelli	Italy	3: 41.77
7th	Mogens Guldberg	Denmark	3: 42.00
8th	Sergei Melnikov	Soviet Union	3: 42.15
9	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	3: 42.86
10	Luis Núñez	Dominican Republic	3: 48.54
11	Fabian Franco	Gibraltar	4: 03.94
DNS	Daoude Kassougue	Mauritania
	Han Kulker	Netherlands
	Jim Spivey	United States

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	David Kibet	Kenya	3: 38.07
2	Rachid El Basir	Morocco	3: 38.29
3	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 38.31
4th	Mario Silva	Portugal	3: 38.37
5	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	3: 38.63
6th	Hauke ​​Fuhlbrügge	Germany	3: 38.65
7th	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	3: 38.89
8th	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	3: 39.30
9	Mitsuhiro Okuyama	Japan	3: 40.35
10	Joao N'Tyamba	Angola	3: 41.05
11	Alemayehu Roba	Ethiopia	3: 42.76
12	José Lopez	Venezuela	3: 45.61
13	Luis Martínez	Guatemala	3: 46.39
DNS	Joe Falcon	United States

Semifinals

August 30, 1991, 5:30 p.m.

In each of the two semi-finals, the first five athletes - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Semi-final run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3: 39.90
2	Wilfred Kirochi	Kenya	3: 40.73
3	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 40.83
4th	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	3: 40.84
5	Mario Silva	Portugal	3: 40.94
6th	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	3: 41.24
7th	Hauke ​​Fuhlbrügge	Germany	3: 41.41
8th	Peter Rono	Kenya	3: 41.76
9	Rachid El Basir	Morocco	3: 42.89
10	Mikael Svensson	Sweden	3: 43.69
11	Joao N'Tyamba	Angola	3: 44.63
12	Pat Scammell	Australia	3: 45.17

Semi-final run 2

Steve Cram, 1983 world champion, 1984 Olympic silver medalist and two-time European champion ( 1982 / 1986 ), missing six hundredths of a second to reach the final

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jens-Peter Herold	Germany	3: 41.23
2	Said Aouita	Morocco	3: 41.45
3	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	3: 41.48
4th	Simon Doyle	Australia	3: 41.52
5	David Kibet	Kenya	3: 41.54
6th	Teofilo Benito	Spain	3: 41.61
7th	Steve Cram	Great Britain	3: 41.67
8th	José Luis González	Spain	3: 41.71
9	Davide Tirelli	Italy	3: 43.08
10	Mogens Guldberg	Denmark	3: 44.34
11	Sergei Melnikov	Soviet Union	3: 44.62
12	Pascal Thiebaut	France	3: 45.18
13	Mitsuhiro Okuyama	Japan	3: 49.96

final

Hauke ​​Fuhlbrügge (here in leading position at the GDR championships in 1987) won the bronze medal in the very last few meters ahead of Jens-Peter Herold (here in second place)

September 1, 1991, 3:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3: 32.84 CR
2	Wilfred Kirochi	Kenya	3: 34.84
3	Hauke ​​Fuhlbrügge	Germany	3: 35.28
4th	Jens-Peter Herold	Germany	3: 35.37
5	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 35.62
6th	Mario Silva	Portugal	3: 35.76
7th	David Kibet	Kenya	3: 36.03
8th	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	3: 36.56
9	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	3: 38.12
10	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	3: 38.71
11	Said Aouita	Morocco	3: 39.49
12	Simon Doyle	Australia	3: 41.54

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  Fermín Cacho finished fifth - in the coming year he became  Olympic champion

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  Saïd Aouita, 1983 World Cup third, also over 5000 meters 1984 Olympic champion and 1987 world champion as well as over 800 meters 1988 Olympic third, no longer had the shape of earlier days and came in eleventh place

Video

• TOKYO 91 PART 5 = 1500MTS MEN , video posted June 9, 2009 on youtube.com, accessed April 18, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 18, 2020
• Men 1500m Athletics III World Championship Tokyo (JPN) 1991 from todor66.com, accessed April 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 1500 m, Tokyo 1991, pp. 118f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 18, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 18, 2020