World Athletics Championships 1993/1500 m men

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	43 athletes from 33 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 19th (preliminary) August 20th (semi-finals) August 22nd (final)
Medalist Noureddine Morceli ( ALG )   Fermín Cacho ( ESP )   Abdi Bile ( SOM )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The men's 1,500-meter run at the 1993 World Athletics Championships was held from August 19 to 22, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

World champion was the Algerian defending champion and world record holder Noureddine Morceli , who was able to return the favor for his defeat at the Olympic Games last year . The Spanish Olympic champion from 1992 Fermín Cacho won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Somali world champion from 1987 Abdi Bile .

Existing records

World record	3: 28.86 min	Noureddine Morceli	Rieti , Italy	September 6, 1992
World Cup record	3: 32.84 min		1991 World Cup in Tokyo , Japan	September 1, 1991

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

August 19, 1993, 5:50 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 39.36
2	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	3: 39.41
3	Mohamed Taki	Morocco	3: 39.57
4th	Simon Doyle	Australia	3: 39.61
5	Joseph Chesire	Kenya	3: 39.97
6th	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	3: 40.43
7th	Andrei Loginow	Russia	3: 40.84
8th	Edgar de Oliveira	Brazil	3: 41.88
9	Johan Landsman	South Africa	3: 43.05
10	Carlos Mairena	Nicaragua	3: 54.21
11	Gop Bahadur Adgikari	Nepal	3: 54.47

Forward 2

August 19, 1993, 5:58 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	3: 42.64
2	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	3: 42.75
3	Mario Silva	Portugal	3: 42.81
4th	David Kibet	Kenya	3: 42.98
5	Azat Rakipov	Belarus	3: 43.05
6th	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	3: 43.61
7th	Michael Busch	Germany	3: 44.03
8th	Bill Burke	United States	3: 44.03
9	Keiruan Tawai	Vanuatu	4: 04.77
10	Naseer Ismail	Maldives	4: 12.11
DNS	Davide Tirelli	Italy

Forward 3

The reigning European champion Jens-Peter Herold (here in second place) did not reach the semifinals with his ninth place in the third heat

August 19, 1993, 6:06 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3: 37.84
2	Christophe Impens	Belgium	3: 38.87
3	Steve Cram	Great Britain	3: 38.98
4th	Jonah Birir	Kenya	3: 39.03
5	Branko Zorko	Croatia	3: 39.20
6th	Terrance Herrington	United States	3: 39.35
7th	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	3: 41.58
8th	Hamid Sajadi	Iran	3: 41.66
9	Jens-Peter Herold	Germany	3: 50.64
10	Juan José Tapia	Panama	3: 52.44
11	Ali Khazaal	Lebanon	4: 02.62

Forward 4

August 19, 1993, 6:14 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	3: 39.91
2	Rachid El Basir	Morocco	3: 40.01
3	Niall Bruton	Ireland	3: 40.08
4th	Jim Spivey	United States	3: 40.08
5	Venuste Niyongabo	Burundi	3: 40.18
6th	Rüdiger Stenzel	Germany	3: 40.30
7th	Abdi Bile	Somalia	3: 41.05
8th	Ovidiu Olteanu	Romania	3: 47.62
9	Andrey Bulkovskiy	Ukraine	3: 50.02
10	Mohamed Al Halak	Yemen	3: 50.44
11	Dale Jones	Antigua and Barbuda	3: 54.91

Semifinals

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

August 20, 1993, 8:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 41.66
2	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	3: 42.06
3	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	3: 42.12
4th	Rüdiger Stenzel	Germany	3: 42.29
5	Rachid El Basir	Morocco	3: 42.48
6th	Mario Silva	Portugal	3: 42.85
7th	Christophe Impens	Belgium	3: 42.85
8th	Branko Zorko	Croatia	3: 43.12
9	Jonah Birir	Kenya	3: 43.79
10	David Kibet	Kenya	3: 44.92
11	Azat Rakipov	Belarus	3: 45.46
12	Terrance Herrington	United States	3: 46.64

Semi-final run 2

Steve Cram, 1983 world champion, 1984 Olympic silver medalist, and two times European Champion ( 1982 / 1986 ), remained in the semifinals chance

August 20, 1993, 8:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3: 40.07
2	Abdi Bile	Somalia	3: 40.65
3	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	3: 41.06
4th	Simon Doyle	Australia	3: 41.06
5	Jim Spivey	United States	3: 41.15
6th	Mohamed Taki	Morocco	3: 41.26
7th	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	3: 41.56
8th	Andrei Loginow	Russia	3: 42.11
9	Venuste Niyongabo	Burundi	3: 42.34
10	Joseph Chesire	Kenya	3: 42.37
11	Niall Bruton	Ireland	3: 42.43
12	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	3: 42.48
13	Steve Cram	Great Britain	3: 42.63

final

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  Fermín Cacho (here in 2011) , 1992 Olympic champion, became vice world champion

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  Abdi Bile (Photo: 2019) , 1987 world champion, won the bronze medal

August 22, 1993, 5:50 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3: 34.24
2	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 35.56
3	Abdi Bile	Somalia	3: 35.95
4th	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	3: 36.87
5	Jim Spivey	United States	3: 37.42
6th	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	3: 37.61
7th	Rachid El Basir	Morocco	3: 37.68
8th	Mohamed Taki	Morocco	3: 37.76
9	Simon Doyle	Australia	3: 38.04
10	Rüdiger Stenzel	Germany	3: 38.66
11	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	3: 39.69
12	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	3: 47.38

Video

• Noureddine Morceli - 1500m Stuttgart World Championships 1993 , video published on June 15, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed on May 8, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed May 8, 2020
• Men 1500m Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 8, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 1500 m, Stuttgart 1993, p. 119 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 8, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 8, 2020