World Athletics Championships 1999/1500 m men
7th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | 1500 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 40 athletes from 24 countries | ||||||||
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Competition location | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 21 (preliminary) August 22 (semi-finals) August 24 (final) |
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The men's 1,500-meter race at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held from August 21 to 24, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city of Seville .
World champion was the Moroccan defending champion, vice world champion in 1995 and world record holder Hicham El Guerrouj . He won ahead of the Kenyan Noah Ngeny . The Spanish World Cup third in 1997 and reigning European champion Reyes Estévez won the bronze medal.
Records
Existing records
World record | 3: 26.00 min |
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Rome , Italy | July 14, 1998 |
World Cup record | 3: 32.84 min |
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1991 World Cup in Tokyo , Japan | September 1, 1991 |
Record improvement
The Moroccan world champion Hicham El Guerrouj improved the existing world championship record in the final on August 24th by 5.19 seconds to 3: 27.65 minutes.
In addition, Vice World Champion Noah Ngeny from Kenya set a new national record with 3: 28.73 minutes in the final.
doping
There was a doping case in this competition.
Mohamed Ibrahim Aden from Somalia , who was eliminated in the semifinals, was convicted of taking the banned substance ephedrine and disqualified.
The Russian Vyacheslav Schabunin , who had been eliminated in the preliminary stage , was disadvantaged , who should actually have taken part in the semi-finals during his time.
Preliminary round
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.
Forward 1
August 21, 1999, 8:25 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Hicham El Guerrouj |
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3: 35.63 |
2 | Fermín Cacho |
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3: 36.43 |
3 | Laban Rotich |
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3: 36.72 |
4th | Driss Maazouzi |
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3: 36.84 |
5 | Ali Hakimi |
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3: 37.25 |
6th | John Mayock |
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3: 37.29 |
7th | Rüdiger Stenzel |
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3: 37.31 |
8th | Graham Hood |
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3: 37.39 |
9 | David Krummenacker |
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3: 37.85 |
10 | Miloud Abaoub |
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3: 38.40 |
11 | Vyacheslav Shabunin |
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3: 39.70 actually qualified for the semifinals |
12 | Zigmund Zilbershtein |
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3: 52.76 |
13 | Liam Byrne |
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4: 00.60 |
Forward 2
August 21, 1999, 8:33 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Reyes Estévez |
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3: 41.24 |
2 | Ali Saïdi-Sief |
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3: 41.34 |
3 | David Lelei |
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3: 41.40 |
4th | Adil Kaouch |
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3: 41.51 |
5 | Gert-Jan Liefers |
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3: 41.53 |
6th | Rui Silva |
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3: 41.60 |
7th | Venuste Niyongabo |
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3: 41.87 |
8th | Dirk Heinze |
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3: 43.44 |
9 | Nadir Bosch |
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3: 44.46 |
10 | Kiyoharu Sato |
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3: 45.72 |
11 | Youssef Baba |
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3: 48.08 |
12 | Seneca Lassiter |
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3: 48.29 |
13 | Primo Higa |
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4: 17.46 |
Forward 3
August 21, 1999, 8:41 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Noah Ngeny |
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3: 37.41 |
2 | Noureddine Morceli |
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3: 37.63 |
3 | Andrés Manuel Díaz |
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3: 37.68 |
4th | Abdelkader Chékhémani |
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3: 37.74 |
5 | Steve Holman |
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3: 37.75 |
6th | Julius Achon |
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3: 37.97 |
7th | Marko Koers |
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3: 38.04 |
8th | Salah Ghazi |
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3: 40.31 |
9 | Hamish Christensen |
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3: 41.11 |
10 | Kevin Sullivan |
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3: 43.49 |
11 | Francis Munthali |
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3: 49.97 |
12 | Bashar Omar Othman |
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3: 50.28 |
13 | Giuseppe D'Urso |
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3: 50.71 |
DOP | Mohamed Ibrahim Aden |
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admitted to the semifinals |
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 22, 1999, 9:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Hicham El Guerrouj |
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3: 37.34 |
2 | Fermín Cacho |
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3: 37.88 |
3 | Reyes Estévez |
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3: 38.16 |
4th | Laban Rotich |
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3: 38.20 |
5 | Driss Maazouzi |
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3: 38.32 |
6th | David Krummenacker |
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3: 39.19 |
7th | Ali Hakimi |
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3: 39.27 |
8th | Rüdiger Stenzel |
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3: 39.87 |
9 | Marko Koers |
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3: 40.15 |
10 | Ali Saïdi-Sief |
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3: 40.63 |
11 | Miloud Abaoub |
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3: 43.21 |
DOP | Mohamed Ibrahim Aden |
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Semi-final run 2
August 22, 1999, 9:39 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Noah Ngeny |
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3: 36.13 |
2 | Andrés Manuel Díaz |
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3: 36.33 |
3 | Adil Kaouch |
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3: 36.62 |
4th | David Lelei |
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3: 36.81 |
5 | Graham Hood |
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3: 37.23 |
6th | Noureddine Morceli |
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3: 37.32 |
7th | Steve Holman |
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3: 37.52 |
8th | Abdelkader Chékhémani |
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3: 37.77 |
9 | Julius Achon |
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3: 37.82 |
10 | Rui Silva |
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3: 50.85 |
DNF | John Mayock |
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Gert-Jan Liefers |
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final
The world champion was the defending champion and world record holder Hicham El Guerrouj, who was vice world champion in 1995
August 24, 1999, 9:10 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Hicham El Guerrouj |
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3: 27.65 CR |
2 | Noah Ngeny |
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3: 28.73 NO |
3 | Reyes Estévez |
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3: 30.57 |
4th | Fermín Cacho |
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3: 31.34 |
5 | Andrés Manuel Díaz |
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3: 31.83 |
6th | Laban Rotich |
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3: 33.32 |
7th | David Lelei |
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3: 33.82 |
8th | Driss Maazouzi |
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3: 34.02 |
9 | Steve Holman |
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3: 34.32 |
10 | Graham Hood |
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3: 35.35 |
11 | Adil Kaouch |
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3: 47.05 |
DNF | Noureddine Morceli |
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As in 1997 there was bronze for the reigning European champion Reyes Estévez
Video
- 1999 IAAF World Athletics Championships - Men's 1500 m Final , video posted on April 19, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed on July 12, 2020
Web links
- 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 12, 2020
- Men 1500m Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 12, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 1500 m, Seville 1999, p. 120 (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 12, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 12, 2020
- ↑ Two doping cases at the World Cup on spiegel.de August 25, 1999, accessed on July 12, 2020