World Athletics Championships 1999/1500 m men

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	40 athletes from 24 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 21 (preliminary) August 22 (semi-finals) August 24 (final)
Medalist Hicham El Guerrouj ( MAR )   Noah Ngeny ( KEN )   Reyes Estévez ( ESP )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

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	Hicham El Guerrouj	Rome , Italy	July 14, 1998
World Cup record	3: 32.84 min	Noureddine Morceli	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)
1	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	3: 35.63
2	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 36.43
3	Laban Rotich	Kenya	3: 36.72
4th	Driss Maazouzi	France	3: 36.84
5	Ali Hakimi	Tunisia	3: 37.25
6th	John Mayock	Great Britain	3: 37.29
7th	Rüdiger Stenzel	Germany	3: 37.31
8th	Graham Hood	Canada	3: 37.39
9	David Krummenacker	United States	3: 37.85
10	Miloud Abaoub	Algeria	3: 38.40
11	Vyacheslav Shabunin	Russia	3: 39.70 actually qualified for the semifinals
12	Zigmund Zilbershtein	Georgia	3: 52.76
13	Liam Byrne	Gibraltar	4: 00.60

Forward 2

Eleventh place in the second run was not enough for Youssef Baba to advance

August 21, 1999, 8:33 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3: 41.24
2	Ali Saïdi-Sief	Algeria	3: 41.34
3	David Lelei	Kenya	3: 41.40
4th	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	3: 41.51
5	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	3: 41.53
6th	Rui Silva	Portugal	3: 41.60
7th	Venuste Niyongabo	Burundi	3: 41.87
8th	Dirk Heinze	Germany	3: 43.44
9	Nadir Bosch	France	3: 44.46
10	Kiyoharu Sato	Japan	3: 45.72
11	Youssef Baba	Morocco	3: 48.08
12	Seneca Lassiter	United States	3: 48.29
13	Primo Higa	Solomon Islands	4: 17.46

Forward 3

August 21, 1999, 8:41 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Noah Ngeny	Kenya	3: 37.41
2	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3: 37.63
3	Andrés Manuel Díaz	Spain	3: 37.68
4th	Abdelkader Chékhémani	France	3: 37.74
5	Steve Holman	United States	3: 37.75
6th	Julius Achon	Uganda	3: 37.97
7th	Marko Koers	Netherlands	3: 38.04
8th	Salah Ghazi	Morocco	3: 40.31
9	Hamish Christensen	New Zealand	3: 41.11
10	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	3: 43.49
11	Francis Munthali	Malawi	3: 49.97
12	Bashar Omar Othman	Kuwait	3: 50.28
13	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	3: 50.71
DOP	Mohamed Ibrahim Aden	Somalia	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

Marko Koers retired as ninth in his race in the semifinals

August 22, 1999, 9:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	3: 37.34
2	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 37.88
3	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3: 38.16
4th	Laban Rotich	Kenya	3: 38.20
5	Driss Maazouzi	France	3: 38.32
6th	David Krummenacker	United States	3: 39.19
7th	Ali Hakimi	Tunisia	3: 39.27
8th	Rüdiger Stenzel	Germany	3: 39.87
9	Marko Koers	Netherlands	3: 40.15
10	Ali Saïdi-Sief	Algeria	3: 40.63
11	Miloud Abaoub	Algeria	3: 43.21
DOP	Mohamed Ibrahim Aden	Somalia

Semi-final run 2

Rui Silva did not reach the final as tenth in his semi-final run

August 22, 1999, 9:39 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Noah Ngeny	Kenya	3: 36.13
2	Andrés Manuel Díaz	Spain	3: 36.33
3	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	3: 36.62
4th	David Lelei	Kenya	3: 36.81
5	Graham Hood	Canada	3: 37.23
6th	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3: 37.32
7th	Steve Holman	United States	3: 37.52
8th	Abdelkader Chékhémani	France	3: 37.77
9	Julius Achon	Uganda	3: 37.82
10	Rui Silva	Portugal	3: 50.85
DNF	John Mayock	Great Britain
	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands

final

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  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)
1	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	3: 27.65 CR
2	Noah Ngeny	Kenya	3: 28.73 NO
3	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3: 30.57
4th	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3: 31.34
5	Andrés Manuel Díaz	Spain	3: 31.83
6th	Laban Rotich	Kenya	3: 33.32
7th	David Lelei	Kenya	3: 33.82
8th	Driss Maazouzi	France	3: 34.02
9	Steve Holman	United States	3: 34.32
10	Graham Hood	Canada	3: 35.35
11	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	3: 47.05
DNF	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria

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  As in 1997 there was bronze for the reigning European champion Reyes Estévez

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  Fermín Cacho, 1992 Olympic champion, 1996 Olympic second, 1993 and 1997 vice world champion, 1994 European champion, 1994 vice European champion, this time finished fourth without a medal

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  Andrés Manuel Díaz came in fifth as the third best Spaniard

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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 12, 2020
2. ↑ Two doping cases at the World Cup on spiegel.de August 25, 1999, accessed on July 12, 2020