World Athletics Championships 2001/1500 m men

8th World Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	38 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Edmonton
Competition location	Commonwealth Stadium
Competition phase	August 9th (preliminary) August 10th (semi-finals) August 12th (final)
Medalist Hicham El Guerrouj ( MAR )   Bernard Lagat ( KEN )   Driss Maazouzi ( FRA )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

The men's 1500-meter race at the 2001 World Athletics Championships was held from August 9 to 12, 2001 in the Commonwealth Stadium in the Canadian city ​​of Edmonton .

The Moroccan Olympic runner-up in 2000, Hicham El Guerrouj , who was also vice world champion in 1995 , won his third World Cup title in a row . The Kenyan Olympic third in 2000 Bernard Lagat , who started for the USA in 2004 , won the silver medal. Bronze went to the former Moroccan Driss Maazouzi, who has been racing for France since 2000 .

Existing records

World record	3: 26.00 min	Hicham El Guerrouj	Rome , Italy	July 14, 1998
World Cup record	3: 27.65 min		1999 World Cup in Seville , Spain	August 24, 1999

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

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

Andrés Manuel Díaz did not finish in the first heat

August 9, 2001, 7:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	3: 36.97
2	Mehdi Baala	France	3: 38.18
3	Laban Rotich	Kenya	3: 38.37
4th	Daniel Zegeye	Ethiopia	3: 38.48
5	Paul McMullan	United States	3: 38.48
6th	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	3: 38.49
7th	Graham Hood	Canada	3: 38.99
8th	John Mayock	Great Britain	3: 39.24
9	Alexis Sharangabo	Rwanda	3: 42.72
10	James Nolan	Ireland	3: 42.84
11	José Luis Ebatela Nvó	Equatorial Guinea	4: 08.01
12	Benson Korimara	Kiribati	4: 51.36
DNF	Andrés Manuel Díaz	Spain

Forward 2

Luís Feiteira (here at the 2012 Olympic marathon ) was eliminated in the preliminary round with 3: 41.63 minutes

August 9, 2001, 7:33 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	José Antonio Redolat	Spain	3: 36.24
2	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	3: 36.49
3	Abdelkader Hachlaf	Morocco	3: 36.62
4th	Mohamed Khaldi	Algeria	3: 36.92
5	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	3: 37.37
6th	Anthony Whiteman	Great Britain	3: 37.75
7th	Said Chébili	France	3: 37.99
8th	Hudson de Souza	Brazil	3: 38.03
9	Peter Philipp	Switzerland	3: 39.20
10	Luís Feiteira	Portugal	3: 41.63
11	Gabriel Jennings	United States	3: 46.07
12	Christian Thielen	Luxembourg	3: 54.20
13	Pedro Ventura Jiménez	Honduras	4: 22.09
DNS	Ntoka Kapinga	Democratic Republic of Congo

Forward 3

Wolfram Müller (fifth from the right) did not reach the semi-finals with his 3: 39.95 minutes

August 9, 2001, 7:41 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3: 38.27
2	Driss Maazouzi	France	3: 38.44
3	William Chirchir	Kenya	3: 38.69
4th	Youssef Baba	Morocco	3: 38.72
5	Rui Silva	Portugal	3: 38.74
6th	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	3: 38.76
7th	Craig Mottram	Australia	3: 39.10
8th	Julius Achon	Uganda	3: 39.57
9	Wolfram Müller	Germany	3: 39.95
10	Andrew Graffin	Great Britain	3: 40.44
11	Seneca Lassiter	United States	3: 44.50
12	Víctor Martínez	Andorra	3: 52.29
DNS	Amadou Diallo	Guinea

Semifinals

In each of the two semi-finals, the first six athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Semi-final run 1

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  Hudson de Souza failed with 3: 37.13 minutes in the semifinals

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  Youssef Baba was twelfth and last in his semi-final race without a chance

August 10, 2001, 9:50 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	3: 35.82
2	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	3: 36.01
3	Rui Silva	Portugal	3: 36.07
4th	Mehdi Baala	France	3: 36.15
5	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3: 36.46
6th	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	3: 36.64
7th	Anthony Whiteman	Great Britain	3: 36.77
8th	Hudson de Souza	Brazil	3: 37.13
9	Peter Philipp	Switzerland	3: 39.66
10	Mohamed Khaldi	Algeria	3: 40.38
11	Graham Hood	Canada	3: 40.52
12	Youssef Baba	Morocco	3: 44.90

Semi-final run 2

Craig Mottram - eleventh of his semi-final run in 3: 43.21 minutes and thus eliminated

August 10, 2001, 10:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	3: 39.54
2	José Antonio Redolat	Spain	3: 39.75
3	Abdelkader Hachlaf	Morocco	3: 40.16
4th	William Chirchir	Kenya	3: 40.23
5	Driss Maazouzi	France	3: 40.26
6th	Paul McMullan	United States	3: 40.57
7th	Laban Rotich	Kenya	3: 41.09
8th	Daniel Zegeye	Ethiopia	3: 42.15
9	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	3: 42.30
10	John Mayock	Great Britain	3: 42.63
11	Craig Mottram	Australia	3: 43.21
12	Said Chébili	France	3: 43.58

Hicham El Guerrouj - world champion for the third time in a row, also runner-up in the 2000 Olympic Games and runner-up in the 1995 World Cup

final

August 12, 2001, 4:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	3: 30.68
2	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	3: 31.10
3	Driss Maazouzi	France	3: 31.54
4th	William Chirchir	Kenya	3: 31.91
5	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3: 32.34
6th	José Antonio Redolat	Spain	3: 34.29
7th	Rui Silva	Portugal	3: 35.74
8th	Abdelkader Hachlaf	Morocco	3: 36.54
9	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	3: 36.99
10	Paul McMullan	United States	3: 39.35
11	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	3: 48.45
12	Mehdi Baala	France	3: 55.36

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  Vice world champion Bernard Lagat, here for Kenya, later for the USA

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  Reyes Estévez, two-time World Cup -Dritter ( 1997 / 1999 ) and the reigning European champion , finished fifth

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  Rui Silva came in seventh

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  Abdelkader Hachlaf (far left) reached eighth place

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  Gert-Jan Liefers came in ninth place

Video

• 2001 IAAF World Championships Men's 1500m on youtube.com, accessed August 7, 2020

Web links

• 8th IAAF World Championships in Athletics (English)
• Men 1500m Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com (English)
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 1500 m, Edmonton 2001, p. 120 (PDF; 10.3 MB, English)

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 7, 2020.