Noureddine Morceli

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Noureddine Morceli athletics
nation AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria
birthday February 28, 1970
place of birth Tenes
size 172 cm
Weight 62 kg
Career
discipline Middle distance run
Best performance 1: 44.79 ( 800 m )
3: 27.37 min ( 1500 m )
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
World championships 3 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Indoor World Cup 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Mediterranean Games 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
gold Atlanta 1996 1500 m
IAAF logo World championships
gold Tokyo 1991 1500 m
gold Stuttgart 1993 1500 m
gold Gothenburg 1995 1500 m
IAAF logo Indoor world championships
gold Seville 1991 1500 m
Mediterranean Games logo Mediterranean Games
gold Narbonne 1993 1500 m

Noureddine Morceli ( Arabic نور الدين مرسلي, DMG Nūr ad-Dīn Mursalī ; * February 28, 1970 in Ténès , Chlef Province ) is a former Algerian middle-distance runner . He was once Olympic champion and three times world champion.

biography

Morceli celebrated his first international success in 1988 at the Junior World Championships, where he won the silver medal over 1500 meters . In 1990 he set the annual world record with 3: 32.60 minutes. He continued his dominance in 1991 when he set an indoor world record in Seville on February 28 (3: 34.16 min). Just nine days later, he won gold on the same track at the 1991 World Indoor Championships over the same distance. In the world championships in Tokyo , Morceli was already a big favorite and won confidently.

At the beginning of 1992 Morceli ran another indoor world record over 1000 meters with 2: 15.26 minutes . The fact that Morceli would win over 1500 meters at the Olympic Games in Barcelona seemed to be out of the question beforehand. But in the final it was surprisingly slow; in the 800-meter interval, the men were even slower than the women. This was not at all the pace Morceli liked. On the home stretch he was no longer able to accelerate and was only a disappointing seventh. He was able to overcome this disappointment quickly and a few weeks later ran an outdoor world record of 3: 28.86 minutes .

At the 1993 World Championships in Stuttgart , the 1,500-meter run also started rather slowly. But this time Morceli was able to control the race and outclassed the field with a final lap of 50.6 seconds. In the same year he set a world record in the mile run with 3: 44.39 minutes . In the same year he was named World Sportsman of the Year by the French sports newspaper L'Équipe .

In 1994 he set the world record over 3000 meters with 7: 25.11 minutes . Spurred on by the significant increase in Moses Kiptanui's record, he also decided to attack Haile Gebrselassie's world record over 5000 meters . He clearly failed in 13: 03.85 min, but he astonished the world of athletics with a final lap of 51.97 seconds. A year later, he ran two more world records within nine days: First, he undercut Saïd Aouita's record in the 2000-meter run in 4: 47.88 minutes, then his own record over 1500 meters in 3: 27.37 minutes. At the world championships in Gothenburg he successfully defended his world title.

In the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta , Morceli was the favorite for the 1,500-meter course. After his greatest competitor, Hicham El Guerrouj , crashed at the beginning of the last lap, Morceli won overwhelmingly. At the 1997 World Championships in Athens , Morceli was only fourth, in 1999 in Seville he gave up the race before the last lap. Morceli ran his last race at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney , where he could not win a medal.

Noureddine Morceli was married to the Swiss long-distance runner Patricia Morceli from 1997 to 2002 . He was trained by his older brother Abderrahmane Morceli , who won the silver medal in the 1500 meter run at the 1979 African Championships in Dakar .

Personal bests

  • 800 m : 1: 44.79 min, July 29, 1991, Annaba
  • 1000 m: 2: 13.73 min, July 2, 1993, Villeneuve-d'Ascq
    • Hall: 2: 15.26 min, February 22, 1992, Birmingham
  • 1500 m: 3: 27.37 min, July 12, 1995, Nice
    • Hall: 3: 34.16 min, February 28, 1991, Seville
  • 1 mile: 3: 44.39 min, September 5, 1993, Rieti
    • Hall: 3: 50.70 min, February 20, 1993, Birmingham
  • 2000 m: 4: 47.88 min, July 3, 1995, Paris
  • 3000 m: 7: 25.11 min, August 2, 1994, Monaco
  • 5000 m: 13: 03.85 min, August 17, 1994, Zurich

Awards

2013: Induction into the IAAF Hall of Fame

Web links

Individual evidence