1992 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 1500 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 50 athletes from 39 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Olympic Stadium Barcelona | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 3, 1992 (preliminary round) August 6, 1992 (semi-finals) August 8, 1992 (final) |
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The men's 1500 meter run at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona was held in three rounds on August 3, 6 and 8, 1992 in the Barcelona Olympic Stadium. Fifty athletes took part.
Olympic champion was the Spaniard Fermín Cacho . He won ahead of the Moroccan Rachid El Basir and Mohamed Suleiman from Qatar.
For Germany went Hauke Fuhlbrügge , Jens-Peter Herold and Rüdiger Stenzel at the start. Fuhlbrügge and Stenzel were eliminated in the semifinals. Herold reached the final and finished sixth.
The Swiss Markus Hacksteiner was eliminated in the preliminary round.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion in 1988 | Peter Rono ( Kenya ) | 3: 35.96 min | Seoul 1988 |
World Champion 1991 | Noureddine Morceli ( Algeria ) | 3: 32.84 min | Tokyo 1991 |
European champion 1990 | Jens-Peter Herold ( German Democratic Republic ) | 3: 38.35 min | Split 1990 |
Pan American Champion '1991 | José Mauro Valente ( Brazil ) | 3: 42.90 min | Havana 1991 |
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1991 | Linton McKenzie ( Jamaica ) | 3: 48.83 min | Xalapa 1991 |
South American Champion 1991 | Edgar de Oliveira ( Brazil ) | 3: 42.41 min | Manaus 1991 |
Asian champion 1991 | Mohamed Suleiman ( Qatar ) | 3: 42.64 min | Kuala Lumpur 1991 |
African Champion 1992 | Nelson Chirchir ( Kenya ) | 3: 38.52 min | Belle Vue Maurel 1992 |
Oceania Champion 1990 | Derek Renz ( New Zealand ) | 3: 58.58 min | Suva 1990 |
Existing records
World record | 3: 29.46 min | Saïd Aouita ( Morocco ) | Berlin , FR Germany (now Germany ) | 23rd August 1985 |
Olympic record | 3: 32.53 min | Sebastian Coe ( Great Britain ) | Los Angeles final , USA | August 11, 1984 |
Preliminary round
Date: August 3, 1992
The athletes competed in a total of four heats. The first five participants in each run qualified for the semifinals. In addition, the four fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Fermín Cacho | Spain | 3: 37.04 min | |
2 | Philemon Hanneck | Zimbabwe | 3: 37.65 min | |
3 | Jim Spivey | United States | 3: 38.01 min | |
4th | Rachid El Basir | Morocco | 3: 38.01 min | |
5 | Jonah Birir | Kenya | 3: 38.29 min | |
6th | Asat Rakipau | EUN | 3: 38.64 min | |
7th | Edgar de Oliveira | Brazil | 3: 38.68 min | |
8th | Kim Bong-yoo | South Korea | 3: 40.73 min | |
9 | Steve Crabb | Great Britain | 3: 41.00 min | |
10 | Mohamed Al-Nahdi | United Arab Emirates | 3: 48.08 min | |
11 | Zacharia Maidjida | Central African Republic | 3: 55.72 min | |
12 | Khambieng Khamiar | Laos | 4: 04.82 min | |
13 | Ancel Nalau | Vanuatu | 4: 13.88 min |
Forward 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Noureddine Morceli | Algeria | 3: 37.98 min | |
2 | Steven Holman | United States | 3: 38.38 min | |
3 | Mario Silva | Portugal | 3: 38.57 min | |
4th | Zeki Öztürk | Turkey | 3: 38.68 min | |
5 | Matthew Yates | Great Britain | 3: 38.73 min | |
6th | Hauke Fuhlbrügge | Germany | 3: 38.92 min | |
7th | João N'Tyamba | Angola | 3: 39.54 min | |
8th | Metiku Megersa | Ethiopia | 3: 41.54 min | |
9 | Nadir Khan | Pakistan | 3: 44.96 min | |
10 | Markus Hacksteiner | Switzerland | 3: 45.27 min | |
11 | Awad Salah Nasser | Yemen | 3: 51.89 min | |
12 | Tamimou Idrissou | Benin | 3: 56.45 min | |
13 | Alphonse Munyeshyaka | Rwanda | 3: 58.75 min |
Forward 3
Branko Zorko was the first athlete from Croatia to take part in the Olympic Games.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Joseph Chesire | Kenya | 3: 44.06 min | |
2 | Graham Hood | Canada | 3: 44.44 min | |
3 | Branko Zorko | Croatia | 3: 38.57 min | |
4th | Gennaro Di Napoli | Italy | 3: 44.55 min | |
5 | Rüdiger Stenzel | Germany | 3: 44.70 min | |
6th | Terrance Herrington | United States | 3: 44.80 min | |
7th | José Luis González | Spain | 3: 46.75 min | |
8th | Kebapetse Gaseitsiwe | Botswana | 3: 48.33 min | |
9 | Mohamed Sy Sawané | Guinea | 3: 51.96 min | |
10 | Reuben Appleton | Antigua and Barbuda | 4:02.99 min | |
11 | Bassam Kawas | Lebanon | 4: 17.40 min | |
DNF | Ian Gray | Belize | ||
DNS | Said Aouita | Morocco |
Forward 4
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | David Kibet | Kenya | 3: 36.32 min | |
2 | Mohamed Suleiman | Qatar | 3: 36.72 min | |
3 | Jens-Peter Herold | Germany | 3: 36.76 min | |
4th | Marcus O'Sullivan | Ireland | 3: 37.07 min | |
5 | Kevin McKay | Great Britain | 3: 37.39 min | |
6th | Manuel Pancorbo | Spain | 3: 37.62 min | |
7th | Hous sein Djama | Djibouti | 3: 44.13 min | |
8th | Sipho Dlamini | Swaziland | 3: 46.33 min | |
9 | Zewdie Hailu | Ethiopia | 3: 47.79 min | |
10 | Kaleka Mutoke | Zaire | 3: 53.71 min | |
11 | Bernardo Elonga | Equatorial Guinea | 4: 25.78 min | |
DNF | Robin van Helden | Netherlands | ||
DNS | Giuseppe D'Urso | Italy |
Semifinals
Date: August 6, 1992
The first five athletes in both races qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Run 1
The runner Baba Njie from Gambia was also admitted to the semi-finals because, due to an oversight by the organizers, he was unable to take part in the preliminary run.
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Noureddine Morceli | Algeria | 3: 39.22 min | |
2 | Rachid El-Basir | Morocco | 3: 39.26 min | |
3 | Joseph Chesire | Kenya | 3: 39.43 min | |
4th | Manuel Pancorbo | Spain | 3: 39.52 min | |
5 | Jens-Peter Herold | Germany | 3: 39.55 min | |
6th | Gennaro Di Napoli | Italy | 3: 39.56 min | |
7th | Branko Zorko | Croatia | 3: 39.71 min | |
8th | Rüdiger Stenzel | Germany | 3: 40.23 min | |
9 | Steven Holman | United States | 3: 40.49 min | |
10 | Kevin McKay | Great Britain | 3: 40.80 min | |
11 | Zeki Öztürk | Turkey | 3: 41.98 min | |
12 | Edgar de Oliveira | Brazil | 3: 42.53 min | |
13 | Baba Njie | Gambia | 4: 13.52 min |
Run 2
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Mohamed Suleiman | Qatar | 3: 34.77 min | |
2 | Fermín Cacho | Spain | 3: 34.93 min | |
3 | Jonah Birir | Kenya | 3: 35.41 min | |
4th | Jim Spivey | United States | 3: 35.55 min | |
5 | David Kibet | Kenya | 3: 35.82 min | |
6th | Graham Hood | Canada | 3: 36.12 min | |
7th | Asat Rakipau | EUN | 3: 36.16 min | |
8th | Marcus O'Sullivan | Ireland | 3: 37.16 min | |
9 | Mario Silva | Portugal | 3: 38.09 min | |
10 | Philemon Hanneck | Zimbabwe | 3: 38.09 min | |
11 | Hauke Fuhlbrügge | Germany | 3: 38.45 min | |
12 | Matthew Yates | Brazil | 3: 40.53 min |
final
space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
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1 | Fermín Cacho | Spain | 3: 40.12 min | |
2 | Rachid El Basir | Morocco | 3: 40.62 min | |
3 | Mohamed Suleiman | Qatar | 3: 40.69 min | |
4th | Joseph Chesire | Kenya | 3: 41.12 min | |
5 | Jonah Birir | Kenya | 3: 41.27 min | |
6th | Jens-Peter Herold | Germany | 3: 41.53 min | |
7th | Noureddine Morceli | Algeria | 3: 41.70 min | |
8th | Jim Spivey | United States | 3: 41.74 min | |
9 | Graham Hood | Canada | 3: 42.55 min | |
10 | David Kibet | Kenya | 3: 42.62 min | |
11 | Manuel Pancorbo | Spain | 3: 43.51 min | |
12 | Asat Rakipau | EUN | 3: 44.66 min |
Date: August 8, 1992
Three Kenyans, two Spaniards and one runner each from Algeria, Germany, Canada, Qatar, the USA and the United Team had qualified for the final.
World champion Noureddine Morceli from Algeria was a clear favorite. Other medal candidates were the middle-distance athletes from Kenya, who were always difficult to assess, the two Germans Hauke Fuhlbrügge as third in the World Cup and Jens-Peter Herold, fourth in the World Cup and also European champion , as well as Fermín Cacho, the fifth in the World Cup , who competed here as a Spaniard with home advantage.
In the slowly started final - first round in 1: 02.25 min - the Kenyan Joseph Chesire led ahead of Herold. It stayed that way in lap two, which was a little slower with 1: 04.58 min. Morceli was in the main field and so it went on the last four hundred meters. Chesire, Herold, the American Jim Spivey and Cacho led a tightly packed field. However, the pace was much faster now. The third lap was completed in 55.72 s. A long sprint began on the back straight, numerous runners tried to get into a good position on the outside. Ten of them were still in the running for the medals. There was a gap behind it. Even before the finish curve, Cacho took the chance to push forward on the inside lane. Resolutely, he pulled past Chesire and got a small lead on the bend. Morceli, on the other hand, had missed the connection and only came to the home straight in fifth. Chesire, Herold and Mohamed Suleiman from Qatar were still ahead of him. Fermin Cacho had no trouble maintaining his top position and won the Olympic gold medal to the cheers of the audience. Behind him, the Moroccan Rachid El Basir was the fastest on the home straight and won the silver medal. Mohamed Suleiman came in third in front of Joseph Chesire. The Kenyan Jonah Birir came in fifth ahead of the 1988 bronze medalist Jens-Peter Herold, at that time still starting for the GDR. Morceli finished the race in a disappointing and almost inexplicable seventh place. Four years later in Atlanta he was supposed to make up for what he had neglected here and became Olympic champion there .
Due to the first two slow laps, records here remained untouched.
Fermin Cacho won the first Spanish gold medal in the men's 1500 meters .
Mohamed Suleiman was the first Qatar Olympic medalist.
Web links
- SportsReference 1500m , accessed February 6, 2018
- Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 43, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 6, 2018
Video
- Men's 1500m Final Barcelona Olympics 1992 , published November 9, 2015 on youtube.com, accessed February 6, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 670 , accessed on February 6, 2018
- ↑ a b c Official report on the Olympic Games in Barcelona , athletics results: p. 43, Catalan / Spanish / English / French (PDF, 38.871 MB), accessed on February 6, 2018