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)
Medalist Fermín Cacho ( ESP )   Rachid El Basir ( MAR )   Mohamed Suleiman ( QAT )

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
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
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
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
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

Jens-Peter Herold (center) - sixth in the Olympics - and Hauke ​​Fuhlbrügge (left) - retired as the semi-final eleventh of his run

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
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
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
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

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 670 , accessed on February 6, 2018
2. ↑ ^{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