2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (men)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 1500 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Men | ||||||||
Attendees | 41 athletes from 26 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadium Australia | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 25, 2000 (preliminary round) September 27, 2000 (semi-finals) September 29, 2000 (final) |
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The men's 1500 meter run at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 25, 27 and 29, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 41 athletes took part.
The Kenyan Noah Ngeny became Olympic champion . He won ahead of the Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj and the Kenyan Bernard Lagat .
Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current title holders
Olympic champion 1996 | Noureddine Morceli ( Algeria ) | 3: 35.78 min | Atlanta 1996 |
World Champion 1999 | Hicham El Guerrouj ( Morocco ) | 3: 27.65 min | Seville 1999 |
European champion 1998 | Reyes Estévez ( Spain ) | 3: 41.31 min | Budapest 1998 |
Pan American Champion 1999 | Graham Hood ( Canada ) | 3: 41.20 min | Winnipeg 1999 |
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999 | Rodolfo Gómez ( Mexico ) | 3: 46.74 min | Bridgetown 1999 |
South American Champion 1999 | Mauricio Ladino ( Colombia ) | 3: 49.95 min | Bogotá 1999 |
Asian champion 2000 | Mohamed Suleiman ( Qatar ) | 3: 52.47 min | Jakarta 2000 |
African Champion 2000 | Youssef Baba ( Morocco ) | 3: 42.07 min | Algiers 2000 |
Oceania Champion 2000 | Russell Hasu ( Papua New Guinea ) | 4: 09.58 min | Adelaide 2000 |
Existing records
World record | 3: 26.00 min | Hicham El Guerrouj ( Morocco ) | Rome , Italy | July 14, 1998 |
Olympic record | 3: 32.53 min | Sebastian Coe ( Great Britain ) | Los Angeles final , USA | August 11, 1984 |
Note: All times are local Sydney time ( UTC + 10 ).
Preliminary round
A total of three preliminary runs were completed. The first six athletes per run qualified for the semifinals. In addition, the six fastest drivers, 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
September 25, 2000, 10:40 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Hicham El Guerrouj | Morocco | 3: 38.57 | |
2 | José Antonio Redolat | Spain | 3: 38.66 | |
3 | Kamal Boulahfane | Algeria | 3: 39.01 | |
4th | John Mayock | Great Britain | 3: 39.08 | |
5 | Hailu Mekonnen | Ethiopia | 3: 39.09 | |
6th | Michael Stember | United States | 3: 39.13 | |
7th | Julius Achon | Uganda | 3: 39.40 | |
8th | William Chirchir | Kenya | 3: 40.22 | |
9 | James Nolan | Ireland | 3: 40.50 | |
10 | Darko Radomirović | Yugoslavia | 3: 43.57 | |
11 | Nick Howarth | Australia | 3: 45.46 | |
12 | Branko Zorko | Croatia | 3: 46.16 | |
13 | Francis Munthali | Malawi | 3: 46.34 | NO |
Forward 2
September 25, 2000, 10:48 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Mehdi Baala | France | 3: 40.35 | |
2 | Bernard Lagat | Kenya | 3: 40.42 | |
3 | Juan Carlos Higuero | Spain | 3: 40.60 | |
4th | Kevin Sullivan | Canada | 3: 40.80 | |
5 | Daniel Zegeye | Ethiopia | 3: 40.91 | |
6th | Gabriel Jennings | United States | 3: 40.96 | |
7th | Adil Kaouch | Morocco | 3: 41.06 | |
8th | Mohamed Khaldi | Algeria | 3: 41.16 | |
9 | Vyatcheslav Shabunin | Russia | 3: 41.52 | |
10 | Ivan Heschko | Ukraine | 3: 41.80 | |
11 | Alexis Sharangabo | Rwanda | 3: 44.06 | |
12 | Chungu Chipako | Zambia | 3: 49.79 | |
13 | José Luis Ebatela Nvo | Equatorial Guinea | 4: 06.14 | |
DNF | Anthony Whiteman | Great Britain |
Forward 3
September 25, 2000, 10:56 am
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Noah Ngeny | Kenya | 3: 38.03 | |
2 | Noureddine Morceli | Algeria | 3: 38.41 | |
3 | Andrés Manuel Díaz | Spain | 3: 38.54 | |
4th | Youssef Baba | Morocco | 3: 38.68 | |
5 | Berhanu Alemu | Ethiopia | 3: 38.79 | |
6th | Driss Maazouzi | France | 3: 38.88 | |
7th | Jason Pyrah | United States | 3: 38.94 | |
8th | Marko Koers | Netherlands | 3: 39.16 | |
9 | Mohammed Yagoub | Sudan | 3: 39.52 | |
10 | Hudson de Souza | Brazil | 3: 39.70 | |
11 | Andrew Graffin | Great Britain | 3: 39.75 | |
12 | Ibrahim Mohamed Aden | Somalia | 3: 40.33 | |
13 | Rui Silva | Portugal | 3: 41.93 | |
14th | Sidi Mohamed Ould Bidjel | Mauritania | 4: 03.74 |
Semifinals
In each of the two semi-finals, the first five athletes qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Run 1
September 27, 2000, 6:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Noah Ngeny | Kenya | 3: 39.29 | |
2 | Kevin Sullivan | Canada | 3: 39.66 | |
3 | Jason Pyrah | United States | 3: 40.04 | |
4th | Youssef Baba | Morocco | 3: 40.16 | |
5 | Driss Maazouzi | France | 3: 40.23 | |
6th | Julius Achon | Uganda | 3: 40.32 | |
7th | Hailu Mekonnen | Ethiopia | 3: 49.92 | |
8th | Hudson de Souza | Brazil | 3: 41.00 | |
9 | Michael Stember | United States | 3: 42.30 | |
10 | Andrew Graffin | Great Britain | 3: 42.72 | |
11 | José Antonio Redolat | Spain | 3: 45.46 | |
12 | Noureddine Morceli | Algeria | 4: 00.78 |
Run 2
September 27, 2000, 6:40 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Hicham El Guerrouj | Morocco | 3: 37.60 | |
2 | Bernard Lagat | Kenya | 3: 37.84 | |
3 | Daniel Zegeye | Ethiopia | 3: 38.08 | |
4th | Mehdi Baala | France | 3: 38.15 | |
5 | Juan Carlos Higuero | Spain | 3: 38.37 | |
6th | Andrés Manuel Díaz | Spain | 3: 38.41 | |
7th | John Mayock | Great Britain | 3: 38.68 | |
8th | Marko Koers | Netherlands | 3: 39.42 | |
9 | Gabriel Jennings | United States | 3: 40.10 | |
10 | Berhanu Alemu | Ethiopia | 3: 41.09 | |
11 | Kamal Boulahfane | Algeria | 3: 43.98 | |
12 | Mohammed Yagoub | Sudan | 3: 50.60 |
final
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Noah Ngeny | Kenya | 3: 32.07 | OR |
2 | Hicham El Guerrouj | Morocco | 3: 32.32 | |
3 | Bernard Lagat | Kenya | 3: 32.44 | |
4th | Mehdi Baala | France | 3: 34.14 | |
5 | Kevin Sullivan | Canada | 3: 35.50 | |
6th | Daniel Zegeye | Ethiopia | 3: 36.78 | |
7th | Andrés Manuel Díaz | Spain | 3: 37.27 | |
8th | Juan Carlos Higuero | Spain | 3: 38.91 | |
9 | John Mayock | Great Britain | 3: 39.41 | |
10 | Jason Pyrah | United States | 3: 39.84 | |
11 | Driss Maazouzi | France | 3: 45.46 | |
12 | Youssef Baba | Morocco | 3: 56.08 |
September 29, 2000, 8:00 p.m.
Two Spaniards, two French, two Kenyans and two Moroccans had qualified for the final. The starting field was completed by one participant each from Ethiopia, Canada, the USA and Great Britain.
The clear favorite was the Moroccan Hicham El Guerrouj, the reigning world champion and world record holder . Its main competitors came mainly from Kenya. The Kenyan runner-up world champion Noah Ngeny was particularly important, as was his compatriot Bernard Lagat. Three runners from Spain had strongly come up trumps at the last World Championships in third, four and five of them, however, was only the World Cup -Fünfte Andrés Manuel Díaz here in Sydney it. With good performances in the Olympic season, the Frenchman Mehdi Baala had also gotten into the conversation.
The final race was approached very quickly. The Moroccan Youssef Baba set the pace for his compatriot El Guerrouj. The 400 meter split was 54.14 s, which was even a world record. The two leading Moroccans and the two Kenyans Ngeny and Lagat had separated a little. However, it was now a lot slower. The 800 meter transit time was 1: 54.77 minutes, so the second lap was run in 60.63 seconds. The field was now closed again. In the third round, Baba dropped back. El Guerrouj took over the lead and now accelerated the pace again. The field then fell apart into smaller groups. At the start of the last lap, El Guerrouj continued to dictate the pace, with the two Kenyans and Baala following him. There was already a clear gap behind it. At 1200 meters with an intermediate time of 2: 51.67 minutes it looked the same. The third lap was covered in 56.90 s. At the end of the target curve the order was still the same, the four runners in front had a large lead. On the home stretch, Ngeny attacked the Moroccan and ran over him. Noah Ngeny won the race quite surprisingly and set a new Olympic record - 3: 32.07 min. Behind Hicham El Guerrouj, Bernard Lagat came third in front of Mehdi Baala, who was unable to follow the three medal winners in the last hundred meters. El Guerrouj and Lagat were also faster than the previous Olympic record. The Canadian Kevin Sullivan and the Ethiopian Daniel Zegeye finished fifth and sixth in that order.
After the 1992 Games in Barcelona , it was the second time that the clear favorite over 1500 meters could not become Olympic champion. In Barcelona, Algerian Noureddine Morceli fared even worse than Hicham El Guerrouj is now. Morceli had to be content with seventh place. Four years later in Atlanta , however, the Algerian won his gold medal after all. Here, too, there is a parallel to El Guerrouj, who should win not only the 1500 but also the 5000 meter run at the upcoming 2004 games in Athens .
Web links
- SportsReference 1500 m , accessed March 20, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed March 20, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on March 20, 2018
Video
- 1500m final sydney olympics , published July 8, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed March 20, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 670 , accessed on March 20, 2018