2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (men)
 
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| sport | athletics |
| discipline | 1500 meter run |
| gender | Men |
| place | Beijing National Stadium |
| Attendees | 50 athletes from 32 countries |
| Competition phase | August 15-19, 2008 |
| Medalist | |
 gold |
Asbel Kiprop ( KEN )
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 silver |
Nick Willis ( NZL )
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 bronze |
Mehdi Baala ( FRA )
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The men's 1,500-meter race at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was held from August 15 to 19, 2008 in the Beijing National Stadium. Fifty athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was Asbel Kiprop from Kenya , the silver medal went to Nick Willis from New Zealand and the bronze went to Mehdi Baala from France .
Current title holders
| Olympic champion 2004 |
Hicham El Guerrouj ( Morocco )
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3: 34.19 min | Athens 2004 |
| World Champion 2007 |
Bernard Lagat ( Kenya )
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3: 34.77 min | Osaka 2007 |
| European champion 2006 |
Mehdi Baala ( France )
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3: 39.02 min | Gothenburg 2006 |
| Pan American Champion 2007 |
Hudson de Souza ( Brazil )
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3.36.32 min | Rio de Janeiro 2007 |
| Central America and Caribbean champions 2008 | Isaías R. Haro ( Mexico )
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3: 45.15 min | Cali 2008 |
| South America Champion 2007 | Byron Piedra ( Ecuador )
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3: 42.53 min | São Paulo 2007 |
| Asian champion 2007 |
Mohammed Shaween ( Saudi Arabia )
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3: 46.85 min | Amman 2007 |
| Africa Champion 2008 |
Haron Keitany ( Kenya )
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3: 43.47 min | Addis Ababa 2008 |
| Oceania Champion 2008 | Aunese Curreen ( Samoa )
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3: 48.76 min | Saipan 2008 |
Existing records
| World record | 3: 26.00 min |
Hicham El Guerrouj ( Morocco )
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Rome , Italy | July 14, 1998 |
| Olympic record | 3: 32.07 min |
Noah Ngeny ( Kenya )
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Sydney final , Australia | September 29, 2000 |
Prelims
There were four preliminary runs. The first five athletes - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest athletes - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.
Forward 1
August 15, 2008 , 7:10 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mehdi Baala |
France
|
3: 35.87 min | |
| 2 | Nick Willis |
New Zealand
|
3: 36.01 min | |
| 3 | Daham Najim Bashir |
 Qatar
|
3: 36.05 min | |
| 4th | Tarek Boukensa |
 Algeria
|
3: 36.11 min | |
| 5 | Deresse Mekonnen |
.svg){kind=small} Ethiopia
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3: 36.22 min | |
| 6th | Leonel Manzano |
 United States
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3: 36.67 min | |
| 7th | Javier Carriqueo |
 Argentina
|
3: 39.36 min | |
| 8th | Reyes Estévez |
 Spain
|
3: 39.62 min | |
| 9 | Taylor Milne |
 Canada
|
3: 41.56 min | |
| 10 | Youssef Baba |
Morocco
|
3: 42.13 min | |
| 11 | Vyacheslav Shabunin |
 Russia
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3: 42.53 min |
Forward 2
August 15, 2008 , 7:19 pm
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asbel Kiprop |
Kenya
|
3: 41.28 min | |
| 2 | Nathan Brannen |
Canada
|
3: 41.45 min | |
| 3 | Juan Carlos Higuero |
Spain
|
3: 41.70 min | |
| 4th | Bernard Lagat |
United States
|
3: 41.98 min | |
| 5 | Antar Zerguelaïne |
Algeria
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3: 42.30 min | |
| 6th | Goran Nava |
.svg){kind=small} Serbia
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3: 42.92 min | |
| 7th | Tom Lancashire |
 Great Britain
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3: 43.40 min | |
| 8th | Alistair Ian Cragg |
 Ireland
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3: 44.90 min | |
| 9 | Hais Welday |
 Eritrea
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3: 45.06 min | |
| 10 | Mohammed Shaween |
Saudi Arabia
|
3: 45.82 min | |
| 11 | Mitchell Kealey |
 Australia
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3: 46.31 min | |
| 12 | Isaiah Msibi |
 Swaziland
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3: 51.35 min | PB |
Forward 3
August 15, 2008 , 7:28 pm
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Juan van Deventer |
 South Africa
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3: 36.32 min | |
| 2 | Arturo Casado |
Spain
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3: 36.42 min | |
| 3 | Andrew Baddeley |
Great Britain
|
3: 36.47 min | |
| 4th | Abdalaati Iguider |
Morocco
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3: 36.48 min | |
| 5 | Lopez Lomong |
United States
|
3: 36.70 min | |
| 6th | Belal Mansoor Ali |
 Bahrain
|
3: 36.84 min | |
| 7th | Hudson de Souza |
Brazil
|
3: 37.06 min | actually qualified for the semi-finals |
| 8th | Demma Daba |
Ethiopia
|
3: 37.78 min | |
| 9 | Tiidrek Nurme |
 Estonia
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3: 38.59 min | NO |
| 10 | David Freeman |
 Puerto Rico
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3: 39.70 min | |
| 11 | Nicholas Kemboi |
Kenya
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3: 41.56 min | |
| 12 | Bayron Piedra |
Ecuador
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3: 45.57 min | |
| 13 | Abdalla Abdelgadir |
 Sudan
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3: 47.65 min |
Forward 4
August 15, 2008 , 7:37 pm
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mohamed Moustaoui |
Morocco
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3: 34.80 min | |
| 2 | Augustine Kiprono Choge |
Kenya
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3: 35.47 min | |
| 3 | Christian Obrist |
 Italy
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3: 35.91 min | |
| 4th | Kevin Sullivan |
Canada
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3: 36.05 min | |
| 5 | Carsten Snakes |
 Germany
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3: 36.34 min | |
| 6th | Mulugeta Wendimu |
Ethiopia
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3: 36.67 min | |
| 7th | Thamer Kamal Ali |
Qatar
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3: 41.08 min | |
| 8th | Mahamoud Farah |
 Djibouti
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3: 43.62 min | |
| 9 | Chauncy Master |
 Malawi
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3: 44.96 min | |
| 10 | Kamal Boulahfane |
Algeria
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3: 45.59 min | |
| 11 | Jeffrey Riseley |
Australia
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3: 53.95 min | |
| DOP | Rashid Ramzi |
Bahrain
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3: 32.89 min | in the final, later disqualified |
The Moroccan Youssef Baba fails in the first run
The Spaniard Reyes Estévez is eliminated in the first round
The Irishman Alistair Ian Cragg fails in preliminary two
The Serbian Goran Nava (front) is eliminated
Out in the third heat for the Brazilian Hudson de Souza
Tiidrek Nurme from Estonia is eliminated in the third heat despite the national record
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Semifinals
The semifinals were held in two runs, in which the five best runners - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.
Run 1
August 17, 2008 , 9:55 pm
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asbel Kiprop |
Kenya
|
3: 37.04 min | |
| 2 | Abdalaati Iguider |
Morocco
|
3: 37.21 min | |
| 3 | Juan Carlos Higuero |
Spain
|
3: 37.31 min | |
| 4th | Christian Obrist |
Italy
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3: 37.47 min | |
| 5 | Belal Mansoor Ali |
Bahrain
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3: 37.60 min | |
| 6th | Juan van Deventer |
South Africa
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3: 37.75 min | |
| 7th | Daham Najim Bashir |
Qatar
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3: 37.77 min | |
| 8th | Carsten Snakes |
Germany
|
3: 37.94 min | |
| 9 | Nathan Brennan |
Canada
|
3: 39.10 min | |
| 10 | Mulugeta Wendimu |
Ethiopia
|
3: 40.16 min | |
| 11 | Antar Zerguelaïne |
Algeria
|
3: 40.64 min | |
| 12 | Lopez Lomong |
United States
|
3: 41.00 min |
Run 2
August 17, 2008 , 10:04 p.m.
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rashid Ramzi |
Bahrain
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3: 37.11 min | |
| 2 | Mehdi Baala |
France
|
3: 37.47 min | |
| 3 | Andrew Baddeley |
Great Britain
|
3: 37.47 min | |
| 4th | Augustine Kiprono Choge |
Kenya
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3: 37.54 min | |
| 5 | Nick Willis |
New Zealand
|
3: 37.54 min | |
| 6th | Bernard Lagat |
United States
|
3: 37.79 min | actually qualified for the final |
| 7th | Deresse Mekonnen |
Ethiopia
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3: 37.85 min | |
| 8th | Tarek Boukensa |
Algeria
|
3: 39.73 min | |
| 9 | Kevin Sullivan |
Canada
|
3: 40.30 min | |
| 10 | Mohamed Moustaoui |
Morocco
|
3: 40.90 min | |
| 11 | Arturo Casado |
Spain
|
3: 41.57 min | |
| 12 | Leonel Manzano |
United States
|
3: 50.33 min |
Eliminated in the semifinals: Carsten Schlangen, Germany
The Canadian Nathan Brennan also fails
Lopez Lomong, USA, is also out
Likewise, for the US-American Bernard Lagat is the last stop in the semi-finals
Eliminated: Deresse Mekonnen from Ethiopia
Failed: the Spaniard Arturo Casado
The American Leonel Manzano is leaving
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final
| space | Surname | nation | time | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Asbel Kiprop |
Kenya
|
3: 33.11 min | |
| 2 | Nick Willis |
New Zealand
|
3: 34.16 min | |
| 3 | Mehdi Baala |
France
|
3: 34.21 min | |
| 4th | Juan Carlos Higuero |
Spain
|
3: 34.44 min | |
| 5 | Abdalaati Iguider |
Morocco
|
3: 34.66 min | |
| 6th | Juan van Deventer |
South Africa
|
3: 34.77 min | |
| 7th | Belal Mansoor Ali |
Bahrain
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3: 35.23 min | |
| 8th | Andrew Baddeley |
Great Britain
|
3: 35.37 min | |
| 9 | Augustine Kiprono Choge |
Kenya
|
3: 35.50 min | |
| 10 | Daham Najim Bashir |
Qatar
|
3: 37.68 min | |
| 11 | Christian Obrist |
Italy
|
3: 39.87 min | |
| DOP | Rashid Ramzi |
Bahrain
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August 19, 2008 , 10:50 p.m.
The favorites for this competition were primarily the reigning world champion and silver medalist from 2004 Bernard Lagat from the United States, the vice world champion and world champion from 2005 Rashid Ramzi from Bahrain, the French European champion Mehdi Baala and the Kenyan world championship fourth from 2007 Asbel Kiprop. The Spaniards Arturo Casado, seventh at the last world championships, and Juan Carlos Higuero, third in the 2006 European Championship , were also trusted to fight for a good position.
But everything turned out a little differently. Lagat and Casado were eliminated in the semi-finals, while Ramzi was now the clear favorite. The Bahraini then crossed the finish line as the winner with a time of 3: 32.94 min. At the end of April 2009, during follow-up checks on the Beijing doping samples, it was found that Ramzi had taken the blood doping drug CERA - an abbreviation for "Continuous Erythropoiesis Receptor Activator", an erythropoietin derivative. Thus, he was removed from the list of winners by the IOC . His gold medal was revoked . Ramzi would have been Bahrain's first Olympic and medalist. Ramzi's deceitful behavior also prevented Brazilian Hudson de Souza from qualifying for the semi-finals and Bernard Lagat not qualifying for the final. Without Ramzi's consideration, they would have advanced into the named rounds due to their times. The ranking in the final could be changed when Ramzi's doping fraud came out, but de Souza's and Lagat's elimination was irreparable.
Two Bahraini and two Kenyans as well as one runner each from France, Great Britain, Italy, Qatar, Morocco, New Zealand, Spain and South Africa qualified for the final. Without Ramzi's fraud, it would only have been a Bahraini while an American would have come along.
The 1500 meter final wasn't a slow race at first. The first four hundred meters were covered in 56.48 s with Kiprop in the lead ahead of Belal Mansoor Ali from Bahrain and the densely packed field. The speed was reduced on the second lap, and the runners needed just under a minute for the second four hundred meters. The field remained close together with the Kenyan Augustine Kiprono Choge in the leading position, who was also in front after the third lap - 57.61 s. Mansour Ali was second, the later disqualified Ramzi third. It only got really fast shortly before the target curve. With Ramzi in the lead, the field was now expanding. Kiprop was second ahead of Mansour Ali, who fell back significantly in the last hundred meters. Ramzi and Kiprop were in the front, behind them a large gap opened up, the South African Juan van Deventer and Choge were in the next places. As it turned out later, Asbel Kiprop ran to the Olympic victory in the front. Behind him everything was whirled around for the last hundred meters. With a strong finish, New Zealander Nick Willis and Baala fought their way to the medal ranks. Nick Willis won silver just ahead of Mehdi Baala. Juan Carlos Higuero finished fourth, ahead of the Moroccan Abdalaati Iguider and Juan van Deventer.
The time for the last lap was extremely fast at 53.5 s, so that for the Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop there was an end time of 3: 33.11 min, just a little more than a second above Noah Ngeny's Olympic record from 2000 lay.
Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop from Kenya
Silver medal for Nick Willis from New Zealand
Bronze medal for the Frenchman Mehdi Baala
The Olympic victory of the doping offender Rashid Ramzi from Bahrain is canceled
The Moroccan Abdalaati Iguider is fifth
Belal Mansoor Ali from Bahrain is seventh
Augustine Kiprono Choge from Kenya came in ninth
The Italian Christian Obrist is eleventh
Web links
- SportsReference 1500 m , accessed May 30, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 kB), accessed on May 30, 2018
Video
- Athletics - Men's 1500M - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 20, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed May 30, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on May 30, 2018
- ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on May 30, 2018
- ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 kB), accessed May 30, 2018
- ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 kB), accessed on May 30, 2018
- ^ IAAF, 1500 m men , accessed April 20, 2018
- ↑ Middle-distance runner Ramzi has to return gold medal. faz.net , November 18, 2009, accessed May 30, 2018 .
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