Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 1500 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	43 athletes from 28 countries
Competition location	Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase	August 3, 2012 (preliminary round) August 5, 2012 (semi-finals) August 7, 2012 (final)
Medalist Taoufik Makhloufi ( ALG )   Leonel Manzano ( USA )   Abdalaati Iguider ( MAR )

The men's 1500 meter race at the 2012 London Olympics was held on August 3, 5 and 7, 2012 in the London Olympic Stadium. 43 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Algerian Taoufik Makhloufi , who won ahead of the American Leonel Manzano . The bronze medal went to the Moroccan Abdalaati Iguider .

Carsten Schlangen started for Germany and was eliminated in the semifinals. The Austrian Andreas Vojta failed in the preliminary run.

Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion	Asbel Kiprop ( Kenya )	3: 33.11 min	Beijing 2008
World Champion		3: 35.69 min	Daegu 2011
European champion	Henrik Ingebrigtsen ( Norway )	3: 46.20 min	Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions	Nico Herrera ( Venezuela )	3: 44.92 min	Mayagüez 2011
South America champion	Leandro de Oliveira ( Brazil )	3: 45.55 min	Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion	Mohamed Al-Azemi ( Kuwait )	3: 42.49 min	Kobe 2011
African champions	Caleb Ndiku ( Kenya )	3: 35.71 min	Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion	Adrien Kela ( New Caledonia )	4: 04.53 min	Cairns 2012

Existing records

World record	Hicham El Guerrouj ( Morocco )	3: 26.00 min	Rome , Italy	July 14, 1998
Olympic record	Noah Ngeny ( Kenya )	3: 32.07 min	Sydney final , Australia	September 29, 2000

Note:
All times in this post are given in London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

doping

The Moroccan Amine Laalou , who was scheduled for the second run, was refused entry to Great Britain because of a positive doping result at the beginning of August in connection with the Diamond League event in Monaco . He was then banned for two years.

Prelims

Three preliminary runs were carried out. 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 athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

In the third run, Nixon Chepseba was admitted to the semifinals after a complaint by the judge's decision. 300 meters from the finish, the Kenyan stumbled in a promising position due to the US runner Centrowitz and fell back. The jury decided that Chepseba had been deprived of his semi-final chance due to a disability. Despite his unsportsmanlike conduct, Centrowitz was not disqualified.

Forward 1

Scene from the first run: in front Al-Garni, followed by Gebremedhin, Kiprop, Makhloufi and Rodríguez, behind Murray, Carvalho, Nikolajew, Gregson and Moustaoui in front of Manzano, Teweldebrhan and Ali

August 3, 2012, 8:05 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
0 1	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	3: 35.15
0 2	Mekonnen Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	3: 36.56
0 3	Asbel Kiprop	Kenya	3: 36.59
0 4th	Ross Murray	Great Britain	3: 36.74
0 5	Mohamad Al-Garni	Qatar	3: 36.99
0 6th	Leonel Manzano	United States	3: 37.00
0 7th	Florian Carvalho	France	3: 37.05
0 8th	Mohamed Moustaoui	Morocco	3: 37.41
0 9	Ryan Gregson	Australia	3: 38.54
10	Belal Mansoor Ali	Bahrain	3: 38.69
11	Yegor Nikolaev	Russia	3: 38.92
12	Álvaro Rodríguez	Spain	3: 41.54
13	Teklit Teweldebrhan	Eritrea	3: 42.88
14th	Mamadou Barry	Guinea	4: 05.08
15th	Rabiou Guero Gao	Niger	4: 05.46

Forward 2

August 3, 2012, 8:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
0 1	Mohammed Shaween	Saudi Arabia	3: 39.42
0 2	Hamza Driouch	Qatar	3: 39.67
0 3	İlham Tanui Özbilen	Turkey	3: 39.70
0 4th	Silas Kiplagat	Kenya	3: 39.79
0 5	Nathan Brannen	Canada	3: 39.95
0 6th	Andrew Baddeley	Great Britain	3: 40.34
0 7th	Andrew Wheating	United States	3: 40.92
0 8th	David Bustos	Spain	3: 41.34
0 9	Dmitrijs Jurkevics	Latvia	3: 41.40
10	Dawit Wolde	Ethiopia	3: 41.81
11	Niclas Sandells	Finland	3: 42.67
12	Jamala Aarrass	France	3: 45.13
13	Mohamed Mohamed	Somalia	3: 46.16
14th	Nabil Al-Garbi	Yemen	3: 55.46

Forward 3

The Austrian Andreas Vojta did not reach the semi-finals as twelfth of his preliminary run

August 3, 2012, 8:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
0 1	Nick Willis	New Zealand	3: 40.92
0 2	Abdalaati Iguider	Morocco	3: 41.08
0 3	Yoann Kowal	France	3: 41.12
0 4th	Henrik Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3: 41.33
0 5	Matthew Centrowitz	United States	3: 41.39
0 6th	Carsten Snakes	Germany	3: 41.51
0 7th	Diego Ruiz	Spain	3: 41.52
0 8th	Aman Wote	Ethiopia	3: 41.67
0 9	Nixon Chepseba	Kenya	3: 42.29	qualified for the semifinals by jury decision after a disability
10	Emad Noor	Saudi Arabia	3: 42.95
11	Eduar Villanueva	Venezuela	3: 43.11
12	Andreas Vojta	Austria	3: 43.52
13	Ciarán Ó Lionáird	Ireland	3: 48.35
14th	Samuel Vázquez	Puerto Rico	3: 49.19

Semifinals

Two runs were carried out. The first five athletes of each run 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

August 5, 2012, 8:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
0 1	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	3: 42.25
0 2	Asbel Kiprop	Kenya	3: 42.92
0 3	Mekonnen Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	3: 42.93
0 4th	Leonel Manzano	United States	3: 42.94
0 5	Henrik Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3: 43.26
0 6th	Mohamed Moustaoui	Morocco	3: 43.33
0 7th	Mohammed Shaween	Saudi Arabia	3: 43.39
0 8th	Yoann Kowal	France	3: 43.48
0 9	Andrew Wheating	United States	3: 44.88
10	Ross Murray	Great Britain	3: 44.92
11	Hamza Driouch	Qatar	3: 49.40
12	Ryan Gregson	Australia	3: 51.86

Run 2

The German Carsten Schlangen reached the semi-finals, where he was eliminated in eleventh place in his run

August 5, 2012, 8:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
0 1	Abdalaati Iguider	Morocco	3: 34.00
0 2	Silas Kiplagat	Kenya	3: 34.60
0 3	Nick Willis	New Zealand	3: 34.70
0 4th	Nixon Chepseba	Kenya	3: 34.89
0 5	Matthew Centrowitz	United States	3: 34.90
0 6th	İlham Tanui Özbilen	Turkey	3: 35.18
0 7th	Belal Mansoor Ali	Bahrain	3: 35.40
0 8th	Andrew Baddeley	Great Britain	3: 36.03
0 9	Mohamad Al-Garni	Qatar	3: 36.78
10	Yegor Nikolaev	Russia	3: 37.28
11	Carsten Snakes	Germany	3: 38.23
12	Nathan Brennan	Canada	3: 39.26
13	Florian Carvalho	France	3: 40.61

final

August 7, 2012, 9:15 p.m.

All three Kenyans and two US runners qualified for the final. The final field was completed by one runner each from Algeria, Ethiopia, Bahrain, Morocco, New Zealand, Norway and Turkey.

Taoufik Makhloufi was threatened with a ban. The day before the 1500 meter final, he had canceled his 800 meter run . Officials of the IAAF initially assumed that the Algerian had wanted to spare himself for the 1500 meter final and excluded him from further competitions because of dishonorable behavior. The Algerian association appealed and justified Makhloufi's cancellation of the race with a knee injury, which was confirmed by doctors. Since the officials could no longer find a violation of ethics, they reversed their decision and allowed Makhloufi again for the 1,500 meter race.

The 2008 Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop suffered from an injury and crossed the finish line last. His compatriots Silas Kiplagat and Nixon Chepseba led the field up to about 300 meters from the finish. Makhloufi used his chance after his interim suspension and its withdrawal. He sprinted over the two Kenyans and won Olympic gold. The US American Leonel Manzano crossed the finish line in second place over half a second after him, ahead of the Moroccan Abdalaati Iguider. Kiplagat was seventh, Chepseba eleventh and penultimate.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
0 1	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	3: 34.08
0 2	Leonel Manzano	United States	3: 34.79
0 3	Abdalaati Iguider	Morocco	3: 35.13
0 4th	Matthew Centrowitz	United States	3: 35.17
0 5	Henrik Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3: 35.43	NO
0 6th	Mekonnen Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	3: 35.44
0 7th	Silas Kiplagat	Kenya	3: 36.19
0 8th	İlham Tanui Özbilen	Turkey	3: 36.72
0 9	Nick Willis	New Zealand	3: 36.94
10	Belal Mansoor Ali	Bahrain	3: 37.98
11	Nixon Chepseba	Kenya	3: 39.04
12	Asbel Kiprop	Kenya	3: 43.83

Picture gallery

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  Olympic champion:
  Taoufik Makhloufi, Algeria

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  Silver medal:
  Leonel Manzano, USA

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  Bronze medal:
  Abdalaati Iguider from Morocco

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  The Norwegian Henrik Ingebrigtsen finished fifth

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  The ailing 2008 Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop from Kenya finished twelfth and last

Web links

• SportsReference 1500 m , accessed September 10, 2018
• Official report , accessed September 10, 2018
• Results on the website of the World Athletics Federation IAAF , accessed on September 10, 2018

Video recordings

• Prelims on youtube.com, published August 3, 2012, accessed September 10, 2018
• Semi-finals on youtube.com, published August 5, 2012, accessed September 10, 2018
• Finale on youtube.com, published August 7, 2012, accessed September 10, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 670 , accessed on September 10, 2018
2. ^ Message in the Rheinische Post dated August 3, 2012 , accessed on September 10, 2018
3. ↑ Doping "Aufdecker" is happy about partial success , derStandard (Austria), August 5, 2012, accessed on September 10, 2018
4. ↑ Report by CapitalFM Sports dated August 3, 2012 , accessed on September 10, 2018
5. ↑ Jeré Longman in the New York Times, August 6, 2012 , accessed September 10, 2018