Athletics at the 1992 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

These are the official results of the men's 1500 metres event at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. There were a total number of 51 participating athletes, with four qualifying heats.[1]

Men's 1500 metres at the Games of the XXV Olympiad
Venue	Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc
Date	August 3–8
Competitors	51 from 39 nations
Winning time	3:40.12
Medalists
Fermín Cacho  Spain Rachid El Basir  Morocco Mohamed Suleiman  Qatar

Official Video Highlights

Most of the eyes were on reigning world champion Noureddine Morceli, who hovered in the middle of the pack, while Joseph Chesire led most of the race, marked by Jens-Peter Herold through a slow race of 62.25 and 64.58 for the first two laps, setting up a fast finish. A step behind the leaders, as the pace quickened going into the final lap, home team favorite Fermín Cacho who had been strategically watching the field, pushed the final backstretch to move up on Chesire. Passing on the inside with just over 200 to go, Cacho accelerated and was surprised Chesire was not able to mount a challenge. Charging out into a big lead around the turn, Cacho kept looking back for the next challenger, but there was none, Cacho and the Spanish fans celebrated. Even with his celebrating and looking back, Cacho's last lap was about 50.5. Mohamed Suleiman edged past a fading Chesire and a final sprint around the outside from eighth place netted Rachid El Basir the silver. Suleiman earned the first Olympic medal for Qatar.

Medalists

Gold	Fermín Cacho  Spain
Silver	Rachid El Basir  Morocco
Bronze	Mohamed Suleiman  Qatar

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1992 Summer Olympics.

World Record	3:29.46	Saïd Aouita	West Berlin (FRG)	August 23, 1985
Olympic Record	3:32.53	Sebastian Coe	Los Angeles (USA)	August 11, 1984

Final

• Held on August 8, 1992

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3:40.12
	Rachid El Basir	Morocco	3:40.62
	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	3:40.69
4	Joseph Chesire	Kenya	3:41.12
5	Jonah Birir	Kenya	3:41.27
6	Jens-Peter Herold	Germany	3:41.53
7	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3:41.70
8	Jim Spivey	United States	3:41.74
9	Graham Hood	Canada	3:42.55
10.	David Kibet	Kenya	3:42.62
11.	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	3:43.51
12.	Azat Rakipov	Unified Team	3:44.66

Semi finals

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3:39.22
2	Rachid El Basir	Morocco	3:39.26
3	Joseph Chesire	Kenya	3:39.43
4	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	3:39.52
5	Jens-Peter Herold	Germany	3:39.55
6	Gennaro di Napoli	Italy	3:39.56
7	Branko Zorko	Croatia	3:39.71
8	Rüdiger Stenzel	Germany	3:40.23
9	Steve Holman	United States	3:40.49
10.	Kevin McKay	Great Britain	3:40.80
11.	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	3:41.98
12.	Edgar Martins	Brazil	3:42.53
13.	Momodou Bello N'Jie	The Gambia	4:13.52

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	3:34.77
2	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3:34.93
3	Jonah Birir	Kenya	3:35.41
4	Jim Spivey	United States	3:35.55
5	David Kibet	Kenya	3:35.82
6	Graham Hood	Canada	3:36.12
7	Azat Rakipov	Unified Team	3:36.16
8	Marcus O'Sullivan	Ireland	3:37.16
9	Mário Silva	Portugal	3:38.09
10.	Phillimon Hanneck	Zimbabwe	3:38.09
11.	Hauke Fuhlbrügge	Germany	3:38.45
12.	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	3:40.53

Heats

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3:37.04
2	Phillimon Hanneck	Zimbabwe	3:37.65
3	Jim Spivey	United States	3:38.01
4	Rachid El Basir	Morocco	3:38.01
5	Jonah Birir	Kenya	3:38.29
6	Azat Rakipov	Unified Team	3:38.64
7	Edgar Martins	Brazil	3:38.68
8	Kim Bong-yu	South Korea	3:40.73
9	Steve Crabb	Great Britain	3:41.00
10.	Mohamed Al-Nahdi	United Arab Emirates	3:48.08
11.	Zacharia Maidjida	Central African Republic	3:55.72
12.	Khambieng Khamiar	Laos	4:04.82 (NR)
13.	Ancel Nalau	Vanuatu	4:13.88

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3:37.98
2	Steve Holman	United States	3:38.38
3	Mário Silva	Portugal	3:38.57
4	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	3:38.68
5	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	3:38.73
6	Hauke Fuhlbrügge	Germany	3:38.92
7	João N'Tyamba	Angola	3:39.54 (NR)
8	Metiku Megersa	Ethiopia	3:41.54
9	Khan Nadir	Pakistan	3:44.96
10.	Markus Hacksteiner	Switzerland	3:45.27
11.	Awad Salah Nasser	Yemen	3:51.89
12.	Tamimou Idrissou	Benin	3:56.45
13.	Alphonse Munyeshyaka	Rwanda	3:58.75

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Joseph Chesire	Kenya	3:44.06
2	Graham Hood	Canada	3:44.44
3	Branko Zorko	Croatia	3:44.47
4	Gennaro di Napoli	Italy	3:44.55
5	Rüdiger Stenzel	Germany	3:44.70
6	Terrance Herrington	United States	3:44.80
7	José Luis González	Spain	3:46.75
8	Bobby Gaseitsiwe	Botswana	3:48.33
9	Mohamed Sy Savane	Guinea	3:51.96
10.	Reuben Appleton	Antigua and Barbuda	4:02.99
11.	Bassam Kawas	Lebanon	4:17.40
—	Ian Gray	Belize	DNF
—	Saïd Aouita	Morocco	DNS

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	David Kibet	Kenya	3:36.32
2	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	3:36.72
3	Jens-Peter Herold	Germany	3:36.76
4	Marcus O'Sullivan	Ireland	3:37.07
5	Kevin McKay	Great Britain	3:37.39
6	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	3:37.62
7	Houssein Djama Egueh	Djibouti	3:44.13
8	Sipho Dlamini	Swaziland	3:46.33
9	Hailu Zewde	Ethiopia	3:47.79
10.	Kaleka Mutoke	Zaire	3:53.71
11.	Bernardo Elonga	Equatorial Guinea	4:25.78
—	Robin van Helden	Netherlands	DNF

See also

• 1990 Men's European Championships 1500 metres (Split)
• 1991 Men's World Championships 1500 metres (Tokyo)
• 1993 Men's World Championships 1500 metres (Stuttgart)
• 1994 Men's European Championships 1500 metres (Helsinki)

References

1. "Athletics at the 1992 Barcelona Games: Men's 1500 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 2 November 2017.

External links

• Official Report
• Results