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Host City: Barcelona, Spain

Format: Top five in each heat and next two fastest advanced to the final.

Date Started: August 3, 1992

Format: Top four in each heat and next four fastest advanced to the semi-finals.

Date Finished: August 8, 1992

(Competitors: 51; Countries: 40; Finalists: 12)

Venue(s): Montjuïc Olympic Stadium, Barcelona

Overview by IAAF

Twenty men ran quicker than 3:40 in the first round as only one heat saw a race slower than that level. Kibet was the fastest heat winner – 3:36.32, while Chesire won the slow race – 3:44.06. Morceli, the big favourite, won the first semi in 3:39.22 with a 53.0 last lap, while Suleiman won the other heat in a startling 3:34.77 – the fastest preliminary race ever – ahead of Cacho, 3:34.91. Again, no-one wanted to set the pace in the final, so Chesire found himself in the lead, and took the field though three laps, passing the bell in 2:49.7. Cacho was third, and Morceli, not fully recovered from an early season injury, buried in the pack. He didn’t react when Cacho made his move. With 250m to go a gap opened on the inside and Cacho darted through it and was never headed. Leading Chesire by a metre off the final bend he eventually won by 4m despite looking round six times. His last lap was a scintillating 50.3

Summary by Sports-reference.com

The heavy favorite was 1992 world champion Noureddine Morceli but he ran a strangely passive race and finished only 7th. The final started slowly, with nobody wanting to take the lead. The bell was passed in 2:49.7, with Kenya's Joseph Chesire leading, after 800 had been passed in a pedestrian 2:06.83. Morceli was trapped in the pack and never challenged. Spain's Fermín Cacho saw a small gap on the inside and took the lead 250 metres from the finish. He pulled away and won over Rachid El-Basir quite easily, looking around frequently on the final stretch. Mohamed Sulaiman's medal was the first ever for Qatar in the Olympics.

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

		Results
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. 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 eight place netted Rachid El Basir the silver.
*1500 m*	Men	Final	8 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	3.40.12	Fermín Cacho	Spain	ESP	16 Feb 69
2	3.40.62	Rachid El Basir	Morocco	MAR	4 Oct 68
3	3.40.69	Mohamed Ahmed Suleiman	Qatar	QAT	23 Nov 69
4	3.41.12	Joseph Chesire	Kenya	KEN	12 Nov 57
5	3.41.27	Jonah Birir	Kenya	KEN	27 Dec 71
6	3.41.53	Jens-Peter Herold	Germany	GER	2 Jun 65
7	3.41.70	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	ALG	28 Feb 70
8	3.41.74	Jim Spivey	United States	USA	7 Mar 60
9	3.42.55	Graham Hood	Canada	CAN	2 Apr 72
10	3.42.62	David Kibet	Kenya	KEN	24 Nov 63
11	3.43.51	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	ESP	7 Jul 66
12	3.44.66	Azat Rakipau	Belarus	BLR	29 Nov 68
*1500 m*	Men	Semifinal 1	6 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	3.39.22	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	ALG	28 Feb 70
2	3.39.26	Rachid El Basir	Morocco	MAR	4 Oct 68
3	3.39.43	Joseph Chesire	Kenya	KEN	12 Nov 57
4	3.39.52	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	ESP	7 Jul 66
5	3.39.55	Jens-Peter Herold	Germany	GER	2 Jun 65
6	3.39.56	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	ITA	5 Mar 68
7	3.39.71	Branko Zorko	Croatia	CRO	1 Jul 67
8	3.40.23	Rüdiger Stenzel	Germany	GER	16 Apr 68
9	3.40.49	Steve Holman	United States	USA	2 Mar 70
10	3.40.80	Kevin McKay	Great Britain	GBR	9 Feb 69
11	3.41.98	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	TUR	22 Dec 65
12	3.42.53	Edgar Martins de Oliveira	Brazil	BRA	11 Nov 67
13	4.13.52	Baba Njie	Gambia	GAM	70
*1500 m*	Men	Semifinal 2	6 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	3.34.77	Mohamed Ahmed Suleiman	Qatar	QAT	23 Nov 69
2	3.34.93	Fermín Cacho	Spain	ESP	16 Feb 69
3	3.35.41	Jonah Birir	Kenya	KEN	27 Dec 71
4	3.35.55	Jim Spivey	United States	USA	7 Mar 60
5	3.35.82	David Kibet	Kenya	KEN	24 Nov 63
6	3.36.12	Graham Hood	Canada	CAN	2 Apr 72
7	3.36.16	Azat Rakipau	Belarus	BLR	29 Nov 68	NR
8	3.37.16	Marcus O'Sullivan	Ireland	IRL	22 Dec 61
9	3.38.09	Philemon Hanneck	Zimbabwe	ZIM	21 May 71
10	3.38.09	Mário Silva	Portugal	POR	23 Jul 61
11	3.38.45	Hauke Fuhlbrügge	Germany	GER	21 Mar 66
12	3.40.53	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	GBR	4 Feb 69
*1500 m*	Men	Heat 1	3 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	3.37.04	Fermín Cacho	Spain	ESP	16 Feb 69
2	3.37.65	Philemon Hanneck	Zimbabwe	ZIM	21 May 71
3	3.38.01	Jim Spivey	United States	USA	7 Mar 60
4	3.38.01	Rachid El Basir	Morocco	MAR	4 Oct 68
5	3.38.29	Jonah Birir	Kenya	KEN	27 Dec 71
6	3.38.64	Azat Rakipau	Belarus	BLR	29 Nov 68
7	3.38.68	Edgar Martins de Oliveira	Brazil	BRA	11 Nov 67
8	3.40.73	Kim Bong-Joo	South Korea	KOR	16 Jun 67
9	3.41.00	Steve Crabb	Great Britain	GBR	30 Nov 63
10	3.48.08	Mohamed Ahmed Amer	United Arab Emirates	UAE	23 Apr 67
11	3.55.72	Zacharia Maidjida	Central African Republic	CAF	5 Jun 69
12	4.04.82	Khambieng Khamiar	Laos	LAO	23 Nov 67	NR
13	4.13.88	Ancel Nalau	Vanuatu	VAN	7 Sep 68
*1500 m*	Men	Heat 2	3 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	3.37.98	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	ALG	28 Feb 70
2	3.38.38	Steve Holman	United States	USA	2 Mar 70
3	3.38.57	Mário Silva	Portugal	POR	23 Jul 61
4	3.38.68	Zeki Öztürk	Turkey	TUR	22 Dec 65
5	3.38.73	Matthew Yates	Great Britain	GBR	4 Feb 69
6	3.38.92	Hauke Fuhlbrügge	Germany	GER	21 Mar 66
7	3.39.54	João N'Tyamba	Angola	ANG	20 Mar 68	NR
8	3.41.54	Mitiku Megersa	Ethiopia	ETH	28 Feb 73
9	3.44.96	Nadir Khan	Pakistan	PAK	10 Jun 66
10	3.45.27	Markus Hacksteiner	Switzerland	SUI	18 Nov 64
11	3.51.89	Awad Saleh Nasser	Yemen	YEM	26 Sep 75
12	3.56.45	Tamimou Idrissou	Benin	BEN	61
13	3.58.75	Alphonse Munyeshyaka	Rwanda	RWA	3 Nov 74
*1500 m*	Men	Heat 3	3 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	3.44.06	Joseph Chesire	Kenya	KEN	12 Nov 57
2	3.44.44	Graham Hood	Canada	CAN	2 Apr 72
3	3.44.47	Branko Zorko	Croatia	CRO	1 Jul 67
4	3.44.55	Gennaro Di Napoli	Italy	ITA	5 Mar 68
5	3.44.70	Rüdiger Stenzel	Germany	GER	16 Apr 68
6	3.44.80	Terrance Herrington	United States	USA	31 Jul 66
7	3.46.75	José Luís González	Spain	ESP	8 Dec 57
8	3.48.33	Bobby Gaseitsiwe	Botswana	BOT	14 Nov 66
9	3.51.96	Mohamed Sy Savane	Guinea	GUI	30 Sep 68	NR
10	4.02.99	Reuben Appleton	Antigua and Barbuda	ANT	25 Apr 68
11	4.17.40	Bassam Kawas	Lebanon	LIB	4 May 69
	DNF	Ian Gray	Belize	BIZ	16 Dec 63
*1500 m*	Men	Heat 4	3 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	3.36.32	David Kibet	Kenya	KEN	24 Nov 63
2	3.36.72	Mohamed Ahmed Suleiman	Qatar	QAT	23 Nov 69
3	3.36.76	Jens-Peter Herold	Germany	GER	2 Jun 65
4	3.37.07	Marcus O'Sullivan	Ireland	IRL	22 Dec 61
5	3.37.39	Kevin McKay	Great Britain	GBR	9 Feb 69
6	3.37.62	Manuel Pancorbo	Spain	ESP	7 Jul 66
7	3.44.13	Egueh Houssein Djama	Djibouti	DJI	23 Jul 68
8	3.46.33	Sipho Dlamini	Swaziland	SWZ	30 Nov 72
9	3.47.79	Hailu Zewode	Ethiopia	ETH	13 Sep 74
10	3.53.71	Kaleka Mutoke	DR Congo	COD	7 Jul 65
11	4.25.78	Bernardo Elonga	Equatorial Guinea	GEQ	22 Feb 61
	DNF	Robin van Helden	Netherlands	NED	6 Feb 65