2012 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres at the European Athletics Championships

The men's 1500 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June and 1 July.

Medalists

Gold	Henrik Ingebrigtsen Norway
Silver	Florian Carvalho France
Bronze	David Bustos Spain

Records

Standing records prior to the 2012 European Athletics Championships
World record	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	3:26.00	Rome, Italy	14 July 1998
European record	Fermín Cacho (ESP)	3:28.95	Zürich, Switzerland	13 August 1997
Championship record	Fermín Cacho (ESP)	3:35.27	Helsinki, Finland	9 August 1994
World Leading	Silas Kiplagat (KEN)	3:29.63	Doha, Qatar	11 May 2012
European Leading	İlham Tanui Özbilen (TUR)	3:33.32	Doha, Qatar	11 May 2012

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
30 June 2012	13:45	Round 1
1 July 2012	18:50	Final

Results

Round 1

First 4 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	1	5	Andreas Vojta	Austria	3:41.24	Q
2	1	9	İlham Tanui Özbilen	Turkey	3:41.38	Q
3	1	14	Dmitrijs Jurkevičs	Latvia	3:41.45	Q
4	1	7	Florian Carvalho	France	3:41.50	Q
5	1	11	Hélio Gomes	Portugal	3:41.56	q
6	1	10	Abdellah Haidane	Italy	3:41.61	q
7	1	13	Bartosz Nowicki	Poland	3:41.82	q
8	1	12	Goran Nava	Serbia	3:41.96	q
9	1	8	Andreas Bueno	Denmark	3:42.81
10	1	2	Mateusz Demczyszak	Poland	3:43.97
11	2	4	Niclas Sandells	Finland	3:45.74	Q
12	2	1	Florian Orth	Germany	3:45.87	Q
13	2	14	David Bustos	Spain	3:46.12	Q
14	2	2	Henrik Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3:46.14	Q
15	2	3	Álvaro Rodríguez	Spain	3:46.33
16	2	9	Raul Botezan	Romania	3:46.39
17	1	6	Carsten Schlangen	Germany	3:46.52
18	2	8	Gregory Beugnet	France	3:46.53
19	1	4	Siarhei Krylou	Belarus	3:46.93	SB
20	2	6	Brenton Rowe	Austria	3:47.18
21	2	11	Paul Robinson	Ireland	3:47.26
22	2	13	Thomas Lancashire	Great Britain	3:47.80
23	2	10	Krzysztof Żebrowski	Poland	3:48.00
24	2	5	Kemal Koyuncu	Turkey	3:48.01
25	2	7	Stefan Breit	Switzerland	3:50.79
26	2	12	David Karonei	Luxembourg	3:50.93
27	1	3	Thomas Solberg Eide	Norway	3:54.46
	1	1	Manuel Olmedo	Spain	DNF

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	11	Henrik Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3:46.20
	10	Florian Carvalho	France	3:46.33
	7	David Bustos	Spain	3:46.45
4	9	Hélio Gomes	Portugal	3:46.50
5	1	Bartosz Nowicki	Poland	3:46.69
6	2	Dmitrijs Jurkevičs	Latvia	3:47.36
7	3	Goran Nava	Serbia	3:47.74
8	5	Abdellah Haidane	Italy	3:47.79
9	12	Andreas Vojta	Austria	3:53.23
10	8	Florian Orth	Germany	3:58.54
11	6	Niclas Sandells	Finland	4:03.34
	4	İlham Tanui Özbilen	Turkey	3:46.85	DQ

References

• Round 1 Results
• Final Results Archived 2014-07-14 at the Wayback Machine