2009 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres


The men's 1500 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium between 15–19 August. Among the favoured athletes in the event were defending champion Bernard Lagat, European champion Mehdi Baala, and the Kenyan season leaders Asbel Kiprop, Haron Keitany and Augustine Choge.
All the favoured athletes progressed through a series of tactically-run heats on the first day of competition, with Baala, Kiprop, Choge and Deresse Mekonnen the four race winners. Moroccan Amine Laalou won the first semi-final, followed by Americans Lopez Lomong and Lagat, while Kiprop and Leonel Manzano both finished quickly to take the top two qualifying spots in the second race. The only high-profile athlete to be eliminated in the semi-finals was Keitany, who did not start, putting an end to any hopes of a Kenyan medal sweep.
The [|final] race began slowly and, as the athletes reached the last lap, they remained in a tight pack led by Mekonnen. Choge and Mohamed Moustaoui closely followed as he approached the final straight, but the race remained open. Yusuf Saad Kamel took the lead in the final straight, scoring a surprise gold medal. Mekonnen maintained his pace to take the silver medal and defending champion Lagat had a quick burst near the finish to win the bronze. Kiprop, one of the pre-race favourites, left himself too much ground to cover, eventually ending up fourth, with Choge and Baala alongside him.
Bahrain's Kamel, born in Kenya as Gregory Konchellah, followed in the footsteps of his father Billy Konchellah, who won the 800 m at the 1987 and 1991 World Championships. Mekonnen's silver was Ethiopia's first ever World Championship medal in the 1500 m. Lagat's bronze was his third in the 1500 m, after his silver in 2001 and a gold in 2007.

Medalists

Records

Qualification standards

Schedule

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 5 in each heat and the next 4 fastest advance to the [|semifinal].
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
4Deresse Mekonnen3:37.04Q
4Haron Keitany3:37.13Q
4James Brewer3:37.17Q, PB
4Mohamed Moustaoui3:37.34Q
4Yusuf Saad Kamel3:37.59Q
4Reyes Estévez3:38.23q, SB
4Nathan Brannen3:38.35q
4Dorian Ulrey3:38.86q
4Taoufik Makhloufi3:40.04q
104Stefan Eberhardt3:40.05
112Asbel Kiprop3:41.42Q
122Bernard Lagat3:41.60Q
132Juan Carlos Higuero3:41.77Q
142Rui Silva3:41.98Q
154Mounir Yemmouni3:42.06
162Peter van der Westhuizen3:42.33Q
172Antar Zerguelaïne3:42.37
182Thomas Chamney3:42.54
192Thomas Lancashire3:42.68
201Mehdi Baala3:42.77Q
211Leonel Manzano3:42.87Q
221Abdalaati Iguider3:42.88Q
231Jeffrey Riseley3:43.03Q
241Belal Mansoor Ali3:43.06Q
251Arturo Casado3:43.21
261Mekonnen Gebremedhin3:43.22
271Christian Obrist3:43.41
284Tiidrek Nurme3:43.73SB
291Hais Welday3:43.84
302Carsten Schlangen3:44.00
311Goran Nava3:44.13
323Augustine Kiprono Choge3:44.73Q
333Amine Laâlou3:44.75Q
342Ryan Gregson3:44.79
353Lopez Lomong3:44.89Q
363Andrew Baddeley3:45.23Q
373Henok Legesse3:45.63Q
383Tarek Boukensa3:45.65
393Kristof van Malderen3:46.03
403Yoann Kowal3:46.42
413Johan Cronje3:46.45
423Jeremy Roff3:47.08
432Abdalla Abdelgadir3:47.78
441Mohammed Othman Shaween3:49.03
452Byron Piedra3:49.60
463Mohamad Al-Garni3:50.55
471Chauncy Master3:50.73
483Álvaro Vásquez3:55.06PB
494Víctor Martínez4:02.10SB
502Hem Bunting4:08.64SB
511Abdallahi Nanou4:09.77PB
522Benjamín Enzema4:13.17PB
533Antoine Berlin4:27.52
1Boampouguini Djigban

Key: PB = Personal best, Q = qualification by place in heat, q = qualification by overall place, SB = Seasonal best

Semifinals

Qualification: First 5 in each semifinal and the next 2 fastest advance to the final.
RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
2Asbel Kiprop3:36.24Q
2Leonel Manzano3:36.29Q
2Augustine Kiprono Choge3:36.43Q
1Amine Laâlou3:36.68Q
1Lopez Lomong3:36.75Q
1Bernard Lagat3:36.86Q
2Deresse Mekonnen3:36.86Q
1Yusuf Saad Kamel3:36.87Q
2Belal Mansoor Ali3:36.87Q
102Mohamed Moustaoui3:36.94q
111Mehdi Baala3:37.07Q
122Abdalaati Iguider3:37.19q
131James Brewer3:37.27
141Juan Carlos Higuero3:37.33
152Reyes Estévez3:37.55SB
161Henok Legesse3:37.79
172Taoufik Makhloufi3:37.87
182Jeffrey Riseley3:38.00
192Andrew Baddeley3:38.23
201Nathan Brannen3:38.97
212Dorian Ulrey3:39.33
221Peter van der Westhuizen3:40.00
231Rui Silva3:41.30
1Haron Keitany

Final