2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres

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Men's 1500 metres
at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Venue Arena Birmingham
Dates3–4 March
Competitors24 from 20 nations
Winning time3:58.19
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg   Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia
Silver medal icon.svg   Flag of Poland.svg  Poland
Bronze medal icon.svg   Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco
  2016
2022  
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The men's 1500 metres at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships took place on 3 and 4 March 2018. [1] [2]

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Summary

Two disqualifications and three national records highlighted the heats.

In the final, 2012 champion, Abdelaati Iguider jumped out to an early lead, with the American pair of Ben Blankenship and Craig Engels immediately behind him. The entire field jogged through the first 400 at warm up pace, 1:15.84. Blankenship found himself in the lead, looking around as if, "where is everybody?" At 600 metres, in 1:52.48, finally 18 year old Samuel Tefera came forward, the pace quickened slightly. He was joined by teammate Aman Wote and the pace began to get quicker, though still not 30 per lap pace. 800 metres in 2:23.68. Iguider came back to Tefera's shoulder, both speeding up to run a 28.49 lap, 1000 metres in 2:52.16. Blankenship held on to their back, Wote boxing him in on the outside. A 27.38 lap for 1200 in 3:19.54. Jake Wightman ran out in lane 3 to run around the crowd into third place as Iguider squeezed into the lead on the inside. With 300 metres to go, Marcin Lewandowski, known more as an 800 metres runner, was at the back of the pack, but he too moved to the outside and started sprinting past the field, reaching Wightman at the bell. Wightman held Lewandowski to the outside of the penultimate turn but on the backstretch, he passed and set off after Tefera and Iguider. A 25.38 lap, 3:44.84 would have won the race most years, but they still had 100 metres to go. It came down to a final 50 metre sprint on the home stretch. Tefera passed Iguider and ran away to victory, with Lewandowski in full sprint behind him. A desperate Iguider began leaning five metres before the finish, but he couldn't hold off Lewandowski speeding past for silver. For Iguider, it was his second bronze medal in this event, to go along with the complete set of medals he had already collected between 2010 and 2014.

The winning time of 3:58.19 would be a slow mile time in this era. Tefera had run significantly faster, setting the World Junior Record in the event at 3:36.05, just 36 days earlier. That was his first experience on an indoor track. [3]

Results

Heats

The heats were started on 3 March at 11:10. [4]

RankHeatNameNationalityTimeNotes
11 Abdelaati Iguider Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 3:40.13Q
21 Aman Wote Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 3:40.20Q
31 Ben Blankenship Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 3:40.23q
41 Marcin Lewandowski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3:40.78q
51 Chris O'Hare Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 3:42.46q
62 Samuel Tefera Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 3:44.00Q
72 Vincent Kibet Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 3:44.26Q
82 Ryan Gregson Flag of Australia (converted).svg  Australia 3:44.44
92 Marc Alcalá Flag of Spain.svg  Spain 3:45.49
102 Jakub Holuša Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 3:45.84
112 Kalle Berglund Flag of Sweden.svg  Sweden 3:46.61
123 Jake Wightman Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 3:47.23Q
133 Craig Engels Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 3:47.55Q
143 Brahim Kaazouzi Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 3:47.65
152 Musa Hajdari Flag of Kosovo.svg  Kosovo 3:47.68 NR
162 Harvey Dixon Flag of Gibraltar.svg  Gibraltar 3:49.89 NR
171 Dario Ivanovski Flag of North Macedonia.svg  Macedonia 3:51.83PB
181 Dey Tuach Dey Flag of South Sudan.svg  South Sudan 3:56.10 NR
193 Mikhail Soloshenko Flag of Kyrgyzstan.svg  Kyrgyzstan 4:05.52
1 Mohamed Ismail Mohamed Flag of Somalia.svg  Somalia DNF
3 Benjamín Enzema Flag of Equatorial Guinea.svg  Equatorial Guinea DQ
3 Oddom Sat Flag of Cambodia.svg  Cambodia DQ
3 Ayanleh Souleiman Flag of Djibouti.svg  Djibouti DNS
3 Sadik Mikhou Flag of Bahrain.svg  Bahrain DNS

Final

The finish of the race Samuel Tefera Birmingham 2018.jpg
The finish of the race

The final was started on March 4 at 16:12. [5]

RankNameNationalityTimeNotes
Gold medal icon.svg Samuel Tefera Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 3:58.19
Silver medal icon.svg Marcin Lewandowski Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 3:58.39
Bronze medal icon.svg Abdelaati Iguider Flag of Morocco.svg  Morocco 3:58.43
4 Aman Wote Flag of Ethiopia.svg  Ethiopia 3:58.64
5 Ben Blankenship Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 3:58.89
6 Jake Wightman Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 3:58.91
7 Craig Engels Flag of the United States (23px).png  United States 3:58.92
8 Chris O'Hare Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 4:00.65
9 Vincent Kibet Flag of Kenya.svg  Kenya 4:02.32

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References

  1. "IAAF World Indoor Championships Timetable". IAAF. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
  2. "Start list" (PDF).
  3. "Young Ethiopian Samuel Tefera Wins 1500m Gold 36 Days after His First Indoor Race, Blankenship 5th, Engels 7th - LetsRun.com". March 4, 2018.
  4. Heats results
  5. "Final results" (PDF).