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Men's 1500 metres at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Athens Olympic Stadium
Dates	August 20 to August 24
Competitors	43 from 29 nations
Medalists
Hicham El Guerrouj   Morocco   Bernard Lagat   Kenya   Rui Silva   Portugal
«2000	2008»

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The 1,500 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium August 20 to August 24.

Records

World record	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	3:26.00	Rome, Italy	14 July 1998
Olympic record	Noah Ngeny (KEN)	3:32.07	Sydney, Australia	29 September 2000

Event Summary

Qualifying

The first round comprised three heats with the first five in each plus the next nine fastest losers progressing to the two semi-finals. Here the first five and the two fastest losers went to the final.

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	3	Michael East	Great Britain	3:37.37	Q
2	3	Timothy Kiptanui	Kenya	3:37.71	Q
3	3	Ivan Heshko	Ukraine	3:37.78	Q
4	1	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	3:37.86	Q
5	3	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	3:37.93	Q
6	3	Tarek Boukensa	Algeria	3:37.94	Q
7	1	Rui Silva	Portugal	3:37.98	Q
8	1	Álvaro Fernández	Spain	3:38.34	Q
9	3	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain	3:38.36	q
10	1	Kamal Boulahfane	Algeria	3:38.59	Q
11	3	Youssef Baba	Morocco	3:38.71	q
12	1	Isaac Kiprono Songok	Kenya	3:38.89	Q
13	1	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	3:39.30	q
14	1	Michal Sneberger	Czech Republic	3:39.68	q
15	2	Reyes Estevez	Spain	3:39.71	Q
16	2	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	3:39.80	Q
16	2	Nicholas Willis	New Zealand	3:39.80	Q
18	2	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	3:39.88	Q
19	3	Manuel Damiao	Portugal	3:39.94	q
20	2	Mulugeta Wendimu	Ethiopia	3:39.96	Q
21	2	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	3:40.10	q
22	2	Hudson de Souza	Brazil	3:40.78	q
23	2	Johan Cronje	South Africa	3:40.99	q
24	1	James Nolan	Ireland	3:41.14	q
25	2	Alan Webb	United States	3:41.25
26	2	Aleksandr Krivchonkov	Russia	3:41.37
27	3	Charlie Gruber	United States	3:41.73
28	2	Abdulrahman Suleiman	Qatar	3:42.00
29	2	Mohamed Khaldi	Algeria	3:42.47
30	2	Mehdi Baala	France	3:46.06
31	1	Wolfram Mueller	Germany	3:46.75
32	3	Branko Zorko	Croatia	3:48.28
33	3	Zhaobo Dou	China	3:50.28
34	1	Mounir Yemmouni	France	3:51.08
35	1	Grant Robison	United States	3:53.66
36	1	Roberto Caraciolo Mandje	Equatorial Guinea	4:03.37	NR
37	3	Neil Weare	Guam	4:05.86
38	3	Jimmy Anak Ahar	Brunei	4:14.11
99 	1	Peter Roko Ashak	Sudan	DNS
99 	3	Mwera Samwel	Tanzania	DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	1	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	3:35.69	Q
2	1	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	3:35.84	Q
3	1	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	3:36.00	Q
4	1	Reyes Estevez	Spain	3:36.05	Q
5	1	Ivan Heshko	Ukraine	3:36.20	Q
6	1	Michael East	Great Britain	3:36.46	q
7	1	Isaac Kiprono Songok	Kenya	3:37.10	q
8	1	Manuel Damiao	Portugal	3:37.16
9	1	Hudson de Souza	Brazil	3:38.83
10	2	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	3:40.87	Q
11	2	Rui Silva	Portugal	3:40.99	Q
12	2	Timothy Kiptanui	Kenya	3:41.04	Q
13	2	Mulugeta Wendimu	Ethiopia	3:41.14	Q
14	2	Kamal Boulahfane	Algeria	3:41.27	Q
15	2	Nicholas Willis	New Zealand	3:41.46
16	2	Álvaro Fernández	Spain	3:42.01
17	2	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain	3:42.13
18	1	James Nolan	Ireland	3:42.61
19	2	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	3:42.86
20	2	Youssef Baba	Morocco	3:42.96
21	2	Johan Cronje	South Africa	3:44.41
22	1	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	3:44.60
23	1	Grant Robison	United States	3:47.03
23	2	Michal Sneberger	Czech Republic	3:47.03
99 	1	Tarek Boukensa	Algeria	DNF

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1 	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	3:34.19
2 	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	3:34.30
3 	Rui Silva	Portugal	3:34.68
4	Timothy Kiptanui	Kenya	3:35.61
5	Ivan Heshko	Ukraine	3:35.82
6	Michael East	Great Britain	3:36.33
7	Reyes Estevez	Spain	3:36.63
8	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	3:37.17
9	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	3:38.26
10	Mulugeta Wendimu	Ethiopia	3:38.33
11	Kamal Boulahfane	Algeria	3:39.02
12	Isaac Kiprono Songok	Kenya	3:41.72

References

• Official Olympic Report