Results Round 1 1500m Men’s Qualifying 2013 World Championships

by: LetsRun.com
August 14, 2013

Results of round 1 of the men’s 1500m. No real surprises here as 24 of the 37 competitors made the next round. LRC recaps and coverage coming.

Heat 1: Kiprop Cruises, Lomong Qualifies and so Does Souleiman

Favorite Asbel Kiprop controlled this race and Lopez Lomong qualified with ease. 800m bronze medallist Ayanleh Souleiman was back a little over 12 hours after his bronze medal to qualify as well.

	1	711	Asbel KIPROP	KEN	3:38.15 Q
	2	776	Abdalaati IGUIDER	MAR	3:38.41 Q
	3	1144	Lopez LOMONG	USA	3:38.48 Q
	4	343	Ayanleh SOULEIMAN	DJI	3:38.63 Q
	5	446	Florian CARVALHO	FRA	3:38.70 Q
	6	837	Henrik INGEBRIGTSEN	NOR	3:38.78 Q
	7	432	Aman WOTE	ETH	3:38.89 q
	8	970	Valentin SMIRNOV	RUS	3:39.21 q
	9	846	Nicholas WILLIS	NZL	3:39.83 q
	10	896	Mohamad AL-GARNI	QAT	3:40.01
	11	375	David BUSTOS	ESP	3:41.69
	12	565	Mamadou BARRY	GUI	4:16.38	SB
	13	187	Thinley TENZIN	BHU	4:24.54	PB

Splits:
400M 59.65 Asbel KIPROP KENYA KEN
800M 2:00.19 Asbel KIPROP KENYA KEN
1200M 2:56.64 Asbel KIPROP KENYA KEN

Hear 2: Silver Medalists Kiplagat and Manzano Cruise

No surprises here. Olympic silver medalist Leo Manzano looked good as did World Champs silver medalist Silas Kiplagat.

	1	710	Silas KIPLAGAT	KEN	3:39.31 Q
	2	1146	Leonel MANZANO	USA	3:39.39 Q
	3	1073	Ilham Tanui ÖZBILEN	TUR	3:39.73 Q
	4	910	Johan CRONJE	RSA	3:39.95 Q
	5	543	Carsten SCHLANGEN	GER	3:40.31 Q
	6	779	Zakaria MAZOUZI	MAR	3:40.76 Q
	7	413	Zebene ALEMAYEHU	ETH	3:41.28
	8	148	Andreas VOJTA	AUT	3:41.51
	9	746	Emad NOOR	KSA	3:41.68
	10	448	Simon DENISSEL	FRA	3:42.06
	11	996	Omar Mohamed ABDI	SOM	4:00.00
		109	Imed TOUIL	ALG	DNS

Splits: 400M 58.19 Ilham Tanui ÖZBILEN TURKEY TUR
800M 2:00.52 Ilham Tanui ÖZBILEN TURKEY TUR
1200M 2:59.24 Johan CRONJE SOUTH AFRICA RSA

Heat 3: Little Raced Nate Brannen Cruises, Centro Auto Qualifies
Nate Brannen has only been racing in N. America this year but he looked good. Matt Centrowitz had to work a little the last straight to get an auto spot.

	1	700	Nixon Kiplimo CHEPSEBA	KEN	3:38.37 Q
	2	242	Nathan BRANNEN	CAN	3:38.49 Q
	3	421	Mekonnen GEBREMEDHIN	ETH	3:38.55 Q
	4	698	Bethwell BIRGEN	KEN	3:38.60 Q
	5	1114	Matthew CENTROWITZ	USA	3:38.62 Q
	6	547	Homiyu TESFAYE	GER	3:38.66 Q
	7	472	Bouabdellah TAHRI	FRA	3:38.82 q
	8	497	Chris O’HARE	GBR	3:38.86 q
	9	780	Mohamed MOUSTAOUI	MAR	3:39.20 q
	10	182	Pieter-Jan HANNES	BEL	3:40.39
	11	805	Flavio SEHOLHE	MOZ	3:53.18
	12	1203	Nabil Mohammed AL-GARBI	YEM	3:59.95	SB
	13	833	Omar BACHIR	NIG	4:00.18	PB

Splits:
400M 1:01.46 Nixon Kiplimo CHEPSEBA KENYA KEN
800M 2:01.58 Nixon Kiplimo CHEPSEBA KENYA KEN
1200M 2:57.37 Chris O’HARE GREAT BRITAIN & N.I. GBR