2014 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres
# 2014 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres at the 2014 European Athletics Championships took place at the Letzigrund on 15 and 17 August.

## Medalists

| Gold | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad France |
| - | - |
| Silver | Henrik Ingebrigtsen Norway |
| Bronze | Chris O'Hare Great Britain |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2014 European Athletics Championships :

| World record | Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) | 3:26.00 | Rome, Italy | 14 July 1998 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| European record | Mo Farah (GBR) | 3:28.81 | Monaco | 19 July 2013 |
| Championship record | Fermín Cacho (ESP) | 3:35.27 | Helsinki, Finland | 9 August 1994 |
| World Leading | Silas Kiplagat (KEN) | 3:27.64 | Monaco | 18 July 2014 |
| European Leading | Henrik Ingebrigtsen (NOR) | 3:31.46 | Monaco | 18 July 2014 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| - | - | - |
| 15 August 2014 | 13:50 | Round 1 |
| 17 August 2014 | 17:05 | Final |

All times are local times (UTC+2)

## Results

### Round 1

First 3 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Semifinals. Soufiane El Kabbouri and David Bustos admitted to the final because damaged by Andreas Vojta.

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | Chris O'Hare | Great Britain | 3:39.24 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Henrik Ingebrigtsen | Norway | 3:39.32 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Charlie Grice | Great Britain | 3:39.41 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | France | 3:39.43 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Tarik Moukrime | Belgium | 3:39.50 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Stanislav Maslov | Ukraine | 3:39.63 | q |
| 7 | 1 | Jakub Holuša | Czech Republic | 3:39.64 | q |
| 7 | 2 | Homiyu Tesfaye | Germany | 3:39.64 | Q |
| 9 | 1 | Ciarán Ó Lionáird | Ireland | 3:39.79 | q |
| 10 | 2 | Timo Benitz | Germany | 3:39.83 | Q |
| 11 | 2 | Paul Robinson | Ireland | 3:39.83 | Q |
| 12 | 1 | Florian Orth | Germany | 3:39.99 | q |
| 13 | 2 | İlham Tanui Özbilen | Turkey | 3:40.09 | |
| 14 | 1 | Pieter-Jan Hannes | Belgium | 3:40.34 | |
| 15 | 2 | Florian Carvalho | France | 3:40.39 | |
| 16 | 2 | Manuel Olmedo | Spain | 3:40.48 | |
| 17 | 2 | Filip Ingebrigtsen | Norway | 3:41.06 | |
| 18 | 1 | Goran Nava | Serbia | 3:41.43 | |
| 19 | 2 | Isaac Kimeli | Belgium | 3:41.96 | |
| 20 | 2 | Andreas Bueno | Denmark | 3:42.06 | |
| 21 | 1 | Emanuel Rolim | Portugal | 3:42.22 | |
| 22 | 2 | Jan Hochstrasser | Switzerland | 3:43.89 | |
| 23 | 2 | Dmitrijs Jurkevičs | Latvia | 3:45.92 | SB |
| 24 | 1 | Mohad Abdikadar Sheik Ali | Italy | 3:46.07 | |
| 25 | 1 | Adel Mechaal | Spain | 3:47.60 | |
| 26 | 2 | Jonas Leandersson | Sweden | 3:49.64 | |
| 27 | 1 | John Travers | Ireland | 3:49.73 | |
| 28 | 1 | Amine Khadiri | Cyprus | 3:50.15 | |
| 29 | 2 | Soufiane El Kabbouri | Italy | 4:02.76 | q |
| 30 | 1 | Kelvin Gomez | Gibraltar | 4:05.71 | |
| 31 | 2 | David Bustos | Spain | 4:21.39 | q |
| | 2 | Andreas Vojta | Austria | DSQ | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | France | 3:45.60 |
| | Henrik Ingebrigtsen | Norway | 3:46.10 |
| | Chris O'Hare | Great Britain | 3:46.18 |
| 4 | Paul Robinson | Ireland | 3:46.35 |
| 5 | Homiyu Tesfaye | Germany | 3:46.46 |
| 6 | David Bustos | Spain | 3:46.92 |
| 7 | Timo Benitz | Germany | 3:47.26 |
| 8 | Tarik Moukrime | Belgium | 3:47.33 |
| 9 | Soufiane El Kabbouri | Italy | 3:51.98 |
| 10 | Florian Orth | Germany | 3:54.35 |
| 11 | Stanislav Maslov | Ukraine | 3:54.59 |
| 12 | Charlie Grice | Great Britain | 4:04.81 |
| | Ciarán Ó Lionáird | Ireland | DNF |
| | Jakub Holuša | Czech Republic | DNS |
