Final time 400m 800m 1200m 1. Peter Rono Kenya3:35.96 60.71s 2:00.31 2:56.69 2. Peter Elliott Great Britain3:36.15 59.86s 2:00.39 2:56.82 3. Jens-Peter Herold East Germany3:36.21 60.20s 2:00.70 2:57.08 4. Steve Cram Great Britain3:36.24 59.86s 2:00.61 2:57.05 5. Steve Scott United States3:36.99 60.08s 2:00.97 2:57.13 6. Han Kulker Netherlands3:37.08 60.04s 2:00.93 2:57.29 7. Kipkoech Cheruiyot Kenya3:37.94 60.79s 2:01.39 2:57.35 8. Marcus O'Sullivan Ireland3:38.39 59.65s 2:00.77 2:57.65 9. Mario Silva Portugal3:38.77 10.Jeff Atkinson United States3:40.80 11.Joseph Chesire Kenya3:40.82 12.Khalifa Omer Khalifa Sudan3:41.07
Venue: Olympic Stadium, Seoul 69,950. 59 competitors from 46 nations.
Sebastian Coe almost made his third successive team, but his form was
not quite good enough, while Cram did gain a third Olympic selection,
and became the only man in Olympic history to qualify for three finals
in the event. World record holder Saïd Aouita did not start his semi-
final, due to a hamstring injury. Rono was the fastest (3:37.65) in the
heats, and followed Scott (3:38.20) with 3:38.29 in the marginally
slower of the two semis, the other being won by Cheruiyot in 3:38.09
ahead of Cram and Elliott.
O’Sullivan led at 400m in the final in a cautious 59.7, and the pace
slowed to 2:00.3 at 800m, with Rono taking over the lead at 700m. The
pace picked up in the third lap with a 56.4 circuit, and the kickers –
Cram, Elliott and Herold – gathered. To no avail, as Rono, reminiscent
of Lasse Viren, refused to let anyone past throughout a last lap of 52.9
seconds. He won by one and a half metres from Elliott, with less than
a metre separating second from fourth. All three medallists were called
Peter.
Semi 1 time 1. Kipkoech Cheruiyot Kenya3:38.09 2. Steve Cram Great Britain3:38.30 3. Peter Elliott Great Britain3:38.56 4. Han Kulker Netherlands3:39.06 5. Jeff Atkinson United States3:39.12 6. Joseph Chesire Kenya3:39.17 7. Mogens D Guldberg Denmark3:39.86 8. Remi Geoffroy France3:40.96 9. Rachid Kram Algeria3:41.39 10.Spyros Spyrou Cyprus3:43.49 -. Abdelmajide Moncif MaroccoDNF -. Peter Wirz SwitzerlandDNF -. Joaquim Cruz BrazilDNS
Semi 2 time 1. Steve Scott United States3:38.20 2. Peter Rono Kenya3:38.25 3. Khalifa Omer Khalifa Sudan3:38.40 4. Mario Silva Portugal3:38.56 5. Jens-Peter Herold East Germany3:38.59 6. Marcus O'Sullivan Ireland3:47.98 7. Markus Hacksteiner Switzerland3:47.99 8. Mark Deady United States3:48.03 9. Steve Crabb Great Britain3:51.60 10.Mbiganyi Thee Botswana4:01.92 11.Gennaro Di Napoli Italy4:12.79 12.Mostafa Lachal Marocco4:15.94 -. Said Aouita MaroccoDNS
Heat 1 time 1. Steve Cram Great Britain3:40.89 2. Steve Scott United States3:41.57 3. Remi Geoffroy France3:41.68 4. Joseph Chesire Kenya3:41.72 5. Gennaro Di Napoli Italy3:41.85 6. Marcus O'Sullivan Ireland3:42.01 7. Ari Suhonen Finland3:43.61 8. Jose Barbosa Brazil3:44.46 9. Branko Zorko Yugoslavia3:45.52 10.Michael Watson Bermuda3:46.49 11.Melford Homela Zimbabwe3:47.38 12.Hoche Yaye Aden Djibouti3:51.56 13.Eugenio Katombi ANG3:54.25 14.Modupe-D.A. Jonah Siera Leone3:55.15 15.Mohamed EL M Ould Khayar Mauritania4:12.18
Heat 2 time 1. Kipkoech Cheruiyot Kenya3:39.98 2. Mark Deady United States3:41.91 3. Mogens D Guldberg Denmark3:42.01 4. Said Aouita Marocco3:42.18 5. Mario Silva Portugal3:42.24 6. Markus Rapp Switzerland3:42.64 7. David Campbell Canada3:42.97 8. Mohd Sulinan Qatar3:44.43 9. Xiuquan Duan China3:44.88 10.Patrick Scammell Australia3:45.21 11.Jama Mohamud Aden Somalia3:49.84 12.Ramon Lopez Paraguay3:53.31 13.Kenneth Dzekedzeke Malawi4:02.61 14.Bernardo Elonga Molico Equat. Quinea4:16.40 -. Nimely Twegbe LiberiaDNS
Heat 3 time 1. Peter Rono Kenya3:37.65 2. Jeff Atkinson United States3:38.33 3. Peter Elliott Great Britain3:38.60 4. Markus Hacksteiner Switzerland3:39.05 5. Mostafa Lachal Marocco3:39.20 6. Rachid Kram Algeria3:39.90 7. Joaquim Cruz Brazil3:40.92 8. Mbiganyi Thee Botswana3:41.97 9. Spyros Spyrou Cyprus3:42.32 10.Gerry O'reilly Ireland3:43.23 11.Jin-Saeng Cho South Korea3:45.63 12.Jan Kubista Czechoslovakia3:46.41 13.Moses Khan Fiji4:03.20 14.Awad Saleh Yemen AR4:03.86 15.Johnd Siguria NGU4:07.04
Heat 4 time 1. Jens-Peter Herold East Germany3:40.87 2. Han Kulker Netherlands3:40.90 3. Steve Crabb Great Britain3:41.12 4. Peter Wirz Switzerland3:41.26 5. Khalifa Omer Khalifa Sudan3:41.46 6. Abdelmajide Moncif Marocco3:41.73 7. Mahmovd Kalbovssi Tunisia3:43.72 8. Dale Jones Antigua Barbuda3:51.22 9. Hameed Al Dousari Saudi Arabia3:51.53 10.Eulucane Ndagijimana Rwanda3:51.61 11.Josep Graells Andora3:52.68 12.Zeki Ozturk Turkey3:54.26 13.Douglas Consiglio Canada3:55.31 14.Seid Gayaple Chad3:58.46 15.Haribahadur Rokaya Nepal4:01.17
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