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Host City: Barcelona, Spain
Venue(s): Montjuïc Olympic Stadium, Barcelona
Date Started: August 3, 1992
Date Finished: August 3, 1992
Format: Top five in each heat and next four fastest advanced to the semi-finals.
| Gold: | Fermín Cacho |
| Silver: | Rachid El-Basir |
| Bronze: | Mohamed Sulaiman |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T(A) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fermín Cacho | 23 | Spain | ESP | 3:37.04 | QU |
| 2 | Philemon Harineki | 21 | Zimbabwe | ZIM | 3:37.65 | QU |
| 3 | Jim Spivey | 32 | United States | USA | 3:38.01 | QU |
| 4 | Rachid El-Basir | 23 | Morocco | MAR | 3:38.01 | QU |
| 5 | Jonah Birir | 20 | Kenya | KEN | 3:38.29 | QU |
| 6 | Azat Rakipov | 23 | Unified Team | EUN | 3:38.64 | QC |
| 7 | Edgar de Oliveira | 24 | Brazil | BRA | 3:38.68 | QC |
| 8 | Kim Bong-Yu | 25 | South Korea | KOR | 3:40.73 | |
| 9 | Steve Crabb | 28 | Great Britain | GBR | 3:41.00 | |
| 10 | Mohamed Amer Al-Nahdi | 25 | United Arab Emirates | UAE | 3:48.08 | |
| 11 | Zacharia Maidjida | 23 | Central African Republic | CAF | 3:55.72 | |
| 12 | Khambieng Khamiar | 24 | Laos | LAO | 4:04.82 | |
| 13 | Ancel Nalau | 23 | Vanuatu | VAN | 4:13.88 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T(A) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Noureddine Morceli | 22 | Algeria | ALG | 3:37.98 | QU |
| 2 | Steve Holman | 22 | United States | USA | 3:38.38 | QU |
| 3 | Mário da Silva | 31 | Portugal | POR | 3:38.57 | QU |
| 4 | Zeki Öztürk | 26 | Turkey | TUR | 3:38.68 | QU |
| 5 | Matt Yates | 23 | Great Britain | GBR | 3:38.73 | QU |
| 6 | Hauke Fuhlbrügge | 26 | Germany | GER | 3:38.92 | QC |
| 7 | João N'Tyamba | 24 | Angola | ANG | 3:39.54 | |
| 8 | Mitiku Megersa | 19 | Ethiopia | ETH | 3:41.54 | |
| 9 | Nadir Khan | 26 | Pakistan | PAK | 3:44.96 | |
| 10 | Markus Hacksteiner | 27 | Switzerland | SUI | 3:45.27 | |
| 11 | Awad Salah Nasser | 16 | Yemen | YEM | 3:51.89 | |
| 12 | Idrissou Tamimou | Benin | BEN | 3:56.45 | ||
| 13 | Alphonse Munyeshyaka | 17 | Rwanda | RWA | 3:58.75 |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T(A) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Joseph Chesire | 34 | Kenya | KEN | 3:44.06 | QU |
| 2 | Graham Hood | 20 | Canada | CAN | 3:44.44 | QU |
| 3 | Branko Zorko | 25 | Croatia | CRO | 3:44.47 | QU |
| 4 | Gennaro Di Napoli | 24 | Italy | ITA | 3:44.55 | QU |
| 5 | Rüdiger Stenzel | 24 | Germany | GER | 3:44.70 | QU |
| 6 | Terrance Herrington | 25 | United States | USA | 3:44.80 | |
| 7 | José Luis González | 34 | Spain | ESP | 3:46.75 | |
| 8 | Bobby Gaseitsiwe | 25 | Botswana | BOT | 3:48.33 | |
| 9 | Mohamed Sy Savané | 23 | Guinea | GUI | 3:51.96 | |
| 10 | Reuben Appleton | 24 | Antigua and Barbuda | ANT | 4:02.99 | |
| 11 | Bassam Kawas | 23 | Lebanon | LIB | 4:17.40 | |
| AC | Ian Gray | 28 | Belize | BIZ | DNF |
| Rank | Athlete | Age | Team | NOC | T(A) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | David Kibet | 28 | Kenya | KEN | 3:36.32 | QU |
| 2 | Mohamed Sulaiman | 22 | Qatar | QAT | 3:36.72 | QU |
| 3 | Jens-Peter Herold | 27 | Germany | GER | 3:36.76 | QU |
| 4 | Marcus O'Sullivan | 30 | Ireland | IRL | 3:37.07 | QU |
| 5 | Kevin McKay | 23 | Great Britain | GBR | 3:37.39 | QU |
| 6 | Manuel Pancorbo | 26 | Spain | ESP | 3:37.62 | QC |
| 7 | Houssein Djama | 24 | Djibouti | DJI | 3:44.13 | |
| 8 | Sipho Dlamini | 19 | Swaziland | SWZ | 3:46.33 | |
| 9 | Hailu Zewde | 17 | Ethiopia | ETH | 3:47.79 | |
| 10 | Kaleka Mutoke | 26 | Congo (Kinshasa) | COD | 3:53.71 | |
| 11 | Bernardo Elonga | 31 | Equatorial Guinea | GEQ | 4:25.78 | |
| AC | Robin van Helden | 27 | Netherlands | NED | DNF |