2016 IAAF World U20 Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium on 19 and 21 July.

Medalists

Gold	Kumari Taki Kenya
Silver	Taresa Tolosa Ethiopia
Bronze	Anthony Kiptoo Kenya

Records

Standing records prior to the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in Athletics
World Junior Record	Ronald Kwemoi (KEN)	3:28.81	Monaco	18 July 2014
Championship Record	Abdalaati Iguider (MAR)	3:35.53	Grosseto, Italy	15 July 2004
World Junior Leading	Gilbert Kwemoi Soet (KEN)	3:33.71	Heusden-Zolder, Netherlands	16 July 2016

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the 3 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	1	Ayoub Sniba	Morocco	3:44.59	Q
2	1	Anthony Kiptoo	Kenya	3:44.74	Q
3	1	Josh Kerr	Great Britain	3:44.86	Q
4	1	Ajay Kumar Saroj	India	3:44.96	q
5	1	Matthew Ramsden	Australia	3:45.34	q
6	1	Asres Guadie	Ethiopia	3:45.74	q, PB
7	1	Yani Khelaf	France	3:45.88
8	3	Taresa Tolosa	Ethiopia	3:46.13	Q
9	3	Baptiste Mischler	France	3:46.41	Q
10	3	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3:46.53	Q
11	3	Ramazan Barbaros	Turkey	3:46.56
12	2	Kumari Taki	Kenya	3:47.14	Q
13	1	Aggelos Vasiliou	Greece	3:47.38
14	3	Abderezak Khelili	Algeria	3:47.56	PB
15	2	Elzan Bibić	Serbia	3:47.72	Q
16	2	Jordi Torrents	Spain	3:47.80	Q
17	2	Riadh Chninni	Tunisia	3:47.84	PB
18	3	Adrián Ben	Spain	3:47.88
19	3	Diego Zarate	United States	3:47.95
20	2	Isaac Hockey	Australia	3:48.63
21	3	Ali Kaddachi	Tunisia	3:48.98	PB
22	2	Idriss Moussa Youssouf	Qatar	3:49.12
23	3	Ryohei Sakaguchi	Japan	3:49.21
24	1	Omer Öti	Turkey	3:49.24
25	1	Lukas Abele	Germany	3:49.51
26	3	Mark Patton	Canada	3:50.15
27	3	Anton Hrabovskyi	Ukraine	3:50.58
28	2	Emil Danielsson	Sweden	3:50.71
29	3	Lorenzo Casini	Italy	3:50.97
30	2	Kendall Muhammad	United States	3:51.27
31	2	James Sugira	Rwanda	3:51.32
32	2	Hicham Elkhayari	Morocco	3:51.64
33	1	Abdallah Khelidj	Algeria	3:52.06
34	1	Braydon Rennie	Canada	3:53.72
35	1	Andriy Aliksiychuk	Ukraine	3:54.42
36	2	Archie Davis	Great Britain	3:54.57
37	3	Hugo Rocha	Portugal	3:54.76
38	2	Andreas Holst Lindgreen	Denmark	3:55.21
39	2	Andrea Baratte	Luxembourg	3:55.49
40	2	Marvin Heinrich	Germany	3:58.49
41	1	Adam Abdelwahab	Sudan	4:04.64
	2	Abina Tchinga	Malawi	DNS
	3	Mohamed Ismail Ibrahim	Djibouti	DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Kumari Taki	Kenya	3:48.63
	Taresa Tolosa	Ethiopia	3:48.77
	Anthony Kiptoo	Kenya	3:49.00
4	Baptiste Mischler	France	3:49.52
5	Ajay Kumar Saroj	India	3:49.52
6	Matthew Ramsden	Australia	3:50.50
7	Jordi Torrents	Spain	3:50.93
8	Asres Guadie	Ethiopia	3:50.95
9	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3:51.09
10	Josh Kerr	Great Britain	3:51.23
11	Elzan Bibić	Serbia	3:51.58
12	Ayoub Sniba	Morocco	3:55.95