Athletics at the 2015 Summer Universiade – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2015 Summer Universiade was held on 8 and 10 July at the Gwangju Universiade Main Stadium.

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Aleksey Kharitonov Russia	Abdelali Razyn Morocco	Staffan Ek Sweden

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Yegor Nikolayev	Russia	3:44.28	Q
2	3	John Travers	Ireland	3:44.48	Q
3	3	Guillaume Adam	France	3:44.75	Q
4	3	Levent Ateş	Turkey	3:44.75	q
5	3	Abdelali Razyn	Morocco	3:44.94	q, PB
6	3	Andreas Vojta	Austria	3:45.01	q, SB
7	3	Anders Lindahl	Finland	3:45.10	SB
8	3	Hans Kristian Fløystad	Norway	3:46.77
9	3	Peter Glans	Denmark	3:47.40	PB
10	2	Aleksey Kharitonov	Russia	3:52.07	Q
11	2	Robert Denault	Canada	3:52.55	Q
12	2	Karl Robertson	Estonia	3:52.91	Q
13	2	James Hansen	Australia	3:53.14
14	3	Adrian Plummer	Australia	3:54.33
15	1	Staffan Ek	Sweden	3:54.57	Q
16	1	Andries Hlaselo	South Africa	3:55.12	Q
17	1	Andreas Lommer	Denmark	3:55.32	Q
18	1	Allar Lamp	Estonia	3:55.78
19	1	Mitja Krevs	Slovenia	3:56.14	SB
20	1	Austin O'Neil	United States	3:56.52
21	2	Awwad Al-Sharafat	Jordan	3:57.71
22	2	Zelalem Yihunie	Ethiopia	3:58.33
23	2	Festus Bett	Kenya	3:58.99
24	1	Ahmed Ali Al-Aamri	Oman	4:03.55
25	3	Simiso Nzima	Swaziland	4:05.26
26	1	Liu Bao	China	4:07.57
27	2	Vegard Ølstad	Norway	4:08.78
28	2	Bal Al-Hamhami	Oman	4:09.63
29	3	Fang Jianyong	Singapore	4:09.76
30	1	Elhassen Derbali	Algeria	4:13.28
31	2	Seiya Eda	Northern Mariana Islands	4:58.12
32	2	Ismael Mebale Me Nang	Gabon	5:06.08
	1	Ariel Méndez	Chile	DNF
	1	Allen Eke	Nigeria	DNS
	1	Stephane Kibambe	Democratic Republic of the Congo	DNS
	2	Michael Bangura	Sierra Leone	DNS

Official Video

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Aleksey Kharitonov	Russia	3:39.13	PB
	Abdelali Razyn	Morocco	3:39.20	PB
	Staffan Ek	Sweden	3:39.68	PB
4	Yegor Nikolayev	Russia	3:40.06	SB
5	Robert Denault	Canada	3:41.13
6	Andries Hlaselo	South Africa	3:42.40
7	Guillaume Adam	France	3:42.62	SB
8	John Travers	Ireland	3:42.63
9	Karl Robertson	Estonia	3:46.13	PB
10	Andreas Vojta	Austria	3:54.58
11	Andreas Lommer	Denmark	3:56.04
	Levent Ateş	Turkey	DQ	R163.2^[3]

^ "Heats results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2015-07-27.
^ Final results^{[permanent dead link]}
^ Obstructing another athlete