2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Kingston, Jamaica, at National Stadium on 19 and 21 July.

Medalists

Gold	Yassine Bensghir Morocco
Silver	Abdul Rahman Suleiman Qatar
Bronze	Samuel Mwera Tanzania

Results

Final

21 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Yassine Bensghir	Morocco	3:40.72
	Abdul Rahman Suleiman	Qatar	3:41.72
	Samuel Mwera	Tanzania	3:41.75
4	Nick Willis	New Zealand	3:42.69
5	Toni Mohr	Germany	3:44.46
6	Arturo Casado	Spain	3:44.67
7	Isaac Songok	Kenya	3:44.93
8	Juan Luis Barrios	Mexico	3:44.97
9	Andrew O'Neill	Australia	3:45.61
10	Cosmin Suteu	Romania	3:45.76
11	Chris Lukezic	United States	3:46.01
12	Samson Kiplagat	Kenya	3:50.05

Heats

19 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Samuel Mwera	Tanzania	3:43.56	Q
2	Yassine Bensghir	Morocco	3:44.51	Q
3	Samson Kiplagat	Kenya	3:45.16	Q
4	Nick Willis	New Zealand	3:45.98	Q
5	Chris Lukezic	United States	3:46.24	q
6	Andrew O'Neill	Australia	3:46.40	q
7	Patrick Schulz	Germany	3:49.05
8	Marcus van der Koelen	Netherlands	3:49.20
9	Mourad Naami	Algeria	3:49.27
10	John Lindström	Sweden	3:50.24
11	Abdelkader Mahmoudi	France	3:53.59
12	Koichi Murakami	Japan	3:55.20
13	Sergio Vallejo	Spain	3:56.09
14	Sabri Kara	Turkey	3:58.12
15	Ajmal Amirov	Tajikistan	4:01.91
16	Setefano Mika	Samoa	4:08.56

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Abdul Rahman Suleiman	Qatar	3:40.57	Q
2	Isaac Songok	Kenya	3:41.65	Q
3	Juan Luis Barrios	Mexico	3:42.00	Q
4	Toni Mohr	Germany	3:44.59	Q
5	Arturo Casado	Spain	3:46.69	q
6	Cosmin Suteu	Romania	3:48.23	q
7	Aleksandr Krivchonkov	Russia	3:49.07
8	Daniel Spitzl	Austria	3:49.43
9	Liam Reale	Ireland	3:50.52
10	Mounir Yemmouni	France	3:50.99
11	Shawn Forrest	Australia	3:54.85
12	Hani Meguellati	Algeria	4:02.54
13	Shaun Smith	Jamaica	4:13.88
14	Park Ji-Yun	South Korea	4:26.34
15	Keith Sepety	Micronesia	4:32.21
	Vitaliy Gorlukovic	Lithuania	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 26 countries participated in the event.

• Algeria (2)
• Australia (2)
• Austria (1)
• France (2)
• Germany (2)
• Ireland (1)
• Jamaica (1)
• Japan (1)
• Kenya (2)
• Lithuania (1)
• Mexico (1)
• Micronesia (1)
• Morocco (1)
• Netherlands (1)
• New Zealand (1)
• Qatar (1)
• Romania (1)
• Russia (1)
• Samoa (1)
• South Korea (1)
• Spain (2)
• Sweden (1)
• Tajikistan (1)
• Tanzania (1)
• Turkey (1)
• United States (1)