Athletics at the 2011 Summer Universiade – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2011 Summer Universiade was held on 16–18 August.

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Imad Touil Algeria	Abdelmadjed Touil Algeria	Valentin Smirnov Russia

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Abdelmadjed Touil	Algeria	3:42.68	Q
2	3	Teng Haining	China	3:42.93	Q, PB
3	3	Valentin Smirnov	Russia	3:43.18	Q
4	3	Diego Borrego	Mexico	3:43.25	q
5	3	Hamish Carson	New Zealand	3:43.55	q
6	3	Dmitrijs Jurkevičs	Latvia	3:43.72	q
7	3	Brenton Rowe	Austria	3:44.30
8	3	James Nipperess	Australia	3:47.24
9	3	Roman Fosti	Estonia	3:47.34
10	3	Moslem Niadoost	Iran	3:48.93	PB
11	2	Artur Ostrowski	Poland	3:49.26	Q
12	2	David Bishop	Great Britain	3:49.40	Q
13	2	Pharson Magagane	South Africa	3:49.61	Q
14	2	Anthony Berkis	Canada	3:49.64
15	3	Zouhir Sadden	Morocco	3:49.89
16	3	Jironi Riduan	Malaysia	3:50.33
17	2	Ivan Obezchik	Kazakhstan	3:50.43
18	2	Malcolm Hicks	New Zealand	3:50.76
19	2	Liu Huawei	China	3:52.46
20	2	Merab Kinidze	Georgia	3:52.54
21	1	Imad Touil	Algeria	3:53.29	Q
22	1	Vyacheslav Sokolov	Russia	3:53.63	Q
23	1	Kris Gauson	Great Britain	3:53.68	Q
24	1	Szymon Krawczyk	Poland	3:53.72
25	1	Nikolai Vedehin	Estonia	3:54.69
26	1	Cihat Ulus	Turkey	3:54.97
27	1	Mitja Krevs	Slovenia	3:55.34
28	1	Alex Ngouari Mouissi	Republic of the Congo	3:57.62
29	2	Benjamin Njia	Uganda	3:58.16
30	1	Mervin Guarte	Philippines	3:59.39
31	2	Ali Hulayyil Alboqami	Saudi Arabia	4:12.68
32	3	Pjeter Ndoj	Albania	4:19.30
33	1	Charlton Sunter	Netherlands Antilles	4:22.92
34	1	Rachid Idriss	Lebanon	4:46.71
	2	Sajjad Moradi	Iran	DNF
	2	Oleksandr Osmolovych	Ukraine	DNF
	1	Johan Hyden	Sweden	DNS
	2	Stephon Josiah	Guyana	DNS

Official Video

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Imad Touil	Algeria	3:48.13
	Abdelmadjed Touil	Algeria	3:48.24
	Valentin Smirnov	Russia	3:48.45
4	Teng Haining	China	3:48.71
5	Artur Ostrowski	Poland	3:48.81
6	Dmitrijs Jurkevičs	Latvia	3:49.35
7	David Bishop	Great Britain	3:49.61
8	Kris Gauson	Great Britain	3:49.84
9	Vyacheslav Sokolov	Russia	3:50.51
10	Hamish Carson	New Zealand	3:50.56
11	Diego Borrego	Mexico	3:52.33
12	Pharson Magagane	South Africa	3:53.81