1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

Events at the
1988 World Junior
Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men
10,000 m men women
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men women
3000 m
steeplechase		 men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
5000 m walk women
10,000 m walk men
Road events
20 km road run men
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Hammer throw men
Javelin throw men women
Combined events
Heptathlon women
Decathlon men

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 30 and 31 July.[1][2]

Medalists

Gold Wilfred Kirochi
 Kenya
Silver Noureddine Morceli
 Algeria
Bronze Fermín Cacho
 Spain

Results

Final

31 July

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Wilfred Kirochi  Kenya 3:46.52
2nd Noureddine Morceli  Algeria 3:46.93
3rd Fermín Cacho  Spain 3:47.31
4 Fransua Woldemarian  Ethiopia 3:47.63
5 Jason Pyrah  United States 3:47.94
6 Atoi Boru  Kenya 3:47.97
7 Mohamed Suleiman  Qatar 3:48.27
8 Christophe Impens  Belgium 3:51.73
9 Andrea Cellai  Italy 3:52.00
10 Rens Eising  Netherlands 3:52.16
11 Andrea Erni   Switzerland 3:52.49
12 Hiroshi Fukaya  Japan 3:53.94
13 Hirokazu Tatsumi  Japan 3:55.61
14 Andreas Nellesen  West Germany 3:58.22
15 Paul Vandegrift  United States DNF

Heats

30 July

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Noureddine Morceli  Algeria 3:46.79 Q
2 Fransua Woldemarian  Ethiopia 3:47.34 Q
3 Andrea Erni   Switzerland 3:48.65 Q
4 Rens Eising  Netherlands 3:48.83 Q
5 Philimon Hanneck  Zimbabwe 3:49.10
6 Spencer Punter  Canada 3:50.96
7 Tommy Gjølga  Norway 3:51.30
8 Siegfried Sacher  East Germany 3:51.93
9 Greg Collier  Australia 3:54.13
10 Alessandro Cellai  Italy 3:56.75
11 Mohamed Shawki Abdullah  Qatar 3:57.51
12 Lyle Tenfingers  American Samoa 4:44.58

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Atoi Boru  Kenya 3:47.17 Q
2 Paul Vandegrift  United States 3:47.63 Q
3 Andreas Nellesen  West Germany 3:47.81 Q
4 Andrea Cellai  Italy 3:47.82 Q
5 Hiroshi Fukaya  Japan 3:47.99 q
6 Simon Brown  United Kingdom 3:49.45
7 Billy Mullaney  Ireland 3:51.01
8 Tor-Øyvind Ødegaard  Norway 3:52.71
9 Artur Zalewski  Poland 3:55.16
10 Robin Cianca  Panama 4:09.01
11 Martin Forde  Barbados 4:15.09
12 Chérif Baba Aïdara  Mauritania 4:41.49

Heat 3

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Wilfred Kirochi  Kenya 3:43.51 Q
2 Mohamed Suleiman  Qatar 3:43.85 Q
3 Fermín Cacho  Spain 3:44.04 Q
4 Christophe Impens  Belgium 3:44.29 Q
5 Hirokazu Tatsumi  Japan 3:44.77 q
6 Jason Pyrah  United States 3:47.99 q
7 Bernhard Richter  Austria 3:49.75
8 Brendan Matthias  Canada 3:51.74
9 Paulo Estiveira  Portugal 3:59.30
10 Urs Kindle  Liechtenstein 4:09.24
11 Bernard Henry  Saint Lucia 4:12.87
12 Nioka Pululu  Zaire 4:13.00

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 29 countries participated in the event.

References

  1. ↑ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1988 Sudbury CAN Jul 27-31, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 7 Apr 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
  2. ↑ IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015
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