2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres

Events at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m		men		women
60 m hurdles		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Heptathlon		men

Medalists

Gold
	Deresse Mekonnen	Ethiopia
Silver
	Daniel Kipchirchir Komen	Kenya
Bronze
	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain

Heats

Heat	Pos	Name	Country	Mark	Q
1	1	Deresse Mekonnen	Ethiopia	3:39.74	Q
1	2	Nicholas Willis	New Zealand	3:40.66 PB	Q
1	3	Carsten Schlangen	Germany	3:41.54
1	4	Michael East	United Kingdom	3:41.68
1	5	Belal Mansoor Ali	Bahrain	3:41.91
1	6	James Nolan	Ireland	3:42.12
1	7	Christian Obrist	Italy	3:45.46
1	8	Guillaume Éraud	France	3:46.11
1	9	David Freeman	Puerto Rico	3:51.35
1	10	Sergey Pakura	Kyrgyzstan	3:57.28 SB
2	1	Daniel Kipchirchir Komen	Kenya	3:39.07	Q
2	2	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain	3:39.46	Q
2	3	Youssef Baba	Morocco	3:39.89	q
2	4	Rob Myers	United States	3:41.73
2	5	Christoph Lohse	Germany	3:42.25
2	6	Sergey Ivanov	Russia	3:43.88
2	7	Abubaker Ali Kamal	Qatar	3:45.95
2	8	Mircea Bogdan	Romania	3:55.32 PB
2	9	Maung Chet	Myanmar	4:04.65 NR
2		Kamal Boulahfane	Algeria	DNF
2		James McIlroy	United Kingdom	DNF
3	1	Mekonnen Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	3:37.16	Q
3	2	Suleiman Kipses Simotwo	Kenya	3:37.23	Q
3	3	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	3:37.31 PB	q
3	4	Arturo Casado	Spain	3:40.99	q
3	5	Abdelkader Hachlaf	Morocco	3:42.26
3	6	Thamer Kamal Ali	Qatar	3:44.17
3	7	Russell Brown	United States	3:47.19
3	8	Mounir Yemmouni	France	3:48.26
3	9	Pablo Solares	Mexico	3:48.78
3	10	Ajmal Amirov	Tajikistan	3:57.47 SB
3	11	Kemal Koyuncu	Turkey	3:57.70 PB

Final

Pos	Name	Country	Mark
	Deresse Mekonnen	Ethiopia	3:38.23
	Daniel Kipchirchir Komen	Kenya	3:38.54
	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain	3:38.82
4	Arturo Casado	Spain	3:38.88
5	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	3:40.26
6	Mekonnen Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	3:40.42
7	Suleiman Kipses Simotwo	Kenya	3:41.04
8	Youssef Baba	Morocco	3:44.50
	Nicholas Willis	New Zealand	DSQ

Intermediate	Athlete	Country	Mark
200m	Daniel Kipchirchir Komen	Kenya	27.88
400m	Deresse Mekonnen	Ethiopia	57.72
600m	Daniel Kipchirchir Komen	Kenya	1:28.71
800m	Youssef Baba	Morocco	1:59.10
1000m	Deresse Mekonnen	Ethiopia	2:29.34
1200m	Deresse Mekonnen	Ethiopia	2:58.06
1400m	Deresse Mekonnen	Ethiopia	3:25.14