1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

1986 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
2000 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	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
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The men's 1500 metres event at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 19 and 20 July.^[1][2]

Medalists[]

Gold	Wilfred Kirochi  Kenya
Silver	Peter Rono  Kenya
Bronze	United Kingdom

Results[]

Final[]

20 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Wilfred Kirochi	Kenya	3:44.62
	Peter Rono	Kenya	3:45.52
		United Kingdom	3:45.80
4		East Germany	3:46.77
5	David Sharpe	United Kingdom	3:46.94
6		Czechoslovakia	3:47.36
7		Venezuela	3:47.75
8		Spain	3:48.39
9		Ethiopia	3:49.08
10	Sergey Melnikov	Soviet Union	3:49.81
11		West Germany	3:49.95
12	Mark Deady	United States	3:50.69
13		Finland	3:52.03
14		Greece	3:53.94
15	Clodoaldo do Carmo	Brazil	3:56.10

Heats[]

19 July

Heat 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		East Germany	3:46.42	Q
2		United Kingdom	3:46.90	Q
3		Czechoslovakia	3:46.95	Q
4		Ethiopia	3:47.39	q
5		France	3:48.65
6		Japan	3:48.99
7		Morocco	3:50.91
8	Ado Maude	Nigeria	3:51.88
9		Soviet Union	3:51.98
10		United States	3:52.43
11		Norway	4:00.10
12		Côte d'Ivoire	4:00.19
13		Antigua and Barbuda	4:07.26
14		North Yemen	4:14.48

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Peter Rono	Kenya	3:46.31	Q
2	David Sharpe	United Kingdom	3:46.80	Q
3		Finland	3:47.04	Q
4		West Germany	3:47.23	q
5		Netherlands	3:51.77
6		Canada	3:54.73
7		Greece	3:56.11
8		Trinidad and Tobago	3:59.14
9		Djibouti	4:07.24
10		Singapore	4:07.31
11	Mohamed Ould Khayar	Mauritania	4:18.24
12		Somalia	4:19.17

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wilfred Kirochi	Kenya	3:47.24	Q
2	Sergey Melnikov	Soviet Union	3:49.40	Q
3		Venezuela	3:49.45	Q
4		Belgium	3:50.24
5		Zimbabwe	3:50.59
6		Poland	3:51.85
7		Tanzania	3:52.55
8		Yugoslavia	3:53.21
9		Algeria	3:53.25
10		Sweden	3:53.37
11	Herder Vázquez	Colombia	3:55.21
12		Sudan	4:02.24
13	Kazanga Makok	Zaire	4:15.77
14	Eversley Linley	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	4:23.26

Heat 4[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mark Deady	United States	3:46.97	Q
2		Greece	3:47.26	Q
3		Spain	3:47.97	Q
4	Clodoaldo do Carmo	Brazil	3:48.45	q
5		Japan	3:49.63
6		Canada	3:50.45
7		Belgium	3:52.61
8		Grenada	3:53.99
9		Bahrain	3:55.30
10	Eduardo Cabrera	Mexico	3:55.51
11		Sudan	3:59.54
12		Guatemala	4:01.76
13		Iceland	4:07.17
14		Malawi	4:15.67

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 54 athletes from 45 countries participated in the event.

References[]