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

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	Johan Boakes   United Kingdom

Results

Final

20 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Wilfred Kirochi	Kenya	3:44.62
	Peter Rono	Kenya	3:45.52
	Johan Boakes	United Kingdom	3:45.80
4	Rüdiger Horn	East Germany	3:46.77
5	David Sharpe	United Kingdom	3:46.94
6	Radim Kuncický	Czechoslovakia	3:47.36
7	Germán Beltrán	Venezuela	3:47.75
8	Ángel Fariña	Spain	3:48.39
9	Tadelle Abebe	Ethiopia	3:49.08
10	Sergey Melnikov	Soviet Union	3:49.81
11	Michael Radziwinski	West Germany	3:49.95
12	Mark Deady	United States	3:50.69
13	Jari Venäläinen	Finland	3:52.03
14	Aléxandros Gotzis	Greece	3:53.94
15	Clodoaldo do Carmo	Brazil	3:56.10

Heats

19 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rüdiger Horn	East Germany	3:46.42	Q
2	Johan Boakes	United Kingdom	3:46.90	Q
3	Radim Kuncický	Czechoslovakia	3:46.95	Q
4	Tadelle Abebe	Ethiopia	3:47.39	q
5	Richard Birembaux	France	3:48.65
6	Atsushi Ogino	Japan	3:48.99
7	Brahim El-Ghazali	Morocco	3:50.91
8	Ado Maude	Nigeria	3:51.88
9	Andrey Usachov	Soviet Union	3:51.98
10	Matthew Hopkins	United States	3:52.43
11	Stein Engevold	Norway	4:00.10
12	Momouni Apiou	Côte d'Ivoire	4:00.19
13	Lucien Simon	Antigua and Barbuda	4:07.26
14	Jamal Ali Al-Hakim	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	Jari Venäläinen	Finland	3:47.04	Q
4	Michael Radziwinski	West Germany	3:47.23	q
5	Eyob Muller	Netherlands	3:51.77
6	Henry Klassen	Canada	3:54.73
7	Konstadínos Tsoumanis	Greece	3:56.11
8	Joseph Sean	Trinidad and Tobago	3:59.14
9	Omar Mahabeh	Djibouti	4:07.24
10	Saravanan Arjunan	Singapore	4:07.31
11	Mohamed Ould Khayar	Mauritania	4:18.24
12	Aboukar Adani	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	Germán Beltrán	Venezuela	3:49.45	Q
4	Gino Van Geyte	Belgium	3:50.24
5	John Ndhlovu	Zimbabwe	3:50.59
6	Karel Milkowski	Poland	3:51.85
7	Honest Umbe	Tanzania	3:52.55
8	Dragan Dukanac	Yugoslavia	3:53.21
9	Bouazza Noualla	Algeria	3:53.25
10	Jan Jonsson	Sweden	3:53.37
11	Herder Vázquez	Colombia	3:55.21
12	M.Ibrahim Hatem	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	Aléxandros Gotzis	Greece	3:47.26	Q
3	Ángel Fariña	Spain	3:47.97	Q
4	Clodoaldo do Carmo	Brazil	3:48.45	q
5	Keiichiro Nakamura	Japan	3:49.63
6	Richard Charette	Canada	3:50.45
7	Pascal Meirlaen	Belgium	3:52.61
8	Gosham Springer	Grenada	3:53.99
9	Abdul Nasser Jouma	Bahrain	3:55.30
10	Eduardo Cabrera	Mexico	3:55.51
11	Joseph Antoun	Sudan	3:59.54
12	Sergio Iván Gómez	Guatemala	4:01.76
13	Steinn Jóhannsson	Iceland	4:07.17
14	Ndaona Musuma	Malawi	4:15.67

Participation

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

•   Algeria (1)
•   Antigua and Barbuda (1)
•   Bahrain (1)
•   Belgium (2)
•   Brazil (1)
•   Canada (2)
•   Colombia (1)
• Côte d'Ivoire (1)
•   Czechoslovakia (1)
•   Djibouti (1)
•   East Germany (1)
•   Ethiopia (1)
•   Finland (1)
•   France (1)
•   Greece (2)
•   Grenada (1)
•   Guatemala (1)
•   Iceland (1)
•   Japan (2)
•   Kenya (2)
•   Malawi (1)
•   Mauritania (1)
•   Mexico (1)
•   Morocco (1)
•   Netherlands (1)
•   Nigeria (1)
•   North Yemen (1)
•   Norway (1)
•   Poland (1)
•   Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
•   Singapore (1)
•   Somalia (1)
•   Soviet Union (2)
•   Spain (1)
•   Sudan (2)
•   Sweden (1)
•   Tanzania (1)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (1)
•   United Kingdom (2)
•   United States (2)
•   Venezuela (1)
•   West Germany (1)
•   Yugoslavia (1)
•   Zaire (1)
•   Zimbabwe (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1986 Athens GRE Jul 16-20, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 26 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF , retrieved 13 June 2015