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

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
	Wilfred Kirochi	Kenya	3:46.52
	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3:46.93
	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
	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.

•   Algeria (1)
•   American Samoa (1)
•   Australia (1)
•   Austria (1)
•   Barbados (1)
•   Belgium (1)
•   Canada (2)
•   East Germany (1)
•   Ethiopia (1)
•   Ireland (1)
•   Italy (2)
•   Japan (2)
•   Kenya (2)
•   Liechtenstein (1)
•   Mauritania (1)
•   Netherlands (1)
•   Norway (2)
•   Panama (1)
•   Poland (1)
•   Portugal (1)
•   Qatar (2)
•   Saint Lucia (1)
•   Spain (1)
•    Switzerland (1)
•   United Kingdom (1)
•   United States (2)
•   West Germany (1)
•   Zaire (1)
•   Zimbabwe (1)

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 April 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF , retrieved 13 June 2015