1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Deveti Septemvri Stadium on 11 and 12 August. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Gold	Moses Kiptanui   Kenya
Silver	Alemayehu Roba   Ethiopia
Bronze	Desta Asgedom   Ethiopia

Results

Final

12 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	3:38.32
	Alemayehu Roba	Ethiopia	3:41.71
	Desta Asgedom	Ethiopia	3:43.38
4	Mirco Döring	East Germany	3:43.97
5	Denes Balázs	Hungary	3:44.30
6	Andrey Loginov	Soviet Union	3:44.79
7	Nigel Adkin	Australia	3:45.07
8	Jason Bunston	Canada	3:45.09
9	Cleophas Bitok	Kenya	3:45.50
10	Pantelis Kolokas	Greece	3:45.70
11	Eddie Crowe	New Zealand	3:46.27
12	Luís Miguel Martín	Spain	3:49.71
13	Heiko Schulze	East Germany	3:50.57
14	Claus Wittekind	West Germany	3:50.71
15	Graham Hood	Canada	3:50.72

Heats

11 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Alemayehu Roba	Ethiopia	3:51.12	Q
2	Andrey Loginov	Soviet Union	3:51.41	Q
3	Cleophas Bitok	Kenya	3:51.83	Q
4	Jason Bunston	Canada	3:52.03	Q
5	Marc Dauer	West Germany	3:52.80
6	Nigel Brunton	Ireland	3:52.98
7	Steve Green	United Kingdom	3:53.84
8	Timo Sarlin	Finland	3:54.01
9	Kim Soon-Hyung	South Korea	3:54.15
10	Andrzej Jakubiec	Poland	3:54.60
11	Zhou Chaohui	China	3:56.56
12	Ryad Gatte	Algeria	3:57.33
13	Georgios Loucaides	Cyprus	4:01.31
14	Nesamani Subramaniam	Singapore	4:10.24

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	3:41.06	Q
2	Desta Asgedom	Ethiopia	3:46.20	Q
3	Mirco Döring	East Germany	3:48.22	Q
4	Luís Miguel Martín	Spain	3:48.97	Q
5	Curtis Robb	United Kingdom	3:49.67
6	Sergey Samoylov	Soviet Union	3:49.81
7	Krasimir Blagoyev	Bulgaria	3:50.17
8	João Cuñha	Portugal	3:50.49
9	Mohamed Abdulkadir	Somalia	3:51.89
10	Amir Mhando	Tanzania	3:52.31
11	Jaroslaw Sitarz	Poland	3:59.16
12	Kealin Hannigan	Australia	4:03.39
13	Marko Koers	Netherlands	4:15.37

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Graham Hood	Canada	3:46.35	Q
2	Pantelis Kolokas	Greece	3:46.57	Q
3	Heiko Schulze	East Germany	3:46.93	Q
4	Denes Balázs	Hungary	3:46.98	Q
5	Eddie Crowe	New Zealand	3:46.99	q
6	Nigel Adkin	Australia	3:47.08	q
7	Claus Wittekind	West Germany	3:47.79	q
8	Niall Bruton	Ireland	3:47.87
9	Svetlin Prodanov	Bulgaria	3:52.63
10	Brian Murphy	United States	3:53.37
11	Mario Figueirêdo	Portugal	3:54.58
12	Mateo Cañellas	Spain	3:55.57
13	Hiroyuki Nakamura	Japan	3:58.73

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 27 countries participated in the event.

•   Algeria (1)
•   Australia (2)
•   Bulgaria (2)
•   Canada (2)
•   China (1)
•   Cyprus (1)
•   East Germany (2)
•   Ethiopia (2)
•   Finland (1)
•   Greece (1)
•   Hungary (1)
•   Ireland (2)
•   Japan (1)
•   Kenya (2)
•   Netherlands (1)
•   New Zealand (1)
•   Poland (2)
•   Portugal (2)
•   Singapore (1)
•   Somalia (1)
•   South Korea (1)
•   Soviet Union (2)
•   Spain (2)
•   Tanzania (1)
•   United Kingdom (2)
•   United States (1)
•   West Germany (2)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas. "WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1990 Plovdiv BUL Aug 8-12". WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"). Archived from the original on 31 August 2013. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF , retrieved 13 June 2015