2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Kingston, Jamaica, at National Stadium on 19 and 21 July. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Gold	Yassine Bensghir   Morocco
Silver	Abdul Rahman Suleiman   Qatar
Bronze	Samuel Mwera   Tanzania

Results

Final

21 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Yassine Bensghir	Morocco	3:40.72
	Abdul Rahman Suleiman	Qatar	3:41.72
	Samuel Mwera	Tanzania	3:41.75
4	Nick Willis	New Zealand	3:42.69
5	Toni Mohr	Germany	3:44.46
6	Arturo Casado	Spain	3:44.67
7	Isaac Songok	Kenya	3:44.93
8	Juan Luis Barrios	Mexico	3:44.97
9	Andrew O'Neill	Australia	3:45.61
10	Cosmin Suteu	Romania	3:45.76
11	Chris Lukezic	United States	3:46.01
12	Samson Kiplagat	Kenya	3:50.05

Heats

19 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Samuel Mwera	Tanzania	3:43.56	Q
2	Yassine Bensghir	Morocco	3:44.51	Q
3	Samson Kiplagat	Kenya	3:45.16	Q
4	Nick Willis	New Zealand	3:45.98	Q
5	Chris Lukezic	United States	3:46.24	q
6	Andrew O'Neill	Australia	3:46.40	q
7	Patrick Schulz	Germany	3:49.05
8	Marcus van der Koelen	Netherlands	3:49.20
9	Mourad Naami	Algeria	3:49.27
10	John Lindström	Sweden	3:50.24
11	Abdelkader Mahmoudi	France	3:53.59
12	Koichi Murakami	Japan	3:55.20
13	Sergio Vallejo	Spain	3:56.09
14	Sabri Kara	Turkey	3:58.12
15	Ajmal Amirov	Tajikistan	4:01.91
16	Setefano Mika	Samoa	4:08.56

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Abdul Rahman Suleiman	Qatar	3:40.57	Q
2	Isaac Songok	Kenya	3:41.65	Q
3	Juan Luis Barrios	Mexico	3:42.00	Q
4	Toni Mohr	Germany	3:44.59	Q
5	Arturo Casado	Spain	3:46.69	q
6	Cosmin Suteu	Romania	3:48.23	q
7	Aleksandr Krivchonkov	Russia	3:49.07
8	Daniel Spitzl	Austria	3:49.43
9	Liam Reale	Ireland	3:50.52
10	Mounir Yemmouni	France	3:50.99
11	Shawn Forrest	Australia	3:54.85
12	Hani Meguellati	Algeria	4:02.54
13	Shaun Smith	Jamaica	4:13.88
14	Park Ji-Yun	South Korea	4:26.34
15	Keith Sepety	Micronesia	4:32.21
	Vitaliy Gorlukovic	Lithuania	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 26 countries participated in the event.

•   Algeria (2)
•   Australia (2)
•   Austria (1)
•   France (2)
•   Germany (2)
•   Ireland (1)
•   Jamaica (1)
•   Japan (1)
•   Kenya (2)
•   Lithuania (1)
•   Mexico (1)
•   Micronesia (1)
•   Morocco (1)
•   Netherlands (1)
•   New Zealand (1)
•   Qatar (1)
•   Romania (1)
•   Russia (1)
•   Samoa (1)
•   South Korea (1)
•   Spain (2)
•   Sweden (1)
•   Tajikistan (1)
•   Tanzania (1)
•   Turkey (1)
•   United States (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2002 Kingston JAM Jul 16-21, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 24 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF , retrieved 13 June 2015