2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 10 and 12 July. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Medalists

Gold	Hamza Driouch Qatar
Silver	Hillary Cheruiyot Ngetich Kenya
Bronze	Abdelhadi Labäli Morocco

Records

Prior to the competition ^[update] , the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record	Cornelius Chirchir  (KEN)	3:30.24	Fontvieille, Monaco	19 July 2002
Championship Record	Abdalaati Iguider  (MAR)	3:35.53	Grosseto, Italy	15 July 2004
World Junior Leading	Geoffrey Barusei  (KEN)	3:33.39	Hengelo, Netherlands	27 May 2012

Results

Heats

Qualification: The first 3 of each heat (Q) and the 3 fastest times (q) qualified

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	2	7	Hamza Driouch	Qatar	3:38.06	Q
2	1	2	Teshome Dirirsa	Ethiopia	3:41.78	Q
3	1	10	Dominic Mutuku Mutili	Kenya	3:41.97	Q
4	1	5	Mohammed Abid	Morocco	3:42.58	Q
5	2	12	Yenew Tebikew	Ethiopia	3:42.69	Q
6	2	11	Carlos Díaz	Chile	3:43.16	Q, NJ
7	2	8	Filip Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3:44.04	q, PB
8	2	13	Federico Bruno	Argentina	3:44.81	q
9	1	9	Mohamed Abdikadar	Italy	3:46.37	q
10	3	1	Teklit Teweldebrhan	Eritrea	3:46.46	Q
11	3	10	Hillary Cheruiyot Ngetich	Kenya	3:46.54	Q
12	3	4	Abdelhadi Labäli	Morocco	3:46.75	Q
13	3	6	Charlie Grice	Great Britain	3:47.05
14	1	3	Robert Denault	Canada	3:48.47
15	2	6	Abdessalem Ayouni	Tunisia	3:48.67
16	2	2	Fabian Brunswig	Germany	3:48.72
17	3	2	Yusuke Uchikoshi	Japan	3:49.06
18	1	12	Sean Tobin	Ireland	3:49.11
19	1	1	Izaic Yorks	United States	3:49.21
20	3	5	Joao Bussotti Neves	Italy	3:49.37
21	1	7	Julian Oakley	New Zealand	3:49.43
22	1	11	Julius Lawnik	Germany	3:49.51
23	3	8	Łukasz Gurtkiewicz	Poland	3:49.61
24	3	12	Yunus Emre Cavusli	Turkey	3:50.12
25	2	5	Ben Moynihan	New Zealand	3:50.59
26	1	8	Ferdinand Kvan Edman	Norway	3:50.95
27	2	3	Abdullah Obaid Al Salhi	Saudi Arabia	3:51.78
28	3	11	David Lorenzo	Spain	3:52.98
29	3	9	Ruairí Finnegan	Ireland	3:53.95
30	2	9	Kyle Grieve	Canada	3:54.37
31	2	1	Austin Mudd	United States	3:54.82
32	3	3	Ioran Etchechury	Brazil	3:55.15
33	1	4	Marc Alcalá	Spain	3:55.68
34	2	10	Egide Kayigire	Rwanda	3:56.75	PB
35	1	6	Mandhar Legseir	Algeria	3:59.30
36	2	4	Boldoo Odbayar	Mongolia	4:04.65	PB
37	3	7	Carles Gómez	Andorra	4:16.99	PB

Final

Rank	Order	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	6	Hamza Driouch	Qatar	3:39.04
	1	Hillary Cheruiyot Ngetich	Kenya	3:40.39	PB
	12	Abdelhadi Labäli	Morocco	3:40.60
4	7	Mohammed Abid	Morocco	3:41.73
5	8	Teklit Teweldebrhan	Eritrea	3:42.63
6	2	Dominic Mutuku Mutili	Kenya	3:42.79
7	3	Carlos Díaz	Chile	3:44.02
8	11	Yenew Tebikew	Ethiopia	3:44.02
9	4	Teshome Dirirsa	Ethiopia	3:44.54
10	5	Filip Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3:46.54
11	9	Mohamed Abdikadar	Italy	3:53.74
12	10	Federico Bruno	Argentina	3:55.38

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 37 athletes from 26 countries participated in the event.

•   Algeria (1)
•   Andorra (1)
•   Argentina (1)
•   Brazil (1)
•   Canada (2)
•   Chile (1)
•   Eritrea (1)
•   Ethiopia (2)
•   Germany (2)
•   Ireland (2)
•   Italy (2)
•   Japan (1)
•   Kenya (2)
•   Mongolia (1)
•   Morocco (2)
•   New Zealand (2)
•   Norway (2)
•   Poland (1)
•   Qatar (1)
•   Rwanda (1)
•   Saudi Arabia (1)
•   Spain (2)
•   Tunisia (1)
•   Turkey (1)
•   United Kingdom (1)
•   United States (2)

References

1. "iaaf.org – International Association of Athletics Federations". Archived from the original on 27 July 2012.
2. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC – 2012 Barcelona ESP Jul 10-15, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 22 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
3. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Eugene 2014 – FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF , retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

• WJC12 1500 metres schedule