2025 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships
Venue	Gumi Civic Stadium
Location	Gumi, South Korea
Dates	27 May (heats) 28 May (final)
Competitors	25 from 18 nations
Winning time	3:42.56
Medalists
Kazuto Iizawa    Japan   Lee Jae-ung    South Korea   Yoonus Shah    India
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The men's 1500 metres event at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships was held on 27 and 28 May. ^[1]

Records

Records before the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships

Record	Athlete (nation)	Time (s)	Location	Date
World record [2]	Hicham El Guerrouj  (MAR)	3:26.00	Rome, Italy	14 July 1998
Asian record [3]	Rashid Ramzi  (BHR)	3:29.14		14 July 2006
Championship record	Kim Soon-Hyung  (KOR)	3:38.60	Manila, Philippines	3 December 1993
World leading [4]	Jakob Ingebrigtsen  (NOR)	3:29.63	Liévin, France	13 February 2025
Asian leading [5]	Seyedamir Zamanpour  (IRI)	3:36.92	Dubai, United Arab Emirates	9 May 2025

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+8), was as follows: ^[1]

Date	Time	Round
27 May	09:20	Heats
28 May	18:00	Final

Results

Heats

Held on 27 May. First 6 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Nanami Arai  [ de; ja ]	Japan	3:46.92	Q, PB
2	Yoonus Shah	India	3:46.96	Q
3	Seyed Amir Zamanpour  [ de ]	Iran	3:47.97	Q
4	Xi Xiaoheng	China	3:48.25	Q
5	Raed Al-Jadani	Saudi Arabia	3:48.75	Q
6	Abdirahman Saeed Hassan	Qatar	3:49.04	Q
7	Wahyudi Putra  [ de ]	Indonesia	3:49.73	PB
8	Mukesh Pal	Nepal	3:49.96	PB
9	Samat Kazakbayev	Kyrgyzstan	3:54.35	SB
10	Anas Ariffin	Malaysia	4:00.15	SB
11	Kim Tae-heon	South Korea	4:04.84
12	Dechen Ugyen	Bhutan	4:21.88	SB
—	Myagmarsuren Davaanyam	Mongolia	DNS
[6]

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Lee Jae-ung	South Korea	3:50.33	Q
2	Kazuto Iizawa	Japan	3:50.35	Q, PB
3	Ali Amirian  [ de ]	Iran	3:51.73	Q
4	Sami Hattab	Jordan	3:51.84	Q
5	Liu Dezhu	China	3:51.87	Q
6	Hatim Ait Oulghazi	Qatar	3:51.95	Q
7	Maxim Frolowskij  [ de ]	Kazakhstan	3:52.09
8	Lương Đức Phước	Vietnam	3:53.20	PB
9	Mohammed Al-Suleimani  [ de ]	Oman	3:54.61	PB
10	Sulaiman Zhusup	Kyrgyzstan	3:55.16	PB
11	Mohammad Kamran	Hong Kong	3:57.02	PB
12	Park Jong-hak	South Korea	4:04.36
13	Kinley Lhendup	Bhutan	4:18.89	PB
[6]

Final

Place	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Kazuto Iizawa	Japan	3:42.56	PB
	Lee Jae-ung	South Korea	3:42.79
	Yoonus Shah	India	3:43.03
4	Ali Amirian  [ de ]	Iran	3:43.18	PB
5	Nanami Arai  [ de; ja ]	Japan	3:45.65	PB
6	Liu Dezhu	China	3:45.88
7	Seyed Amir Zamanpour  [ de ]	Iran	3:45.93
8	Xi Xiaoheng	China	3:47.42	SB
9	Raed Al-Jadani	Saudi Arabia	3:47.66
10	Abdirahman Saeed Hassan	Qatar	3:47.69	SB
11	Sami Hattab	Jordan	3:51.29
12	Hatim Ait Oulghazi	Qatar	3:51.90	SB
[7]

References

1. "2025 Asian Athletics Championships schedule". 2025gumi.kr. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
2. "1500 Metres men - World record times". World Athletics. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
3. "1500 Metres men - Asian record times". World Athletics. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
4. "1500 Metres men - 2025 World leading times". World Athletics. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
5. "1500 Metres men - 2025 Asian leading times". World Athletics. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
6. "26th Asian Athletics Championships - Men's 1500 metres heats results" (PDF). Asian Athletics. 27 May 2025. Retrieved 27 May 2025.
7. "26th Asian Athletics Championships - Men's 1500 metres final results" (PDF). Asian Athletics. 28 May 2025. Retrieved 28 May 2025.