Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1997 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Cibali in Catania, Italy on August 29, 30 and 31. ^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Anthony Whiteman   Great Britain	Carlos García   Spain	António Travassos   Portugal

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5	Carlos García	Spain	3:46.31	Q [2]
2	5	Héctor Torres	Mexico	3:46.39	Q
3	5	Karl Paranya	United States	3:46.45	Q
4	5	Abdelhamid Slimani	Algeria	3:46.50	q
5	5	Eyvind Solbu	Norway	3:46.92	q
6	5	Mohamed Fatihi	Morocco	3:48.21	q
7	4	Igor Lishchinskiy	Ukraine	3:48.47	Q
8	4	Andrea Abelli	Italy	3:48.49	Q
9	4	Bård Kvalheim	Norway	3:48.64	Q
10	4	Peter Philipp	Switzerland	3:48.81	q
11	4	Celso Ficagna	Brazil	3:48.85	q
12	4	Alex Hutchinson	Canada	3:49.20	q [3]
13	2	Scott Petersen	Australia	3:49.91	Q [4]
14	3	António Travassos	Portugal	3:50.28	Q [5]
15	2	Nasser Ahmed Sulaiman	Qatar	3:50.45	Q
16	2	Jeremy Deere	Canada	3:50.68	Q [3]
17	3	Ebeneza Felix	South Africa	3:50.68	Q
18	3	Brian Treacy	Ireland	3:50.82	Q
19	3	Michael Gottschalk	Germany	3:50.87
20	2	Thomas Ebner	Austria	3:51.12
21	2	Alexis Sharangabo	Rwanda	3:51.89
22	6	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	3:52.46	Q
23	6	Piotr Rostkowski	Poland	3:52.56	Q
24	6	Neil Caddy	Great Britain	3:52.62	Q
25	6	Thomas Suter	Switzerland	3:52.68
26	1	Anthony Whiteman	Great Britain	3:52.81	Q
27	6	Mark Sivieri	United States	3:53.23
28	1	Đorđe Milić	Yugoslavia	3:53.35	Q
29	1	Chris Bowden	Australia	3:53.80	Q [4]
30	1	Lorenzo Lazzari	Italy	3:53.99
31	6	Aleš Tomič	Slovenia	3:54.01
32	1	Alexei Scutaru	Moldova	3:54.54
33	3	Aziz El-Kahlaoui	Morocco	3:54.76
34	3	Pedro Antonio Esteso	Spain	3:56.00	[2]
35	6	Vanko Stoyanov	Macedonia	3:57.46
36	4	Adamou Aboubakar	Cameroon	3:57.47
37	3	Gilbert Tuhabonye	Burundi	3:58.06
38	2	Mark Harris	New Zealand	3:59.35
39	2	Sylvester Simelane	Swaziland	3:59.53
40	3	Kabemba Mwape	Zambia	3:59.58
41	2	Mathew Koskei	Kenya	3:59.64
42	1	Rachid Amor	Tunisia	3:59.66
43	1	Kim Soon-hyung	South Korea	4:00.12
44	1	Lesedinyana Lekgoba	Botswana	4:00.50
45	5	Jean-Paul Niyonsaba	Burundi	4:01.52
46	3	Rachman Deviandi	Indonesia	4:01.88
47	6	Nicodemus Rerine	Indonesia	4:02.14
48	5	Frank Ndela	Swaziland	4:02.18
49	4	Junior Anguyo	Uganda	4:05.59
50	6	Christophe Irumwa	Rwanda	4:05.81
51	1	Fadi Hatamleh	Jordan	4:15.13
52	3	Ma Wai Hou	Macau	4:16.68
53	3	Chris Musenze	Uganda	4:18.67
54	3	Alfadio Traoré	Guinea	4:22.18
55	4	Tang Win Kin	Hong Kong	4:26.90
56	5	Noor Aslam	Pakistan	4:30.83
57	5	Tam Hoi Keng	Macau	4:38.62
58	5	Shadi Al-Huheidi	Jordan	4:43.38
59	2	Serge Tohme	Lebanon	4:45.63
60	2	Victor Jonah	Sierra Leone	4:48.29

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Anthony Whiteman	Great Britain	3:42.20	Q
2	1	Carlos García	Spain	3:42.39	Q [2]
3	1	Đorđe Milić	Yugoslavia	3:42.77	Q
4	1	Igor Lishchinskiy	Ukraine	3:42.89	Q
5	1	Abdelhamid Slimani	Algeria	3:42.97	Q
6	2	António Travassos	Portugal	3:42.98	Q [5]
7	1	Scott Petersen	Australia	3:43.02	q [4]
8	2	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	3:43.62	Q
9	1	Héctor Torres	Mexico	3:43.66	q
10	2	Ebeneza Felix	South Africa	3:43.75	Q
11	2	Brian Treacy	Ireland	3:43.87	Q
12	2	Piotr Rostkowski	Poland	3:43.98	Q
13	2	Chris Bowden	Australia	3:44.19	[4]
14	2	Peter Philipp	Switzerland	3:44.33	[6]
15	1	Mohamed Fatihi	Morocco	3:44.53
16	1	Karl Paranya	United States	3:45.11
17	1	Jeremy Deere	Canada	3:45.61	[7]
18	2	Celso Ficagna	Brazil	3:46.69
19	2	Neil Caddy	Great Britain	3:47.64
20	2	Alex Hutchinson	Canada	3:50.26	[7]
21	1	Bård Kvalheim	Norway	3:53.42
22	2	Andrea Abelli	Italy	3:54.59
	2	Eyvind Solbu	Norway	DNF
	1	Nasser Ahmed Sulaiman	Qatar	?

Final

^[8]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Anthony Whiteman	Great Britain	3:43.57
	Carlos García	Spain	3:43.97
	António Travassos	Portugal	3:44.14
4	Brian Treacy	Ireland	3:45.26
5	Igor Lishchinskiy	Ukraine	3:45.67
6	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	3:46.09
7	Đorđe Milić	Yugoslavia	3:46.32
8	Héctor Torres	Mexico	3:46.35
9	Scott Petersen	Australia	3:46.66	[4]
10	Ebeneza Felix	South Africa	3:47.03
11	Piotr Rostkowski	Poland	3:48.34
12	Abdelhamid Slimani	Algeria	3:50.24

References

1. Results at Tilastopaja
2. Spanish results (p304)
3. "Canadian results". Calgary Herald. 30 August 1997. p. 4. Retrieved 31 December 2019.
4. "Australian 1997 Almanac" (PDF). Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-10-08.
5. Portuguese results
6. "Schweizer erfolgreich wie nie" (in German). Thun Thuner Tagblatt. 1 September 1997. p. 21. Retrieved 27 April 2020.
7. "How Canada Fared". No. 31 August 1997. Calgary Herald. p. 20. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
8. "Results". Archived from the original on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2014-10-01.