The men's 1500 metres event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 30 and 31 July.
Medalists Gold Wilfred Kirochi Silver Noureddine Morceli Bronze Fermín Cacho
Results
Final 31 July Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Wilfred Kirochi 3:46.52 Noureddine Morceli 3:46.93 Fermín Cacho 3:47.31 4 Fransua Woldemarian 3:47.63 5 Jason Pyrah 3:47.94 6 Atoi Boru 3:47.97 7 Mohamed Suleiman 3:48.27 8 Christophe Impens 3:51.73 9 Andrea Cellai 3:52.00 10 Rens Eising 3:52.16 11 Andrea Erni 3:52.49 12 Hiroshi Fukaya 3:53.94 13 Hirokazu Tatsumi 3:55.61 14 Andreas Nellesen 3:58.22 Paul Vandegrift DNF
Heats 30 July
Heat 1
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Noureddine Morceli 3:46.79 Q 2 Fransua Woldemarian 3:47.34 Q 3 Andrea Erni 3:48.65 Q 4 Rens Eising 3:48.83 Q 5 Phillimon Hanneck 3:49.10 6 Spencer Punter 3:50.96 7 Tommy Gjølga 3:51.30 8 Siegfried Sacher 3:51.93 9 Greg Collier 3:54.13 10 Alessandro Cellai 3:56.75 11 Mohamed Shawki Abdullah 3:57.51 12 Lyle Tenfingers 4:44.58
Heat 2
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Atoi Boru 3:47.17 Q 2 Paul Vandegrift 3:47.63 Q 3 Andreas Nellesen 3:47.81 Q 4 Andrea Cellai 3:47.82 Q 5 Hiroshi Fukaya 3:47.99 q 6 Simon Brown 3:49.45 7 Billy Mullaney 3:51.01 8 Tor Øivind Ødegård 3:52.71 9 Artur Zalewski 3:55.16 10 Robin Cianca 4:09.01 11 Martin Forde 4:15.09 12 Chérif Baba Aïdara 4:41.49
Heat 3
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Wilfred Kirochi 3:43.51 Q 2 Mohamed Suleiman 3:43.85 Q 3 Fermín Cacho 3:44.04 Q 4 Christophe Impens 3:44.29 Q 5 Hirokazu Tatsumi 3:44.77 q 6 Jason Pyrah 3:47.99 q 7 Bernhard Richter 3:49.75 8 Brendan Matthias 3:51.74 9 Paulo Estiveira 3:59.30 10 Urs Kindle 4:09.24 11 Bernard Henry 4:12.87 12 Nioka Pululu 4:13.00
Participation According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 29 countries participated in the event.
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