1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

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 Kenya
Silver	Noureddine Morceli Algeria
Bronze	Fermín Cacho Spain

Results

Final

31 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Wilfred Kirochi	Kenya	3:46.52
	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3:46.93
	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3:47.31
4	Fransua Woldemarian	Ethiopia	3:47.63
5	Jason Pyrah	United States	3:47.94
6	Atoi Boru	Kenya	3:47.97
7	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	3:48.27
8	Christophe Impens	Belgium	3:51.73
9	Andrea Cellai	Italy	3:52.00
10	Rens Eising	Netherlands	3:52.16
11	Andrea Erni	Switzerland	3:52.49
12	Hiroshi Fukaya	Japan	3:53.94
13	Hirokazu Tatsumi	Japan	3:55.61
14	Andreas Nellesen	West Germany	3:58.22
	Paul Vandegrift	United States	DNF

Heats

30 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3:46.79	Q
2	Fransua Woldemarian	Ethiopia	3:47.34	Q
3	Andrea Erni	Switzerland	3:48.65	Q
4	Rens Eising	Netherlands	3:48.83	Q
5	Philimon Hanneck	Zimbabwe	3:49.10
6	Spencer Punter	Canada	3:50.96
7	Tommy Gjølga	Norway	3:51.30
8	Siegfried Sacher	East Germany	3:51.93
9	Greg Collier	Australia	3:54.13
10	Alessandro Cellai	Italy	3:56.75
11	Mohamed Shawki Abdullah	Qatar	3:57.51
12	Lyle Tenfingers	American Samoa	4:44.58

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Atoi Boru	Kenya	3:47.17	Q
2	Paul Vandegrift	United States	3:47.63	Q
3	Andreas Nellesen	West Germany	3:47.81	Q
4	Andrea Cellai	Italy	3:47.82	Q
5	Hiroshi Fukaya	Japan	3:47.99	q
6	Simon Brown	United Kingdom	3:49.45
7	Billy Mullaney	Ireland	3:51.01
8	Tor-Øyvind Ødegaard	Norway	3:52.71
9	Artur Zalewski	Poland	3:55.16
10	Robin Cianca	Panama	4:09.01
11	Martin Forde	Barbados	4:15.09
12	Chérif Baba Aïdara	Mauritania	4:41.49

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wilfred Kirochi	Kenya	3:43.51	Q
2	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	3:43.85	Q
3	Fermín Cacho	Spain	3:44.04	Q
4	Christophe Impens	Belgium	3:44.29	Q
5	Hirokazu Tatsumi	Japan	3:44.77	q
6	Jason Pyrah	United States	3:47.99	q
7	Bernhard Richter	Austria	3:49.75
8	Brendan Matthias	Canada	3:51.74
9	Paulo Estiveira	Portugal	3:59.30
10	Urs Kindle	Liechtenstein	4:09.24
11	Bernard Henry	Saint Lucia	4:12.87
12	Nioka Pululu	Zaire	4:13.00

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 29 countries participated in the event.

• Algeria (1)
• American Samoa (1)
• Australia (1)
• Austria (1)
• Barbados (1)
• Belgium (1)
• Canada (2)
• East Germany (1)
• Ethiopia (1)
• Ireland (1)
• Italy (2)
• Japan (2)
• Kenya (2)
• Liechtenstein (1)
• Mauritania (1)
• Netherlands (1)
• Norway (2)
• Panama (1)
• Poland (1)
• Portugal (1)
• Qatar (2)
• Saint Lucia (1)
• Spain (1)
• Switzerland (1)
• United Kingdom (1)
• United States (2)
• West Germany (1)
• Zaire (1)
• Zimbabwe (1)