2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the ASPIRE Dome on 12 and 13 March.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Deresse Mekonnen Ethiopia	Abdalaati Iguider Morocco	Haron Keitany Kenya

Standing records prior to the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships
World record	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	3:31.18	Stuttgart, Germany	2 February 1997
Championship record	Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)	3:33.77	Maebashi, Japan	7 March 1999
World Leading	Deresse Mekonnen (ETH)	3:33.10	Birmingham, Great Britain	20 February 2010
African record	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	3:31.18	Stuttgart, Germany	2 February 1997
Asian record	Belal Mansoor Ali (BHR)	3:36.28	Stockholm, Sweden	20 February 2007
European record	Andrés Manuel Díaz (ESP)	3:33.32	Piraeus, Greece	24 February 1999
North and Central American and Caribbean record	Bernard Lagat (USA)	3:35.23	Birmingham, Great Britain	16 February 2008
Oceanian Record	Nick Willis (NZL)	3:35.80	Birmingham, Great Britain	20 February 2010
South American record	Agberto Guimarães (BRA)	3:42.70	Piraeus, Greece	8 March 1989

Indoor	Outdoor
3:42.50 or 4:00.00 (Mile)	3:34.50 or 3:52.00 (Mile)

Date	Time	Round
March 12, 2010	15:45	Heats
March 13, 2010	17:45	Final

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Abdalaati Iguider	Morocco	3:37.14	Q
2	3	Mekonnen Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	3:38.90	Q
3	3	Garrett Heath	United States	3:39.25	q, PB
4	3	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	France	3:39.63	q
5	2	Deresse Mekonnen	Ethiopia	3:39.66	Q
6	1	Amine Laâlou	Morocco	3:39.96	Q, PB
7	2	Diego Ruiz	Spain	3:40.00	Q
8	2	Haron Keitany	Kenya	3:40.04	q
9	1	Juan Van Deventer	South Africa	3:40.07	Q
10	1	Gideon Gathimba	Kenya	3:40.08
11	1	Abdelkader Bakhtache	France	3:40.49
12	3	Adrian Blincoe	New Zealand	3:40.50	PB
13	1	Álvaro Rodríguez	Spain	3:40.96
14	2	Will Leer	United States	3:42.16
15	2	Tim Bayley	Great Britain	3:42.57
16	3	Goran Nava	Serbia	3:42.79
17	1	Bruno Albuquerque	Portugal	3:44.32
18	2	Peter van der Westhuizen	South Africa	3:45.76
19	1	Christian Klein	Germany	3:46.14
20	3	Christian Obrist	Italy	3:46.33
21	1	Abubaker Ali Kamal	Qatar	3:46.51
22	2	Thamer Kamal Ali	Qatar	3:49.64
23	2	Alex Ngouari-Mouissi	Republic of the Congo	4:02.55	PB
24	2	Ajmal Amirov	Tajikistan	4:03.75	SB
	3	Belal Mansoor Ali	Bahrain	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Deresse Mekonnen	Ethiopia	3:41.86
	Abdalaati Iguider	Morocco	3:41.96
	Haron Keitany	Kenya	3:42.32
4	Mekonnen Gebremedhin	Ethiopia	3:42.42
5	Amine Laâlou	Morocco	3:42.42
6	Juan Van Deventer	South Africa	3:43.77
7	Garrett Heath	United States	3:43.81
8	Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad	France	3:45.22
9	Diego Ruiz	Spain	3:52.45