2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Santiago, Chile, at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos on 20 and 22 October.

Medalists

Gold	Cornelius Chirchir Kenya
Silver	Wolfram Müller Germany
Bronze	Philemon Tanui Kenya

Results

Final

22 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Cornelius Chirchir	Kenya	3:38.80
	Wolfram Müller	Germany	3:39.37
	Philemon Tanui	Kenya	3:40.77
4	Jamal Noor	Qatar	3:42.27
5	Johan Cronje	South Africa	3:42.52
6	Ridouane Harroufi	Morocco	3:43.34
7	Abubaker Kamal	Qatar	3:44.12
8	Tarek Boukensa	Algeria	3:44.46
9	Duncan Long	Australia	3:44.76
10	Álvaro Fernández	Spain	3:45.51
11	Javier Areny	Spain	3:50.19
	Julius Ogwang	Uganda	DNS

Heats

20 October

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jamal Noor	Qatar	3:47.48	Q
2	Tarek Boukensa	Algeria	3:47.86	Q
3	Wolfram Müller	Germany	3:47.89	Q
4	Stefan Beumer	Netherlands	3:48.99
5	Lee Du-Haeng	South Korea	3:49.25
6	Bruno Silva	Portugal	3:50.10
7	Heleodoro Navarro	Mexico	3:51.75
8	Guillaume Eraud	France	3:53.41
9	Berhanu Tadele	Ethiopia	3:55.74
10	Ahmed Abdillahi	Djibouti	4:02.85
11	Lawrence Lockhart	U.S. Virgin Islands	4:27.48

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Cornelius Chirchir	Kenya	3:44.89	Q
2	Julius Ogwang	Uganda	3:45.16	Q
3	Abubaker Kamal	Qatar	3:45.71	Q
4	Johan Cronje	South Africa	3:45.88	q
5	Álvaro Fernández	Spain	3:46.67	q
6	Lorenzo Perrone	Italy	3:49.66
7	Modisa Leselamose	Botswana	3:54.07
8	Chaminda Wijekoon	Sri Lanka	3:54.34
9	David Byrne	Australia	3:58.50
10	Rocky Mkoko	Swaziland	4:03.11
11	Bed Bahadur Bhattarai	Nepal	4:12.45
12	Moreira Nataniel	Cape Verde	4:54.37
	Ismail Ahmed Ismail	Sudan	DQ

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Philemon Tanui	Kenya	3:46.53	Q
2	Ridouane Harroufi	Morocco	3:46.86	Q
3	Duncan Long	Australia	3:46.94	Q
4	Javier Areny	Spain	3:47.59	q
5	Conor Sweeney	Ireland	3:47.98
6	Kiyoharo Sato	Japan	3:49.68
7	Dereje Lema	Ethiopia	3:51.24
8	Thomas Bonn	United States	3:52.69
9	Samson Ramadhani	Tanzania	3:56.74
10	Sergio Solís	Guatemala	4:07.98
11	Sidi Mohamed Ould Bidjel	Mauritania	4:08.05
12	Setefano Mika	Samoa	4:15.37
13	Keith Sepety	Micronesia	4:51.29

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 37 athletes from 32 countries participated in the event.

• Algeria (1)
• Australia (2)
• Botswana (1)
• Cape Verde (1)
• Djibouti (1)
• Ethiopia (2)
• France (1)
• Germany (1)
• Guatemala (1)
• Ireland (1)
• Italy (1)
• Japan (1)
• Kenya (2)
• Mauritania (1)
• Mexico (1)
• Micronesia (1)
• Morocco (1)
• Nepal (1)
• Netherlands (1)
• Portugal (1)
• Qatar (2)
• Samoa (1)
• South Africa (1)
• South Korea (1)
• Spain (2)
• Sri Lanka (1)
• Sudan (1)
• Swaziland (1)
• Tanzania (1)
• Uganda (1)
• United States (1)
• U.S. Virgin Islands (1)