2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
10,000 m walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 1500 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 10 and 12 July.^[1][2][3]

Gold	Hamza Driouch  Qatar
Silver	Hillary Cheruiyot Ngetich  Kenya
Bronze	Abdelhadi Labäli  Morocco

Prior to the competition^[update], the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record	Cornelius Chirchir (KEN)	3:30.24	Fontvieille, Monaco	19 July 2002
Championship Record	Abdalaati Iguider (MAR)	3:35.53	Grosseto, Italy	15 July 2004
World Junior Leading	Geoffrey Barusei (KEN)	3:33.39	Hengelo, Netherlands	27 May 2012

Qualification: The first 3 of each heat (Q) and the 3 fastest times (q) qualified

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	2	7	Hamza Driouch	Qatar	3:38.06	Q
2	1	2	Teshome Dirirsa	Ethiopia	3:41.78	Q
3	1	10	Dominic Mutuku Mutili	Kenya	3:41.97	Q
4	1	5	Mohammed Abid	Morocco	3:42.58	Q
5	2	12	Yenew Tebikew	Ethiopia	3:42.69	Q
6	2	11	Carlos Díaz	Chile	3:43.16	Q, NJ
7	2	8	Filip Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3:44.04	q, PB
8	2	13	Federico Bruno	Argentina	3:44.81	q
9	1	9	Mohamed Abdikadar	Italy	3:46.37	q
10	3	1	Teklit Teweldebrhan	Eritrea	3:46.46	Q
11	3	10	Hillary Cheruiyot Ngetich	Kenya	3:46.54	Q
12	3	4	Abdelhadi Labäli	Morocco	3:46.75	Q
13	3	6	Charlie Grice	Great Britain	3:47.05
14	1	3	Robert Denault	Canada	3:48.47
15	2	6	Abdessalem Ayouni	Tunisia	3:48.67
16	2	2	Fabian Brunswig	Germany	3:48.72
17	3	2	Yusuke Uchikoshi	Japan	3:49.06
18	1	12	Sean Tobin	Ireland	3:49.11
19	1	1	Izaic Yorks	United States	3:49.21
20	3	5	Joao Bussotti Neves	Italy	3:49.37
21	1	7	Julian Oakley	New Zealand	3:49.43
22	1	11	Julius Lawnik	Germany	3:49.51
23	3	8	Łukasz Gurtkiewicz	Poland	3:49.61
24	3	12	Yunus Emre Cavusli	Turkey	3:50.12
25	2	5	Ben Moynihan	New Zealand	3:50.59
26	1	8	Ferdinand Kvan Edman	Norway	3:50.95
27	2	3	Abdullah Obaid Al Salhi	Saudi Arabia	3:51.78
28	3	11	David Lorenzo	Spain	3:52.98
29	3	9	Ruairí Finnegan	Ireland	3:53.95
30	2	9	Kyle Grieve	Canada	3:54.37
31	2	1	Austin Mudd	United States	3:54.82
32	3	3	Ioran Etchechury	Brazil	3:55.15
33	1	4	Marc Alcalá	Spain	3:55.68
34	2	10	Egide Kayigire	Rwanda	3:56.75	PB
35	1	6	Mandhar Legseir	Algeria	3:59.30
36	2	4	Boldoo Odbayar	Mongolia	4:04.65	PB
37	3	7	Carles Gómez	Andorra	4:16.99	PB

Rank	Order	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	6	Hamza Driouch	Qatar	3:39.04
	1	Hillary Cheruiyot Ngetich	Kenya	3:40.39	PB
	12	Abdelhadi Labäli	Morocco	3:40.60
4	7	Mohammed Abid	Morocco	3:41.73
5	8	Teklit Teweldebrhan	Eritrea	3:42.63
6	2	Dominic Mutuku Mutili	Kenya	3:42.79
7	3	Carlos Díaz	Chile	3:44.02
8	11	Yenew Tebikew	Ethiopia	3:44.02
9	4	Teshome Dirirsa	Ethiopia	3:44.54
10	5	Filip Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3:46.54
11	9	Mohamed Abdikadar	Italy	3:53.74
12	10	Federico Bruno	Argentina	3:55.38

According to an unofficial count, 37 athletes from 26 countries participated in the event.

• WJC12 1500 metres schedule