1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 19 and 20 July.

Medalists

Gold	Wilfred Kirochi Kenya
Silver	Peter Rono Kenya
Bronze	Johan Boakes United Kingdom

Results

Final

20 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Wilfred Kirochi	Kenya	3:44.62
	Peter Rono	Kenya	3:45.52
	Johan Boakes	United Kingdom	3:45.80
4	Rüdiger Horn	East Germany	3:46.77
5	David Sharpe	United Kingdom	3:46.94
6	Radim Kuncický	Czechoslovakia	3:47.36
7	Germán Beltrán	Venezuela	3:47.75
8	Ángel Fariña	Spain	3:48.39
9	Tadelle Abebe	Ethiopia	3:49.08
10	Sergey Melnikov	Soviet Union	3:49.81
11	Michael Radziwinski	West Germany	3:49.95
12	Mark Deady	United States	3:50.69
13	Jari Venäläinen	Finland	3:52.03
14	Aléxandros Gotzis	Greece	3:53.94
15	Clodoaldo do Carmo	Brazil	3:56.10

Heats

19 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rüdiger Horn	East Germany	3:46.42	Q
2	Johan Boakes	United Kingdom	3:46.90	Q
3	Radim Kuncický	Czechoslovakia	3:46.95	Q
4	Tadelle Abebe	Ethiopia	3:47.39	q
5	Richard Birembaux	France	3:48.65
6	Atsushi Ogino	Japan	3:48.99
7	Brahim El-Ghazali	Morocco	3:50.91
8	Ado Maude	Nigeria	3:51.88
9	Andrey Usachov	Soviet Union	3:51.98
10	Matthew Hopkins	United States	3:52.43
11	Stein Engevold	Norway	4:00.10
12	Momouni Apiou	Côte d'Ivoire	4:00.19
13	Lucien Simon	Antigua and Barbuda	4:07.26
14	Jamal Ali Al-Hakim	North Yemen	4:14.48

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Peter Rono	Kenya	3:46.31	Q
2	David Sharpe	United Kingdom	3:46.80	Q
3	Jari Venäläinen	Finland	3:47.04	Q
4	Michael Radziwinski	West Germany	3:47.23	q
5	Eyob Muller	Netherlands	3:51.77
6	Henry Klassen	Canada	3:54.73
7	Konstadínos Tsoumanis	Greece	3:56.11
8	Joseph Sean	Trinidad and Tobago	3:59.14
9	Omar Mahabeh	Djibouti	4:07.24
10	Saravanan Arjunan	Singapore	4:07.31
11	Mohamed Ould Khayar	Mauritania	4:18.24
12	Aboukar Adani	Somalia	4:19.17

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wilfred Kirochi	Kenya	3:47.24	Q
2	Sergey Melnikov	Soviet Union	3:49.40	Q
3	Germán Beltrán	Venezuela	3:49.45	Q
4	Gino Van Geyte	Belgium	3:50.24
5	John Ndhlovu	Zimbabwe	3:50.59
6	Karel Milkowski	Poland	3:51.85
7	Honest Umbe	Tanzania	3:52.55
8	Dragan Dukanac	Yugoslavia	3:53.21
9	Bouazza Noualla	Algeria	3:53.25
10	Jan Jonsson	Sweden	3:53.37
11	Herder Vázquez	Colombia	3:55.21
12	M.Ibrahim Hatem	Sudan	4:02.24
13	Kazanga Makok	Zaire	4:15.77
14	Eversley Linley	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	4:23.26

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mark Deady	United States	3:46.97	Q
2	Aléxandros Gotzis	Greece	3:47.26	Q
3	Ángel Fariña	Spain	3:47.97	Q
4	Clodoaldo do Carmo	Brazil	3:48.45	q
5	Keiichiro Nakamura	Japan	3:49.63
6	Richard Charette	Canada	3:50.45
7	Pascal Meirlaen	Belgium	3:52.61
8	Gosham Springer	Grenada	3:53.99
9	Abdul Nasser Jouma	Bahrain	3:55.30
10	Eduardo Cabrera	Mexico	3:55.51
11	Joseph Antoun	Sudan	3:59.54
12	Sergio Iván Gómez	Guatemala	4:01.76
13	Steinn Jóhannsson	Iceland	4:07.17
14	Ndaona Musuma	Malawi	4:15.67

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 54 athletes from 45 countries participated in the event.

• Algeria (1)
• Antigua and Barbuda (1)
• Bahrain (1)
• Belgium (2)
• Brazil (1)
• Canada (2)
• Colombia (1)
• Côte d'Ivoire (1)
• Czechoslovakia (1)
• Djibouti (1)
• East Germany (1)
• Ethiopia (1)
• Finland (1)
• France (1)
• Greece (2)
• Grenada (1)
• Guatemala (1)
• Iceland (1)
• Japan (2)
• Kenya (2)
• Malawi (1)
• Mauritania (1)
• Mexico (1)
• Morocco (1)
• Netherlands (1)
• Nigeria (1)
• North Yemen (1)
• Norway (1)
• Poland (1)
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
• Singapore (1)
• Somalia (1)
• Soviet Union (2)
• Spain (1)
• Sudan (2)
• Sweden (1)
• Tanzania (1)
• Trinidad and Tobago (1)
• United Kingdom (2)
• United States (2)
• Venezuela (1)
• West Germany (1)
• Yugoslavia (1)
• Zaire (1)
• Zimbabwe (1)