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 Silver Peter Rono Bronze Johan Boakes
Results
Final 20 July Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Wilfred Kirochi 3:44.62 Peter Rono 3:45.52 Johan Boakes 3:45.80 4 Rüdiger Horn 3:46.77 5 David Sharpe 3:46.94 6 Radim Kuncický 3:47.36 7 Germán Beltrán 3:47.75 8 Ángel Fariña 3:48.39 9 Tadelle Abebe 3:49.08 10 Sergey Melnikov 3:49.81 11 Michael Radziwinski 3:49.95 12 Mark Deady 3:50.69 13 Jari Venäläinen 3:52.03 14 Aléxandros Gotzis 3:53.94 15 Clodoaldo do Carmo 3:56.10
Heats 19 July
Heat 1
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Rüdiger Horn 3:46.42 Q 2 Johan Boakes 3:46.90 Q 3 Radim Kuncický 3:46.95 Q 4 Tadelle Abebe 3:47.39 q 5 Richard Birembaux 3:48.65 6 Atsushi Ogino 3:48.99 7 Brahim El-Ghazali 3:50.91 8 Ado Maude 3:51.88 9 Andrey Usachov 3:51.98 10 Matthew Hopkins 3:52.43 11 Stein Engevold 4:00.10 12 Momouni Apiou 4:00.19 13 Lucien Simon 4:07.26 14 Jamal Ali Al-Hakim 4:14.48
Heat 2
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Peter Rono 3:46.31 Q 2 David Sharpe 3:46.80 Q 3 Jari Venäläinen 3:47.04 Q 4 Michael Radziwinski 3:47.23 q 5 Eyob Muller 3:51.77 6 Henry Klassen 3:54.73 7 Konstadínos Tsoumanis 3:56.11 8 Joseph Sean 3:59.14 9 Omar Mahabeh 4:07.24 10 Saravanan Arjunan 4:07.31 11 Mohamed Ould Khayar 4:18.24 12 Aboukar Adani 4:19.17
Heat 3
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Wilfred Kirochi 3:47.24 Q 2 Sergey Melnikov 3:49.40 Q 3 Germán Beltrán 3:49.45 Q 4 Gino Van Geyte 3:50.24 5 John Ndhlovu 3:50.59 6 Karel Milkowski 3:51.85 7 Honest Umbe 3:52.55 8 Dragan Dukanac 3:53.21 9 Bouazza Noualla 3:53.25 10 Jan Jonsson 3:53.37 11 Herder Vázquez 3:55.21 12 M.Ibrahim Hatem 4:02.24 13 Kazanga Makok 4:15.77 14 Eversley Linley 4:23.26
Heat 4
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Mark Deady 3:46.97 Q 2 Aléxandros Gotzis 3:47.26 Q 3 Ángel Fariña 3:47.97 Q 4 Clodoaldo do Carmo 3:48.45 q 5 Keiichiro Nakamura 3:49.63 6 Richard Charette 3:50.45 7 Pascal Meirlaen 3:52.61 8 Gosham Springer 3:53.99 9 Abdul Nasser Jouma 3:55.30 10 Eduardo Cabrera 3:55.51 11 Joseph Antoun 3:59.54 12 Sergio Iván Gómez 4:01.76 13 Steinn Jóhannsson 4:07.17 14 Ndaona Musuma 4:15.67
Participation According to an unofficial count, 54 athletes from 45 countries participated in the event.
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