2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

2008 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 event at the 2008 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadium on 8 and 10 July.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Imad Touil  Algeria
Silver	James Magut  Kenya
Bronze	Demma Daba  Ethiopia

Results

Final

10 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Imad Touil	Algeria	3:47.40
	James Magut	Kenya	3:47.51
	Demma Daba	Ethiopia	3:47.65
4	Fredrick Ndunge	Kenya	3:48.00
5	Ryan Gregson	Australia	3:48.23
6	Taha Belkorchi	Morocco	3:49.26
7	Florian Carvalho	France	3:49.48
8	Evan Jager	United States	3:49.59
9	David Forrester	United Kingdom	3:51.00
10	Dumisane Hlaselo	South Africa	3:51.71
11	Abdel Madjid Touil	Algeria	3:51.82
12	Mario Scapini	Italy	3:53.63

Heats

8 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Imad Touil	Algeria	3:48.86	Q
2	Evan Jager	United States	3:49.23	Q
3	Florian Carvalho	France	3:49.35	Q
4	Osman Omer	Sudan	3:49.39
5	James Shane	United Kingdom	3:49.71
6	Ivan Tukhtachev	Russia	3:50.44
7	Richard Ringer	Germany	3:50.77
8	Craig Huffer	Australia	3:50.90
9	Dawit Wolde	Ethiopia	3:51.44
10	Kamil Zielinski	Poland	3:55.45
11	Victor Corrales	Spain	3:58.29
12	San Naing	Myanmar	4:18.85

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Abdel Madjid Touil	Algeria	3:53.89	Q
2	Fredrick Ndunge	Kenya	3:54.18	Q
3	Demma Daba	Ethiopia	3:54.64	Q
4	Mehdi Yazidi	France	3:54.73
5	Duncan Phillips	United States	3:55.80
6	Szymon Sznura	Poland	3:56.25
7	Emad Noor	Saudi Arabia	3:57.55
8	Derlis Ayala	Paraguay	3:58.56
9	Thomas Morrison	Canada	4:01.95
10	Kemoy Campbell	Jamaica	4:02.80
11	Nkosinathi Zwane	Swaziland	4:05.23
12	Antoine Berlin	Monaco	4:07.12

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	James Magut	Kenya	3:46.41	Q
2	Taha Belkorchi	Morocco	3:46.79	Q
3	Ryan Gregson	Australia	3:46.82	Q
4	Dumisane Hlaselo	South Africa	3:47.35	q
5	David Forrester	United Kingdom	3:47.64	q
6	Mario Scapini	Italy	3:47.71	q
7	David Bustos	Spain	3:48.54
8	Nemanja Cerovac	Serbia	3:49.02
9	Matthew Leeder	Canada	3:49.57
10	Moses Kibet	Uganda	3:50.82
11	Maxime Zermatten	Switzerland	3:51.82
12	Florian Orth	Germany	3:55.45

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 36 athletes from 25 countries participated in the event.

References