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.[1][2]

Medalists

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

Results

edit

Final

edit

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

edit

19 July

Heat 1

edit
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

edit
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

edit
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

edit
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

edit

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

References

edit
  1. ^ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1986 Athens GRE Jul 16-20, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 26 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
  2. ^ IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015