2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 9–10.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Rui Silva Portugal	Reyes Estévez Spain	Noah Ngeny Kenya

First 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Rui Silva	Portugal	3:37.79	Q
2	3	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	3:37.90	Q, PB
3	1	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3:37.93	Q
4	1	Noah Ngeny	Kenya	3:38.22	Q
5	1	Hailu Mekonnen	Ethiopia	3:38.41	q
6	1	Julius Achon	Uganda	3:39.14	q
7	3	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain	3:39.21	q, PB
8	3	Vyacheslav Shabunin	Russia	3:39.40
9	3	Branko Zorko	Croatia	3:39.55	SB
10	1	Jason Lunn	United States	3:40.42	PB
11	1	Luis Feiteira	Portugal	3:40.68	SB
12	1	Peter Philipp	Switzerland	3:40.93
13	1	Hudson de Souza	Brazil	3:43.14
14	3	Marko Koers	Netherlands	3:43.17
15	3	Darko Radomirović	Yugoslavia	3:46.36
16	2	Laban Rotich	Kenya	3:47.00	Q
17	2	Seneca Lassiter	United States	3:47.06	Q
18	2	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	3:47.19
19	2	Daniel Zegeye	Ethiopia	3:47.94
20	3	Clyde Colenso	South Africa	3:48.07
21	2	Kamal Boulahfane	Algeria	3:48.59
22	2	Aléxis Abraham	France	3:49.21
23	2	Youssef Baba	Morocco	3:49.46
24	2	Jürgen Vandewiele	Belgium	3:53.42
25	3	Fortunato Yaccdob	Eritrea	3:56.31
26	3	Ismail Ahmed Ismail	Sudan	4:02.79
27	2	Saad Jalal Uddin	Pakistan	4:03.43
28	2	Youssouf Diallo	Mali	4:06.70
	1	Alexis Sharangabo	Rwanda	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Rui Silva	Portugal	3:51.06
	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3:51.25
	Noah Ngeny	Kenya	3:51.63
4	Laban Rotich	Kenya	3:51.71
5	Adil Kaouch	Morocco	3:51.91
6	Seneca Lassiter	United States	3:52.39
7	Hailu Mekonnen	Ethiopia	3:52.72
8	Julius Achon	Uganda	3:53.03
9	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain	3:56.71