2002 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres at the 2002 European Athletics Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 6–8.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mehdi Baala France	Reyes Estévez Spain	Rui Silva Portugal

Qualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3:40.47	Q
2	2	Rui Silva	Portugal	3:40.84	Q
3	2	Fouad Chouki	France	3:41.36	Q
4	2	Christian Obrist	Italy	3:41.63	Q
5	2	Michael East	Great Britain	3:41.82	q
6	2	John Mayock	Great Britain	3:42.63	q
7	2	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain	3:42.82	q
8	2	Lorenzo Perrone	Italy	3:43.02	q
9	2	Peter Philipp	Switzerland	3:44.30
10	2	Matthias Norling	Sweden	3:45.28
11	1	Mehdi Baala	France	3:46.71	Q
12	1	José Antonio Redolat	Spain	3:46.94	Q
13	1	Marko Koers	Netherlands	3:47.16	Q
14	1	Anthony Whiteman	Great Britain	3:47.40	Q
15	1	Luís Feiteira	Portugal	3:47.66
16	1	Ivan Heshko	Ukraine	3:47.76
17	1	Panagiotis Stroubakos	Greece	3:47.94
18	1	James Nolan	Ireland	3:48.48
19	1	Franek Haschke	Germany	3:48.56
20	1	Lorenzo Lazzari	Italy	3:49.06
21	1	Aleš Tomič	Slovenia	3:50.19

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Mehdi Baala	France	3:45.25
	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3:45.25
	Rui Silva	Portugal	3:45.43
4	Fouad Chouki	France	3:45.46
5	Juan Carlos Higuero	Spain	3:45.81
6	Michael East	Great Britain	3:46.30
7	Christian Obrist	Italy	3:46.57
8	Marko Koers	Netherlands	3:46.68
9	Anthony Whiteman	Great Britain	3:47.10
10	Lorenzo Perrone	Italy	3:47.43
11	José Antonio Redolat	Spain	3:48.28
12	John Mayock	Great Britain	3:48.41