Athletics at the 1989 Summer Universiade – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1989 Summer Universiade was held at the Wedaustadion in Duisburg on 28 and 30 August 1989.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Kip Cheruiyot Kenya	Peter Rono Kenya	Bob Dielis Netherlands

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Eckhardt Rüter	West Germany	3:43.06	Q
2	1	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3:43.27	Q
3	1	Kai Jenkel	Switzerland	3:43.52	Q
4	1	Mitsuhiro Okuyama	Japan	3:43.76	q
5	1	Marc Corstjens	Belgium	3:44.39	q
6	3	Kip Cheruiyot	Kenya	3:44.61	Q
7	1	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	3:44.81	q
8	3	Bob Dielis	Netherlands	3:45.19	Q
9	3	Jari Venäläinen	Finland	3:45.49	Q
10	3	Chris McGeorge	Great Britain	3:45.79
11	3	Karl Blaha	Austria	3:46.16
12	3	Terrance Herrington	United States	3:46.27
13	1	Pedro Rocha	Portugal	3:46.79
14	1	Branko Zorko	Yugoslavia	3:48.42
15	2	Peter Rono	Kenya	3:48.49	Q
16	2	Milan Drahoňovský	Czechoslovakia	3:48.92	Q
17	2	Brendan Matthias	Canada	3:49.05	Q
18	2	Tim Hacker	United States	3:49.06
19	2	Davide Tirelli	Italy	3:49.53
20	2	David Heath	Great Britain	3:49.64
21	2	Ronnie Maoz	Israel	3:49.96
22	2	Ove Talsnes	Norway	3:50.91
23	2	Stefan Plätzer	West Germany	3:50.92
24	3	Isidro Rodríguez	Mexico	3:52.93
25	2	Abdikader Omer	Somalia	3:57.42
26	2	Andreas Christodoulou	Cyprus	3:57.79
27	3	Luis Martínez	Guatemala	3:57.99
28	2	Sergey Melnikov	Soviet Union	3:58.27
29	1	Mohamed Sy Savané	Guinea	4:02.22
30	1	Faha Sy	Mauritania	4:45.78
	3	Dov Kremer	Israel	DNF
	3	Miroslav Chochkov	Bulgaria	DNF

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Kip Cheruiyot	Kenya	3:40.38
	Peter Rono	Kenya	3:40.79
	Bob Dielis	Netherlands	3:40.93
4	Kai Jenkel	Switzerland	3:41.01
5	Milan Drahoňovský	Czechoslovakia	3:41.03
6	Jari Venäläinen	Finland	3:41.88
7	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	3:41.99
8	Mohamed Suleiman	Qatar	3:42.12
9	Marc Corstjens	Belgium	3:42.64
10	Brendan Matthias	Canada	3:47.13
11	Mitsuhiro Okuyama	Japan	3:47.92
	Eckhardt Rüter	West Germany	DNF