1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Deveti Septemvri Stadium on 11 and 12 August.

Medalists

Gold	Moses Kiptanui Kenya
Silver	Alemayehu Roba Ethiopia
Bronze	Desta Asgedom Ethiopia

Results

Final

12 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	3:38.32
	Alemayehu Roba	Ethiopia	3:41.71
	Desta Asgedom	Ethiopia	3:43.38
4	Mirco Döring	East Germany	3:43.97
5	Denes Balázs	Hungary	3:44.30
6	Andrey Loginov	Soviet Union	3:44.79
7	Nigel Adkin	Australia	3:45.07
8	Jason Bunston	Canada	3:45.09
9	Cleophas Bitok	Kenya	3:45.50
10	Pantelis Kolokas	Greece	3:45.70
11	Eddie Crowe	New Zealand	3:46.27
12	Luís Miguel Martín	Spain	3:49.71
13	Heiko Schulze	East Germany	3:50.57
14	Claus Wittekind	West Germany	3:50.71
15	Graham Hood	Canada	3:50.72

Heats

11 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Alemayehu Roba	Ethiopia	3:51.12	Q
2	Andrey Loginov	Soviet Union	3:51.41	Q
3	Cleophas Bitok	Kenya	3:51.83	Q
4	Jason Bunston	Canada	3:52.03	Q
5	Marc Dauer	West Germany	3:52.80
6	Nigel Brunton	Ireland	3:52.98
7	Steve Green	United Kingdom	3:53.84
8	Timo Sarlin	Finland	3:54.01
9	Kim Soon-Hyung	South Korea	3:54.15
10	Andrzej Jakubiec	Poland	3:54.60
11	Zhou Chaohui	China	3:56.56
12	Ryad Gatte	Algeria	3:57.33
13	Georgios Loucaides	Cyprus	4:01.31
14	Nesamani Subramaniam	Singapore	4:10.24

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Moses Kiptanui	Kenya	3:41.06	Q
2	Desta Asgedom	Ethiopia	3:46.20	Q
3	Mirco Döring	East Germany	3:48.22	Q
4	Luís Miguel Martín	Spain	3:48.97	Q
5	Curtis Robb	United Kingdom	3:49.67
6	Sergey Samoylov	Soviet Union	3:49.81
7	Krasimir Blagoyev	Bulgaria	3:50.17
8	João Cuñha	Portugal	3:50.49
9	Mohamed Abdulkadir	Somalia	3:51.89
10	Amir Mhando	Tanzania	3:52.31
11	Jaroslaw Sitarz	Poland	3:59.16
12	Kealin Hannigan	Australia	4:03.39
13	Marko Koers	Netherlands	4:15.37

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Graham Hood	Canada	3:46.35	Q
2	Pantelis Kolokas	Greece	3:46.57	Q
3	Heiko Schulze	East Germany	3:46.93	Q
4	Denes Balázs	Hungary	3:46.98	Q
5	Eddie Crowe	New Zealand	3:46.99	q
6	Nigel Adkin	Australia	3:47.08	q
7	Claus Wittekind	West Germany	3:47.79	q
8	Niall Bruton	Ireland	3:47.87
9	Svetlin Prodanov	Bulgaria	3:52.63
10	Brian Murphy	United States	3:53.37
11	Mario Figueirêdo	Portugal	3:54.58
12	Mateo Cañellas	Spain	3:55.57
13	Hiroyuki Nakamura	Japan	3:58.73

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 40 athletes from 27 countries participated in the event.

• Algeria (1)
• Australia (2)
• Bulgaria (2)
• Canada (2)
• China (1)
• Cyprus (1)
• East Germany (2)
• Ethiopia (2)
• Finland (1)
• Greece (1)
• Hungary (1)
• Ireland (2)
• Japan (1)
• Kenya (2)
• Netherlands (1)
• New Zealand (1)
• Poland (2)
• Portugal (2)
• Singapore (1)
• Somalia (1)
• South Korea (1)
• Soviet Union (2)
• Spain (2)
• Tanzania (1)
• United Kingdom (2)
• United States (1)
• West Germany (2)