# 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the ASPIRE Dome on 12 and 13 March.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Deresse Mekonnen Ethiopia | Abdalaati Iguider Morocco | Haron Keitany Kenya |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships :
| World record | Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) | 3:31.18 | Stuttgart, Germany | 2 February 1997 |
| Championship record | Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) | 3:33.77 | Maebashi, Japan | 7 March 1999 |
| World Leading | Deresse Mekonnen (ETH) | 3:33.10 | Birmingham, Great Britain | 20 February 2010 |
| African record | Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) | 3:31.18 | Stuttgart, Germany | 2 February 1997 |
| Asian record | Belal Mansoor Ali (BHR) | 3:36.28 | Stockholm, Sweden | 20 February 2007 |
| European record | Andrés Manuel Díaz (ESP) | 3:33.32 | Piraeus, Greece | 24 February 1999 |
| North and Central American and Caribbean record | Bernard Lagat (USA) | 3:35.23 | Birmingham, Great Britain | 16 February 2008 |
| Oceanian Record | Nick Willis (NZL) | 3:35.80 | Birmingham, Great Britain | 20 February 2010 |
| South American record | Agberto Guimarães (BRA) | 3:42.70 | Piraeus, Greece | 8 March 1989 |

## Qualification standards

| Indoor | Outdoor |
| 3:42.50 or 4:00.00 (Mile) | 3:34.50 or 3:52.00 (Mile) |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| March 12, 2010 | 15:45 | Heats |
| March 13, 2010 | 17:45 | Final |

## Results
### Heats

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) advance to the final.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Abdalaati Iguider | Morocco | 3:37.14 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Mekonnen Gebremedhin | Ethiopia | 3:38.90 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Garrett Heath | United States | 3:39.25 | q, PB |
| 4 | 3 | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | France | 3:39.63 | q |
| 5 | 2 | Deresse Mekonnen | Ethiopia | 3:39.66 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Amine Laâlou | Morocco | 3:39.96 | Q, PB |
| 7 | 2 | Diego Ruiz | Spain | 3:40.00 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | Haron Keitany | Kenya | 3:40.04 | q |
| 9 | 1 | Juan Van Deventer | South Africa | 3:40.07 | Q |
| 10 | 1 | Gideon Gathimba | Kenya | 3:40.08 | |
| 11 | 1 | Abdelkader Bakhtache | France | 3:40.49 | |
| 12 | 3 | Adrian Blincoe | New Zealand | 3:40.50 | PB |
| 13 | 1 | Álvaro Rodríguez | Spain | 3:40.96 | |
| 14 | 2 | Will Leer | United States | 3:42.16 | |
| 15 | 2 | Tim Bayley | Great Britain | 3:42.57 | |
| 16 | 3 | Goran Nava | Serbia | 3:42.79 | |
| 17 | 1 | Bruno Albuquerque | Portugal | 3:44.32 | |
| 18 | 2 | Peter van der Westhuizen | South Africa | 3:45.76 | |
| 19 | 1 | Christian Klein | Germany | 3:46.14 | |
| 20 | 3 | Christian Obrist | Italy | 3:46.33 | |
| 21 | 1 | Abubaker Ali Kamal | Qatar | 3:46.51 | |
| 22 | 2 | Thamer Kamal Ali | Qatar | 3:49.64 | |
| 23 | 2 | Alex Ngouari-Mouissi | Republic of the Congo | 4:02.55 | PB |
| 24 | 2 | Ajmal Amirov | Tajikistan | 4:03.75 | SB |
| | 3 | Belal Mansoor Ali | Bahrain | DNS | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Deresse Mekonnen | Ethiopia | 3:41.86 |
| | Abdalaati Iguider | Morocco | 3:41.96 |
| | Haron Keitany | Kenya | 3:42.32 |
| 4 | Mekonnen Gebremedhin | Ethiopia | 3:42.42 |
| 5 | Amine Laâlou | Morocco | 3:42.42 |
| 6 | Juan Van Deventer | South Africa | 3:43.77 |
| 7 | Garrett Heath | United States | 3:43.81 |
| 8 | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | France | 3:45.22 |
| 9 | Diego Ruiz | Spain | 3:52.45 |