# 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships was held at Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak Stadium on 19 and 21 July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Kumari Taki Kenya |
| Silver | Taresa Tolosa Ethiopia |
| Bronze | Anthony Kiptoo Kenya |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2016 IAAF World U20 Championships in Athletics :
| World Junior Record | Ronald Kwemoi (KEN) | 3:28.81 | Monaco | 18 July 2014 |
| Championship Record | Abdalaati Iguider (MAR) | 3:35.53 | Grosseto, Italy | 15 July 2004 |
| World Junior Leading | Gilbert Kwemoi Soet (KEN) | 3:33.71 | Heusden-Zolder, Netherlands | 16 July 2016 |

## Results
### Heats

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the 3 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| 1 | 1 | Ayoub Sniba | Morocco | 3:44.59 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Anthony Kiptoo | Kenya | 3:44.74 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Josh Kerr | Great Britain | 3:44.86 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Ajay Kumar Saroj | India | 3:44.96 | q |
| 5 | 1 | Matthew Ramsden | Australia | 3:45.34 | q |
| 6 | 1 | Asres Guadie | Ethiopia | 3:45.74 | q, PB |
| 7 | 1 | Yani Khelaf | France | 3:45.88 | |
| 8 | 3 | Taresa Tolosa | Ethiopia | 3:46.13 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | Baptiste Mischler | France | 3:46.41 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | Norway | 3:46.53 | Q |
| 11 | 3 | Ramazan Barbaros | Turkey | 3:46.56 | |
| 12 | 2 | Kumari Taki | Kenya | 3:47.14 | Q |
| 13 | 1 | Aggelos Vasiliou | Greece | 3:47.38 | |
| 14 | 3 | Abderezak Khelili | Algeria | 3:47.56 | PB |
| 15 | 2 | Elzan Bibić | Serbia | 3:47.72 | Q |
| 16 | 2 | Jordi Torrents | Spain | 3:47.80 | Q |
| 17 | 2 | Riadh Chninni | Tunisia | 3:47.84 | PB |
| 18 | 3 | Adrián Ben | Spain | 3:47.88 | |
| 19 | 3 | Diego Zarate | United States | 3:47.95 | |
| 20 | 2 | Isaac Hockey | Australia | 3:48.63 | |
| 21 | 3 | Ali Kaddachi | Tunisia | 3:48.98 | PB |
| 22 | 2 | Idriss Moussa Youssouf | Qatar | 3:49.12 | |
| 23 | 3 | Ryohei Sakaguchi | Japan | 3:49.21 | |
| 24 | 1 | Omer Öti | Turkey | 3:49.24 | |
| 25 | 1 | Lukas Abele | Germany | 3:49.51 | |
| 26 | 3 | Mark Patton | Canada | 3:50.15 | |
| 27 | 3 | Anton Hrabovskyi | Ukraine | 3:50.58 | |
| 28 | 2 | Emil Danielsson | Sweden | 3:50.71 | |
| 29 | 3 | Lorenzo Casini | Italy | 3:50.97 | |
| 30 | 2 | Kendall Muhammad | United States | 3:51.27 | |
| 31 | 2 | James Sugira | Rwanda | 3:51.32 | |
| 32 | 2 | Hicham Elkhayari | Morocco | 3:51.64 | |
| 33 | 1 | Abdallah Khelidj | Algeria | 3:52.06 | |
| 34 | 1 | Braydon Rennie | Canada | 3:53.72 | |
| 35 | 1 | Andriy Aliksiychuk | Ukraine | 3:54.42 | |
| 36 | 2 | Archie Davis | Great Britain | 3:54.57 | |
| 37 | 3 | Hugo Rocha | Portugal | 3:54.76 | |
| 38 | 2 | Andreas Holst Lindgreen | Denmark | 3:55.21 | |
| 39 | 2 | Andrea Baratte | Luxembourg | 3:55.49 | |
| 40 | 2 | Marvin Heinrich | Germany | 3:58.49 | |
| 41 | 1 | Adam Abdelwahab | Sudan | 4:04.64 | |
| | 2 | Abina Tchinga | Malawi | DNS | |
| | 3 | Mohamed Ismail Ibrahim | Djibouti | DNS | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Kumari Taki | Kenya | 3:48.63 |
| | Taresa Tolosa | Ethiopia | 3:48.77 |
| | Anthony Kiptoo | Kenya | 3:49.00 |
| 4 | Baptiste Mischler | France | 3:49.52 |
| 5 | Ajay Kumar Saroj | India | 3:49.52 |
| 6 | Matthew Ramsden | Australia | 3:50.50 |
| 7 | Jordi Torrents | Spain | 3:50.93 |
| 8 | Asres Guadie | Ethiopia | 3:50.95 |
| 9 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | Norway | 3:51.09 |
| 10 | Josh Kerr | Great Britain | 3:51.23 |
| 11 | Elzan Bibić | Serbia | 3:51.58 |
| 12 | Ayoub Sniba | Morocco | 3:55.95 |