# 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 1500 metres

The boys' 1500 metres at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadium Lille Métropole on 7 and 10 of July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Teshome Dirirsa Ethiopia | Vincent Kiprotich Mutai Kenya | Jonathan Kiplimo Sawe Kenya |

## Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.
| World Youth Best | Nicholas Kiptanui Kemboi (KEN) | 3:33.72 | Zurich, Switzerland | 18 August 2006 |
| Championship Record | Isaac Kiprono Songok (KEN) | 3:36.78 | Debrecen, Hungary | 15 July 2001 |
| World Youth Leading | Geoffrey Barusei (KEN) | 3:35.54 | Gaborone, Botswana | 13 May 2011 |

## Heats

Qualification rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 3 fastest times (q) qualified.

### Heat 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Jonathan Kiplimo Sawe | Kenya | 3:48.35 | Q |
| 2 | Robbie Farnham-Rose | Great Britain | 3:50.89 | Q |
| 3 | Lorenzo Dini | Italy | 3:52.14 | Q, PB |
| 4 | Ruairí Finnegan | Ireland | 3:52.60 | q |
| 5 | Dominik Czaja | Poland | 3:53.84 | |
| 6 | Abderahmane Adami | Algeria | 3:57.24 | PB |
| 7 | Harish Singh Koranga | India | 3:57.83 | PB |
| 8 | Marc Alcalá | Spain | 3:58.50 | |
| 9 | Leonel Cesar | Argentina | 4:01.20 | |
| 10 | Dániel Kilian | Hungary | 4:01.37 | |
| 11 | Bob Bertemes | Luxembourg | 4:26.73 | |

### Heat 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Vincent Kiprotich Mutai | Kenya | 3:47.66 | Q |
| 2 | Fayidu Murad | Ethiopia | 3:48.00 | Q |
| 3 | James McMurray | Great Britain | 3:50.16 | Q, PB |
| 4 | Son Myeong-jun | South Korea | 3:53.05 | PB |
| 5 | Edgar Alan Garcia | Mexico | 3:55.61 | |
| 6 | Benjamin Flanagan | Canada | 3:55.95 | |
| 7 | Shane Fitzsimons | Ireland | 3:57.18 | |
| 8 | Oleksandr Karpenko | Ukraine | 3:58.60 | PB |
| 9 | Ignacio Diaz-Cano | Spain | 3:59.05 | |
| 10 | Edwin Haroldo Pirir | Guatemala | 4:05.34 | |
| 11 | Omer Almog | Israel | 4:07.11 | |

### Heat 3

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Teshome Dirirsa | Ethiopia | 3:45.32 | Q |
| 2 | Yonas Habtemicael | Eritrea | 3:50.40 | Q |
| 3 | Emilio Perco | Italy | 3:51.20 | Q, PB |
| 4 | Jacob Burcham | United States | 3:51.22 | q, PB |
| 5 | Hocine Khelif | Algeria | 3:52.77 | q, PB |
| 6 | Alexander Freemantle | Canada | 3:56.56 | |
| 7 | Fouad Gares | Tunisia | 3:57.28 | |
| 8 | Ivan Malić | Croatia | 4:00.89 | |
| 9 | Alexandre Saddedine | France | 4:03.60 | |
| 10 | Jan Petrac | Slovenia | 4:09.19 | |
| 11 | Azham Waheed | Maldives | 4:29.12 | PB |

## Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Teshome Dirirsa | Ethiopia | 3:39.19 | PB |
| | Vincent Kiprotich Mutai | Kenya | 3:39.17 | PB |
| | Jonathan Kiplimo Sawe | Kenya | 3:39.54 | |
| 4 | Fayidu Murad | Ethiopia | 3:40.60 | |
| 5 | Yonas Habtemicael | Eritrea | 3:43.89 | PB |
| 6 | James McMurray | Great Britain | 3:46.51 | PB |
| 7 | Jacob Burcham | United States | 3:46.55 | PB |
| 8 | Robbie Farnham-Rose | Great Britain | 3:47.60 | PB |
| 9 | Lorenzo Dini | Italy | 3:48.40 | PB |
| 10 | Ruairí Finnegan | Ireland | 3:49.58 | PB |
| 11 | Hocine Khelif | Algeria | 3:51.24 | PB |
| 12 | Emilio Perco | Italy | 4:11.11 | |