# 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 |
| | 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)