# 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Santiago, Chile, at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos on 20 and 22 October.

## Medalists

| Gold | Cornelius Chirchir Kenya |
| Silver | Wolfram Müller Germany |
| Bronze | Philemon Tanui Kenya |

## Results
### Final

22 October
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Cornelius Chirchir | Kenya | 3:38.80 |
| | Wolfram Müller | Germany | 3:39.37 |
| | Philemon Tanui | Kenya | 3:40.77 |
| 4 | Jamal Noor | Qatar | 3:42.27 |
| 5 | Johan Cronje | South Africa | 3:42.52 |
| 6 | Ridouane Harroufi | Morocco | 3:43.34 |
| 7 | Abubaker Kamal | Qatar | 3:44.12 |
| 8 | Tarek Boukensa | Algeria | 3:44.46 |
| 9 | Duncan Long | Australia | 3:44.76 |
| 10 | Álvaro Fernández | Spain | 3:45.51 |
| 11 | Javier Areny | Spain | 3:50.19 |
| | Julius Ogwang | Uganda | DNS |

### Heats

20 October

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Jamal Noor | Qatar | 3:47.48 | Q |
| 2 | Tarek Boukensa | Algeria | 3:47.86 | Q |
| 3 | Wolfram Müller | Germany | 3:47.89 | Q |
| 4 | Stefan Beumer | Netherlands | 3:48.99 | |
| 5 | Lee Du-Haeng | South Korea | 3:49.25 | |
| 6 | Bruno Silva | Portugal | 3:50.10 | |
| 7 | Heleodoro Navarro | Mexico | 3:51.75 | |
| 8 | Guillaume Eraud | France | 3:53.41 | |
| 9 | Berhanu Tadele | Ethiopia | 3:55.74 | |
| 10 | Ahmed Abdillahi | Djibouti | 4:02.85 | |
| 11 | Lawrence Lockhart | U.S. Virgin Islands | 4:27.48 | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Cornelius Chirchir | Kenya | 3:44.89 | Q |
| 2 | Julius Ogwang | Uganda | 3:45.16 | Q |
| 3 | Abubaker Kamal | Qatar | 3:45.71 | Q |
| 4 | Johan Cronje | South Africa | 3:45.88 | q |
| 5 | Álvaro Fernández | Spain | 3:46.67 | q |
| 6 | Lorenzo Perrone | Italy | 3:49.66 | |
| 7 | Modisa Leselamose | Botswana | 3:54.07 | |
| 8 | Chaminda Wijekoon | Sri Lanka | 3:54.34 | |
| 9 | David Byrne | Australia | 3:58.50 | |
| 10 | Rocky Mkoko | Swaziland | 4:03.11 | |
| 11 | Bed Bahadur Bhattarai | Nepal | 4:12.45 | |
| 12 | Moreira Nataniel | Cape Verde | 4:54.37 | |
| | Ismail Ahmed Ismail | Sudan | DQ | |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Philemon Tanui | Kenya | 3:46.53 | Q |
| 2 | Ridouane Harroufi | Morocco | 3:46.86 | Q |
| 3 | Duncan Long | Australia | 3:46.94 | Q |
| 4 | Javier Areny | Spain | 3:47.59 | q |
| 5 | Conor Sweeney | Ireland | 3:47.98 | |
| 6 | Kiyoharo Sato | Japan | 3:49.68 | |
| 7 | Dereje Lema | Ethiopia | 3:51.24 | |
| 8 | Thomas Bonn | United States | 3:52.69 | |
| 9 | Samson Ramadhani | Tanzania | 3:56.74 | |
| 10 | Sergio Solís | Guatemala | 4:07.98 | |
| 11 | Sidi Mohamed Ould Bidjel | Mauritania | 4:08.05 | |
| 12 | Setefano Mika | Samoa | 4:15.37 | |
| 13 | Keith Sepety | Micronesia | 4:51.29 | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 37 athletes from 32 countries participated in the event.
* Algeria (1)
* Australia (2)
* Botswana (1)
* Cape Verde (1)
* Djibouti (1)
* Ethiopia (2)
* France (1)
* Germany (1)
* Guatemala (1)
* Ireland (1)
* Italy (1)
* Japan (1)
* Kenya (2)
* Mauritania (1)
* Mexico (1)
* Micronesia (1)
* Morocco (1)
* Nepal (1)
* Netherlands (1)
* Portugal (1)
* Qatar (2)
* Samoa (1)
* South Africa (1)
* South Korea (1)
* Spain (2)
* Sri Lanka (1)
* Sudan (1)
* Swaziland (1)
* Tanzania (1)
* Uganda (1)
* United States (1)
* U.S. Virgin Islands (1)