# 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 19 and 20 July.

## Medalists

| Gold | Wilfred Kirochi Kenya |
| Silver | Peter Rono Kenya |
| Bronze | Johan Boakes United Kingdom |

## Results
### Final

20 July
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Wilfred Kirochi | Kenya | 3:44.62 |
| | Peter Rono | Kenya | 3:45.52 |
| | Johan Boakes | United Kingdom | 3:45.80 |
| 4 | Rüdiger Horn | East Germany | 3:46.77 |
| 5 | David Sharpe | United Kingdom | 3:46.94 |
| 6 | Radim Kuncický | Czechoslovakia | 3:47.36 |
| 7 | Germán Beltrán | Venezuela | 3:47.75 |
| 8 | Ángel Fariña | Spain | 3:48.39 |
| 9 | Tadelle Abebe | Ethiopia | 3:49.08 |
| 10 | Sergey Melnikov | Soviet Union | 3:49.81 |
| 11 | Michael Radziwinski | West Germany | 3:49.95 |
| 12 | Mark Deady | United States | 3:50.69 |
| 13 | Jari Venäläinen | Finland | 3:52.03 |
| 14 | Aléxandros Gotzis | Greece | 3:53.94 |
| 15 | Clodoaldo do Carmo | Brazil | 3:56.10 |

### Heats

19 July

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Rüdiger Horn | East Germany | 3:46.42 | Q |
| 2 | Johan Boakes | United Kingdom | 3:46.90 | Q |
| 3 | Radim Kuncický | Czechoslovakia | 3:46.95 | Q |
| 4 | Tadelle Abebe | Ethiopia | 3:47.39 | q |
| 5 | Richard Birembaux | France | 3:48.65 | |
| 6 | Atsushi Ogino | Japan | 3:48.99 | |
| 7 | Brahim El-Ghazali | Morocco | 3:50.91 | |
| 8 | Ado Maude | Nigeria | 3:51.88 | |
| 9 | Andrey Usachov | Soviet Union | 3:51.98 | |
| 10 | Matthew Hopkins | United States | 3:52.43 | |
| 11 | Stein Engevold | Norway | 4:00.10 | |
| 12 | Momouni Apiou | Côte d'Ivoire | 4:00.19 | |
| 13 | Lucien Simon | Antigua and Barbuda | 4:07.26 | |
| 14 | Jamal Ali Al-Hakim | North Yemen | 4:14.48 | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Peter Rono | Kenya | 3:46.31 | Q |
| 2 | David Sharpe | United Kingdom | 3:46.80 | Q |
| 3 | Jari Venäläinen | Finland | 3:47.04 | Q |
| 4 | Michael Radziwinski | West Germany | 3:47.23 | q |
| 5 | Eyob Muller | Netherlands | 3:51.77 | |
| 6 | Henry Klassen | Canada | 3:54.73 | |
| 7 | Konstadínos Tsoumanis | Greece | 3:56.11 | |
| 8 | Joseph Sean | Trinidad and Tobago | 3:59.14 | |
| 9 | Omar Mahabeh | Djibouti | 4:07.24 | |
| 10 | Saravanan Arjunan | Singapore | 4:07.31 | |
| 11 | Mohamed Ould Khayar | Mauritania | 4:18.24 | |
| 12 | Aboukar Adani | Somalia | 4:19.17 | |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Wilfred Kirochi | Kenya | 3:47.24 | Q |
| 2 | Sergey Melnikov | Soviet Union | 3:49.40 | Q |
| 3 | Germán Beltrán | Venezuela | 3:49.45 | Q |
| 4 | Gino Van Geyte | Belgium | 3:50.24 | |
| 5 | John Ndhlovu | Zimbabwe | 3:50.59 | |
| 6 | Karel Milkowski | Poland | 3:51.85 | |
| 7 | Honest Umbe | Tanzania | 3:52.55 | |
| 8 | Dragan Dukanac | Yugoslavia | 3:53.21 | |
| 9 | Bouazza Noualla | Algeria | 3:53.25 | |
| 10 | Jan Jonsson | Sweden | 3:53.37 | |
| 11 | Herder Vázquez | Colombia | 3:55.21 | |
| 12 | M.Ibrahim Hatem | Sudan | 4:02.24 | |
| 13 | Kazanga Makok | Zaire | 4:15.77 | |
| 14 | Eversley Linley | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 4:23.26 | |

#### Heat 4

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Mark Deady | United States | 3:46.97 | Q |
| 2 | Aléxandros Gotzis | Greece | 3:47.26 | Q |
| 3 | Ángel Fariña | Spain | 3:47.97 | Q |
| 4 | Clodoaldo do Carmo | Brazil | 3:48.45 | q |
| 5 | Keiichiro Nakamura | Japan | 3:49.63 | |
| 6 | Richard Charette | Canada | 3:50.45 | |
| 7 | Pascal Meirlaen | Belgium | 3:52.61 | |
| 8 | Gosham Springer | Grenada | 3:53.99 | |
| 9 | Abdul Nasser Jouma | Bahrain | 3:55.30 | |
| 10 | Eduardo Cabrera | Mexico | 3:55.51 | |
| 11 | Joseph Antoun | Sudan | 3:59.54 | |
| 12 | Sergio Iván Gómez | Guatemala | 4:01.76 | |
| 13 | Steinn Jóhannsson | Iceland | 4:07.17 | |
| 14 | Ndaona Musuma | Malawi | 4:15.67 | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 54 athletes from 45 countries participated in the event.
* Algeria (1)
* Antigua and Barbuda (1)
* Bahrain (1)
* Belgium (2)
* Brazil (1)
* Canada (2)
* Colombia (1)
* Côte d'Ivoire (1)
* Czechoslovakia (1)
* Djibouti (1)
* East Germany (1)
* Ethiopia (1)
* Finland (1)
* France (1)
* Greece (2)
* Grenada (1)
* Guatemala (1)
* Iceland (1)
* Japan (2)
* Kenya (2)
* Malawi (1)
* Mauritania (1)
* Mexico (1)
* Morocco (1)
* Netherlands (1)
* Nigeria (1)
* North Yemen (1)
* Norway (1)
* Poland (1)
* Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1)
* Singapore (1)
* Somalia (1)
* Soviet Union (2)
* Spain (1)
* Sudan (2)
* Sweden (1)
* Tanzania (1)
* Trinidad and Tobago (1)
* United Kingdom (2)
* United States (2)
* Venezuela (1)
* West Germany (1)
* Yugoslavia (1)
* Zaire (1)
* Zimbabwe (1)