2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 1500 metres

Boy's 1500 metres at the World Youth Championships
Venue	Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero
Dates	15 and 17 July 2015
Winning time	3:36.38 CR
Medalists
Kumari Taki    Kenya   Welde Tufa    Ethiopia   Amine Bouazizi    Tunisia
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The Boys' 1500 metres at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 15 and 17 July. Kumari Taki won the event in a championship record time of 3:36.38.

Qualification

The first heat was won by Ethiopia's Mulugeta Asefa, in a 3:52.97 tactical affair. The first 800 m was run in just 2:11.40, leading to a slower final time and less qualifiers coming from the first heat.^[1]

Kumari Taki led the second heat qualifiers in a 3:48.35 time. He led from the starting gun to the finishing tape, with the first 800 metres being covered in a more honest 2:04.54.^[1]

Finals

Taki again chose a frontrunning tactic to use in the finals, with only his countryman Lawi Kosgei willing to stick with the early pace. Taki began his kick with 600 metres remaining, allowing him to break Robert Biwott's old championship record by 0.39 seconds.^[2] Ethiopia's Mulugeta Assefa chose the opposite tactic, taking a slow, conservative early pace which paid off as he passed Kosgei for the silver medal.^[3]

Results

Men's 1500m Semi-finals Place Athlete Country Time Heat 1 Kumari Taki  Kenya 3:48.45 2 2 Welde Tufa  Ethiopia 3:49.71 2 3 Amine Bouazizi  Tunisia 3:52.02 2 4 Mohammed Bouaziza  Algeria 3:52.03 2 5 Abdelkarim Ben Zahra  Morocco 3:52.09 2 6 Mulugeta Asefa Uma  Ethiopia 3:52.97 1 7 Jochem Vermeulen  Belgium 3:53.86 2 8 Lawi Kosgei  Kenya 3:53.87 1 9 Ignacio Fontes  Spain 3:54.48 1 10 Yani Khelaf [fr]  France 3:54.70 1 11 Anton Hrabovskyy [d]  Ukraine 3:54.97 1 12 James Gormley  Great Britain 3:55.27 1 13 Hicham Akankam  Morocco 3:56.60 1 14 Brendan Hoff  Canada 3:56.64 1 15 Antonio Criado  Spain 3:58.05 2 16 Phillip Rocha  United States 3:58.51 1 17 Anis Benstiti  Algeria 3:59.07 1 18 Ramazan Barbaros [de]  Turkey 3:59.59 2 19 Carlos Hernández [de]  Colombia 4:01.60 1 20 Markhim Lonsdale  Great Britain 4:02.45 2 21 Zhongyuan Hou  China 4:05.54 1 22 Mateusz Dębski  Poland 4:06.11 2 23 Takumi Yokokawa  Japan 4:07.87 2 24 Abubakr Abdalla  Sudan 4:08.02 2 25 Edward Hayfron  Canada 4:11.39 2 26 Julius Peter Bua  Uganda 4:11.73 1 Justice Dreischor [de; nl]  Aruba DQ 1

Men's 1500m Place Athlete Country Time Kumari Taki  Kenya 3:36.38 Mulugeta Asefa Uma  Ethiopia 3:41.10 Lawi Kosgei  Kenya 3:41.43 4 Welde Tufa  Ethiopia 3:41.74 5 James Gormley  Great Britain 3:48.31 6 Ignacio Fontes  Spain 3:48.83 7 Yani Khelaf [fr]  France 3:49.04 8 Anton Hrabovskyy [d]  Ukraine 3:51.48 9 Abdelkarim Ben Zahra  Morocco 3:52.78 10 Jochem Vermeulen  Belgium 3:54.50 11 Mohammed Bouaziza  Algeria 3:56.91 12 Amine Bouazizi  Tunisia 4:09.17

References

• "Cali IAAF World Youth Championships | Results | World Athletics". worldathletics.org. Retrieved 2024-01-16.

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