2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
10,000 m walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 1500 metres event at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Kingston, Jamaica, at National Stadium on 19 and 21 July.^[1][2]

Gold	Yassine Bensghir  Morocco
Silver	Abdul Rahman Suleiman  Qatar
Bronze	Samuel Mwera  Tanzania

21 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Yassine Bensghir	Morocco	3:40.72
	Abdul Rahman Suleiman	Qatar	3:41.72
	Samuel Mwera	Tanzania	3:41.75
4	Nick Willis	New Zealand	3:42.69
5	Toni Mohr	Germany	3:44.46
6	Arturo Casado	Spain	3:44.67
7	Isaac Songok	Kenya	3:44.93
8	Juan Luis Barrios	Mexico	3:44.97
9	Andrew O'Neill	Australia	3:45.61
10	Cosmin Suteu	Romania	3:45.76
11	Chris Lukezic	United States	3:46.01
12	Samson Kiplagat	Kenya	3:50.05

19 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Samuel Mwera	Tanzania	3:43.56	Q
2	Yassine Bensghir	Morocco	3:44.51	Q
3	Samson Kiplagat	Kenya	3:45.16	Q
4	Nick Willis	New Zealand	3:45.98	Q
5	Chris Lukezic	United States	3:46.24	q
6	Andrew O'Neill	Australia	3:46.40	q
7	Patrick Schulz	Germany	3:49.05
8	Marcus van der Koelen	Netherlands	3:49.20
9	Mourad Naami	Algeria	3:49.27
10	John Lindström	Sweden	3:50.24
11	Abdelkader Mahmoudi	France	3:53.59
12	Koichi Murakami	Japan	3:55.20
13	Sergio Vallejo	Spain	3:56.09
14	Sabri Kara	Turkey	3:58.12
15	Ajmal Amirov	Tajikistan	4:01.91
16	Setefano Mika	Samoa	4:08.56

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Abdul Rahman Suleiman	Qatar	3:40.57	Q
2	Isaac Songok	Kenya	3:41.65	Q
3	Juan Luis Barrios	Mexico	3:42.00	Q
4	Toni Mohr	Germany	3:44.59	Q
5	Arturo Casado	Spain	3:46.69	q
6	Cosmin Suteu	Romania	3:48.23	q
7	Aleksandr Krivchonkov	Russia	3:49.07
8	Daniel Spitzl	Austria	3:49.43
9	Liam Reale	Ireland	3:50.52
10	Mounir Yemmouni	France	3:50.99
11	Shawn Forrest	Australia	3:54.85
12	Hani Meguellati	Algeria	4:02.54
13	Shaun Smith	Jamaica	4:13.88
14	Park Ji-Yun	South Korea	4:26.34
15	Keith Sepety	Micronesia	4:32.21
	Vitaliy Gorlukovic	Lithuania	DNF

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 26 countries participated in the event.