Events at the 2003 Asian Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
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
Road events
20 km 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 2003 Asian Athletics Championships was held in Manila, Philippines on September 20–21.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Rashid Ramzi  Bahrain	Saif Saaeed Shaheen  Qatar	Fumikazu Kobayashi  Japan

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Fumikazu Kobayashi	Japan	3:49.89	Q
2	2	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	3:50.07	Q
3	2	Abubaker Ali Kamal	Qatar	3:50.52	Q
4	2	Sunil Jayaweera	Sri Lanka	3:50.76	Q
5	2	Gulab Chand	India	3:50.84	Q
6	2	Chen Fu-Pin	Chinese Taipei	3:51.20	q
7	1	Saif Saaeed Shaheen	Qatar	3:51.68	Q
8	1	Chaminda Indika Wijekoon	Sri Lanka	3:52.00	Q
9	1	Kuldeep Kumar	India	3:52.06	Q
10	1	Kim Nam-Jin	South Korea	3:52.42	Q, SB
11	2	John Lozada	Philippines	3:52.49	q, SB
12	1	Atta Miran	Pakistan	3:53.10	Q
13	1	Rajendra Bahadur Bhandari	Nepal	3:53.61	PB
14	2	Denis Bagrev	Kyrgyzstan	3:54.12	SB
15	2	Ahmad Yazdanian	Iran	3:54.16	SB
16	1	Rene Herrera	Philippines	3:55.48	SB
17	2	Ajmal Amirov	Tajikistan	4:03.33	SB
18	1	Lourenco da Silva Breitas	Timor-Leste	4:47.75	PB

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	3:41.66
	Saif Saaeed Shaheen	Qatar	3:42.79
	Fumikazu Kobayashi	Japan	3:42.96
4	Abubaker Ali Kamal	Qatar	3:46.62
5	Gulab Chand	India	3:46.94	SB
6	Sunil Jayaweera	Sri Lanka	3:47.39	SB
7	Chen Fu-Pin	Chinese Taipei	3:47.54	NJR
8	Chaminda Indika Wijekoon	Sri Lanka	3:48.33
9	Kuldeep Kumar	India	3:50.04	SB
10	Atta Miran	Pakistan	3:51.60
11	Kim Nam-Jin	South Korea	3:59.13
	John Lozada	Philippines	DNF