Men's 1500 metres at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships
Venue	Kasarani Stadium
Dates	19 August (heats) 21 August (final)
Competitors	22 from 16 nations
Winning time	3:37.24
Medalists
Vincent Kibet Keter    Kenya   Wegene Addisu    Ethiopia   Melkeneh Azize    Ethiopia
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Events at the 2021 World U20 Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
	mixed
10000 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
v t e

The men's 1500 metres at the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships will be held at the Kasarani Stadium on 19 and 21 August.^[1]

Standing records prior to the 2021 World Athletics U20 Championships
World U20 Record	Ronald Kwemoi (KEN)	3:28.81	Monaco	18 July 2014
Championship Record	Abdalaati Iguider (MAR)	3:35.53	Grosseto, Italy	15 July 2004
World U20 Leading	Kamar Etiang (KEN)	3:33.12	Nairobi, Kenya	19 June 2021

Qualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the 4 fastest times (q) qualified for the final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	1	Vincent Kibet Keter	Kenya	3:42.35	Q
2	2	Kamar Etiang	Kenya	3:44.75	Q
3	1	Melkeneh Azize	Ethiopia	3:44.81	Q
4	2	Wegene Addisu	Ethiopia	3:44.86	Q
5	1	Abderezak Suleman	Eritrea	3:47.81	Q
6	1	Peter Maru	Uganda	3:48.28	Q
7	2	Pol Oriach	Spain	3:49.32	Q
8	2	Ylies Mihoubi	France	3:50.22	Q
9	2	Santtu Heikkinen	Finland	3:50.55	q
10	1	Hamza Bouchallikh	Morocco	3:51.50	q
11	1	Jean de Dieu Butoyi	Burundi	3:51.70	q
12	2	Dawit Seare	Eritrea	3:53.08	q
13	2	Ismail Loukman	Djibouti	3:53.92
14	2	Taha Er-Raouy	Morocco	3:55.29
15	2	Achraf Abbane	Italy	4:00.98
16	1	Devrim Kazan	Turkey	4:03.61
17	1	Zola Sokhela	South Africa	4:03.70
18	2	Keanu Domingo	South Africa	4:06.19
19	1	Karim Belmahdi	Algeria	4:09.06
20	1	Justin Ciza	Democratic Republic of the Congo	4:27.96	PB
	1	Nabil Mahdi	Djibouti	DNF
	2	Israel Tinajero	Mexico	DQ	TR17.3.2

The final was held on 21 August at 16:31.^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Vincent Kibet Keter	Kenya	3:37.24
	Wegene Addisu	Ethiopia	3:37.86
	Melkeneh Azize	Ethiopia	3:40.22
4	Pol Oriach	Spain	3:40.36
5	Peter Maru	Uganda	3:41.45
6	Abderezak Suleman	Eritrea	3:42.53
7	Hamza Bouchallikh	Morocco	3:46.75
8	Jean de Dieu Butoyi	Burundi	3:47.42	PB
9	Santtu Heikkinen	Finland	3:49.14
10	Ylies Mihoubi	France	4:00.63
	Kamar Etiang	Kenya	DQ	TR17.3.2
	Dawit Seare	Eritrea	DNS