Athletics at the 2013 Summer Universiade – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2013 Summer Universiade was held on 7–9 July.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Valentin Smirnov Russia	Jeremy Rae Canada	Jeremiah Motsau South Africa

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the final.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Jeremiah Motsau	South Africa	3:40.29	Q
2	2	Yegor Nikolayev	Russia	3:41.14	Q
3	2	Paul Chelimo	Kenya	3:43.27	Q
4	1	Valentin Smirnov	Russia	3:43.72	Q, SB
5	1	Ali Hamdi	Belgium	3:43.77	Q
6	2	Jesús Arturo Esparza	Mexico	3:43.81	q
7	1	Dmitrijs Jurkevičs	Latvia	3:43.93	Q
8	1	Andries Hlaselo	South Africa	3:44.28	q
9	1	Ross Proudfoot	Canada	3:44.66	q
10	2	Mitja Krevs	Slovenia	3:45.45
11	3	José Juan Esparza	Mexico	3:45.74	Q
12	2	Ivan Obezchik	Kazakhstan	3:46.36
13	1	Cristian Vorovenci	Romania	3:47.07
14	3	Jeremy Rae	Canada	3:47.81	Q
15	3	Johannes Alnes	Norway	3:48.63	Q, SB
16	3	Allar Lamp	Estonia	3:49.20
17	2	Ashot Hayrapetyan	Armenia	3:51.06
18	3	Jean Ferrugem	Brazil	3:58.52
19	1	Herbert Gidadui	Uganda	4:00.00
20	2	Gayan Paradiya Waththalage	Sri Lanka	4:03.67
21	3	William Awunime Akuka	Ghana	4:04.65
22	1	Ahmad Ghalie	Lebanon	4:07.49
23	2	Abdullahi Barre	Somalia	4:14.69
24	3	Balla Sanogo	Mali	4:47.69
	3	Jaad Ahmed Aballa	Qatar	DNF
	3	Ibrahim Omar Abdi	Djibouti	DNS
	1	Víctor Manuel González	Guatemala	DNS
	1	Alex Ngouari-Mouissi	Congo	DNS
	2	Tuomo Salonen	Finland	DNS

Official Video

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Valentin Smirnov	Russia	3:39.39	SB
	Jeremy Rae	Canada	3:39.45
	Jeremiah Motsau	South Africa	3:39.51
4	Yegor Nikolayev	Russia	3:39.59
5	Dmitrijs Jurkevičs	Latvia	3:39.79
6	Paul Chelimo	Kenya	3:40.41
7	Andries Hlaselo	South Africa	3:40.95
8	José Juan Esparza	Mexico	3:42.00
9	Ross Proudfoot	Canada	3:44.33
10	Ali Hamdi	Belgium	3:44.38
11	Jesús Arturo Esparza	Mexico	3:45.57
12	Johannes Alnes	Norway	3:53.01