Events at the 2002 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

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2002 Asian Athletics Championships was held in Colombo, Sri Lanka on 10–11 August.^[1]

Medalists[edit]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Abdulrahman Suleiman  Qatar	Rashid Ramzi  Bahrain	Jamal Noor Youssef  Qatar

Results[edit]

Heats[edit]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	3:59.51	Q
2	1	Jamal Noor Youssef	Qatar	3:59.51	Q
3	1	Terukazu Omori	Japan	3:59.51	Q
4	1	Sanje Tulasidharan	India	3:59.76	Q, PB
5	1	Chaminda Indika Wijekoon	Sri Lanka	4:00.02	q
6	1	Thilak Nishantha	Sri Lanka	4:00.60	q
7	2	Abdulrahman Suleiman	Qatar	4:11.43	Q
8	2	Tetsuya Kobayashi	Japan	4:11.87	Q
9	2	Kuldeep Kumar	India	4:12.17	Q
10	2	Mohamed Haidara	Bahrain	4:12.90	Q
11	2	H.K.S. Priyantha	Sri Lanka	4:14.64	q
12	2	Hussain Riyaz	Maldives	4:18.16	q
	1	Mikhail Kolganov	Kazakhstan	DNF
	1	Nader Halawa	Palestine	DNF
	2	Mehdi Jelodarzadeh	Iran	DNF
	2	Lee Phongsanith	Laos	DNF

Final[edit]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Abdulrahman Suleiman	Qatar	3:45.98
	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	3:46.41
	Jamal Noor Youssef	Qatar	3:46.85
4	Kuldeep Kumar	India	3:48.85
5	Tetsuya Kobayashi	Japan	3:49.93
6	Sanje Tulasidharan	India	3:51.46
7	Chaminda Indika Wijekoon	Sri Lanka	3:52.33
8	Thilak Nishantha	Sri Lanka	3:53.08	PB
9	Mohamed Haidara	Bahrain	3:55.02	PB
10	H.K.S. Priyantha	Sri Lanka	3:58.81	PB
11	Hussain Riyaz	Maldives	4:16.72	SB
	Terukazu Omori	Japan	DNS

References[edit]