2003 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2003 Asian Athletics Championships was held in Manila, Philippines on September 20–21.

Medalists

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

Results

Heats

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

Final

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