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2012 African Championships in Athletics
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	women
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 at the 2012 African Championships in Athletics was held at the Stade Charles de Gaulle on 30 June and 1 July.

Medalists

Gold	Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku  Kenya
Silver	Ayanleh Souleiman  Djibouti
Bronze	James Magut  Kenya

Records

Standing records prior to the 2012 African Championships in Athletics
World record	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	3:26.00	Rome, Italy	14 July 1998
African record	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	3:26.00	Rome, Italy	14 July 1998
Championship record	Asbel Kiprop (KEN)	3:36.19	Nairobi, Kenya	1 August 2010
Broken records during the 2012 African Championships in Athletics
Championship record	Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku (KEN)	3:35.71	Porto Novo, Benin	1 July 2012

Schedule

Results

Round 1

First 4 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	2	Ayanleh Souleiman	Djibouti	3:40.79	Q
1	2	James Magut	Kenya	3:40.79	Q
3	2	Imad Touil	Algeria	3:41.00	Q
4	2	Zebene Alemayehu	Ethiopia	3:41.19	Q
5	2	Juan van Deventer	South Africa	3:41.37	q
6	2	Fouad El Kam	Morocco	3:41.45	q
7	1	Abednego Miti Chesebe	Kenya	3:42.20	Q
8	1	Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku	Kenya	3:42.21	Q
9	1	Abiyot Abinet	Ethiopia	3:42.34	Q
10	2	Yakdah Ousman	Sudan	3:42.42	q
11	1	Johan Cronje	South Africa	3:42.60	Q
12	1	Peter van der Westhuizen	South Africa	3:42.72	q
13	1	Flavio Seholhe	Mozambique	3:46.08
14	2	Daniel Gidey	Ethiopia	3:47.24
15	1	Daniel Nghipandula	Namibia	3:50.13
16	1	Jaida Khaled	Libya	3:50.72
17	2	Franck Ngouari Mouissi	Republic of the Congo	3:54.32
18	1	Aboubakr Ahmed	Uganda	3:57.93
19	1	Bachir Maman Moutari	Niger	3:58.02
20	1	Alassan Aboudou	Togo	4:00.40
21	1	Ali Ahmed Mohamed	Djibouti	4:08.58
	2	Omar Adam	Libya	DNF
	1	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	DNS
	1	Cornelus Bura	Tanzania	DNS
	2	Emile Zangre	Burkina Faso	DNS
	2	Senay Amlesom	Eritrea	DNS
	2	Abdoulaye Alassani	Togo	DNS

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	Caleb Mwangangi Ndiku	Kenya	3:35.71	CR
	Ayanleh Souleiman	Djibouti	3:36.34
	James Magut	Kenya	3:36.35
4	Abednego Miti Chesebe	Kenya	3:36.76
5	Johan Cronje	South Africa	3:38.27
6	Abiyot Abinet	Ethiopia	3:38.46
7	Fouad El Kam	Morocco	3:39.90
8	Juan van Deventer	South Africa	3:40.80
9	Imad Touil	Algeria	3:40.95
10	Zebene Alemayehu	Ethiopia	3:41.00
11	Peter van der Westhuizen	South Africa	3:43.40
12	Yakdah Ousman	Sudan	3:45.65

References

• Results

• 2012 African Championships in Athletics
• 1500 metres at the African Championships in Athletics