2016 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

The men's 1500 metres event at the 2016 African Championships in Athletics was held on 25 and 26 June in Kings Park Stadium.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Fouad El Kaam  Morocco	Timothy Cheruiyot  Kenya	Vincent Letting  Kenya

Qualification: First 5 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Timothy Cheruiyot	Kenya	3:44.44	Q
2	2	Taresa Tolosa	Ethiopia	3:44.58	Q
3	2	Eric Kiptanui	Kenya	3:44.66	Q
4	2	Younés Essalhi	Morocco	3:44.70	Q
5	1	Fouad El Kaam	Morocco	3:46.48	Q
6	2	Santino Kenyi	South Sudan	3:47.31	Q
7	1	Vincent Letting	Kenya	3:47.80	Q
8	1	Birhanu Sorsa	Ethiopia	3:48.43	Q
9	2	Dey Dey	South Sudan	3:48.43	q
10	1	Dumisani Hlaselo	South Africa	3:50.58	Q
11	2	Oskear Komeya	Namibia	3:51.55
12	1	Wellington Varevi	Zimbabwe	3:51.70	Q
13	1	Sylvester Koko	Botswana	3:52.31
14	1	Mohammad Dookun	Mauritius	3:54.48
15	1	Moussa Camara	Mali	3:54.76
16	1	Abraham Matet	South Sudan	3:55.14
17	2	Johan Cronje	South Africa	3:56.12	q
18	1	Benjamín Enzema	Equatorial Guinea	4:11.87
	1	Benedicto Makumba	Malawi	DNS
	1	Daud Mohamed Abubakar	Somalia	DNS
	1	Zemen Addis	Ethiopia	DNS
	1	Raoul Yeguelet Yeliti	Central African Republic	DNS
	2	Abubaker Kaki Khamis	Sudan	DNS
	2	Alex Ngouari Mouissi	Republic of the Congo	DNS
	2	Lamin Keita	Gambia	DNS
	2	Patrick Nibafasha	Burundi	DNS
	2	Nyasha Mutsetse	Zimbabwe	DNS
	2	Yach Wol	South Sudan	DNS

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Fouad El Kaam	Morocco	3:39.49
	Timothy Cheruiyot	Kenya	3:39.71
	Vincent Letting	Kenya	3:40.78
4	Younés Essalhi	Morocco	3:41.34
5	Taresa Tolosa	Ethiopia	3:42.23
6	Birhanu Sorsa	Ethiopia	3:43.56
7	Eric Kiptanui	Kenya	3:43.81
8	Dumisani Hlaselo	South Africa	3:44.53
9	Johan Cronje	South Africa	3:45.26
10	Santino Kenyi	South Sudan	3:45.34	NR
11	Wellington Varevi	Zimbabwe	3:48.40
12	Dey Dey	South Sudan	3:48.70