Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games – Men's 1500 metres

All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)

• Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Mohamed Suleiman (QAT)	3:50.43	Q
2	Kiyoharu Sato (JPN)	3:50.64	Q
3	Bahadur Prasad (IND)	3:51.00	Q
4	Farhad Heidari (IRI)	3:51.12	Q
5	Cheng Bing (CHN)	3:51.13	q
6	Chern Srichudanu (THA)	3:53.79	q
7	Gyan Bahadur Bohara (NEP)	3:54.64	q
8	Phan Văn Hoá (VIE)	4:01.26

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Kim Soon-hyung (KOR)	3:53.93	Q
2	Kiyonari Shibata (JPN)	3:54.35	Q
3	Song Mingyou (CHN)	3:54.91	Q
4	Osman Ahmed Taib (QAT)	3:56.26	Q
5	Lalith Galappaththi (SRI)	3:56.82	q
6	Bishnu Bahadur Rana (NEP)	3:58.80
7	Mohammad Al-Matari (JOR)	3:59.30
8	Phichit Julchanpo (THA)	3:59.65

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Mohamed Suleiman (QAT)	3:40.03
	Kim Soon-hyung (KOR)	3:40.56
	Bahadur Prasad (IND)	3:41.48
4	Kiyoharu Sato (JPN)	3:43.26
5	Farhad Heidari (IRI)	3:45.01
6	Song Mingyou (CHN)	3:46.32
7	Kiyonari Shibata (JPN)	3:47.87
8	Chern Srichudanu (THA)	3:48.21
9	Cheng Bing (CHN)	3:48.95
10	Osman Ahmed Taib (QAT)	3:50.56
11	Gyan Bahadur Bohara (NEP)	3:50.80
12	Lalith Galappaththi (SRI)	3:51.22

• Results