1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

Events at the
1958 European
Athletics Championships

Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men
5000 m men
10,000 m men
80 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men
3000 m
steeplechase
men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men
Road events
Marathon men
20 km walk men
50 km walk men
Field events
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Hammer throw men
Javelin throw men women
Combined events
Pentathlon women
Decathlon men

The men's 1500 metres at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 22 and 24 August 1958.[1]

Medalists

Gold Brian Hewson
 United Kingdom
Silver Dan Waern
 Sweden
Bronze Ron Delany
 Ireland

Results

Final

24 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Brian Hewson  United Kingdom 3:41.9
2nd Dan Waern  Sweden 3:42.1
3rd Ron Delany  Ireland 3:42.3
4 István Rózsavölgyi  Hungary 3:42.7
5 Olavi Vuorisalo  Finland 3:42.8
6 Siegfried Herrmann  East Germany 3:43.4
7 Zbigniew Orywał  Poland 3:43.7
8 Stanislav Jungwirth  Czechoslovakia 3:44.4
9 Ulf-Bertil Lundh  Norway 3:44.7
10 Michel Jazy  France 3:45.4
11 Lajos Kovács  Hungary 3:51.6
12 Olavi Salsola  Finland 3:53.9

Heats

22 August

Heat 1

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Olavi Vuorisalo  Finland 3:40.8 CR Q
2 Brian Hewson  United Kingdom 3:41.1 NR Q
3 István Rózsavölgyi  Hungary 3:41.5 Q
4 Arne Hamarsland  Norway 3:41.9 NR
5 Gianfranco Baraldi  Italy 3:42.3 NR
6 Roger Verheuen  Netherlands 3:43.0 NR
7 Simo Važić  Yugoslavia 3:45.7
8 Rudolf Klaban  Austria 3:48.2
9 Cesáreo Marín  Spain 3:53.4

Heat 2

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Ron Delany  Ireland 3:47.0 Q
2 Olavi Salsola  Finland 3:47.5 Q
3 Ulf-Bertil Lundh  Norway 3:47.8 Q
4 Joško Murat  Yugoslavia 3:48.2
5 Klaus Richtzenhain  East Germany 3:49.0
6 Ingvar Ericsson  Sweden 3:49.1
7 Alfred Langenus  Belgium 3:52.5
8 Ernst Kleiner   Switzerland 3:53.7

Heat 3

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Dan Waern  Sweden 3:42.3 Q
2 Siegfried Herrmann  East Germany 3:42.5 Q
3 Lajos Kovács  Hungary 3:43.0 Q
4 Stefan Lewandowski  Poland 3:43.2
5 Tomás Barris  Spain 3:44.5 NR
6 Mike Blagrove  United Kingdom 3:45.2
7 Alfredo Rizzo  Italy 3:50.5
8 André Guilhaumon  France 3:50.6

Heat 4

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Stanislav Jungwirth  Czechoslovakia 3:49.0 Q
2 Zbigniew Orywał  Poland 3:49.3 Q
3 Michel Jazy  France 3:49.5 Q
4 Ionas Pipyne  Soviet Union 3:49.6
5 Mijndert Blankenstein  Netherlands 3:50.2
6 Dimitrios Konstantinidis  Greece 3:50.5
7 Svavar Markússon  Iceland 3:51.4
8 Muharrem Dalkılıç  Turkey 3:52.6

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 33 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.

References

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