Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Dates	August 1 (heats) August 2 (final)
Medalists
Harri Larva   Finland   Jules Ladoumègue   France   Eino Purje   Finland

Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
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
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 1500 metre event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place between August 1 & August 2.

Results

Heats

The top two runners from each of the six heats advanced to the Final Round.

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Hans Wichmann	Germany	4:03.0
2	Adolf Kittel	Czechoslovakia
3	József Marton	Hungary
4	Luigi Becalli	Italy
5	Guus Zeegers	Netherlands
6	George Hyde	Australia
7	Józef Jaworski	Poland	4:14.0
8	Séra Martin	France

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Herbert Böcher	Germany	3:59.6
2	William Whyte	Australia	3:59.9
3	Armas Kinnunen	Finland	4:01.5
4	Albert Larsen	Denmark	4:01.5
5	Reidar Jørgensen	Norway	4:01.6
6	Jack Walters	Canada
AC	Frédéric du Hen	Netherlands	DNF
AC	Gyula Belloni	Hungary	DNF
AC	Lloyd Hahn	United States	DNF

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Eino Purje	Finland	4:00.8
2	Jules Ladoumègue	France
3	Stanley Ashbey	Great Britain
4	Vilém Šindler	Czechoslovakia
5	Serafín Dengra	Argentina
6	Luka Predanić	Yugoslavia	4:27.0
7	Pete Walters	Canada
8	Jan Zeegers	Netherlands

Heat Four

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Paul Martin	Switzerland	4:00.8
2	Harri Larva	Finland	4:02.0
3	Reg Thomas	Great Britain
4	David Griffin	Canada
5	Leopoldo Ledesma	Argentina
AC	Sid Robinson	United States	DNF

Heat Five

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Ray Conger	United States	4:02.6
2	Jean Keller	France	4:02.7
3	Edvin Wide	Sweden
4	Otto Peltzer	Germany
5	Alex Docherty	Canada
6	Douglas Bell	Great Britain

Heat Six

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Cyril Ellis	Great Britain	4:01.8
2	Hans-Helmuth Krause	Germany
3	Nick Carter	United States
4	Leo Helgas	Finland	4:06.0
5	Danie Jacobs	South Africa
6	Czesław Foryś	Yugoslavia	4:11.5
7	Wilhelm Effern	Netherlands

Final

Finish of the 1500 m final: first Harri Larva, second Jules Ladoumègue

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Harri Larva	Finland	3:53.2	OR
	Jules Ladoumègue	France	3:53.8
	Eino Purje	Finland	3:56.4
4	Hans Wichmann	Germany	3:56.8
5	Cyril Ellis	Great Britain	3:57.6
6	Paul Martin	Switzerland	3:58.4
7	Hans-Helmuth Krause	Germany	3:59.0
8	Adolf Kittel	Czechoslovakia	4:00.4
9	William Whyte	Australia	4:00.4
10	Ray Conger	United States
11	Jean Keller	France
DNF	Herbert Böcher	Germany

Key: DNF = Did not finish, OR = Olympic record

References

• 1928 Summer Olympics results: Men's 1500 m, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; Finals retrieved 2010-03-02, Heats retrieved 2010-03-07.