Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Results

Heats

The fastest three runners in each of the three heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Herb Elliott Australia 3:41.50
2 István Rózsavölgyi Hungary 3:42.15
3 Dyrol Burleson United States 3:42.40
4 Terry Sullivan Rhodesia 3:42.96
5 Yevgeny Momotkov Soviet Union 3:43.80
6 Olavi Salonen Finland 3:46.57
7 Rudolf Klaban Austria 3:47.24
8 Arthur Hannemann Germany 3:47.57
9 Laurie Reed Great Britain 3:48.24
10 Joe Mullins Canada 3:53.45
11 Tomás Barris Spain 3:56.10
12 Mohamed Gouider Tunisia 3:58.52
- Zbigniew Orywał Poland DNF

Heat two

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Michel Bernard France 3:42.34
2 Jim Grelle United States 3:43.65
3 Arne Hamarsland Norway 3:44.63
4 Brian Kent-Smith Great Britain 3:46.21
5 Albie Thomas Australia 3:46.95
6 Siegfried Valentin Germany 3:46.99
7 Svavar Markússon Iceland 3:47.20
8 Alfredo Rizzo Italy 3:47.56
9 Andrei Barabaş Romania 3:47.71
10 Muharrem Dalkılıç Turkey 3:47.18
11 Dhira Phiphobmongkol Thailand 4:24.4
- Péter Parsch Hungary DNF
- Egon Oehri Liechtenstein DNF

Heat three

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Dan Waern Sweden 3:44.18
2 Michel Jazy France 3:45.03
3 Zoltan Vamoş Romania 3:45.07
4 Adolf Schwarte Germany 3:45.46
5 Lajos Kovács Hungary 3:46.20
6 Mike Wiggs Great Britain 3:46.61
7 Merv Lincoln Australia 3:47.18
8 Evangelos Depastas Greece 3:48.77
9 Pete Close United States 3:50.69
10 Olavi Vuorisalo Finland 3:52.68
11 Stefan Lewandowski Poland 3:59.75
12 Yair Pantilat Israel 4:00.14
13 Kassim Mukhtar Iraq 4:00.33

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st Herb Elliott Australia 3:35.6 WR
2nd Michel Jazy France 3:38.4
3rd István Rózsavölgyi Hungary 3:39.2
4 Dan Waern Sweden 3:40.0
5 Zoltan Vamoş Romania 3:40.8
6 Dyrol Burleson United States 3:40.9
7 Michel Bernard France 3:41.5
8 Jim Grelle United States 3:45.0
9 Arne Hamarsland Norway 3:45.0

Key: WR = world record; DNF = did not finish

References

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