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	United Team of Germany	3:47.57
9	Laurie Reed	Great Britain	3:48.24
10	Joe Mullins	23x15px Canada	3:53.45
11	Tomás Barris	23x15px Spain	3:56.10
12	Mohamed Gouider	23x15px 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	United Team of 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	23x15px 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	United Team of 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
	Herb Elliott	Australia	3:35.6	WR
	Michel Jazy	France	3:38.4
	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

• 1960 Summer Olympics results: Men's 1500 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-08-07.