| Men's 1500 metres at the Games of the XI Olympiad |
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| Dates | August 4 (heats) August 6 (final) |
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| «1932 | 1948» | ||||||
| Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics |
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| Track events | ||||
| 100 m | men | women | ||
| 200 m | men | |||
| 400 m | men | |||
| 800 m | men | |||
| 1500 m | men | |||
| 5000 m | men | |||
| 10,000 m | men | |||
| 80 m hurdles | women | |||
| 110 m hurdles | men | |||
| 400 m hurdles | men | |||
| 3000 m steeple | men | |||
| 4×100 m relay | men | women | ||
| 4×400 m relay | men | |||
| Road events | ||||
| Marathon | men | |||
| 50 km walk | 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 | women | ||
| Hammer throw | men | |||
| Combined events | ||||
| Decathlon | men | |||
The men's 1500 metres event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place August 4 and August 6. The final was won by Kiwi Jack Lovelock in world record time.
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| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
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| Jack Lovelock | New Zealand | 3:47.8 | WR | |
| Glenn Cunningham | United States | 3:48.4 | ||
| Luigi Beccali | Italy | 3:49.2 | ||
| 4 | Archie San Romani | United States | 3:50.0 | |
| 5 | Phil Edwards | Canada | 3:50.4 | |
| 6 | Jerry Cornes | Great Britain | 3:51.4 | |
| 7 | Miklós Szabó | Hungary | 3:53.0 | |
| 8 | Robert Goix | France | 3:53.8 | |
| 9 | Gene Venzke | United States | 3:55.0 | |
| 10 | Fritz Schaumburg | Germany | 3:56.2 | |
| 11 | Eric Ny | Sweden | 3:57.6 | |
| 12 | Werner Böttcher | Germany | 4:04.2 |
Key: WR = World record
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