Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres
at the Games of the XV Olympiad

Dates

July 24 (heats)
July 25 (semifinals)
July 26 (final)

Medalists

Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
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 steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
10 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1952 Olympics took place between July 24 and July 26. The final was won by Luxembourger Josy Barthel.

Results

The first round was held on July 24. The fastest four runners in each heat advanced to the final round.

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Josy Barthel	Luxembourg	3:51.6
2	Günter Dohrow	Germany	3:51.8
3	Ingvar Ericsson	Sweden	3:52.0
4	Don MacMillan	Australia	3:52.0
5	Sándor Iharos	Hungary	3:56.0
6	Mieczysław Długoborski	Poland	3:57.8
7	Filemón Camacho	Venezuela	4:18.0
8	Pierre Gillet	France	4:26.6
9	Hans Harting	Netherlands	DNF

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Warren Druetzler	United States	3:51.4
2	Sture Landqvist	Sweden	3:52.2
3	Stanislav Jungwirth	Czechoslovakia	3:52.4
4	Mihail Velsvebel	Soviet Union	3:52.6
5	Aulis Pystynen	Finland	3:53.0
6	Len Eyre	Great Britain	3:53.2
7	Fred Lüthi	Switzerland	3:56.4
8	Turhan Göker	Turkey	4:00.6

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Olle Åberg	Sweden	3:51.0
2	Denis Johansson	Finland	3:51.2
3	Rolf Lamers	Germany	3:52.4
4	Bill Parnell	Canada	3:53.4
5	Fritz Prossinag	Austria	3:54.2
6	Athol Jennings	South Africa	3:55.4
7	Daniel Janssens	Belgium	3:55.8
8	Cahit Önel	Turkey	3:58.4
	Willem Slijkhuis	Netherlands	DNF

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Patrick El Mabrouk	France	3:55.8
2	Bob McMillen	United States	3:55.8
3	Roger Bannister	Great Britain	3:56.0
4	Vilmos Tölgyesi	Hungary	3:56.0
5	John Landy	Australia	3:57.0
6	Andrija Otenhajmer	Yugoslavia	4:57.8
7	Maurice Marshall	New Zealand	4:01.0
8	Nikolay Kuchurin	Soviet Union	4:03.6
9	Vasilios Mavroidis	Greece	4:07.8

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	George Hoskins	New Zealand	3:56.2
2	Frans Herman	Belgium	3:56.2
3	Bill Nankeville	Great Britain	3:56.4
4	Mykola Belokurov	Soviet Union	3:56.4
5	Urpo Vähäranta	Finland	3:56.8
6	Javier Montez	United States	3:58.2
7	Stefan Lewandowski	Poland	4:00.8

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Werner Lueg	Germany	3:52.0
2	Václav Čevona	Czechoslovakia	3:53.4
3	Audun Boysen	Norway	3:55.0
4	John Ross	Canada	3:55.2
5	Vean Vernier	France	3:56.8
6	Edmund Potrzebowski	Poland	3:56.8
7	Sándor Garay	Hungary	4:01.2
8	Ekrem Koçak	Turkey	4:01.4
9	William Fahmy Hanna	Egypt	4:11.2
10	Stit Leangtanom	Thailand	4:32.6

The fastest six runners in each heat advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Denis Johansson	Finland	3:49.4
2	Werner Lueg	Germany	3:49.8
3	Don MacMillan	Australia	3:50.8
4	Warren Druetzler	United States	3:50.8
5	Patrick El Mabrouk	France	3:51.0
6	Audun Boysen	Norway	3:51.0
7	Václav Čevona	Czechoslovakia	3:51.4
8	Sture Landqvist	Sweden	3:51.4
9	Bill Nankeville	Great Britain	3:52.0
10	Bill Parnell	Canada	3:52.4
11	Mihail Velsvebel	Soviet Union	3:52.6
12	George Hoskins	New Zealand	3:53.0

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Josy Barthel	Luxembourg	3:50.4
2	Olle Åberg	Sweden	3:50.6
3	Ingvar Ericsson	Sweden	3:50.6
4	Bob McMillen	United States	3:50.6
5	Roger Bannister	Great Britain	3:50.6
6	Rolf Lamers	Germany	3:50.8
7	Stanislav Jungwirth	Czechoslovakia	3:51.0
8	Vilmos Tölgyesi	Hungary	3:53.2
9	Frans Herman	Belgium	3:53.8
10	Günter Dohrow	Germany	3:55.2
11	Nikolay Belokurov	Soviet Union	3:55.6
12	John Ross	Canada	4:00.6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Josy Barthel	Luxembourg	3:45.2	OR
02 !	Bob McMillen	United States	3:45.2
03 !	Werner Lueg	Germany	3:45.4
4	Roger Bannister	Great Britain	3:46.0
5	Patrick El Mabrouk	France	3:46.0
6	Rolf Lamers	Germany	3:46.8
7	Olle Åberg	Sweden	3:47.0
8	Ingvar Ericsson	Sweden	3:47.6
9	Don MacMillan	Australia	3:49.6
10	Denis Johansson	Finland	3:49.8
11	Audun Boysen	Norway	3:51.4
12	Warren Druetzler	United States	3:56.0