Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres at the Games of the XIV Olympiad
Dates	August 4 (heats) August 6 (final)
Medalists
Henry Eriksson  Sweden Lennart Strand  Sweden Willem Slijkhuis  Netherlands

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place August 4 and August 6. The final was won by Swede Henry Eriksson.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Gunder Hägg (SWE)	3:43.0	Gothenburg, Sweden	7 July 1944
Olympic record	Jack Lovelock (NZL)	3:47.8	Berlin, Germany	6 August 1936

Schedule

All times are British Summer Time (UTC+1).

Date	Time
Wednesday, 4 August 1948	16:30	Round 1
Friday, 6 August 1948	17:00	Final

Results

Round 1

Heat 1

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time (hand)
1	Sweden	Lennart Strand	3:54.2
2	Denmark	Erik Jørgensen	3:54.2
3	United States	Don Gehrmann	3:54.8
4	Netherlands	Frits de Ruijter	3:55.2
5	Finland	Olavi Luoto	3:58.0
6	France	Henri Klein	3:59.8
7	Turkey	Cahit Önel	4:00.0
8	Ireland	John Joe Barry	4:00.5
9	Canada	Cliff Salmond	4:16.2
-	Peru	Antero Mongrut	Also competed

Heat 2

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time (hand)
1	Netherlands	Willem Slijkhuis	3:52.4
2	Czechoslovakia	Václav Čevona	3:53.0
3	Finland	Denis Johansson	3:54.0
4	Canada	Jack Hutchins	3:54.4
5	Great Britain	Doug Wilson	3:54.8
6	United States	Clem Eischen	4:00.2
7	Greece	Vasilios Mavroidis
8	Spain	Juan Adarraga	4:03.7
-	Trinidad and Tobago	Wilfred Tull	Also competed

Heat 3

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time (hand)
1	Sweden	Henry Eriksson	3:53.8
2	Great Britain	Bill Nankeville	3:55.8
3	Luxembourg	Josy Barthel	3:56.4
4	France	Jean Vernier	3:57.6
5	Argentina	Melchor Palmeiro	4:01.6
6	Iceland	Óskar Jónsson	4:03.2
7	Turkey	Riza Maksut İşman
-	Canada	Bill Parnell	DNF

Heat 4

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time (hand)
1	Sweden	Gösta Bergkvist	3:51.8
2	France	Marcel Hansenne	3:52.8
3	Hungary	Sándor Garay	3:53.0
4	United States	Roland Sink	3:53.2
5	Norway	Kaare Vefling	3:54.6
6	Great Britain	Richard Morris	3:55.8
7	Denmark	Ingvard Nielsen	4:01.7
8	Switzerland	Karl-Heinz Hubler	4:03.0
9	South Korea	Lee Yun-seok

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
	Henry Eriksson	Sweden	3:49.8
	Lennart Strand	Sweden	3:50.4
	Willem Slijkhuis	Netherlands	3:50.4
4	Václav Čevona	Czechoslovakia	3:51.2
5	Gösta Bergkvist	Sweden	3:52.2
6	Bill Nankeville	Great Britain	3:52.6
7	Don Gehrmann	United States	3:54.4
8	Erik Jørgensen	Denmark	3:54.5
9	Sándor Garay	Hungary	3:56.1
10	Josy Barthel	Luxembourg	3:56.9
11	Denis Johansson	Finland
12	Marcel Hansenne	France	4:02.0

External links

• 1948 Summer Olympics results: Men's 1500 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-06-05.
• Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad, The (1948). The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the XIV Olympiad. LA84 Foundation. Retrieved 4 September 2016.