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

Athletics at the 1948 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 1948 Olympic Games took place August 4 and August 6. The final was won by Swede Henry Eriksson.^[1]

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).

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

References

Notes

• 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.