1000 yards at the NCAA Division I Indoor Track and Field Championships

This is a list of the NCAA Division I indoor champions in the 1000 yards or its metric equivalent 1000 meters. The imperial distance was contested until 1983, while the 1000 meters was run for 4 years from 1984 to 1987 before the event was discontinued. In 1986 and 1987, the 1⁄10-mile track in Oklahoma City was short by 25 inches (640 mm) per lap, causing the actual race distance to be less than 1000 meters.^[1] Hand timing was used until 1975, while starting in 1976 fully automatic timing was used.^[2]

Winners

Women

Women's 1000 yd / 1000 m winners^[3]^[4]
Year	Athlete	Team	Time
1983	Tina Krebs	Clemson Tigers	2:28.58 y
1984	Joetta Clark	Tennessee Volunteers	2:43.85
1985	Christine Slythe	LSU Lady Tigers	2:42.23
1986	Karol Davidson	Texas Longhorns	2:42.68
1987	Trena Hull	UNLV Rebels	2:41.08

Men

Key: y=yards; w=wind aided; A=Altitude assisted

1000 yards

Year	Name, (Country)	Team	Time
1965	Robin Lingle	Missouri	2:08.9y
1966	Herb Germann	Seton Hall	2:12.9y
1967	Ray Arrington	Wisconsin	2:07.8y
1968	Ray Arrington	Wisconsin	2:09.3y
1969	Ray Arrington	Wisconsin	2:08.0y
1970	Keith Colburn	Harvard	2:09.9y
1971	Bob Wheeler	Duke	2:07.4y
1972	Morgan Mosser	West Virginia	2:08.9y
1973	Tony Waldrop	North Carolina	2:10.0y
1974	Wesley Maiyo Kenya	Wyoming	2:08.1y
1975	Keith Francis	Boston Coll	2:08.4y
1976	Mark Belger	Villanova	2:07.29y
1977	Kelley Marsh	Ball State	2:07.89y
1978	Don Paige	Villanova	2:07.88y
1979	Don Paige	Villanova	2:07.27y
1980	Don Paige	Villanova	2:05.80y
1981	Peter Lemashon Kenya	UTEP	2:12.29y
1982	Randy Stephens	Arkansas	2:07.37y
1983	Edwin Koech Kenya	Richmond	2:08.59y

1000 meters

Year	Name, (Country)	Team	Time
1984	William Wuycke Venezuela	Alabama	2:24.27
1985	Herb Gawain Guyana	Rice	2:22.01
1986	Freddie Williams South Africa	Abilene Christian	2:18.74†
1987	Rob van Helden Netherlands	Louisiana St	2:20.51†