1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna.^[1]^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Henryk Szordykowski Poland	Frank Murphy Ireland	Volodymyr Panteley Soviet Union

First 4 in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3:47.9	Q
2	1	Edgard Salvé	Belgium	3:48.2	Q
3	1	Frank Murphy	Ireland	3:48.4	Q
4	1	Knut Brustad	Norway	3:48.4	Q
5	1	Miodrag Vukomanović	Yugoslavia	3:49.8
6	1	Mehmet Tümkan	Turkey	3:51.2
7	1	Heinrich Händlhuber	Austria	3:51.6
1	2	Volodymyr Panteley	Soviet Union	3:52.6	Q
2	2	Pierre Toussaint	France	3:52.6	Q
3	2	Jerzy Maluśki	Poland	3:52.7	Q
4	2	Ulf Högberg	Sweden	3:52.8	Q
5	2	Ivan Kováč	Czechoslovakia	3:52.9
6	2	Dimko Deribeyev	Bulgaria	3:54.2
7	2	Walter Wilkinson	Great Britain	3:55.4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3:48.8
	Frank Murphy	Ireland	3:49.0
	Volodymyr Panteley	Soviet Union	3:49.8
4	Pierre Toussaint	France	3:50.2
5	Ulf Högberg	Sweden	3:50.7
6	Jerzy Maluśki	Poland	3:50.7
7	Edgard Salvé	Belgium	3:54.5
8	Knut Brustad	Norway	4:00.7