Athletics at the 1970 Summer Universiade – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1970 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Comunale in Turin on 2 and 3 September 1970.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Francesco Arese Italy	John Kirkbride Great Britain	Gianni Del Buono Italy

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Francesco Arese	Italy	3:42.0	Q, UR
2	1	Mikhail Zhelobovskiy	Soviet Union	3:42.3	Q
3	1	Robert Leborgne	France	3:42.9	q^[3]
4	1	Gilbert Van Manshoven	Belgium	3:43.4	q
5	1	Ingo Sensburg	West Germany	3:46.2	q
6	1	Ramón Montero	Chile	3:50.9
7	1	Amor Lassoued	Tunisia	3:51.2
8	1	Atilio Alegre	Brazil	3:52.2
	1	Yayino Yemane	Ethiopia	DNF
1	2	John Kirkbride	Great Britain	3:50.9	Q
2	2	Chuck LaBenz	United States	3:51.4	Q
3	2	Dušan Kranova	Yugoslavia	3:51.9
4	2	Ulrich Brugger	West Germany	3:52.1
5	2	Pierre Viaux	France	3:52.5	^[3]
6	2	Dashondha Singh	India	3:54.3
7	2	Yuval Wishnitzer	Israel	3:56.2
8	2	Şahin Turhan	Turkey	3:59.0
9	2	Rauf Dimraj	Albania	4:00.2
1	3	Gianni Del Buono	Italy	3:44.2	Q
2	3	Frank Murphy	Ireland	3:44.2	Q
3	3	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	3:45.0	q
4	3	Vladan Đorđević	Yugoslavia	3:46.4
5	3	Antonio Burgos	Spain	3:48.0
6	3	John Axsentieff	Australia	3:54.4	^[4]
7	3	Kamel Guemar	Algeria	3:57.0
8	3	José Bordón	Cuba	3:59.0
9	3	Askres Abera	Ethiopia	4:04.8
10	3	Mohamed Mounir Hamoud	Kuwait	4:25.3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Francesco Arese	Italy	3:52.7
	John Kirkbride	Great Britain	3:52.9
	Gianni Del Buono	Italy	3:53.0
4	Robert Leborgne	France	3:53.0
5	Gilbert Van Manshoven	Belgium	3:53.3
6	Chuck LaBenz	United States	3:53.5
7	Frank Murphy	Ireland	3:54.5
8	Ingo Sensburg	West Germany	3:54.7
9	Mikhail Zhelobovskiy	Soviet Union	3:54.9	^[8]
10	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	3:59.7

^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ García, Gerardo (3 September 1970). "Tallon, Octavo en la final de jabalina, y Jones clasificado para la semifinal en 100 m." (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. p. 19. Retrieved 16 November 2020.
^ ^a ^b French results
^ Australian results
^ "Heidi Rosenthal's fine world record". The Guardian. 4 September 1970. p. 23. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
^ "Zwei Weltrekorde an der Universiade" (in German). Zurich Die Tat. 5 September 1970. p. 10. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
^ "Three British victories in Universiade". Athletics Weekly. 24 (37). Athletics Weekly Ltd: 4, 38. 4 September 1970. ISSN 0004-6671.
^ Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p42)