1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1978 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 11 and 12 March in Milan. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Antti Loikkanen   Finland	Olaf Beyer   West Germany	Jürgen Straub   East Germany

Results

Heats

First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Eberhard Helm	West Germany	3:43.3	Q
2	1	János Zemen	Hungary	3:43.4	Q
3	1	Bernhard Vifian	Switzerland	3:43.9
4	1	Henryk Wasilewski	Poland	3:45.7
5	1	Robert Nemeth	Austria	3:47.4
6	1	Kor Louws	Netherlands	3:52.7
1	2	Francis Gonzalez	France	3:39.6	Q
2	2	Antti Loikkanen	Finland	3:39.6	Q
3	2	Tamás Szántó	Hungary	3:40.7	q
4	2	Joost Borm	Netherlands	3:43.2	q
5	2	Vittorio Fontanella	Italy	3:52.7
1	3	Thomas Wessinghage	West Germany		Q
2	3	Jürgen Straub	East Germany		Q
3	3	José Manuel Abascal	Spain		q
4	3	Anatoliy Mamontov	Soviet Union		q
5	3	András Zsinka	Hungary
6	3	Wybo Lelieveld	Netherlands
7	3	Juhani Sams	Finland

Note: The judges had the competitors in heat 3 run one extra lap by mistake, so no times were recorded. After much deliberation and protests, it was decided to let four runners from that heat to the final.

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Antti Loikkanen	Finland	3:38.16	CR , NR
	Thomas Wessinghage	West Germany	3:38.23
	Jürgen Straub	East Germany	3:40.2
4	José Manuel Abascal	Spain	3:40.3
5	Anatoliy Mamontov	Soviet Union	3:41.1	NR
6	János Zemen	Hungary	3:43.0
7	Francis Gonzalez	France	3:43.4
8	Joost Borm	Netherlands	3:45.2
9	Eberhard Helm	West Germany	3:46.8
10	Tamás Szántó	Hungary	3:49.0

References

1. Results
2. Results (p. 471)