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

Results

Heats

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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

Final

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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

References

1. Results at Tilastopaja
2. 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.
3. French results
4. Australian results
5. "Heidi Rosenthal's fine world record". The Guardian . 4 September 1970. p. 23. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
6. "Zwei Weltrekorde an der Universiade" (in German). Zurich Die Tat. 5 September 1970. p. 10. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
7. "Three British victories in Universiade". Athletics Weekly. 24 (37). Athletics Weekly Ltd: 4, 38. 4 September 1970. ISSN   0004-6671.
8. Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p42)