Athletics at the 1975 Summer Universiade – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1975 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on 18 and 20 September. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Thomas Wessinghage   West Germany	Steve Heidenreich   United States	Gheorghe Ghipu Romania

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Thomas Wessinghage	West Germany	3:45.82	Q [3]
2	1	Javier Chávez	Mexico	3:46.16	Q
3	1	Peter Spir	Canada	3:46.29	Q
4	1	Luigi Zarcone	Italy	3:46.31	Q
5	1	Štefan Polák	Czechoslovakia	3:46.3?	Q
6	1	Dominique Tellier	France	3:46.36	Q [4]
7	1	Liévin De Reymaecker	Belgium	3:46.55	q
8	1	Henryk Wasilewski	Poland	3:46.68
9	1	Francisco Gordillo	Spain	3:47.24	[3]
10	1	Yevgeniy Volkov	Soviet Union	3:47.50	[5]
11	2	Gheorghe Ghipu	Romania	3:48.36	Q
12	2	David Moorcroft	Great Britain	3:48.47	Q
13	2	Steve Heidenreich	United States	3:48.52	Q
14	2	Giulio Riga	Italy	3:48.57	Q
15	2	Jost Wollstein	West Germany	3:48.75	Q
16	2	Wiesław Watras	Poland	3:49.17
17	2	Aleksandr Andrusenko	Soviet Union	3:49.30	[5]
18	2	Francisco Méndez	Mexico	3:50.01
19	1	Vicente Pimentel Silva	Brazil	3:50.07
20	2	Spyros Nakos	Greece	3:50.54
21	2	Francisco Recuero	Spain	3:51.85	[3]
22	1	Walter Fähndrich	Switzerland	3:52.62
23	2	Christian Benezis	France	3:52.81	[4]
24	1	Mohamed Reza Hasan Gaviar	Iran	3:57.86
25	2	Lafta Askar Sabri	Kuwait	4:13.47

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Thomas Wessinghage	West Germany	3:39.73
	Steve Heidenreich	United States	3:40.56
	Gheorghe Ghipu	Romania	3:41.19
4	David Moorcroft	Great Britain	3:42.58
5	Giulio Riga	Italy	3:42.68
6	Jost Wollstein	West Germany	3:43.27
7	Javier Chávez	Mexico	3:43.30
8	Štefan Polák	Czechoslovakia	3:43.45
9	Dominique Tellier	France	3:43.98
10	Luigi Zarcone	Italy	3:47.96
11	Liévin De Reymaecker	Belgium	3:48.23
12	Peter Spir	Canada	3:50.92

References

1. Gerardo García (21 September 1975). "Continua la danza de records mundiales universitarios" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. p. 22. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
2. Results at Tilastopaja
3. García, Gerardo (19 September 1975). "Mal debut español en los Juegos Mundiales Universitarios de Atletismo" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. p. 30. Retrieved 10 November 2020.
4. French results
5. Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p43)