| Final | time | & | | 1. Francesco Arese |  ITA | 3:38.43 | CR | | 2. Henryk Szordykowski |  POL | 3:38.73 | | | 3. Brendan Foster |  GBR | 3:39.24 | | | 4. John Kirkbride | GBR | 3:39.48 | | | 5. Jacques Boxberger |  FRA | 3:39.57 | | | 6. Jean-Pierre Dufresne | FRA | 3:40.68 | | | 7. Paul-Heinz Wellmann |  FRG | 3:40.78 | | | 8. Haico Scharn |  NED | 3:40.92 | | | 9. Pekka Vasala |  FIN | 3:41.49 | | | 10.Vladimir Panteley |  URS | 3:42.90 | | | 11.Viktor Semyashkin | URS | 3:44.18 | | | 12.Gerd Larsen |  DEN | 3:45.68 | |
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| History Men 1500m | | Qualification Standard: 3:41.0 |
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Heats - Friday 13.08 18:30 | | First 4 progress to Final. |
| Heat 1 | time | & | | 1. Vladimir Panteley | URS | 3:42.2 | Q | | 2. Henryk Szordykowski | POL | 3:42.3 | Q | | 3. Jean-Pierre Dufresne | FRA | 3:42.5 | Q | | 4. Brendan Foster | GBR | 3:42.8 | Q | | 5. Atanas Atanasov |  BUL | 3:43.2 | | | 6. Antonio Burgos |  ESP | 3:43.3 | | | 7. Knut Kvalheim |  NOR | 3:43.7 | | | 8. Renzo Finelli | ITA | 3:43.9 | | | 9. Gilbert Van Manshoven |  BEL | 3:45.0 | | | 10.Tom Birger Hansen | DEN | 3:46.3 | | | 11.Fernando Mamede |  POR | 3:49.3 | |
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| Heat 2 | time | & | | 1. Jacques Boxberger | FRA | 3:43.6 | Q | | 2. Pekka Vasala | FIN | 3:43.6 | Q | | 3. Haico Scharn | NED | 3:43.7 | Q | | 4. Viktor Semyashkin | URS | 3:43.7 | Q | | 5. André De Hertoghe | BEL | 3:43.7 | | | 6. Frank Murphy |  IRL | 3:44.0 | | | 7. Peter Stewart | GBR | 3:45.0 | | | 8. Slavko Koprivica |  YUG | 3:48.9 | | | 9. Jerzy Maluśki | POL | 3:53.7 | | | 10.Aurelio Falero |  GIB | 4:01.3 | NR | | 11.Gianni Del Buono | ITA | 4:01.8 | |
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| Heat 3 | time | | | 1. Paul-Heinz Wellmann | FRG | 3:51.8 | Q | | 2. Francesco Arese | ITA | 3:52.1 | Q | | 3. John Kirkbride | GBR | 3:52.6 | Q | | 4. Gerd Larsen | DEN | 3:52.7 | Q | | 5. Jan Prasek | POL | 3:52.8 | | | 6. Robert Leborgne | FRA | 3:53.3 | | | 7. Bram Wassenaar | NED | 3:54.2 | | | 8. Pavel Pěnkava |  TCH | 3:55.2 | | | 9. Mikhail Zhelobovskiy | URS | 3:55.6 | | | 10.Mehmet Tümkan |  TUR | 3:57.4 | |
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