Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres at the Games of the X Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	August 3 and August 4
Competitors	24 from 14 nations
Medalists
Luigi Beccali  Italy Jerry Cornes  Great Britain Phil Edwards 23x15px Canada

Athletics at the 1932 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 1500 metres middle distance event at the 1932 Summer Olympics took place on August 3 and August 4 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Results

Heats

Three heats were held; the fastest four runners from each heat advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Glenn Cunningham	United States	3:55.8
2	Jerry Cornes	Great Britain	4:01.0
3	Martti Luomanen	Finland	4:01.5
4	Phil Edwards	23x15px Canada	4:03.5
5	Hermenegildo del Rosso	Argentina	4:06.0
6	Christian Markersen	Denmark	4:06.5
7	Amilio Rodríguez	23x15px Mexico

Heat Two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jack Lovelock	New Zealand	3:58.0
2	Norwood Hallowell	United States	3:58.1
3	Eddie King	23x15px Canada	3:58.6
4	Harri Larva	Finland	3:58.8
5	Paul Martin	Switzerland	3:59.1
6	Folke Skoog	Sweden	3:59.6
7	Bill Barwick	Australia	4:03.5
-	Armando Brea	Brazil		DNF

Heat Three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Luigi Beccali	Italy	3:59.6
2	Eino Purje	Finland	3:59.7
3	Eric Ny	Sweden	3:59.9
4	Frank Crowley	United States	4:00.0
5	Les Wade	23x15px Canada	4:00.5
6	Pedro Ortíz	23x15px Mexico	4:18.0
-	Nestor Gomes	Brazil		DNF
-	Reg Thomas	Great Britain		DNF
-	Otto Peltzer	Germany		DNF

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Luigi Beccali	Italy	3:51.2	OR
	Jerry Cornes	Great Britain	3:52.6
	Phil Edwards	23x15px Canada	3:52.8
4	Glenn Cunningham	United States	3:53.4
5	Eric Ny	Sweden	3:54.6
6	Norwood Hallowell	United States	3:55.0
7	Jack Lovelock	New Zealand	3:57.8
8	Frank Crowley	United States	3:58.1
9	Martti Luomanen	Finland	3:58.4
10	Harri Larva	Finland	3:58.4
-	Eino Purje	Finland		DNF

Key: OR = Olympic record; DNF = did not finish

References

• 1932 Summer Olympics results: Men's 1500 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; Retrieved 2010-07-24