Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 4 (heats) August 6 (final)
Competitors	43 from 27 nations
Medalists
Jack Lovelock  New Zealand Glenn Cunningham  United States Luigi Beccali  Italy

Athletics at the 1936 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 event at the 1936 Olympic Games took place August 4 and August 6. The final was won by Kiwi Jack Lovelock in world record time.

Results

Heats

The fastest three runners in each of the four heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Eric Ny	Sweden	3:54.8
2	Glenn Cunningham	United States	3:54.8
3	Werner Böttcher	Germany	3:55.0
4	Ossi Teileri	Finland	3:55.6
5	Mihály Iglói	Hungary	3:56.0
6	Grigorios Georgakopoulos	Greece	4:01.4
7	René Geeraert	Belgium
8	Børge Larsen	Denmark
9	Pierre Hemmer	Luxembourg
10	Paul Martin	Switzerland

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gene Venzke	United States	4:00.4
2	Jerry Cornes	Great Britain	4:00.6
3	Jack Lovelock	New Zealand	4:00.6
4	Pierre Leichtnam	France	4:01.0
5	Clarke Scholtz	23x15px South Africa	4:02.0
6	Kiyoshi Nakamura	Japan	4:04.8
7	Emil Goršek	Yugoslavia	4:13.0
8	Emil Hübscher	Austria
9	Jack Liddle	Canada
10	Miguel Castro	Chile
	Martti Matilainen	Finland		DNF

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Luigi Beccali	Italy	3:55.6
2	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	3:55.6
3	Phil Edwards	Canada	3:56.2
4	Bobby Graham	Great Britain	3:56.6
5	Bedřich Hošek	Czechoslovakia	3:59.4
6	André Glatigny	France	3:59.6
7	Gerald Backhouse	Australia
8	Harry Mehlhose	Germany
9	Reginald Uba	Estonia	4:26.2
10	Jia Lianren	China
11	Emilio Torres	Colombia

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Robert Goix	France	3:54.0
2	Archie San Romani	United States	3:55.0
3	Fritz Schaumburg	Germany	3:55.2
4	Joseph Mostert	Belgium	3:56.6
5	Niilo Hartikka	Finland	3:59.0
6	Franz Eichberger	Austria	3:59.2
7	Ragnar Ekholdt	Norway
8	Hugh Thompson	Canada
9	Charles Stein	Luxembourg	4:26.2
10	Francisco Váldez	Peru
	Sydney Wooderson	Great Britain		DNF

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jack Lovelock	New Zealand	3:47.8	WR
	Glenn Cunningham	United States	3:48.4
	Luigi Beccali	Italy	3:49.2
4	Archie San Romani	United States	3:50.0
5	Phil Edwards	Canada	3:50.4
6	Jerry Cornes	Great Britain	3:51.4
7	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	3:53.0
8	Robert Goix	France	3:53.8
9	Gene Venzke	United States	3:55.0
10	Fritz Schaumburg	Germany	3:56.2
11	Eric Ny	Sweden	3:57.6
12	Werner Böttcher	Germany	4:04.2

Key: WR = World record

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 1500 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-28.