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1500m Men
OLYMPIC RECORD EVOLUTION 1500m Men
ATHLETE
NAME
SCORE
OLYMPIC GAME
DATE
COUNTRY
TIME
[minutes:seconds, 1/100 of a second]
1896
Edwin FLACK
4:33.20
Athens 1896
07 APRIL
AUS
1900
Charles BENNETT
4:06.20
Paris 1900
15 JULY
GBR
1904
James LIGHTBODY
4:05.40
St Louis 1904
03 SEPTEMBER
USA
1908
Norman HALLOWS
4:03.40
London 1908
13 JULY
GBR
1912
Arnold JACKSON
3:56.80
Stockholm 1912
10 JULY
GBR
1924
Paavo NURMI
3:53.60
Paris 1924
10 JULY
FIN
1928
Larva Harri
3:53.20
Amsterdam 1928
02 AUGUST
1932
Luigi BECCALI
3:51.20
Los Angeles 1932
04 AUGUST
ITA
1936
Lovelock Jack
3:47.80
Berlin 1936
06 AUGUST
1952
McMillen Bob
3:45.20
Helsinki 1952
26 JULY
Barthel Josy
3:45.20
Helsinki 1952
26 JULY
1956
Delany Ron
3:41.20
Melbourne / Stockholm 1956
01 DECEMBER
1960
Elliott Herb
3:35.60
Rome 1960
06 SEPTEMBER
1968
Kipchoge KEINO
3:34.91
Mexico 1968
20 OCTOBER
KEN
1984
Sebastian COE
3:32.53
Los Angeles 1984
11 AUGUST
GBR
2000
Ngeny Noah
3:32.07
Sydney 2000
29 SEPTEMBER
All records in this event
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Reinstated Algerian Wins 1500m Gold
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Ramzi Wins Gold With Last Lap Push
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Kenyan Keino Is The King Of The 1500m
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Makhloufi Claims 1500m Gold For Algeria
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5000m men
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decathlon men
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WOMEN'S EVENTS
10000m women
100m women
100m hurdles women
1500m women
200m women
20km race walk women
3000m steeplechase women
400m women
400m hurdles women
4x100m relay women
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5000m women
800m women
discus throw women
hammer throw women
heptathlon women
high jump women
javelin throw women
long jump women
marathon women
pole vault women
shot put women
triple jump women
New Olympic Record
3’32.07’’
More about : Noah Ngeny,
Sydney 2000
Equipment and History
International Association of Athletics Federations
Olympic medallists
Gold medals
Taoufik MAKHLOUFI
Asbel Kipruto KIPROP
Hicham EL GUERROUJ
Noah Kiprono NGENYI
Nourredine MORCELI
Fermin CACHO RUIZ
Peter RONO
Sebastian COE
John WALKER
Pekka VASALA
Kipchoge KEINO
Peter SNELL
Herbert ELLIOTT
Ronald Michael DELANY
Joseph BARTHEL
Henry ERIKSSON
John LOVELOCK
Luigi BECCALI
Harri Edvin LARVA
Paavo NURMI
Albert HILL
Arnold JACKSON
Melvin SHEPPARD
James LIGHTBODY
Charles BENNETT
Edwin FLACK
Silver medals
Leonel MANZANO
Nicholas WILLIS
Bernard LAGAT
Hicham EL GUERROUJ
Fermin CACHO RUIZ
Rachid EL BASIR
Peter ELLIOTT
Stephen CRAM
Jürgen STRAUB
Ivo VAN DAMME
Kipchoge KEINO
James Ronald RYUN
Josef ODLOZIL
Michel JAZY
Klaus RICHTZENHAIN
Robert MCMILLEN
Lennart STRAND
Glenn CUNNINGHAM
John CORNES
Jules LADOUMEGUE
Wilhelm SCHÄRER
Philipp John NOEL-BAKER
Abel KIVIAT
Harold WILSON
William Frank VERNER
Henri DELOGE
Arthur BLAKE
Bronze medals
Abdalaati IGUIDER
Mehdi BAALA
Rui SILVA
Bernard LAGAT
Stephen KIPKORIR
Mohamed Ahmed SULAIMAN
Jens-Peter HEROLD
Jose Manuel ABASCAL GOMEZ
Steve OVETT
Paul-Heinz WELLMANN
Rodney DIXON
Bodo TÜMMLER
John DAVIES
Istvan ROSZAVÖLGYI
John LANDY
Werner LUEG
Willem SLIJKHUIS
Luigi BECCALI
Philip EDWARDS
Eino Alfred PURJE
Henry B. STALLARD
Marion Lawrence SHIELDS
Norman TABER
Norman HALLOWS
Lacey HEARN
John BRAY
Albin LERMUSIAUX