Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres

at the Games of the XIX Olympiad

Venue

Estadio Olímpico Universitario, Mexico City

Date

18 October 1968 to 20 October 1968

Medalists

	Kip Keino	Kenya
	Jim Ryun	United States
	Bodo Tümmler	West Germany

Official Video Highlights

Athletics at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

These are the official results of the Men's 1500 metres event at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. The competition was held on 18 to the 20 of October. The Gold was won by Kenyan Kip Keino, who beat World record holder Jim Ryun, who struggled to adapt to the altitude of Mexico City.^[1]

First round

Top 5 in each heat advance to semifinal.

Heat one *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Kip Keino	Kenya	3:46.96
2	Bodo Tümmler	West Germany	3:51.59
3	John Boulter	Great Britain	3:51.63
4	Jorge Grosser	Chile	3:51.79
5	Franco Arese	Italy	3:51.86
6	Dave Bailey	Canada	3:52.11
7	Róbert Honti	Hungary	3:54.95
8	Rudolf Klaban	Austria	3:59.11
9	Julio Quevedo	Guatemala	4:03.13
10	Édouard Sagna	Senegal	4:04.12
11	Emilio Barahona	Honduras	4:56.08

Heat two *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Tom Von Ruden	United States	3:59.15
2	André Dehertoghe	Belgium	3:59.33
3	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3;59.34
4	Claude Nicolas	France	3:59.35
5	Arnd Krüger	West Germany	3:59.40
6	Renzo Finelli	Italy	3:59.51
7	Ove Berg	Sweden	4:00.42
8	Tom Hansen	Denmark	4:01.47
9	Ramasamy Subramaniam	Malaysia	4:06.49
10	Miguel Núñez	Dominican Republic	4:23.67

Heat three *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Ben Jipcho	Kenya	3:46.51
2	Oleg Rayko	Soviet Union	3:46.84
3	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	3:47.00
4	Josef Odložil	Czechoslovakia	3:47.49
5	Jacky Boxberger	France	3:47.55
6	José Neri	Mexico	3:47.88
7	Jorge González	Spain	3:50.49
8	Ioannis Virvilis	Greece	3:55.57
9	Xaver Frick, Jr.	Liechtenstein	4:15.38
10	Alfredo Cubías	El Salvador	4:32.58

Heat four *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jim Ryun	United States	3:45.80
2	Hamadi Haddou	Morocco	3:47.01
3	Edgard Salvé	Belgium	3:47.17
4	Arne Kvalheim	Norway	3:47.50
5	Norm Trerise	Canada	3:47.67
6	Gianni Del Buono	Italy	3:48.41
7	Peter Watson	Australia	3:55.41
8	Maurice Benn	Great Britain	3:56.43
9	Pekka Vasala	Finland	4:08.51
10	Willie Ríos	Puerto Rico	4:14.47
11	Jeff Payne	Bermuda	4:18.92

Heat five *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Marty Liquori	United States	3:52.78
2	Hansrüedi Knill	Switzerland	3:52.87
3	John Whetton	Great Britain	3:53.04
4	Ahmed Issa	Chad	3:53.13
5	Mikhail Zhelobovsky	Soviet Union	3:53.23
6	Matias Habtemichael	Ethiopia	3:53.27
7	Anders Gärderud	Sweden	3:54.28
8	Byron Dyce	Jamaica	3:54.65
9	Jerzy Maluśki	Poland	3:54.83
10	Frank Murphy	Ireland	3:54.85
11	Rudi Simon	Belgium	4:06.97
12	Arturo Córdoba	Honduras	5:18.92

Semifinal

Top six in each heat advance to final.

Heat one *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Bodo Tümmler	West Germany	3:53.66
2	Jacky Boxberger	France	3:54.00
3	Tom Von Ruden	United States	3:54.12
4	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3:54.24
5	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	3:54.34
6	Ben Jipcho	Kenya	3:54.69
7	Franco Arese	Italy	3:54.85
8	Arne Kvalheim	Norway	3:55.32
9	John Boulter	Great Britain	3:56.13
10	Edgard Salvé	Belgium	3:58.16
11	Mikhail Zhelobovsky	Soviet Union	3:59.08
12	Hamadi Haddou	Morocco	4:01.70

Heat two *

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jim Ryun	United States	3:51.25
2	Kip Keino	Kenya	3:51.50
3	John Whetton	Great Britain	3:52.05
4	Marty Liquori	United States	3:52.17
5	Josef Odložil	Czechoslovakia	3:52.53
6	André Dehertoghe	Belgium	3:52.57
7	Oleg Rayko	Soviet Union	3:52.73
8	Ahmed Issa	Chad	3:53.26
9	Hansrüedi Knill	Switzerland	3:53.65
10	Norm Trerise	Canada	3:57.30
11	Claude Nicolas	France	4:04.47
12	Arnd Krüger	West Germany	4:05.40
	Jorge Grosser	Chile		DNF

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Kip Keino	Kenya	3:34.91	OR
02 !	Jim Ryun	United States	3:37.89
03 !	Bodo Tümmler	West Germany	3:39.08
4	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	3:42.57
5	John Whetton	Great Britain	3:43.90
6	Jacky Boxberger	France	3:46.65
7	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3:46.69
8	Josef Odložil	Czechoslovakia	3:48.69
9	Tom Von Ruden	United States	3:49.27
10	Ben Jipcho	Kenya	3:51.22
11	André Dehertoghe	Belgium	3:53.63
12	Marty Liquori	United States	4:18.22

References

↑ "Athletics at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Men's 1,500 metres | Olympics at". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved 2012-07-21.

1500 metres at the Olympic Games

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