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The men's 1500 metres at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 22 and 24 August 1958.[1]

Medalists[edit]

Gold Brian Hewson
 Great Britain
Silver Dan Waern
 Sweden
Bronze Ron Delany
 Ireland

Results[edit]

Final[edit]

24 August

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Brian Hewson  Great Britain 3:41.9
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Dan Waern  Sweden 3:42.1
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ron Delany  Ireland 3:42.3
4 István Rózsavölgyi  Hungary 3:42.7
5 Olavi Vuorisalo  Finland 3:42.8
6 Siegfried Herrmann  East Germany 3:43.4
7 Zbigniew Orywał  Poland 3:43.7
8 Stanislav Jungwirth  Czechoslovakia 3:44.4
9 Ulf-Bertil Lundh  Norway 3:44.7
10 Michel Jazy  France 3:45.4
11 Lajos Kovács  Hungary 3:51.6
12 Olavi Salsola  Finland 3:53.9

Heats[edit]

22 August

Heat 1[edit]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Olavi Vuorisalo  Finland 3:40.8 CR Q
2 Brian Hewson  Great Britain 3:41.1 NR Q
3 István Rózsavölgyi  Hungary 3:41.5 Q
4 Arne Hamarsland  Norway 3:41.9 NR
5 Gianfranco Baraldi  Italy 3:42.3 NR
6 Roger Verheuen  Belgium 3:43.0 NR
7 Simo Važić  Yugoslavia 3:45.7
8 Rudolf Klaban  Austria 3:48.2
9 Cesáreo Marín  Spain 3:53.4

Heat 2[edit]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Ron Delany  Ireland 3:47.0 Q
2 Olavi Salsola  Finland 3:47.5 Q
3 Ulf-Bertil Lundh  Norway 3:47.8 Q
4 Joško Murat  Yugoslavia 3:48.2
5 Klaus Richtzenhain  East Germany 3:49.0
6 Ingvar Ericsson  Sweden 3:49.1
7 Alfred Langenus  Belgium 3:52.5
8 Ernst Kleiner   Switzerland 3:53.7

Heat 3[edit]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Dan Waern  Sweden 3:42.3 Q
2 Siegfried Herrmann  East Germany 3:42.5 Q
3 Lajos Kovács  Hungary 3:43.0 Q
4 Stefan Lewandowski  Poland 3:43.2
5 Tomás Barris  Spain 3:44.5 NR
6 Mike Blagrove  Great Britain 3:45.2
7 Alfredo Rizzo  Italy 3:50.5
8 André Guilhaumon  France 3:50.6

Heat 4[edit]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
1 Stanislav Jungwirth  Czechoslovakia 3:49.0 Q
2 Zbigniew Orywał  Poland 3:49.3 Q
3 Michel Jazy  France 3:49.5 Q
4 Ionas Pipyne  Soviet Union 3:49.6
5 Mijndert Blankenstein  Netherlands 3:50.2
6 Dimitrios Konstantinidis  Greece 3:50.5
7 Svavar Markússon  Iceland 3:51.4
8 Muharrem Dalkılıç  Turkey 3:52.6

Participation[edit]

According to an unofficial count, 33 athletes from 21 countries participated in the event.

References[edit]

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