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Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games:

Men's Decathlon 1,500 metres

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Events:
Phases:

Host City: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Amsterdam
Date Started: August 4, 1928
Date Finished: August 4, 1928

Gold: FIN Paavo Yrjölä
Silver: FIN Akilles Järvinen
Bronze: USA Ken Doherty

1,500 metres

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T P(1912BT) P(1985T)
1 Sven Lundgren 26 Sweden SWE 4:34.8 772.0 713
2 Hermann Lemperle 21 Germany GER 4:41.6 731.2 670
3 Wilhelm Ladewig 21 Germany GER 4:42.0 728.8 668
4 Paavo Yrjölä 25 Finland FIN 4:44.0 716.8 655
5 Albert Andersson 26 Sweden SWE 4:44.2 715.6 654
6 Martti Tolamo 21 Finland FIN 4:44.8 712.0 650
7 Erwin Huber 21 Germany GER 4:46.0 704.8 643
8 Ludwig Wessely 24 Austria AUT 4:47.0 698.8 637
9 Gaston Étienne 26 Belgium BEL 4:51.4 672.4 610
10 Akilles Järvinen 22 Finland FIN 4:52.4 666.4 604
11 Ken Doherty 23 United States USA 4:54.0 656.8 595
12 Tom Churchill 20 United States USA 4:55.0 650.8 589
13 Gheorghe Csegezi Romania ROU 5:03.8 598.0 538
14 Hugo Barth 24 Germany GER 5:04.6 593.2 534
15 Tatsuo Toki 24 Japan JPN 5:10.8 556.0 499
16 Antoni Cejzik 28 Poland POL 5:11.4 552.4 496
17 Stelios Benardis Greece GRE 5:13.8 538.0 483
18 Johan Meimer 23 Estonia EST 5:16.2 523.6 470
19 James Stewart 21 United States USA 5:17.0 518.8 466
20 René Joannes-Powell 32 Belgium BEL 5:18.6 509.2 457
21 Henry Lindblad 22 Sweden SWE 5:23.2 481.6 434
22 Helge Jansson 23 Sweden SWE 5:27.0 458.8 414
23 Branko Kallay 19 Yugoslavia YUG 5:50.8 316.0 303
24 Yonetaro Nakazawa 24 Japan JPN 5:54.6 293.2 287
25 Barney Berlinger 20 United States USA 5:58.6 269.2 270
AC Mátyás Farkas 34 Hungary HUN 0,0 0 DNF
AC Gérard Noël 27 Belgium BEL 0,0 0 DNF