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Athletics at the 1960 Roma Summer Games:

Men's Decathlon 1,500 metres

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Events:
Phases:

Host City: Roma, Italy
Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Roma
Date Started: September 6, 1960
Date Finished: September 6, 1960

Gold: USA Rafer Johnson
Silver: TPE Yang C. K.
Bronze: URS Vasily Kuznetsov

1,500 metres

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T P(1952T) P(1985T)
1 Markus Kahma 27 Finland FIN 4:22.8 582 793
2 Hans Muchitsch 27 Austria AUT 4:23.3 575 789
3 Klaus Grogorenz 23 Germany GER 4:27.0 536 764
4 Manfred Bock 19 Germany GER 4:27.6 530 760
5 Fritz Vogelsang 27 Switzerland SUI 4:27.7 528 760
6 Walter Meier 33 Germany GER 4:30.6 500 741
7 Jože Brodnik 24 Yugoslavia YUG 4:37.7 434 695
8 Léopold Marien 26 Belgium BEL 4:40.0 414 680
9 Björgvin Hólm 25 Iceland ISL 4:40.6 409 677
10 Eef Kamerbeek 26 Netherlands NED 4:43.6 384 658
11 Yuriy Kutenko 28 Soviet Union URS 4:44.2 379 654
12 Yang C. K. 27 Chinese Taipei TPE 4:48.5 345 628
13 Franco Sar 26 Italy ITA 4:49.2 340 623
14 Rodolfo Mijares 22 Mexico MEX 4:49.3 339 623
15 Rafer Johnson 25 United States USA 4:49.7 336 620
16 Vasily Kuznetsov 28 Soviet Union URS 4:53.8 306 596
17 Panagiotis Epitropopoulos 22 Greece GRE 4:55.0 297 589
18 Luciano Paccagnella 21 Italy ITA 4:55.4 294 587
19 Juris Laipenieks 20 Chile CHI 4:57.5 279 574
20 George Stulac 26 Canada CAN 4:59.6 265 562
21 Seppo Suutari 19 Finland FIN 5:04.8 231 532
22 Herman Timme 27 Netherlands NED 5:21.4 137 443
23 Héctor Thomas 21 Venezuela VEN 5:25.2 116 423