Men 1500m Athletics XX Olympic Games Munich, West Germany 1972 - Sunday, 10th September - Gold Medal: Pekka Vasala, Finland
Finaltimeage
1. Pekka VasalaFIN Finland3:36.324
2. Kipchoge KeinoKEN Kenya3:36.832
3. Rod DixonNZL New Zealand3:37.522
4. Mike BoitKEN Kenya3:38.423
5. Brendan FosterGBR Great Britain3:39.024
6. Herman MignonBEL Belgium3:39.121
7. Paul-Heinz WellmannFRG West Germany3:40.120
8. Vladimir PanteleyURS Soviet Union3:40.227
9. Tony PolhillNZL New Zealand3:41.824
10.Tom B. HansenDEN Denmark3:46.624
world Men 1500m History
Olympic Men 1500m 1968
Olympic Men 1500m 1976
Competitors: 66; Countries: 46
Splits400m 800m 1200m
Vasala61.7 2:01.6 2:56.7
Keino62.1 2:01.4 2:56.5
Dixon61.8 2:01.5 2:57.1
Boit61.9 2:01.8 2:57.3
Foster61.4 2:01.9 2:57.5
Keino and Ryun were placed in the same heat, a result of the seeding committee taking Ryun’s mile best of 3:52.8 and accepting it as a 1500m time. This error was compounded by Ryun falling over after a collision with a Ghanaian runner. He failed to make the semi-finals as an appeal was rejected. Keino had won the heat in 3:39.97, the fastest of the day, just ahead of Dixon. The semi-finals began as tactical affairs, with wins for Boit (3:41.34) and Keino (3:41.15) before Francesco Arese (ITA) set a sensibly quicker pace in the third race, passing 400m in 57.7 before tailing off in the closing stages. Dixon and Vasala ran 3:37.91 ahead of Foster’s UK record of 3:38.20. The major casualty of the semis was another American, the 800m winner Dave Wottle, who was fourth in the first heat. In the final, Foster led the field through a slow lap of 61.5, and Keino came up from eighth place after 400m to take the lead 200m later. Keino wound up the pace, and the field stretched out in single file, with Vasala right behind the Kenyan, and Foster holding on in third place. Keino’s third lap was covered in 55.3. Boit and Dixon moved past Foster with 300m to go, as Keino continued to push the pace. Vasala went to Keino’s shoulder as they came off the final bend, and powered past with 50m to go, winning by 4m, with Dixon passing Boit and clos- ing on Keino in the finishing straight. Vasala’s final lap had taken 53.4 seconds, and his last 800m was clocked in 1:48.8.

Semi-Finals - Saturday 09.09

Semi 1time
1. Mike BoitKEN Kenya3:41.3
2. Vladimir PanteleiURS Soviet Union3:41.6
3. Tom B. HansenDEN Denmark3:41.6
4. David WottleUSA United States3:41.6
5. Christopher FisherAUS Australia3:42.0
6. Gianni del BuonoITA Italy3:42.0
7. Thomas WessinghageFRG West Germany3:43.4
8. Spilios ZacharopoulosGRE Greece3:43.5
9. Ulf HogbergSWE Sweden3:43.6
10.Hailu EbbaETH Ethiopia3:43.7
Semi 2time
1. Kipchoge KeinoKEN Kenya3:41.2
2. Herman MignonBEL Belgium3:41.7
3. Tony PolhillNZL New Zealand3:41.8
4. Shibrou RegassaETH Ethiopia3:41.9
5. Jacques BoxbergerFRA France3:42.4
6. Henryk SzordykowskiPOL Poland3:42.5
7. Haico ScharnNED Netherlands3:44.4
8. Pekka PaivarintaFIN Finland3:45.1
9. Raymond SmedleyGBR Great Britain3:45.8
10.Bodo TummlerFRG West Germany3:50.0
Semi 3time
1. Rod DixonNZL New Zealand3:37,9
2. Pekka VasalaFIN Finland3:37,9
3. Brendan FosterGBR Great Britain3:38,2
4. Paul-Heinz WellmannFRG West Germany3:38,4
5. Gunnar EkmanSWE Sweden3:39,4
6. Robert WheelerUSA United States3:40,4
7. Franco AreseITA Italy3:41,1
8. Jean-Pierre DufrasneFRA France3:41,6
9. Klaus-Peter JustusGDR East Germany3:44,6
10.Gerd LarsenDEN Denmark3:59,4

Heats - Friday 08.09

Heat 1time
1. Thomas WessinghageFRG West Germany3:40.6
2. David WottleUSA United States3:40.7
3. Jean-Pierre DufrasneFRA France3:40.8
4. Brendan FosterGBR Great Britain3:40.8
5. Donaldo ArzaPAN Panama3:41.7
6. Ivan IvanovURS Soviet Union3:42.3
7. Mehmet TuemkanTUR Turkey3:44.0
8. Mohamed KacemiALG Algeria3:45.2
9. Daniel AndradeSEN Senegal3:59.2
10.Dafallah Sultan FarahSUD Sudan4:02.9
Heat 2time
1. Franco AreseITA Italy3:44.0
2. Herman MignonBEL Belgium3:44.2
3. Bodo TummlerFRG West Germany3:44.5
4. Gerd LarsenDEN Denmark3:44.7
5. John KirkbrideGBR Great Britain3:45.3
6. Filbert BayiTAN Tanzania3:45.4
7. Jozef HorcicTCH Czechoslovakia3:45.7
8. William SmartCAN Canada3:49.2
-. Bram WassenaarNED NetherlandsDNS
-. Kassem HamzeLIB LibyaDNS
Heat 3time
1. Shibrou RegassaETH Ethiopia3:43.6
2. Spilios ZacharopoulosGRE Greece3:43.8
3. Henryk SzordykowskiPOL Poland3:44.2
4. Pekka PaivarintaFIN Finland3:44.4
5. Andre de HertogheBEL Belgium3:44.6
6. Petre LupanROU Romania3:44.8
7. M'Hamad AmakdoufMAR Marocco3:48.4
8. A Naser AlsafraaKSA Saudi Arabia4:14.5
-. Benson MulombaZAM ZambiaDNS
-. Robert LeborgneFRA FranceDNS
Heat 4time
1. Kipchoge KeinoKEN Kenya3:40.0
2. Rod DixonNZL New Zealand3:40.0
3. Gunnar EkmanSWE Sweden3:40.4
4. Klaus-Peter JustusGDR East Germany3:40.4
5. Gianni del BuonoITA Italy3:40.8
6. Werner MeierSUI Switzerland3:43.2
7. Mohamad YounasPAK Pakistan3:44.1
8. Vitus AshabaUGA Uganda3:45.2
9. James RyunUSA United States3:51.5
10.Billy FordjourGHA Ghana4:08.2
-. Evgeni ArzhanovURS Soviet UnionDNS
Heat 5time
1. Hailu EbbaETH Ethiopia3:41.6
2. Paul- Heinz WellmannFRG West Germany3:41.8
3. Raymond SmedleyGBR Great Britain3:42.1
4. Christopher FisherAUS Australia3:42.5
5. Francis MurphyIRL Ireland3:43.4
6. Byron DyceJAM Jamaica3:45.9
7. Cosmas SileiKEN Kenya3:52.0
8. Joze MedjimurecYUG Yugoslavia3:52.1
9. Harry NkopekaMAW Malawi4:00.9
10. Edward KarLBR Liberia4:21.4
Heat 6time
1. Pekka VasalaFIN Finland3:40.9
2. Tom Bo HansenDEN Denmark3:41.1
3. Robert WheelerUSA United States3:41.3
4. Haico SchamNED Netherlands3:41.4
5. Ulf HogbergSWE Sweden3:41.5
6. Edgar SalveBEL Belgium3:42.1
7. Anthony ColonPUR Puerto Rico3:44.6
8. Edouard RasoanaivoMAD Madagascar3:48.5
9. Jaiye AbidoyeNGR Nigeria3:48.8
10.Mohammed AbokerSOM Somalia3:59.5
Heat 7time
1. Mike BoitKEN Kenya3:42.2
2. Tony PolhillNZL New Zealand3:42.3
3. Vladimir PanteleiURS Soviet Union3:42.3
4. Jacques BoxbergerFRA France3:42.6
5. Mansour GuettayaTUN Tunisia3:43.9
6. Fernando Eugenio MamedePOR Portugal3:45.1
7. Azzedine AzzouziALG Algeria3:46.4
8. Kenneth ElmerCAN Canada3:46.6
9. Esaie FongangCMR Cameroon3:54.5
10.Jimmy CramptonBIR Birma4:06.9
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