1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres
# 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1970 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 15 March in Vienna.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Henryk Szordykowski Poland | Frank Murphy Ireland | Volodymyr Panteley Soviet Union |

## Results

### Heats

First 4 in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Henryk Szordykowski | Poland | 3:47.9 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Edgard Salvé | Belgium | 3:48.2 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Frank Murphy | Ireland | 3:48.4 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Knut Brustad | Norway | 3:48.4 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Miodrag Vukomanović | Yugoslavia | 3:49.8 | |
| 6 | 1 | Mehmet Tümkan | Turkey | 3:51.2 | |
| 7 | 1 | Heinrich Händlhuber | Austria | 3:51.6 | |
| 1 | 2 | Volodymyr Panteley | Soviet Union | 3:52.6 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Pierre Toussaint | France | 3:52.6 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Jerzy Maluśki | Poland | 3:52.7 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Ulf Högberg | Sweden | 3:52.8 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Ivan Kováč | Czechoslovakia | 3:52.9 | |
| 6 | 2 | Dimko Deribeyev | Bulgaria | 3:54.2 | |
| 7 | 2 | Walter Wilkinson | Great Britain | 3:55.4 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Henryk Szordykowski | Poland | 3:48.8 |
| | Frank Murphy | Ireland | 3:49.0 |
| | Volodymyr Panteley | Soviet Union | 3:49.8 |
| 4 | Pierre Toussaint | France | 3:50.2 |
| 5 | Ulf Högberg | Sweden | 3:50.7 |
| 6 | Jerzy Maluśki | Poland | 3:50.7 |
| 7 | Edgard Salvé | Belgium | 3:54.5 |
| 8 | Knut Brustad | Norway | 4:00.7 |
