Athletics at the 1965 Summer Universiade – Men's 1500 metres
# Athletics at the 1965 Summer Universiade – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1965 Summer Universiade was held at the People's Stadium in Budapest on 28 and 29 August 1965.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Bodo Tümmler West Germany | Andy Green Great Britain | Zbigniew Wójcic Poland |

## Results

### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Andy Green | Great Britain | 3:50.5 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Volker Tulzer | Austria | 3:50.8 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Zoltan Vamoș | Romania | 3:50.8 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Masayuki Aoba | Japan | 3:50.8 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Francesco Arese | Italy | 3:51.0 | |
| 6 | 1 | Jan Čtvrtečka | Czechoslovakia | 3:54.2 | |
| 7 | 1 | Ioannis Hrisanthopoulos | Greece | 3:55.5 | |
| 8 | 1 | Kazimierz Wojtasik | Poland | 4:04.8 | |
| 1 | 2 | Klaus Prenner | West Germany | 3:53.5 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Rudolf Klaban | Austria | 3:53.6 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Gianni Del Buono | Italy | 3:53.7 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Constantin Blotiu | Romania | 3:53.7 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Dave Bailey | Canada | 3:54.0 | |
| 6 | 2 | John Jackson | Great Britain | 3:54.0 | |
| 7 | 2 | Keisuke Sawaki | Japan | 3:54.8 | |
| 8 | 2 | François Lacour | France | 3:55.1 | |
| 9 | 2 | János Aradi | Hungary | 3:55.4 | |
| 10 | 2 | Virgilio González | Spain | 3:56.5 | |
| 1 | 3 | Bodo Tümmler | West Germany | 3:50.3 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Zbigniew Wójcik | Poland | 3:50.5 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Béla Szekeres | Hungary | 3:50.5 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Jorge González | Spain | 3:51.0 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Hanspeter Born | Switzerland | 3:51.4 | |
| 6 | 3 | Gérard Legrange | France | 3:52.0 | |
| 7 | 3 | Hylke Van der Val | Canada | 3:53.5 | |
| 8 | 3 | Norbert Haupert | Luxembourg | 3:54.0 | |
| 9 | 3 | Vladimír Balšánek | Czechoslovakia | 3:56.2 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Bodo Tümmler | West Germany | 3:46.2 |
| | Andy Green | Great Britain | 3:46.7 |
| | Zbigniew Wójcik | Poland | 3:47.3 |
| 4 | Volker Tulzer | Austria | 3:47.4 |
| 5 | Klaus Prenner | West Germany | 3:47.7 |
| 6 | Masayuki Aoba | Japan | 3:48.1 |
| 7 | Constantin Blotiu | Romania | 3:48.1 |
| 8 | Zoltan Vamoș | Romania | 3:48.6 |
| 9 | Gianni Del Buono | Italy | 3:48.7 |
| 10 | Jorge González | Spain | 3:48.9 |
| 11 | Béla Szekeres | Hungary | 3:49.3 |
| | Rudolf Klaban | Austria | DNS |
