Athletics at the 1991 Summer Universiade – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1991 Summer Universiade was held at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield on 24 and 25 July 1991.^[1]^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Niall Bruton Ireland	Davide Tirelli Italy	Juan Viudes Spain

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Robin van Helden	Netherlands	3:43.64	Q
2	2	Davide Tirelli	Italy	3:44.00	Q
3	2	Robert Whelan	United States	3:44.31	Q
4	2	Waldemar Glinka	Poland	3:44.53	q
5	2	Davey Wilson	Great Britain	3:44.66	q
6	2	Juan Viudes	Spain	3:46.41	q
7	2	Shipo Dlamini	Swaziland	3:48.48
8	1	Niall Bruton	Ireland	3:49.01	Q
9	1	Federico Gallego	Spain	3:49.38	Q
10	1	Amos Rota	Italy	3:49.39	Q
11	1	Daniel Bertoia	Canada	3:49.47
12	1	Milan Drahoňovský	Czechoslovakia	3:49.70
13	3	Doug Consiglio	Canada	3:51.49	Q
14	3	Bill Burke	United States	3:51.52	Q
15	3	Frank Wiegman	Netherlands	3:51.66	Q
16	3	Samuel Kibiri	Kenya	3:51.68
17	3	Pierre Morath	Switzerland	3:52.10	^[4]
18	3	Andrew Geddes	Great Britain	3:52.17
19	1	Ahmet Çetinbaş	Turkey	3:54.12
20	3	Abderrahim Benjaa	Morocco	3:54.25
21	3	Hamid Sajjadi	Iran	3:54.70
22	1	Robbie Johnston	New Zealand	3:55.19
23	3	Tommy Asinga	Suriname	3:57.42
24	1	Abdelah Zouhane	Morocco	3:57.84
25	2	Pedro Rocha	Portugal	3:59.13
26	2	Andreas Christodoulou	Cyprus	3:59.40
27	1	Solomon Kioni	Kenya	3:59.46
28	3	Martin Reid	Jamaica	3:59.58
29	1	Samuel Huwae	Indonesia	4:00.47
30	1	Elijah Mushemeza	Uganda	4:03.89
31	2	Kim Bong-yu	South Korea	4:04.79
32	3	Noel Vilivata	Solomon Islands	4:12.89
33	3	Alberto Silva	Guinea-Bissau	4:18.89	NR
34	1	Octavio Gómes	Guinea-Bissau	4:20.39
35	2	Nicodemus Eatlawe	Tanzania	4:20.93
36	2	Christian Cremona	Malta	4:23.41
37	1	Mohammad Fani	Iran	4:27.94
	2	Riad Gatt	Algeria	DQ
	3	Idriss Vassir	Sudan	DNF

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Niall Bruton	Ireland	3:50.69
	Davide Tirelli	Italy	3:50.79
	Juan Viudes	Spain	3:51.22
4	Doug Consiglio	Canada	3:51.28
5	Robin van Helden	Netherlands	3:51.84
6	Davey Wilson	Great Britain	3:51.96
7	Robert Whelan	United States	3:52.03
8	Bill Burke	United States	3:52.04
9	Federico Gallego	Spain	3:52.38
10	Frank Wiegman	Netherlands	3:52.49
11	Amos Rota	Italy	3:52.63
12	Waldemar Glinka	Poland	3:52.63

^ Mel Watman (1 August 1991). "May dismay with silver". Athletics Today. 5 (31). Surrey: Athletics Today Publications Limited: 19–22. ISSN 0269-1302.
^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ Heats results
^ "L'Universiade de Sheffield" (in French). Sion Le Nouvelliste. 25 July 1991. p. 6. Retrieved 26 April 2020.
^ Final results