1971 European Athletics Championships – Men's 1500 metres

Medalists

Gold	Francesco Arese Italy
Silver	Henryk Szordykowski Poland
Bronze	Brendan Foster Great Britain

15 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Francesco Arese	Italy	3:38.43	CR
	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3:38.73
	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	3:39.24
4	John Kirkbride	Great Britain	3:39.48
5	Jacques Boxberger	France	3:39.57
6	Jean-Pierre Dufresne	France	3:40.68
7	Paul-Heinz Wellmann	West Germany	3:40.78
8	Haico Scharn	Netherlands	3:40.92
9	Pekka Vasala	Finland	3:41.49
10	Volodymyr Panteley	Soviet Union	3:42.90
11	Viktor Semyashkin	Soviet Union	3:44.18
12	Gerd Larsen	Denmark	3:45.68

13 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Volodymyr Panteley	Soviet Union	3:42.2	Q
2	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3:42.3	Q
3	Jean-Pierre Dufresne	France	3:42.5	Q
4	Brendan Foster	Great Britain	3:42.8	Q
5	Atanas Atanasov	Bulgaria	3:43.2
6	Antonio Burgos	Spain	3:43.3
7	Knut Kvalheim	Norway	3:43.7
8	Renzo Finelli	Italy	3:43.9
9	Gilbert Van Manshoven	Belgium	3:45.0
10	Tom Birger Hansen	Denmark	3:46.3
11	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	3:49.3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jacques Boxberger	France	3:43.6	Q
2	Pekka Vasala	Finland	3:43.6	Q
3	Haico Scharn	Netherlands	3:43.7	Q
4	Viktor Semyashkin	Soviet Union	3:43.7	Q
5	André De Hertoghe	Belgium	3:43.7
6	Frank Murphy	Ireland	3:44.0
7	Peter Stewart	Great Britain	3:45.0
8	Slavko Koprivica	Yugoslavia	3:48.9
9	Jerzy Maluśki	Poland	3:53.7
10	Aurelio Falero	Gibraltar	4:01.3	NR
11	Gianni Del Buono	Italy	4:01.8

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Paul-Heinz Wellmann	West Germany	3:51.8	Q
2	Francesco Arese	Italy	3:52.1	Q
3	John Kirkbride	Great Britain	3:52.6	Q
4	Gerd Larsen	Denmark	3:52.7	Q
5	Jan Prasek	Poland	3:52.8
6	Robert Leborgne	France	3:53.3
7	Bram Wassenaar	Netherlands	3:54.2
8	Pavel Pěnkava	Czechoslovakia	3:55.2
9	Mikhail Zhelobovskiy	Soviet Union	3:55.6
10	Mehmet Tümkan	Turkey	3:57.4

According to an unofficial count, 32 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.