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Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 1500 metres event at the 1981 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadionul Naţional in Bucharest on 21 and 22 July 1981.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Saïd Aouita  Morocco	Vinko Pokrajčić  Yugoslavia	Amar Brahmia  Algeria

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Abdarrahman Morcelli	Algeria	3:44.75	Q
2	3	Andreas Hauck	East Germany	3:44.82	Q
3	3	Nicolae Onescu	Romania	3:44.90	Q
4	3	Ralf Eckert	West Germany	3:44.97	Q
5	3	Franco Boffi	Italy	3:45.48	Q
6	3	Steve Foley	Australia	3:45.53	q
7	2	Claudio Patrignani	Italy	3:45.68	Q
8	3	Håkan Kaneberg	Sweden	3:45.90	q
9	2	Manfred Nellesen	West Germany	3:45.95	Q
10	2	Dan Aldridge	United States	3:46.14	Q
11	2	Sergey Astapenko	Soviet Union	3:46.17	q
12	1	Vinko Pokrajčić	Yugoslavia	3:47.28	Q
13	1	Jim Spivey	United States	3:47.48	Q
14	1	Saïd Aouita	Morocco	3:47.52	Q
15	3	Leszek Witkowski	Poland	3:47.76
16	1	Amar Brahmia	Algeria	3:47.92	Q
17	2	Sun Zhihuai	China	3:47.97
18	1	Peter O'Donoghue	New Zealand	3:48.31
19	2	Ignacio Melesio	Mexico	3:48.74
20	2	Nicolae Damean	Romania	3:48.98
21	1	Tsukasa Endo	Japan	3:48.99
22	3	Félix Mesa	Cuba	3:50.05
23	2	Mohamed Ayad	Iraq	3:52.20
24	2	Ghislain Obounghat	Congo	3:54.65
25	3	José Luis Esquivel	Mexico	3:55.56
26	1	Kim Bok-joo	South Korea	3:56.90
27	3	Mohamed Makhlouf	Syria	3:59.53
28	2	Mohamed Kolo	Nigeria	4:00.85
29	2	Salem Al-Margini	Libya	4:01.07
30	3	Edwin Attard	Malta	4:09.73
31	1	Cornelius Pesurnay	Indonesia	4:13.04
32	1	Sadahida Sadahida	Libya	4:36.32
	1	Necdet Ayaz	Turkey	DNF
	1	Ahmed Hassoune	Lebanon	DNF
	1	Ali Hufane	Somalia	DNF
	1	Margarit Valkov	Bulgaria	DNF

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Saïd Aouita	Morocco	3:38.43	UR
	Vinko Pokrajčić	Yugoslavia	3:39.83
	Amar Brahmia	Algeria	3:39.85
4	Jim Spivey	United States	3:40.12
5	Abdarrahman Morcelli	Algeria	3:40.42
6	Andreas Hauck	East Germany	3:40.62
7	Sergey Astapenko	Soviet Union	3:40.94
8	Claudio Patrignani	Italy	3:40.97
9	Dan Aldridge	United States	3:41.02
10	Ralf Eckert	Germany	3:41.46
11	Franco Boffi	Italy	3:41.84
12	Nicolae Onescu	Romania	3:41.87
13	Steve Foley	Australia	3:43.83
14	Håkan Kaneberg	Sweden	3:44.76
15	Manfred Nellesen	West Germany	3:46.58

References

1. Results at Tilastopaja
2. "Jury achter Comaneci" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 22 July 1981. p. 9.
3. Australian results
4. "Final results". The Town Talk. 23 July 1981. p. 30. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
5. "Final results". United Press International. 22 July 1981. Retrieved 9 February 2020.
6. Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p43)
7. "Una splendida (e polemica) Dorio conquista l'oro sui 1500" (in Italian). La Stampa. 23 July 1981. p. 21.

• Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade
• 1500 metres at the Summer World University Games