Athletics at the 1971 Pan American Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 1500 metres event at the 1971 Pan American Games was held in Cali on 31 July and 1 August.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Marty Liquori  United States	Bill Smart  Canada	Jim Crawford  United States

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Jim Crawford	United States	3:48.80	Q
2	2	Bill Smart	Canada	3:49.16	Q
3	1	Marty Liquori	United States	3:49.40	Q
4	1	Carlos Rodolfo Martínez	Mexico	3:49.47	Q
5	2	Gildardo López	Mexico	3:49.94	Q
6	2	Donaldo Arza	Panama	3:50.89	Q
7	1	Richard Ritchie	Canada	3:50.97	Q
8	1	Jorge Grosser	Chile	3:51.36	Q
9	1	Antonio Colón	Puerto Rico	3:52.03	Q
10	2	Julio Orense	Venezuela	3:52.15	Q
11	2	Víctor Ríos	Chile	3:52.15
12	2	Hugo Burgos	Colombia	3:52.25
13	1	José Neira	Colombia	3:52.28
14	1	Sergio Llanusa	Cuba	3:53.34
15	2	José Bordón	Cuba	3:57.85
16	1	Modesto Comprés	Dominican Republic	3:58.37
17	1	?		4:20.01
18	2	Byron Dyce	Jamaica	4:25.10

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Marty Liquori	United States	3:42.10	GR
	Bill Smart	Canada	3:43.39
	Jim Crawford	United States	3:43.76
4	Donaldo Arza	Panama	3:44.75
5	Richard Ritchie	Canada	3:46.63
6	Gildardo López	Mexico	3:48.38
7	Carlos Rodolfo Martínez	Mexico	3:49.50
8	Julio Orense	Venezuela	3:50.06
9	Jorge Grosser	Chile	3:52.68
10	Antonio Colón	Puerto Rico	3:57.86