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The men's 1500 metres event at the 1979 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City on 8 and 9 September 1979.^[1]^[2]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Graham Williamson Great Britain	Pierre Délèze Switzerland	Richie Harris United States

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Graham Williamson	Great Britain	3:53.76	Q
2	1	Pierre Délèze	Switzerland	3:53.79	Q
3	2	Richie Harris	United States	3:54.03	Q
4	1	Tom Duits	United States	3:54.12	Q
5	1	Christos Papachristos	Greece	3:54.24	Q
6	1	Hamad Hussein	Saudi Arabia	3:54.24	Q
7	2	Carlo Grippo	Italy	3:54.68	Q
8	2	John Bowan	New Zealand	3:55.03	Q
9	1	Takao Nakamura	Japan	3:55.26	Q
10	2	Ignacio Melesio	Mexico	3:55.76	Q
11	1	Saïd Aouita	Morocco	3:56.15	q
12	1	Filemón López	Mexico	3:56.87	q
13	1	Michael Feurtado	Jamaica	3:58.56
14	2	Uwe Becker	West Germany	3:58.59
15	2	Manuel Bernardo	Angola	4:02.95
16	2	Peter Lindtner	Austria	4:07.49
	1	David Hoey	Australia	DNS	^[3]
	2	Steve Foley	Australia	DNS	^[3]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Graham Williamson	Great Britain	3:45.37
	Pierre Délèze	Switzerland	3:45.8
	Richie Harris	United States	3:46.4
4	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	3:49.5
5	Takao Nakamura	Japan	3:50.7
6	Filemón López	Mexico	3:50.7
7	Ignacio Melesio	Mexico	3:51.3
8	Christos Papachristos	Greece	3:52.2
9	John Bowan	New Zealand	?:??.?
10	Tom Duits	United States	?:??.?
11	Saïd Aouita	Morocco	?:??.?
	Vittorio Fontanella	Italy	DNF	^[6]

^ Holzbach, Gerd (25 September 1979). "Pietro Mennea war der große Held von Mexico" [Pietro Mennea was the big hero of Mexico]. Leichtathletik (in German). 39/1979. Bartels & Wernitz: 1240–1245. ISSN 0343-5369.
^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ ^a ^b Australian results^[usurped]
^ "Final results". The San Bernardino County Sun. 10 September 1979. p. 20. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ "Final results". The Tampa Tribune. 11 September 1979. p. 24. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ "Soltanto terza Sara Simeoni" (in Italian). La Stampa. 11 September 1979. p. 20.