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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.^[1]

Medalists

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

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^[3]
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

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	^[6]
8	Claudio Patrignani	Italy	3:40.97	^[7]
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