Men's 1500 metres at the 1962 European Athletics Championships
Venue	JNA Stadium
Location	Belgrade
Dates	September 14 and 16, 1962
Medalists
Michel Jazy    France   Witold Baran    Poland   Tomás Salinger    Czechoslovakia

1962 European Athletics Championships
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
80 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
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
v t e

The men's 1500 metres at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Belgrade, then Yugoslavia, at the JNA Stadium on September 14 and 16, 1962.^[1]

The medalists were:

• Gold—Michel Jazy  France
• Silver—Witold Baran  Poland
• Bronze—Tomás Salinger  Czechoslovakia

16 September

Results of the men's 1500m final by rank—sortable

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Michel Jazy	France	3:40.9
	Witold Baran	Poland	3:42.1
	Tomás Salinger	Czechoslovakia	3:42.2
4	Heinz Böthling	West Germany	3:42.7
5	Werner Krause	East Germany	3:43.8
6	Vasiliy Savinkov	Soviet Union	3:44.2
7	Henk Snepvangers	Netherlands	3:44.8
8	Mike Berisford	Great Britain	3:45.2
	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	DNF

14 September

Heat 1 results, men's 1500m—sortable

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Heinz Böthling	West Germany	3:47.4	Q
2	Henk Snepvangers	Netherlands	3:47.5	Q
3	Mike Berisford	Great Britain	3:47.6	Q
4	Ivan Belitskiy	Soviet Union	3:48.3
5	Manuel de Oliveira	Portugal	3:48.8	NR
6	Georgios Mesimertzis	Greece	3:51.8

Heat 2 results, men's 1500m—sortable

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Witold Baran	Poland	3:44.1	Q
2	Vasiliy Savinkov	Soviet Union	3:44.4	Q
3	Werner Krause	East Germany	3:44.8	Q
4	Simo Važić	Yugoslavia	3:45.5
5	György Kiss	Hungary	3:45.7
6	Jean Clausse	France	3:46.4
7	Muharrem Dalkılıç	Turkey	3:46.8
8	William Cornell	Great Britain	3:49.9
9	Hugo Walser	Liechtenstein	4:01.8

Heat 3 results, men's 1500m—sortable

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Michel Jazy	France	3:47.7	Q
2	Harald Norpoth	West Germany	3:48.0	Q
3	Tomás Salinger	Czechoslovakia	3:48.0	Q
4	Peter Parsch	Hungary	3:48.4
5	Stan Taylor	Great Britain	3:49.9
6	Rudolf Klaban	Austria	3:50.0
7	Tomás Barris	Spain	3:50.0
8	Alfredo Rizzo	Italy	4:00.3

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 17 countries took part in the event.