1,500 metres, Men
Participants
| Nr. | Athlete | NOC |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Herb Elliott |  AUS |
| 2 | Merv Lincoln | AUS |
| 3 | Albie Thomas | AUS |
| 4 | Rudolf Klaban |  AUT |
| 5 | Joe Mullins |  CAN |
| 6 | Tomás Barris |  ESP |
| 7 | Olavi Salonen |  FIN |
| 8 | Olavi Vuorisalo | FIN |
| 9 | Michel Bernard |  FRA |
| 10 | Michel Jazy | FRA |
| 11 | Brian Kent-Smith |  GBR |
| 12 | Laurie Reed | GBR |
| 13 | Mike Wiggs | GBR |
| 14 | Arthur Hannemann |  GER |
| 15 | Adolf Schwarte | GER |
| 16 | Siegfried Valentin | GER |
| 17 | Evangelos Depastas |  GRE |
| 18 | Lajos Kovács |  HUN |
| 19 | Péter Parsch | HUN |
| 20 | István Rózsavölgyi | HUN |
| 21 | Kassim Mukhtar |  IRQ |
| 22 | Svavar Markússon |  ISL |
| 23 | Yair Pantilat |  ISR |
| 24 | Alfredo Rizzo |  ITA |
| 25 | Egon Oehri |  LIE |
| 26 | Arne Hamarsland |  NOR |
| 27 | Stefan Lewandowski |  POL |
| 28 | Zbigniew Orywał | POL |
| 29 | Terry Sullivan |  RHO |
| 30 | Andrei Barabaș |  ROU |
| 31 | Zoltan Vamoș | ROU |
| 32 | Dan Waern |  SWE |
| 33 | Dhira Phiphobmongkol |  THA |
| 34 | Mohamed Gouider |  TUN |
| 35 | Muharrem Dalkılıç |  TUR |
| 36 | Yevgeny Momotkov |  URS |
| 37 | Dyrol Burleson |  USA |
| 38 | Pete Close | USA |
| 39 | Jim Grelle | USA |
Non-starters
| Nr. | Athlete | NOC |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Abdul Ghafar Ghafoori |  AFG |
| 2 | Roger Moens |  BEL |
| 3 | Ralph Gomes |  GUY |
| 4 | Karl Schaller |  SUI |