1,500-Meter Run
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
| 1896 | Edwin Flack, Australia | 4:33.20 |
| 1900 | Charles Bennett, Great Britain | 4:06.00 |
| 1904 | James Lightbody, United States | 4:05.40 |
| 1906 | James Lightbody, United States | 4:12.00 |
| 1908 | Mel Sheppard, United States | 4:03.40 |
| 1912 | Arnold Jackson, Great Britain | 3:56.80 |
| 1920 | Albert Hill, Great Britain | 4:01.80 |
| 1924 | Paavo Nurmi, Finland | 3:53.60 |
| 1928 | Harry Larva, Finland | 3:53.20 |
| 1932 | Luigi Becali, Italy | 3:51.20 |
| 1936 | Jack Lovelock, New Zealand | 3:47.80 |
| 1948 | Henri Eriksson, Sweden | 3:49.80 |
| 1952 | Joseph Barthel, Luxembourg | 3:45.20 |
| 1956 | Ron Delany, Ireland | 3:41.20 |
| 1960 | Herb Elliott, Australia | 3:35.60 |
| 1964 | Peter Snell, New Zealand | 3:38.10 |
| 1968 | Kipchoge Keino, Kenya | 3:34.90 |
| 1972 | Pekka Vasala, Finland | 3:36.30 |
| 1976 | John Walker, New Zealand | 3:39.17 |
| 1980 | Sebastian Coe, Britain | 3:38.40 |
| 1984 | Sebastian Coe, Britain | 3:32.53 |
| 1988 | Peter Rono, Kenya | 3:35.96 |
| 1992 | Fermin Cacho Ruiz, Spain | 3:40.12 |
| 1996 | Noureddine Morceli, Algeria | 3:35.78 |
| 2000 | Noah Ngeny, Kenya | 3:32.07 |
| 2004 | Hicham El Guerrouj, Morocco | 3:34.18 |
| 2008 | Rashid Ramzi, Bahrain | 3:32.94 |
