Athletics at the 1959 Pan American Games – Men's 1500 metres

Athletics at the 1959 Pan American Games
Track events
60 m		women
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
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
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
Decathlon	men
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The men's 1500 metres event at the 1959 Pan American Games was held at the Soldier Field in Chicago on 31 August and 2 September.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Dyrol Burleson  United States	Jim Grelle  United States	Ed Moran  United States

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Randy Mason	Canada	3:58.7	Q
2	1	Ralph Gomes	British Guiana	3:59.8	Q
3	1	José Manuel Luna	Mexico	4:00.3	Q
4	1	Ricardo Vidal	Chile	4:00.7	Q
5	1	Dyrol Burleson	United States	4:02.6	Q
6	1	José Pérez	Mexico	4:10.2
7	1	François Ducarmel	Haiti	?:??.?
1	2	David Drybrough	Canada	3:59.6	Q
2	2	Ramón Sandoval	Chile	3:59.8	Q
3	2	Ed Moran	United States	4:00.0	Q
4	2	Jim Grelle	United States	4:02.4	Q
5	2	Alfonso Tinoco	Mexico	4:03.4	Q
6	2	Alejandro Arroyo	Ecuador	4:12.8
	2	Jossué Delgado	Puerto Rico	DNS
	2	Sebastião Mendes	Brazil	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Dyrol Burleson	United States	3:49.1
	Jim Grelle	United States	3:49.9
	Ed Moran	United States	3:50.1
4	Ramón Sandoval	Chile	3:51.9
5	Randy Mason	Canada	3:54.0
6	José Manuel Luna	Mexico	3:58.1
7	Ralph Gomes	British Guiana	4:00.5
8	Alfonso Tinoco	Mexico	4:01.1
9	Ricardo Vidal	Chile	?:??.?
	David Drybrough	Canada	DNF