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Men's 1500 metres at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
Venue	Queen Elizabeth II Park
Dates	31 January and 2 February
Medalists
Filbert Bayi    Tanzania   John Walker    New Zealand   Ben Jipcho    Kenya
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Athletics at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 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	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 mile 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
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The men's 1500 metres event at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games was held on 31 January and 2 February at the Queen Elizabeth II Park in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Medallists

Medal winners

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Filbert Bayi  Tanzania	John Walker  New Zealand	Ben Jipcho  Kenya

Results

Heats

Held on 31 January

Qualification for final

The first 4 in each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Heats results

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Mike Boit	Kenya	3:44.6	Q
2	1	Graham Crouch	Australia	3:44.62	Q
3	1	Rod Dixon	New Zealand	3:44.6	Q
3	1	Brendan Foster	England	3:44.9	Q
5	1	Jaiye Abidoye	Nigeria	3:49.9
6	1	Bernard Hayward	Wales	3:50.3
7	1	Samuela Bulai	Fiji	4:10.5
1	2	Filbert Bayi	Tanzania	3:38.2	Q
2	2	John Kirkbride	England	3:39.8	Q
3	2	David Fitzsimons	Australia	3:39.92	Q
4	2	Tony Polhill	New Zealand	3:40.30	Q
5	2	Paul Lawther	Northern Ireland	3:43.1
6	2	Cosmas Silei	Kenya	3:44.7
7	2	Phillip Kayo	Papua New Guinea	4:05.4
	2	Richard Kermode	Fiji	DNS
	2	John Davies	Wales	DNS
1	3	John Walker	New Zealand	3:42.5	Q
2	3	Suleiman Nyambui	Tanzania	3:42.6	Q
3	3	Randal Markey	Australia	3:42.77	Q
4	3	Ben Jipcho	Kenya	3:43.6	Q
5	3	Kenneth Elmer	Canada	3:44.0
6	3	Keith Falla	Guernsey	3:58.9
7	3	Gerard Domaingue	Mauritius	4:08.1
	3	Joseph Jampilda	Nigeria	DNF
	3	Andy Carter	England	DNS

Final

Held on 2 February, the final was led by Filbert Bayi from start to finish. Both he and home favourite John Walker broke Jim Ryun's seven-year-old world record of 3:33.1, with Ben Jipcho just outside Ryun's time when holding off Walker's teammate Rod Dixon.

Final result

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Filbert Bayi	Tanzania	3:32.16	WR
	John Walker	New Zealand	3:32.52	AR
	Ben Jipcho	Kenya	3:33.16
4	Rod Dixon	New Zealand	3:33.89
5	Graham Crouch	Australia	3:34.22	NR
6	Mike Boit	Kenya	3:36.84
7	Brendan Foster	England	3:37.64
8	Suleiman Nyambui	Tanzania	3:39.62
9	David Fitzsimons	Australia	3:41.30
10	John Kirkbride	England	3:41.91
11	Randal Markey	Australia	3:44.56
	Tony Polhill	New Zealand	DNS

References

1. "Results". thecgf.com. Retrieved 21 December 2018.
2. ^ "Australia results". Retrieved 22 December 2018.
3. ^ "1974 year list". Retrieved 22 December 2018.
4. Glasgow2014OC. "Filbert Bayi - Remember the iconic Christchurch 1,500m Final". Medal Memories. Youtube. Retrieved 12 October 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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