Athletics at the 1977 Summer Universiade
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
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

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1977 Summer Universiade was held at the Vasil Levski National Stadium in Sofia on 22 and 23 August.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jozef Plachý  Czechoslovakia	Mike Kearns  Great Britain	Abderrahmane Morceli  Algeria

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Juhani Sams	Finland	3:40.6	Q[2]
2	1	Luis Medina	Cuba	3:41.0	Q
3	1	Paul Lawther	Great Britain	3:41.3	q
4	1	Vladimir Yerokhin	Soviet Union	3:42.6	q
5	1	Steve Lacy	United States	3:45.4
6	1	Imre Ötvös	Hungary	3:46.1
7	1	Toshifumi Shigenari	Japan	3:47.3
8	1	Ignacio Melesio	Mexico	3:49.6
9	1	Majid Abdi	Tunisia	4:02.4
10	1	K. P. Chandrosona	Sri Lanka	4:10.1
1	2	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	3:41.8	Q
2	2	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	3:41.8	Q
3	2	Harald Hudak	West Germany	3:42.2	q
4	2	Valeriy Abramov	Soviet Union	3:43.6	q
5	2	Gheorghe Ghipu	Romania	3:46.6
6	2	Gabriele Ferrero	Italy	3:49.6
7	2	Klaas Lok	Netherlands	3:50.9
8	2	Takashi Ishii	Japan	3:52.4
9	2	Babacar Niang	Senegal	3:54.3
10	2	Samuel Nyariki	Kenya	3:55.9
1	3	Klaus-Peter Weippert	East Germany	3:46.1	Q
2	3	Vladimir Kanev	Bulgaria	3:46.1	Q
3	3	Henryk Wasilewski	Poland	3:46.2
4	3	Joost Borm	Netherlands	3:47.3
5	3	Francisco Gordillo	Spain	3:49.3
6	3	Tzvi Dauber	Israel	3:52.4
7	3	José Gómez	Mexico	3:57.0
8	3	Leonardo Sorbello	Italy	4:01.8
9	3	Abera Asres	Ethiopia	4:12.0
1	4	Mike Kearns	Great Britain	3:46.6	Q
2	4	Michael Lederer	West Germany	3:46.9	Q
3	4	Amar Brahmia	Algeria	3:47.9
4	4	Dimitar Minchev	Bulgaria	3:49.5
5	4	Imre Nagy	Hungary	3:49.8
6	4	Peter Spir	Canada	3:55.1
7	4	Jamie Botten	Australia	3:58.4	[3]
8	4	Mohsen Ouerfelli	Tunisia	3:59.2
9	4	Karl Schönenberger	Switzerland	4:13.8
10	4	Edwin Attard	Malta	4:14.5

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	3:40.2
	Mike Kearns	Great Britain	3:40.9
	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	3:41.0
4	Luis Medina	Cuba	3:41.4
5	Juhani Sams	Finland	3:41.5
6	Klaus-Peter Weippert	East Germany	3:41.5
7	Vladimir Yerokhin	Soviet Union	3:41.7
8	Paul Lawther	Great Britain	3:41.8
9	Valeriy Abramov	Soviet Union	3:42.0
10	Vladimir Kanev	Bulgaria	3:42.3
11	Harald Hudak	West Germany	3:47.8
12	Michael Lederer	West Germany	3:56.0