1974 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		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 km walk	men
50 km 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

The men's 1500 metres at the 1974 European Athletics Championships was held in Rome, Italy, at Stadio Olimpico on 6 and 8 September 1974.^[1]

Gold	Klaus-Peter Justus  East Germany
Silver	Tom Birger Hansen  Denmark
Bronze	Thomas Wessinghage  West Germany

8 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Klaus-Peter Justus	East Germany	3:40.55
	Tom Birger Hansen	Denmark	3:40.75
	Thomas Wessinghage	West Germany	3:41.1
4	Haico Scharn	Netherlands	3:41.3
5	Volodymyr Panteley	Soviet Union	3:41.4
6	Pekka Vasala	Finland	3:41.5
7	Paul-Heinz Wellmann	West Germany	3:41.6
8	Rolf Gysin	Switzerland	3:41.8
9	Ulf Högberg	Sweden	3:42.3
10	Gunnar Ekman	Sweden	3:42.5
11	Henryk Wasilewski	Poland	3:42.7
12	Marcel Philippe	France	3:46.0

6 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ulf Högberg	Sweden	3:42.0	Q
2	Haico Scharn	Netherlands	3:42.5	Q
3	Rolf Gysin	Switzerland	3:42.6	Q
4	Klaus-Peter Justus	East Germany	3:42.8	q
5	Henryk Szordykowski	Poland	3:43.7
6	Ivan Kováč	Czechoslovakia	3:44.7
7	John Hartnett	Ireland	3:46.6
8	Fernando Mamede	Portugal	3:47.1
9	Gerd Larsen	Denmark	3:47.7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Henryk Wasilewski	Poland	3:43.0	Q
2	Thomas Wessinghage	West Germany	3:43.1	Q
3	Gunnar Ekman	Sweden	3:43.2	Q
4	Gheorghe Ghipu	Romania	3:43.4
5	Luigi Zarcone	Italy	3:44.4
6	Pyotr Anisim	Soviet Union	3:44.7
7	Frank Clement	Great Britain	3:45.0
8	Lars-Martin Kaupang	Norway	3:47.0
	Günther Hasler	Liechtenstein	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Paul-Heinz Wellmann	West Germany	3:42.4	Q
2	Volodymyr Panteley	Soviet Union	3:42.6	Q
3	Marcel Philippe	France	3:42.7	Q
4	Tom Birger Hansen	Denmark	3:43.1	q
5	Pekka Vasala	Finland	3:43.3	q
6	Giulio Riga	Italy	3:43.5
7	Ray Smedley	Great Britain	3:43.6
8	Daniel Jańczuk	Poland	3:45.2
9	Nicolae Onescu	Romania	3:46.7
10	John Charvetto	Gibraltar	3:55.4	NR

According to an unofficial count, 28 athletes from 19 countries participated in the event.