1946 European Athletics Championships
Track events
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
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
Decathlon	men

The men's 1500 metres at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held in Oslo, Norway, at Bislett Stadion on 24 and 25 August 1946.^[1]

Gold	Lennart Strand  Sweden
Silver	Henry Eriksson  Sweden
Bronze	Erik Jørgensen  Denmark

25 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lennart Strand	Sweden	3:48.0	CR
	Henry Eriksson	Sweden	3:48.8
	Erik Jørgensen	Denmark	3:52.8
4	Václav Čevona	Czechoslovakia	3:53.0	NR
5	Sándor Garay	Hungary	3:53.0
6	Douglas Wilson	Great Britain	3:53.2
7	Paul Messner	France	3:56.6
8	Luboš Vomácka	Czechoslovakia	4:07.2

24 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Lennart Strand	Sweden	3:56.6	Q
2	Sándor Garay	Hungary	3:56.8	Q
3	Erik Jørgensen	Denmark	3:57.0	Q
4	Václav Čevona	Czechoslovakia	3:57.4	Q
5	Aleksandr Pugachevskiy [ru]	Soviet Union	3:57.6
6	Óskar Jónsson	Iceland	3:58.4	NR
7	Willy Sponberg	Norway	3:59.2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Henry Eriksson	Sweden	3:54.6	Q
2	Douglas Wilson	Great Britain	3:55.0	Q
3	Paul Messner	France	3:58.0	Q
4	Luboš Vomácka	Czechoslovakia	3:58.8	Q
5	Asbjørn Hansen	Norway	3:59.0
6	Walter Lutz [de]	Switzerland	4:04.2
7	Jan Staniszewski	Poland	4:10.8

According to an unofficial count, 14 athletes from 11 countries participated in the event.