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The OFFICIAL Top 10 Greatest 1500m Runners of All Time

1500m Ranker History · 2025-03-16T11:55:00-04:00

#10 Kip Keino KIPCHOGE KEINO was a sensational runner - in the Games of 1968 & 1972 he was winner of FOUR Olympic medals across the 1500m [🥇🥈], 5000m [🥈] and the 3000m Steeplechase [🥇]!!!🌟 KEINO was and remains a true inspiration - he went on to become Chair of the Kenyan Olympic Committee and his Legend lives on…today we celebrate KIP KEINO as the Men’s 1500m no.10 GREATEST OF ALL-TIME…💫🐐#9 Luigi Beccali BECCALI was the first Italian to win Olympic Gold in running when becoming the 1500m Champion at the 1932 LA Games - he backed that up with European Gold in 1934, Olympic Bronze in 1936 [Berlin] and European Bronze in 1938!🥇🥇🥉🥉 Today we celebrate LUIGI BECCALI as the Men’s 1500m No.9 GREATEST OF ALL-TIME…💫🐐#8 Steve Ovett OVETT was a giant of the 1500m with dominance of the distance few can boast…best highlighted by the fact that between 1977-1980 he won 45 consecutive races over the Mile and 1500m alongside several World Records!!!🔥 European 1500m Gold in 1978 was followed by Olympic Bronze in 1980 [Moscow] and of course his most famous win, that 800m Olympic Gold!🥇🥇🥉 Awarded an OBE [Officer of the British Empire] in 2000, today we celebrate STEVE OVETT as the Men’s 1500m No.8 GREATEST OF ALL-TIME…💫🐐#7 Paavo Nurmi The ‘Flying Finn’…NURMI is quite simply an Olympic Legend and one of the All-Time Greats of Distance running - emphasised by this incredible statistic: in total he won TWELVE Olympic Medals [9x GOLD!] in 3 Games [1920-1928] across the 1500m, 5000m, 10000m, 3000m Steeplechase, Cross Country & Distance Team Events!!!🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇🥈🥈🥈 Today we celebrate PAAVO NURMI as the Men’s 1500m No.7 GREATEST OF ALL-TIME…💫🐐#6 Gunder Hagg An early proponent of Fartlek training, HÄGG broke a total of 15 WORLD RECORDS during his running career [10 of them within just 3-months in 1942]!!!🔥 HÄGG’s prime form during the years of World War II extinguished any Olympic opportunities, but his Legend lives on; in fact he was the first athlete to run 5000m in under 14 minutes [a record that lasted 12 years!] and it also took several years before his 1945 Mile World Record of 4 mins 1.4 secs was beaten [by a certain Roger Bannister in 1954, becoming the first man to go sub-4]…🌟#5 Herb Elliot ELLIOTT was a sensation - he burst onto the elite running scene in 1957 and proceeded to dominate…Commonwealth Gold in both the Mile and 880 yards came first in 1958, swiftly followed by multiple World Records and 1500m Gold at the 1960 Rome Olympics!🔥 Thereafter, ELLIOTT enrolled at Cambridge University and ended his incredible athletics career aged just 22!!! A successful business career followed [especially with Puma, for whom he became their CEO of North America]…⭐#4 Asbel Kiprop Given KIPROP’s doping ban for EPO in 2019, his high ranking will understandably rankle amongst many. For the record, we are very strongly anti-doping, however, our HBM Rankings are about absolute performance and achievement throughout History via official and ratified records to achieve a fair ranking for athletes across the generations - to that end, we specifically use IOC & World Athletics-approved marks that already strip the record books accordingly to inform our assessments. Against this backdrop, KIPROP’s achievements in the 1500m are to a level very few can match - his medal haul and elite longevity are bettered by only two athletes and he remains the third fastest man in History.#3 Seb Coe Where to start… •TWO-TIME 1500m Olympic Champion [1980 & 1984]!🥇🥇 •The only man to have won 1500m Olympic Gold TWICE!🔥 •TWELVE Indoor & Outdoor WORLD RECORDS across the 800m, 1000m, 1500m & Mile!💨 •Chair of LOCOG in 2012 [London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games & Paralympic Games]!🏅 •Chair of the BOA [British Olympic Association] 2012-2016!👏 •President of World Athletics!🏃🏻 •Chancellor of Loughborough University!🎓 •BBC Sports Personality of the Year [1979]!🌟 •MP, Knight, Life Peer & Lord [UK]!🎩 Today we celebrate SEB COE as the Men’s 1500m No.3 GREATEST OF ALL-TIME…💫🐐#2 Noureddine Morceli By the age of just 20, MORCELI was the 1500m World No.1…from there World Records and medals came a plenty…the climax of which was winning Olympic GOLD in 1996 [Atlanta]!!!🥇 His PB from 1995 still ranks fifth on the All-Time List 30 years later; for many he remains the greatest Miler ever…🔥 Today we celebrate NOUREDDINE MORCELI as the Men’s 1500m No.2 GREATEST OF ALL-TIME…💫🐐#1 Hicham El GuerroujNothing else needed to be saidAgree or disagree?

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Hicham actually has 4 world championship titles (1997,1999,2001,2003)

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