1997 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres event at the 1997 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Turku, Finland, on 10 and 12 July 1997.^[1]^[2]

Medalists

12 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3:42.37
	Carlos García	Spain	3:43.24
	Alexandru Vasile	Romania	3:43.36
4	Dirk Heinze	Germany	3:44.81
5	Juha Kukkamo	Finland	3:45.16
6	David Salvati	France	3:45.25
7	Andrew Walker	Ireland	3:45.85
8	Sami Valtonen	Finland	3:45.97
9	Mauro Casagrande	Italy	3:46.09
10	Miroslav Suchý	Czech Republic	3:47.01
11	Frédéric Chocteau	France	3:47.18
12	Thomas Suter	Switzerland	3:47.28

10 July
Qualified: first 4 in each heat and 4 best to the Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Carlos García	Spain	3:44.56	Q
2	David Salvati	France	3:44.88	Q
3	Mauro Casagrande	Italy	3:45.23	Q
4	Juha Kukkamo	Finland	3:45.65	Q
5	Dirk Heinze	Germany	3:45.66	q
6	Sebastian Miller	Poland	3:46.33
7	Daniel Oniciuc	Romania	3:49.27
8	Evaldas Martinka	Lithuania	3:52.22
9	Danko Radomirović	Yugoslavia	3:55.36
10	Abdülkadir Türk	Turkey	3:58.01

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Reyes Estévez	Spain	3:43.14	Q
2	Alexandru Vasile	Romania	3:43.55	Q
3	Miroslav Suchý	Czech Republic	3:44.88	Q
4	Andrew Walker	Ireland	3:44.89	Q
5	Frédéric Chocteau	France	3:45.22	q
6	Thomas Suter	Switzerland	3:45.29	q
7	Sami Valtonen	Finland	3:46.22	q
8	Ben Reese	Great Britain	3:46.75
9	Jakub Fijałkowski	Poland	3:47.24

According to an unofficial count, 19 athletes from 14 countries participated in the event.