European Athletics Championships 2014/1500 m for women

22nd European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	25 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Zurich
Competition location	Letzigrund Stadium
Competition phase	August 12th (preliminary) August 15th (final)
Medalists Sifan Hassan ( NED )   Abeba Aregawi ( SWE )   Laura Weightman ( GBR )

The Letzigrund stadium in Zurich

The 1500 Meters of women in the 2014 European Athletics Championships was on the 12th and 15th of August 2014 in the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich held.

The European champion was Sifan Hassan from the Netherlands , who one day later also won silver over 5000 meters . The second place went to the for Sweden taking off reigning world champion and Olympic bronze medalist from 2012 Abeba Aregawi . Bronze went to the Briton Laura Weightman .

Existing records

World record	3: 50.46 min	Qu Yunxia	Beijing , People's Republic of China	September 11, 1993
European record	3: 52.47 min	Tatiana Kasankina	Zurich , Switzerland	August 13, 1980
EM record	3: 56.91 min	Tatiana Tomaschowa	EM Gothenburg , Sweden	August 13, 2006

The existing EM record was not set at these European championships and was not improved.

doping

There were two doping cases in this competition:

• The Ukrainian Hanna Mishchenko , who was eliminated in the first run, was banned for two years until August 2017 due to irregularities in her biological passport . Theirs since June 28, 2012 have been canceled.
• The Turkish woman Gamze Bulut - eliminated in the second preliminary run - was banned for doping until May 29, 2020. The results you have achieved since July 2011 - here anomalies were found in the biological passport - have been canceled. A day later, she also took part in the 5000 meter run, the tenth place she achieved there was also stripped of her.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

Laura Muir did not have the strength of the coming years and finished fifth in her race with 4: 14.69 minutes in the preliminary round

August 12, 2014, 10:36 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ababa Aregawi	Sweden	4: 11.64
2	Amela Terzić	Serbia	4: 11.75
3	Svetlana Karamaschewa	Russia	4: 12.94
4th	Ingvill Måkestad Bovim	Norway	4: 13.02
5	Laura Muir	Great Britain	4: 14.69
6th	Maureen Koster	Netherlands	4: 15.11
7th	Sonja Roman	Slovenia	4: 16.38
8th	Esma Aydemir	Turkey	4: 16.90
9	Margherita Magnani	Italy	4: 17.19
10	Agata Strausa	Latvia	4: 17.61
11	Isabel Macías	Spain	4: 17.76
DOP	Hanna Mishchenko	Ukraine

Other runners eliminated in the first heat:

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  Maureen Koster - sixth place in 4: 15.11 min

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  Esma Aydemir - eighth place in 4: 16.90 min

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  Margherita Magnani - ninth place in 4: 17.19 min

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  Isabel Macías - eleventh place in 4: 17.76 min

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  Hanna Mishchenko - disqualified for doping offense

Forward 2

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  Lucia Klocová was eliminated in 4: 14.77 minutes in tenth of her preliminary run

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  Diana Mezuliáníková did not reach her eleventh place in her preliminary run in 4: 15.40 m for the final

August 12, 2014, 10:45 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	4: 09.55
2	Renata Pliś	Poland	4: 10.33
3	Federica Del Buono	Italy	4: 10.47
4th	Laura Weightman	Great Britain	4: 10.55
5	Hannah England	Great Britain	4: 10.73
6th	Diana Sujew	Germany	4: 11.27
7th	Anna Shchagina	Russia	4: 11.27
8th	Natalija Pryshchepa	Ukraine	4: 11.42
9	Luiza Gega	Albania	4: 12.25
10	Lucia Klocová	Slovakia	4: 14.77
11	Diana Mezuliáníková	Czech Republic	4: 15.40
12	Liina Tšernov	Estonia	4: 25.18
DOP	Gamze Bulut	Turkey

final

The podium over 1500 meters

August 15, 2014, 7:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	4: 04.18
2	Ababa Aregawi	Sweden	4: 05.08
3	Laura Weightman	Great Britain	4: 06.32
4th	Renata Pliś	Poland	4: 06.65
5	Federica Del Buono	Italy	4: 07.49
6th	Hannah England	Great Britain	4: 07.80
7th	Anna Shchagina	Russia	4: 08.05
8th	Diana Sujew	Germany	4: 08.63
9	Ingvill Måkestad Bovim	Norway	4: 08.85
10	Natalija Pryshchepa	Ukraine	4: 08.89
11	Amela Terzić	Serbia	4: 11.35
12	Svetlana Karamaschewa	Russia	4: 19.11

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  European champion Sifan Hassan

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  Abeba Aregawi, reigning reigning world champion and 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, took silver

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  Bronze medalist Laura Weightman (left, right next to her: Laura Muir)

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  Renata Pliś took fourth place

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  Fifth place Federica Del Buono

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  Hannah England reached number six

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  Anna Shchagina came in seventh place

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  The 2012 Vice European Champion Diana Sujew had to be content with eighth place

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  Ingvill Måkestad Bovim. EM - Sixth of 2012, this time was ninth

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  Natalija Pryschtschepa (far left) reached tenth place

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  Amela Terzić - eleventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Zurich 2014 at european-athletics.org, accessed on February 13, 2020
• Women 1500m European Championship 2014 Zurich on todor66.com, accessed on February 13, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2014 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on February 13, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2014, 1500 m women on sportschau.de, accessed on February 13, 2020
• 22nd European Athletics Championships 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland from ifosta.de, accessed on February 13, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m women , accessed February 13, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 53 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on February 13, 2020
3. ↑ Mishchenko stripped of 2012 medal on athleticsweekly.com February 26, 2016 (English), accessed February 13, 2020
4. ↑ Doping - new winner Bulut also has to hand in Olympic gold Hamburger Abendblatt March 29, 2017, accessed on February 13, 2020