European Athletics Championships 2016/1500 m for women

23rd European Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	21 athletes from 16 countries
venue	Amsterdam
Competition location	Olympic Stadium Amsterdam
Competition phase	July 8th (preliminary) July 10th (final)
Medalists Angelika Cichocka ( POL )   Sifan Hassan ( NED )   Ciara Mageean ( IRL )

The Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam

The women's 1,500-meter run at the 2016 European Athletics Championships was held on July 8th and 10th, 2016 in the Olympic Stadium in the Dutch capital, Amsterdam .

European champion was the Polish woman Angelika Cichocka . Second place went to the Dutch defending champion and third in the 2015 World Championships, Sifan Hassan , who also won bronze over 5000 meters at the 2015 World Championships and became vice European champion in 2014 over this longer distance . The Irish Ciara Mageean took third place.

Existing records

World record	3: 50.07 min	Genzebe Dibaba	Monaco	17th July 2015
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 in the slightest at risk at these European championships. In the fastest race, the second heat, a time of just under 4:10 was achieved. The final was designed as a pure lane separation with an end time of more than four and a half minutes.

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

July 8, 2016, 6:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	4: 13.45
2	Angelika Cichocka	Poland	4: 13.47
3	Ciara Mageean	Ireland	4: 13.61
4th	Marta Pen	Portugal	4: 13.74
5	Darja Baryssewitsch	Belarus	4: 14.06
6th	Danuta Urbanik	Poland	4: 14.86
7th	Marta Pérez	Spain	4: 17.24
8th	Melissa Courtney	Great Britain	4: 18.74
9	Claudia Bobocea	Romania	4: 18.98
10	Liina Tšernov	Estonia	4: 29.47
DNF	Natalija Pryshchepa	Ukraine

Middle distance runners eliminated in the first run:

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  Danuta Urbanik - sixth place in 4: 14.86 min

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  Marta Pérez - seventh place in 4: 17.24 min

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  Melissa Courtney (here in third position) - eighth place in 4: 18.74 min

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  Claudia Bobocea - ninth place in 4: 18.98 min

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  Natalija Pryschtschepa (far left) , the day before European champion over 800 meters , gave up the race

Forward 2

As one of two athletes in the second heat, Florina Pierdevară retired after finishing ninth there in 4: 12.37 minutes

July 8, 2016, 6:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Amela Terzić	Serbia	4: 09.71
2	Lucia Hrivnák Klocová	Slovakia	4: 10.90
3	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland	4: 10.99
4th	Sarah McDonald	Great Britain	4: 11.14
5	As long as Andreia Pereira	Spain	4: 11.48
6th	Ingvill Måkestad Bovim	Norway	4: 11.54
7th	Maren Kock	Germany	4: 11.67
8th	Margherita Magnani	Italy	4: 11.78
9	Florina Pierdevară	Romania	4: 12.37
10	Anastasía-Panayióta Marinákou	Greece	4: 16.53

final

European champion Angelika Cichocka

July 10, 2016, 5:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Angelika Cichocka	Poland	4: 33.00
2	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	4: 33.76
3	Ciara Mageean	Ireland	4: 33.78
4th	Ingvill Måkestad Bovim	Norway	4: 34.15
5	Marta Pen	Portugal	4: 34.41
6th	Maren Kock	Germany	4: 34.54
7th	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland	4: 34.84
8th	As long as Andreia Pereira	Spain	4: 34.88
9	Sarah McDonald	Great Britain	4: 34.93
10	Lucia Hrivnák Klocová	Slovakia	4: 35.61
11	Margherita Magnani	Italy	4: 36.51
12	Amela Terzić	Serbia	4: 37.70

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  Vice European Champion Sifan Hassan - she was the defending champion and World Cup third in 2015 as well as over 5000 meters World Cup third in 2015 and Vice European Champion in 2014

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  Ingvill Måkestad Bovim finished fourth

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  Maren Kock, later Maren Orth, came in sixth place

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  Sofia Ennaoui - here at a cross-country run - achieved seventh place

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  Lucia Hrivnák Klocová was tenth

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  The eleventh placed Margherita Magnani

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  Twelfth place for Amela Terzić

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Amsterdam 2016 at european-athletics.org, accessed on March 5, 2020
• Women 1500m European Championship 2016 Amsterdam on todor66.com, accessed March 5, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2016 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on March 5, 2020
• 23rd European Athletics Championships 2016 in Amsterdam, Netherlands from ifosta.de, accessed on March 5, 2020

Video

• 1500m Women's Final - European Athletics Championships 2016 on youtube.com, accessed March 5, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500m women , accessed March 5, 2020
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 1500 m Women , Spanish / English, p. 53 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on March 5, 2020