European Athletics Championships 2018/1500 m for women

discipline	1500-meter run for women
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Participants	24 athletes from 16 countries
Competition phase	August 10, 2018 (preliminary) August 12, 2018 (final)
Medalists
gold	Laura Muir ( GBR )
silver	Sofia Ennaoui ( POL )
bronze	Laura Weightman ( GBR )

Berlin Olympic Stadium

The women's 1,500 meter run at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 10th and 12th in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital Berlin .

The European champion was the Briton Laura Muir . The Polish Sofia Ennaoui finished second. Laura Weightman , like the winner from Great Britain, won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	Genzebe Dibaba	3: 50.07 min	Monaco	17th July 2015
European record	Tatiana Kasankina	3: 52.47 min	Zurich , Switzerland	August 13, 1980
Championship record	Tatiana Tomaschowa	3: 56.91 min	EM in Gothenburg , Sweden	August 13, 2006

Prelims

Field of 1,500-meter runners in the first semi-final

The Czech Kristiina Mäki was eliminated in seventh place in her preliminary run

The Finn Sara Kuivisto did not make it to the final after finishing ninth in the first heat

From the two preliminary runs, the four first in each run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

August 10, 2018, 12:00 p.m. CEST

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Laura Muir	Great Britain	4: 09.12
2	Ciara Mageean	Ireland	4: 09.35
3	Marta Pen	Portugal	4: 09.40
4th	Angelika Cichocka	Poland	4: 10.04 SB
5	Esther Guerrero	Spain	4: 10.14
6th	Elise Vanderelst	Belgium	4: 10.30
7th	Kristiina Mäki	Czech Republic	4: 10.35 SB
8th	Jemma Reekie	Great Britain	4: 10.35
9	Sara Kuivisto	Finland	4: 11.39
10	Diana Sujew	Germany	4: 12.08
11	Anna Silvander	Sweden	4: 12.61
12	Claudia Bobocea	Romania	4: 16.20

Run 2

August 10, 2018, 12:09 p.m. CEST

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland	4: 08.60
2	Laura Weightman	Great Britain	4: 08.74
3	Marta Pérez	Spain	4: 08.85
4th	Hanna Hermansson	Sweden	4: 08.98 PB
5	Simona Vrzalová	Czech Republic	4: 09.11
6th	Darja Baryssewitsch	Belarus	4: 09.32
7th	Diana Mezuliáníková	Czech Republic	4: 09.98
8th	As long as Pereira	Spain	4: 10.63
9	Caterina Granz	Germany	4: 11.46
10	Delia Sclabas	Switzerland	4: 13.47
11	Amela Terzić	Serbia	4: 17.22
12	Natalia Evangelidou	Cyprus	4: 25.91

final

August 12, 2018, 8:00 p.m. CEST

The Dutch European champion from 2014  - Sifan Hassan  -, who had also been very successful in the championships at world level in recent years, did not take part in the 1500-meter run here in Berlin , but decided on the 5000- Meter run , which she then won. The favorites were primarily the two Britons Laura Muir - fourth at the 2017 World Championships  - and Laura Weightman - sixth of 2017 World Championships - as well as the Polish European Champion of 2016 Angelika Cichocka and her compatriot Sofia Ennaoui, who won the second semi-final race made a strong impression two days before this final.

The two British co-favorites designed the race from the front from the start. Initially, Weightman led with a rather moderate lap time of 1: 09.54 minutes for the first four hundred meters. Then Muir took the initiative and accelerated the pace significantly. The second lap she ran away from the lead in 1: 02.59 min. In the further course, Muir remained brave and kept the pace high - 1: 01.89 min for the third lap. At this point the field was already stretched, some runners had to tear down. Weightman was still in second place ahead of Ennaoui and the Irish Ciara Mageean and the Spanish Marta Pérez, but Muir's opponents were already struggling not to lose contact with her. Muir worked for a small lead, which gradually grew larger.

Pérez now had to let go and lost many positions before the finish line. There was also a gap between the second-placed Weightman and her pursuers. But Ennaoui and Mageean fought their way back. At the end of the target curve Ennaoui then passed Weightman, while the leading Laura Muir had hurried and secured the European championship title by a clear margin. Laura Weightman defended her bronze place against Ciara Mageean's attack to the finish. Sofia Ennaoui won the silver medal ahead of the two. The Czech Simona Vrzalová was fifth, ahead of the Portuguese Marta Pen. The seventh and eighth place went to Hanna Hermansson from Sweden and Darja Baryssewitsch from Belarus. Marta Pérez finished ninth.

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
	Laura Muir	Great Britain	4: 02.32
	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland	4: 03.08
	Laura Weightman	Great Britain	4: 03.75
4th	Ciara Mageean	Ireland	4: 04.63
5	Simona Vrzalová	Czech Republic	4: 06.47
6th	Marta Pen	Portugal	4: 06.54
7th	Hanna Hermansson	Sweden	4: 07.16 PB
8th	Darja Baryssewitsch	Belarus	4: 07.52
9	Marta Pérez	Spain	4: 07.65
10	Diana Mezuliáníková	Czech Republic	4: 07.82
11	Esther Guerrero	Spain	4: 09.88
12	Angelika Cichocka	Poland	4: 10.93

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  Round of honor for the two British medalists Laura Muir, European Champion ( right ) and Laura Weightman, bronze medalist

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  Vice European Champion Sofia Ennaoui, Poland - here at a cross-country run

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  The Swede Hanna Hermansson finished seventh

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  The Spaniard Marta Pérez came in ninth place

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  Tenth place for the Czech Diana Mezuliáníková

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  The Spaniard Esther Guerrero was eleventh

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  The Polish Angelika Cichocka - here in 2014 - reached twelfth place in the final

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 14, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 14, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 14, 2019

Video

• 1500m, Finale - Europsko prvenstvo za seniore i seniorke 2018 on youtube.com, published on August 12, 2018, accessed on January 14, 2019