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 | |
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gold | Laura Muir ( GBR ) |
silver | Sofia Ennaoui ( POL ) |
bronze | Laura Weightman ( GBR ) |
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
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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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 |
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