World Athletics Championships 1987/1500 m for women

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	32 athletes from 20 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	September 3rd (preliminary) September 5th (final)
Medalists Tetjana Samolenko ( URS )   Hildegard Körner ( GDR )   Inge Exner ( ROM )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The women's 1,500-meter run at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held on September 3 and 5, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

World champion was the Vice European Champion from 1986 Tetjana Samolenko from the Soviet Union , who was able to achieve her second gold medal at these European championships after her victory over 3000 meters . She won ahead of Hildegard Körner , former Hildegard Ullrich from the GDR . Bronze went to the Romanian Olympic runner-up in 1984 Doina Melinte , former Doina Beșliu, who also became Olympic champion over 800 meters in the same year .

Records

Existing records

World record	3: 52.47 min	Tatiana Kasankina	Zurich , Switzerland	August 13, 1980
World championship record	4:00, 90 min	Mary Decker	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 14, 1983

Record improvement

World champion Tetjana Samolenko from the Soviet Union improved the existing World Cup record in the final on September 5th by 2.34 seconds to 3: 58.56 minutes. Like three other finalists, she was the first female runner at world championships under four minutes.

doping

There was a doping case in this competition:

The doping sample submitted after the World Cup race by Swiss Sandra Gasser , who initially came third , tested positive for testosterone . She had to surrender her medal and was banned for two years.

Primarily two runners were disadvantaged:

• The Romanian Doina Melinte received her bronze medal late and could not take part in the award ceremony.
• The Moroccan Fatima Aouam would have been eligible to start in the final due to the time rule.

Preliminary round

3rd September 1987

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the three fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Doina Melinte	Romania	4: 05.41
2	Hildegard Körner	GDR	4: 05.42
3	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	4: 05.48
4th	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	4: 05.57
5	Linda Sheskey	United States	4: 06.03
6th	Fatima Aouam	Morocco	4: 07.38 actually qualified for the final
7th	Yvonne Murray	Great Britain	4: 07.83
8th	Brit McRoberts	Canada	4: 08.37
9	Annika Ericson	Sweden	4: 11.59
10	Maria Lomba	Sao Tome and Principe	5: 01.43
DNS	Salina Chirchir	Kenya

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Andrea Hahmann	GDR	4: 05.18
2	Marina Yakhmeneva	Soviet Union	4: 05.51
3	Mitica Junghiatu	Romania	4: 05.60
4th	Debbie Bowker	Canada	4: 05.90
5	Diana Richburg	United States	4: 07.10
6th	Brigitte Kraus	BR Germany	4: 07.40
7th	Agnese Possamai	Italy	4: 08.84
8th	Florence Giolitti	France	4: 09.08
9	Alphocinah Simelane	Swaziland	4: 35.64
10	Georgina Tomisato	American Samoa	5: 49.52
DOP	Sandra Gasser	Switzerland	admitted to the finals

Paula Ivan, next year Olympic champion on this route, missed the final by one place

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ulrike Bruns	GDR	4: 08.36
2	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	4: 08.39
3	Svetlana Kitova	Soviet Union	4: 08.64
4th	Kirsty Wade	Great Britain	4: 09.06
5	Paula Ivan	Romania	4: 09.28
6th	Vera Michallek	BR Germany	4: 09.89
7th	Regina Jacobs	United States	4: 12.52
8th	Christine Pfitzinger	New Zealand	4: 13.59
9	Maite Zúñiga	Spain	4: 16.21
10	Evelin Adiru	Uganda	4: 17.72
11	Kriscia García	El Salvador	4: 34.76

final

Hildegard Körner (No. 46), former Hildegard Ullrich, became vice world champion

5th September 1987

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	3: 58.56 CR
2	Hildegard Körner	GDR	3: 58.67
3	Doina Melinte	Romania	3: 59.27
4th	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	3: 59.90
5	Andrea Hahmann	GDR	4: 00.63
6th	Kirsty Wade	Great Britain	4: 01.41
7th	Diana Richburg	United States	4: 01.79
8th	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	4: 03.63
9	Svetlana Kitova	Soviet Union	4: 04.66
10	Linda Sheskey	United States	4: 08.33
11	Debbie Bowker	Canada	4: 00.38
12	Mitica Junghiatu	Romania	4: 10.35
13	Marina Yakhmeneva	Soviet Union	4: 10.51
DNF	Ulrike Bruns	GDR
DOP	Sandra Gasser	Switzerland

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  Doina Melinte, former Doina Beșliu, 1984 Olympic runner-up and Olympic champion over 800 meters , won bronze

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  Elly van Hulst (No. 27), sixth over 3000 meters , finished eighth

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  Ulrike Bruns, former Ulrike Klapezynski, third in the Olympic Games in 1976 and third in the European Championship over 10,000 meters in 1986 , did not finish here after having won bronze over 3000 meters four days earlier

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 2, 2020
• Women 1500m Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed April 2, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 1500 m, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 274), English, accessed on April 2, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 2, 2020
2. ↑ As for life on spiegel.de, October 5, 1987, accessed on April 2, 2020