World Athletics Championships 1991/1500 m for women

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	28 athletes from 27 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (preliminary) August 31st (final)
Medalists Hassiba Boulmerka ( ALG )   Tetjana Samolenko ( URS )   Lyudmila Rogacheva ( URS )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The women's 1,500-meter run at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held on August 29 and 31, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

With silver and bronze, the Soviet middle-distance athletes won two medals in this competition. World Champion was four times African champion ( 1988 / 1989 , each have 800 and 1500 meters ) Hassiba Boulmerka from Algeria . Second place went to the defending champion and Olympic bronze medalist in 1988, Tetjana Samolenko , who was also world champion over 3000 meters in 1987 , Olympic champion in 1988 and again world champion five days earlier. Bronze went to Lyudmila Rogacheva .

Existing records

World record	3: 52.47 min	Tatiana Kasankina	Zurich , Switzerland	August 13, 1980
World championship record	3: 58.56 min	Tetiana Samolenko	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	5th September 1987

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships. The four-minute mark was not undercut in the final either.

Preliminary round

August 29, 1991, 4:15 p.m.

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. The three athletes, who obtained the right to take part in the finals over their time, were all recruited from the first heat, the fastest of the three preliminary races.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Susan Sirma	Kenya	4: 04.94
2	Debbie Bowker	Canada	4: 05.07
3	PattiSue Plumer	United States	4: 05.08
4th	Rawilja Kotowitsch	Soviet Union	4: 05.63
5	Violeta Beclea	Romania	4: 05.77
6th	Yvonne May	Germany	4: 06.09
7th	Kirsty Wade	Great Britain	4: 07.22
8th	Yvonne van der Kolk	Netherlands	4: 07.39
9	Christine Pfitzinger	New Zealand	4: 08.43
10	Khin Khin Htwe	Myanmar	4: 12.21
11	Estela Estevez	Spain	4: 13.93
12	Snežana Pajkić	Yugoslavia	4: 14.20
13	Zheng Lijuan	People's Republic of China	4: 14.95
DNS	Dawn Williams-Sewer	Dominica

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hassiba Boulmerka	Algeria	4: 08.20
2	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Soviet Union	4: 08.34
3	Letitia Vriesde	Suriname	4: 08.46
4th	Elena Fidatof	Romania	4: 08.81
5	Christina Cahill	Great Britain	4: 09.01
6th	Darcy Arreola	United States	4: 13.08
7th	Ivana Kubešová	Czechoslovakia	4: 14.69
8th	Leah Pells	Canada	4: 14.82
9	Aisling Molloy	Ireland	4: 16.61
10	Véronique Pongérard	France	4: 16.87
11	Bigna Samuel	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	4: 29.42
12	Mantokoane Pitso	Lesotho	4: 42.79
DNS	Sandra Gasser	Switzerland
	Isabel Elias	Angola

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Doina Melinte	Romania	4: 08.78
2	Ellen Kiessling	Germany	4: 09.23
3	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	4: 09.25
4th	Małgorzata Rydz	Poland	4: 09.31
5	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4: 09.34
6th	Irini Theodoridou	Greece	4: 11.14
7th	Karin Medin	Sweden	4: 11.23
8th	Robyn Meagher	Canada	4: 12.47
9	Suzy Favor Hamilton	United States	4: 15.54
10	Jana Kučeríková	Czechoslovakia	4: 15.69
11	Tuuli Merikoski	Finland	4: 17.57
12	Edith Nakiyingi	Uganda	4: 25.43
13	Gengui Baguepeng	Chad	4: 54.41
DNS	Pauline Konga	Kenya

final

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  Doina Melinte, 1984 Olympic champion over 800 and Olympic runner-up over 1500 meters , took fourth place

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  The fifth placed Ellen Kießling

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  Yvonne Mai reached number thirteen

August 31, 1991, 7:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hassiba Boulmerka	Algeria	4: 02.21
2	Tetiana Samolenko	Soviet Union	4: 02.58
3	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Soviet Union	4: 02.72
4th	Doina Melinte	Romania	4: 03.19
5	Ellen Kiessling	Germany	4: 04.75
6th	Kirsty Wade	Great Britain	4: 05.16
7th	Susan Sirma	Kenya	4: 05.47
8th	Małgorzata Rydz	Poland	4: 05.52
9	Letitia Vriesde	Suriname	4: 05.67
10	Violeta Beclea	Romania	4: 05.86
11	Debbie Bowker	Canada	4: 06.06
12	PattiSue Plumer	United States	4: 6.80
13	Yvonne May	Germany	4: 07.45
14th	Elena Fidatof	Romania	4: 10.15
15th	Rawilja Kotowitsch	Soviet Union	4: 17.59

Video

• World Championships 1991 Women's 1500m , video posted on youtube.com September 27, 2013, accessed April 29, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 29, 2020
• Women 1500m Athletics III World Championship Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed April 29, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 1500 m, Tokyo 1991, p. 274 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 29, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on April 29, 2020