World Athletics Championships 1993/1500 m for women

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	25 athletes from 21 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 20th (preliminary) August 22nd (final)
Medalists Liu Dong ( CHN )   Sonia O'Sullivan ( IRL )   Hassiba Boulmerka ( ALG )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The women's 1,500-meter run at the 1993 World Athletics Championships was held on August 20 and 22, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

After the sovereign victories of Chinese endurance women over 3000 and 10,000 meters , there was also a clear Chinese success here in the middle distance . World champion was Liu Dong , who ran an impressive final lap with 60.15 seconds. She won before the Irishwoman Sonia O'Sullivan . Bronze went to the favored Algerian defending champion and 1992 Olympic champion Hassiba Boulmerka .

Records

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 also not undercut in the final.

Preliminary round

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

August 20, 1993, 11:00 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	4: 05.81
2	Yi Lu	People's Republic of China	4: 05.97
3	Theresia Kiesl	Austria	4: 06.89
4th	Maite Zúñiga	Spain	4: 07.46
5	Anna Brzezińska	Poland	4: 08.33
6th	Bettina Andersen	Denmark	4: 09.75
7th	Blandine Bitzner	France	4: 10.70
8th	Alisa Hill	United States	4: 11.29
9	Sonia McGeorge	Great Britain	4: 12.93
10	Sarah Howell	Canada	4: 13.40
11	Rawilja Agletdinova	Belarus	4: 17.43
12	Laurence Niyonsaba	Rwanda	4: 25.70
13	Raj Kumari Pandey	Nepal	4: 49.22
DNS	Lyubov Kremlyova	Russia

Forward 2

August 20, 1993, 11:10 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hassiba Boulmerka	Algeria	4: 13.13
2	Wei Yan	People's Republic of China	4: 13.87
3	Oksana Mernikova	Belarus	4: 13.93
4th	Angela Chalmers	Canada	4: 14.34
5	Elena Fidatof	Romania	4: 13.94
6th	Małgorzata Rydz	Poland	4: 14.75
7th	Gwen Griffiths	South Africa	4: 14.81
8th	Annette Peters	United States	4: 15.19
9	Harumi Hiroyama	Japan	4: 19.67
10	Vera Tshuwaschowa	Russia	4: 21.33
11	Lyudmila Derevyankina	Kyrgyzstan	4: 28.39
DNS	Alia Almatari	Jordan
	Karolina Tanona	Fiji

Forward 3

August 20, 1993, 11:20 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Liu Dong	People's Republic of China	4: 04.36
2	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Russia	4: 07.52
3	Fabia Trabaldo	Italy	4: 07.95
4th	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4: 08.32
5	Violeta Beclea	Romania	4: 08.82
6th	Leah Pells	Canada	4: 08.97
7th	Sandra Gasser	Switzerland	4: 11.75
8th	Andrea Sollárová	Slovakia	4: 14.47
9	Soraya Vieira Telles	Brazil	4: 18.67
10	Gina Procaccio	United States	4: 29.17
11	Shirley Cespedes	Costa Rica	4: 42.15
12	Martha Portobanco	Nicaragua	4: 56.22
DNF	Simone Weidner	Germany

final

First big international success for runner-up world champion Sonia O'Sullivan - later there were further medals and top placements for her

August 22, 1993, 4:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Liu Dong	People's Republic of China	4: 00.50
2	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	4: 03.48
3	Hassiba Boulmerka	Algeria	4: 04.29
4th	Yi Lu	People's Republic of China	4: 06.06
5	Angela Chalmers	Canada	4: 07.95
6th	Theresia Kiesl	Austria	4: 08.04
7th	Anna Brzezińska	Poland	4: 08.11
8th	Fabia Trabaldo	Italy	4: 08.23
9	Violeta Beclea	Romania	4: 08.57
10	Wei Yan	People's Republic of China	4: 09.05
11	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4: 09.15
12	Maite Zúñiga	Spain	4: 10.79
13	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Russia	4: 12.14
14th	Leah Pells	Canada	4: 13.87
15th	Oksana Mernikova	Belarus	4: 18.93

Video

• Women's 1500m Final World Champs Stuttgart 1993 from youtube.com, accessed May 17, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 17, 2020
• Women 1500m Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 17, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 1500 m, Stuttgart 1993, p. 274f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 17, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 17, 2020