World Athletics Championships 1995/1500 m for women

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 22 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 6th (preliminary) August 7th (semi-finals) August 9th (final)
Medalists Hassiba Boulmerka ( ALG )   Kelly Holmes ( GBR )   Carla Sacramento ( POR )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The women's 1,500-meter run at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held from August 6th to 9th, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

The Algerian Olympic champion in 1992 , world champion in 1991 and third in the World Cup in 1993, Hassiba Boulmerka became world champion . At the African Championships in 1988 and 1989 she was a double winner in the 800 and 1500 meters . Silver went to the British Vice European Champion from 1994 Kelly Holmes , who won bronze over 800 meters four days later. The Portuguese Carla Sacramento came in third .

Existing records

World record	3: 50.46 min	Qu Yunxia	Beijing , People's Republic of China	September 11, 1993
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.

Preliminary round

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

Forward 1

August 6, 1995, 5:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hassiba Boulmerka	Algeria	4: 11.34
2	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	4: 11.84
3	Lyudmila Borisova	Russia	4: 12.07
4th	Sarah Thorsett	United States	4: 12.10
5	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4: 12.12
6th	Maite Zúñiga	Spain	4: 12.30
7th	Petya Strashilova	Bulgaria	4: 13.27
8th	Maria Akraka	Sweden	4: 13.38
9	Julia Sakara	Zimbabwe	4: 15.02
10	Nirmala Bharati	Nepal	4: 53.60

Forward 2

August 6, 1995, 5:33 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Kutre Dulecha	Ethiopia
2	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Russia	4: 18.14
3	Malgorzata Rydz	Poland	4: 18.40
4th	Suzy Hamilton	United States	4: 18.49
5	Angela Chalmers	Canada	4: 18.77
6th	Frédérique Quentin	France	4: 18.86
7th	Yelena Bychkovskaya	Belarus	4: 18.97
8th	Svetlana Miroshnik	Ukraine	4: 19.12
9	Khin Khin Htwe	Myanmar	4: 26.59
10	Rosemary Omundsen	Papua New Guinea	4: 59.89

Forward 3

August 6, 1995, 5:41 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Yvonne Graham	Jamaica	4: 13.70
2	Margarita Marusova	Russia	4: 13.91
3	Ruth Wysocki	United States	4: 13.93
4th	Anna Brzezińska	Poland	4: 14.34
5	Theresia Kiesl	Austria	4: 14.52
6th	Leah Pells	Canada	4: 14.69
7th	Blandine Ducret	France	4: 16.11
8th	Marta Domínguez	Spain	4: 18.61
9	Bigna Samuel	St. Vincent and the Grenadines	4: 25.94
10	Nompumelelo Zwane	Swaziland	4: 49.32

Semifinals

In each of the two semi-finals, the first five athletes - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Semi-final run 1

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  Maria Akraka (Photo: 2014) , who was eleventh in her semifinals, did not reach the final

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  Marta Domínguez (here in 2010) , later successful especially as a long-distance and obstacle runner , was eliminated in the semifinals in twelfth of her race

August 7, 1995, 5:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hassiba Boulmerka	Algeria	4: 09.13
2	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	4: 09.15
3	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4: 10.03
4th	Anna Brzezińska	Poland	4: 10.75
5	Margarita Marusova	Russia	4: 10.91
6th	Blandine Ducret	France	4: 11.11
7th	Petya Strashilova	Bulgaria	4: 11.62
8th	Leah Pells	Canada	4: 12.07
9	Sarah Thorsett	United States	4: 12.26
10	Theresia Kiesl	Austria	4: 12.31
11	Maria Akraka	Sweden	4: 14.16
12	Marta Domínguez	Spain	4: 18.72

Semi-final run 2

August 7, 1995, 5:33 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Malgorzata Rydz	Poland	4: 08.70
2	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Russia	4: 08.72
3	Lyudmila Borisova	Russia	4: 08.83
4th	Angela Chalmers	Canada	4: 08.92
5	Ruth Wysocki	United States	4: 09.03
6th	Maite Zúñiga	Spain	4: 09.61
7th	Yvonne Graham	Jamaica	4: 09.92
8th	Suzy Hamilton	United States	4: 10.28
9	Frédérique Quentin	France	4: 11.66
10	Kutre Dulecha	Ethiopia	4: 11.86
11	Yelena Bychkovskaya	Belarus	4: 15.99
12	Julia Sakara	Zimbabwe	4: 16.67

final

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  Vice world champion Kelly Holmes, vice European champion in 1994 , won a second medal four days later with bronze over 800 meters - she achieved further great successes in the years to come

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  Yvonne Graham - the Jamaican started later than Yvonne Mai for Germany - came in tenth

August 9, 1995, 5:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hassiba Boulmerka	Algeria	4: 02.42
2	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	4: 03.04
3	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4: 03.79
4th	Angela Chalmers	Canada	4: 04.74
5	Lyudmila Borisova	Russia	4: 04.78
6th	Anna Brzezińska	Poland	4: 05.65
7th	Ruth Wysocki	United States	4: 07.08
8th	Maite Zúñiga	Spain	4: 07.27
9	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Russia	4: 07.83
10	Yvonne Graham	Jamaica	4: 08.01
11	Margarita Marusova	Russia	4: 11.64
12	Malgorzata Rydz	Poland	4: 20.83

Video

• World Championships 1995 Women's 1500m , video posted on youtube.com October 3, 2013, accessed June 7, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed June 7, 2020
• Women 1500m Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com, accessed June 7, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 1500 m, Gothenborg 1995, p. 274 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 7, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 7, 2020