World Athletics Championships 1999/1500 m for women

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	27 athletes from 17 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 27th (preliminary) August 29th (final)
Medalists Svetlana Masterkowa ( RUS )   Regina Jacobs ( USA )   Kutre Dulecha ( ETH )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The women's 1,500 meter run at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held on August 27 and 29, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

The Russian double Olympic champion in 1996 over 800 and 1500 meters, Svetlana Masterkowa , was the reigning European champion over 1500 meters and had won bronze five days earlier in the race over the shorter middle distance . Silver won as already in the 1997 World Championships , the US-American Regina Jacobs . Bronze went to the Ethiopian Kutre Dulecha . There were only two hundredths of a second between her and fourth-placed Romanian Violeta Szekely .

The visually impaired American Marla Runyan , who fell ill with Stargardt's disease at the age of nine and thus suffered significant visual acuity, reached the final and came in tenth place.

Existing records

World record	3: 50.46 min	Qu Yunxia	Beijing , People's Republic of China	September 11, 1993
World Cup 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 Russian world champion Svetlana Masterkowa was the only runner to break the 4-minute mark in the final.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was held in two runs. The first five athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Forward 1

Malin Ewerlöfs eighth place in the first run was not enough to advance

Nuria Fernández (left) was eliminated as tenth in the first heat

August 27, 1999, 8:35 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Violeta Szekely	Romania	4: 05.00
2	Ana Amelia Menéndez	Spain	4: 05.21
3	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4: 05.21
4th	Marla Runyan	United States	4: 05.27
5	Anna Jakubczak	Poland	4: 05.71
6th	Hayley Tullett	Great Britain	4: 05.72
7th	Olga Nelyubova	Russia	4: 06.01
8th	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	4: 06.67
9	Nouria Mérah-Benida	Algeria	4: 08.90
10	Nuria Fernández	Spain	4: 09.39
11	Leah Pells	Canada	4: 10.76
12	Judit Varga	Hungary	4: 16.66
13	Stephanie Best	United States	4: 19.87
DNS	Sukhbaatar Erdenetuya	Mongolia
	Ebru Kavaklioglu	Turkey

Forward 2

August 27, 1999, 8:44 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Regina Jacobs	United States	4: 04.75
2	Svetlana Masterkova	Russia	4: 04.83
3	Anita Weyermann	Switzerland	4: 04.88
4th	Kutre Dulecha	Ethiopia	4: 04.93
5	Elena Buhăianu	Romania	4: 04.97
6th	Jackline Maranga	Kenya	4: 04.98
7th	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4: 05.16
8th	Lyudmila Rogacheva	Russia	4: 05.72
9	Maite Zúñiga	Spain	4: 06.75
10	Robyn Meagher	Canada	4: 06.88
11	Helen Clitheroe	Great Britain	4: 12.17
12	Elaine Fitzgerald	Ireland	4: 12.77
13	Frédérique Quentin	France	4: 14.76
14th	Julia Sakara	Zimbabwe	4: 19.65

final

Lidia Chojecka came in ninth place

August 29, 1999, 8:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Svetlana Masterkova	Russia	3: 59.53
2	Regina Jacobs	United States	4: 00.35
3	Kutre Dulecha	Ethiopia	4: 00.96
4th	Violeta Szekely	Romania	4: 00.98
5	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4: 01.29
6th	Elena Buhăianu	Romania	4: 04.27
7th	Anna Jakubczak	Poland	4: 04.40
8th	Ana Amelia Menéndez	Spain	4: 04.72
9	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4: 05.55
10	Marla Runyan	United States	4: 05.45
11	Jackline Maranga	Kenya	4: 07.28
12	Anita Weyermann	Switzerland	4: 17.87

Video

• 1500m Women FINAL World Championships Seville 1999 , video posted on youtube.com August 21, 2014, accessed July 24, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 24, 2020
• Women 1500m Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) at todor66.com, accessed July 24, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 1500 m, Seville 1999, p. 275f (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 24, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ Marla Runyan website at marlarunyan.net, accessed on July 25, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF world records. 1500 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 25, 2020