World Athletics Championships 2015/1500 m for women

World Athletics Championships 2015
discipline	1500-meter run for women
city	Beijing
place	Beijing National Stadium
Participants	35 athletes from 20 countries
Competition phase	August 22, 2015 (preliminary) August 23, 2015 (semi-finals) August 25, 2015 (final)
Medalists
gold	Genzebe Dibaba ( ETH )
silver	Faith Kipyegon ( KEN )
bronze	Sifan Hassan ( NED )

Medal winners (from left to right): Faith Kipyegon, Genzebe Dibaba, Sifan Hassan

The women's 1500 meter run at the 2015 World Athletics Championships took place on August 22, 23 and 25, 2015 in Beijing , People's Republic of China .

The Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba was world champion ahead of the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon . Sifan Hassan from the Netherlands won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	not yet ratified by the IAAF	Genzebe Dibaba	3: 50.07 min	Monaco	17th July 2015
	at the beginning of the World Cup yet officially	Qu Yunxia	3: 50.46 min	Beijing	September 11, 1993
Championship record		Tatiana Tomaschowa	3: 58.52 min	World Cup in Paris	August 31, 2003

Prelims

From the three preliminary heats, the first six of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Run 1

The Canadian Nicole Sifuentes did not reach the semi-finals as eighth of her preliminary run

The Italian Margherita Magnani was eliminated in ninth place in the third heat

August 22, 2015, 11:15 a.m. local time (5:15 a.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Visit Sado	Ethiopia	4: 05.39
2	Laura Muir	Great Britain	4: 05.53
3	Nancy Chepkwemoi	Kenya	4: 05.65
4th	Shannon Rowbury	United States	4: 05.66
5	Bethlhem Desalegn	United Arab Emirates	4: 05.73
6th	Anna Shchagina	Russia	4: 05.78
7th	Lauren Johnson	United States	4: 05.79
8th	Malika Akkaoui	Morocco	4: 05.85
9	Renata Pliś	Poland	4: 05.89
10	Muriel Coneo	Colombia	4: 08.31 NO
11	Melissa Duncan	Australia	4: 09.29
12	Eliane Saholinirina	Madagascar	4: 19.54 SB

Run 2

August 22, 2015, 11:26 a.m. local time (5:26 a.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	4: 09.52
2	Dawit Seyaum	Ethiopia	4: 09.64
3	Ababa Aregawi	Sweden	4: 10.77
4th	Tatiana Tomaschowa	Russia	4: 10.79
5	Jennifer Simpson	United States	4: 10.91
6th	Angelika Cichocka	Poland	4: 11.08
7th	Viola Cheptoo Lagat	Kenya	4: 12.15
8th	Nicole Sifuentes	Canada	4: 12.82
9	Nikki Hamblin	New Zealand	4: 16.65
10	Heidi lake	Australia	4: 20.65
11	Amina Bakhit	Sudan	4: 22.49 SB
DNF	Siham Hilali	Morocco

Run 3

August 22, 2015, 11:37 a.m. local time (5:37 a.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	4: 02.59
2	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	4: 02.77
3	Rababe Arafi	Morocco	4: 04.17
4th	Maureen Koster	Netherlands	4: 05.55
5	Amela Terzić	Serbia	4: 06.07
6th	Laura Weightman	Great Britain	4: 06.13
7th	Kerri Gallagher	United States	4: 06.34
8th	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland	4: 06.94
9	Margherita Magnani	Italy	4: 09.06
10	Luiza Gega	Albania	4: 09.36
11	Florina Pierdevară	Romania	4: 13.76

Semifinals

From the two semi-finals, the top five of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

The Polish Sofia Ennaoui missed the finals as sixth in her semi-final race by just one place

Betlhem Desalegn from the United Arab Emirates was eliminated in tenth of their semi-finals

August 23, 2015, 8:45 p.m. local time (2:45 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	4: 15.38
2	Dawit Seyaum	Ethiopia	4: 15.46
3	Ababa Aregawi	Sweden	4: 15.90
4th	Malika Akkaoui	Morocco	4: 16.61
5	Shannon Rowbury	United States	4: 16.64
6th	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland	4: 16.70
7th	Visit Sado	Ethiopia	4: 17.17
8th	Kerri Gallaher	United States	4: 17.63
9	Anna Shchagina	Russia	4: 17.82
10	Bethlhem Desalegn	United Arab Emirates	4: 17.92
11	Nancy Chepkwemoi	Kenya	4: 18.15
DNS	Laura Weightman	Great Britain

Run 2

August 23, 2015, 8:56 p.m. local time (2:56 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	4: 06.74
2	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	4: 06.88
3	Laura Muir	Great Britain	4: 07.95
4th	Rababe Arafi	Morocco	4: 08.19
5	Jennifer Simpson	United States	4: 08.20
6th	Tatiana Tomaschowa	Russia	4: 08.72
7th	Angelika Cichocka	Poland	4: 09.19
8th	Lauren Johnson	United States	4: 10.01
9	Maureen Koster	Netherlands	4: 10.95
10	Amela Terzić	Serbia	4: 13.92
11	Renata Pliś	Poland	4: 15.10
12	Muriel Coneo	Colombia	4: 18.14

final

August 25, 2015, 8:35 p.m. local time (2:35 p.m. CEST )

Among the favorites were the reigning world champion , vice European champion and Olympic bronze medalist in 2012 Abeba Aregawi, the Dutch European champion Sifan Hassan and the Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba who was convincing this season - fifth at the last world championships. She had set a new world record in July . In the semifinals, the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon also presented herself well. Vice World Champion Jennifer Simpson from the USA, however, no longer had the level of performance of the 2013 World Cup .

In the initial phase, the two Americans Simpson and Shannon Rowbury took the lead. The pace was not high - first lap: 1: 17.05 min / second lap: 1: 12.60 min. So the field stayed completely together in two or sometimes three rows. After seven hundred meters, Dibaba took the leading position and the race was now significantly faster. First Aregawi moved into second place, then Kipyegon followed the front runner. The field was now tearing apart. At the beginning of the last four hundred meters, Aregawi could no longer follow the pace. The third lap was run in 57.27 s.

Behind the ever more accelerating world record holder lay Kipyegon, the Ethiopian Dawit Seyaum and Hassan. These four runners set themselves apart from the rest of the field. In the target corner, Kipyegon lost contact with Dibaba. Hassan pulled past the Kenyan while Seyaum had to be demolished. On the home straight Genzebe Dibaba ran confidently to the world championship and gave her opponents no chance. Faith Kipyegon regained her second place, she was runner-up in front of Sifan Hassan and Dawit Seyaum. British Laura Muir finished fifth, ahead of Abeba Aregawi and Shannon Rowbury. The eighth place went to Angelika Cichocka from Poland.

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	4: 08.09
	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	4: 08.96
	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	4: 09.34
04th	Dawit Seyaum	Ethiopia	4: 10.26
05	Laura Muir	Great Britain	4: 11.48
06th	Ababa Aregawi	Sweden	4: 12.16
07th	Shannon Rowbury	United States	4: 12.39
08th	Angelika Cichocka	Poland	4: 13.22
09	Rababe Arafi	Morocco	4: 13.66
10	Tatiana Tomaschowa	Russia	4: 14.18
11	Jennifer Simpson	United States	4: 16.28
12	Malika Akkaoui	Morocco	4: 16.98

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  World champion Genzebe Dibaba, Ethiopia

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  Vice World Champion Faith Kipyegon from Kenya

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  Bronze medalist Sifan Hassan, Netherlands

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  The Ethiopian Dawit Seyaum came fourth

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  The British Laura Muir came in fifth place

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  Abeba Aregawi, who started for Sweden, came in sixth

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  Seventh place for American Shannon Rowbury

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  Angelika Cichocka from Poland took eighth place

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  The Moroccan Rababe Arafi - later also fourth over 800 meters - came in ninth

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  The American Jennifer Simpson finished eleventh

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  The Moroccan Malika Akkaoui took twelfth place

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2015 World Championships, 1,500 m women on the IAAF website , accessed on November 6, 2018
• Results of the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 6, 2018
• Reports on the 2015 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 6, 2018

Video

• 1500m women final IAAF World Athletics Championships 2015 Beijing on youtube.com, published August 25, 2015, accessed November 6, 2018