World Athletics Championships 2017/1500 m for women

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	1500-meter run for women
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Participants	44 athletes from 26 countries
Competition phase	August 4, 2017 (preliminary) August 5, 2017 (semi-finals) August 7, 2017 (final)
Medalists
gold	Faith Kipyegon ( KEN )
silver	Jenny Simpson ( USA )
bronze	Jereem Richards ( TTO )

The runners in the
1500 meter final

The women's 1,500 meter run at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , Great Britain , on August 4th, 5th and 7th, 2017 .

The Kenyan Faith Kipyegon became world champion . Second place went to the American Jenny Simpson . The South African Caster Semenya won the bronze medal.

Records

World record	Genzebe Dibaba	3: 50.07 min	Monaco	17th July 2015
Championship record	Tatiana Tomaschowa	3: 58.52 min	World Cup in Paris / Saint-Denis , France	August 31, 2003

Prelims

The two Spaniards Solange Pereira ( left ) and Marta Perez - Pereira qualified for the semi-finals, while Perez was eliminated in eleventh place in the first heat

The Serbian Amela Terzić did not reach the semi-finals after her twelfth place in the first heat

The Romanian Claudia Bobpcea tenth place in the run-up was not enough to advance

The Canadian Sheila Read was twelfth in her run and was eliminated

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

August 4, 2017, August 2017 7:35 p.m. local time (8:35 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	4: 02.67
2	Caster Semenya	South Africa	4: 02.84 SB
3	Winny Chebet	Kenya	4: 03.19
4th	Angelika Cichocka	Poland	4: 03.27
5	Rababe Arafi	Morocco	4: 03.67
6th	Jessica Judd	Great Britain	4: 03.73 PB
7th	Kate Grace	United States	4: 04.76
8th	Nicole Sifuentes	Canada	4: 05.24 SB
9	Zoe Buckman	Australia	4: 05.44
10	Fantu Worku	Ethiopia	4: 05.81
11	Marta Perez	Spain	4: 05.82
12	Amela Terzić	Serbia	4: 08.55
13	Ciara Mageean	Ireland	4: 10.60
DNF	Simona Vrzalová	Czech Republic

Run 2

August 4, 2017, August 2017 7:48 p.m. local time (8:48 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	4: 08.89
2	Jenny Simpson	United States	4: 08.92
3	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia	4: 08.96
4th	Laura Muir	Great Britain	4: 08.97
5	Malika Akkaoui	Morocco	4: 09.05
6th	Hanna Klein	Germany	4: 09.32
7th	Karoline Bjerkeli Grøvdal	Norway	4: 09.56
8th	Marta Pen Freitas	Portugal	4: 10.22
9	Linden Hall	Australia	4: 10.51
10	Claudia Bobocea	Romania	4: 11.20
11	Meryem Akdağ	Turkey	4: 12.51
12	Sheila Reid	Canada	4: 13.12
13	Judith Jemutai Kiyeng	Kenya	4: 13.65
14th	Ester Chebet	Uganda	4: 14.12
15th	Eliane Saholinirina	Madagascar	4: 23.56 SB

Run 3

August 4, 2017, August 2017 8:01 p.m. local time (9:01 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	4: 03.09
2	Meraf Bahta	Sweden	4: 03.23
3	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland	4: 03.35 SB
4th	Laura Weightman	Great Britain	4: 03.50
5	Visit Sado	Ethiopia	4: 03.55
6th	Konstanze Klosterhalfen	Germany	4: 03.60
7th	Gabriela Stafford	Canada	4: 04.55 PB
8th	Sara Vaughn	United States	4: 04.56 PB
9	Sarah McDonald	Great Britain	4: 05.48 PB
10	As long as Pereira	Spain	4: 06.63
11	Georgia Griffith	Australia	4: 08.99
12	Margherita Magnani	Italy	4: 09.15
13	Muriel Coneo	Colombia	4: 11.98 SB
14th	Tamara Armoush	Jordan	4: 21.81
15th	Angelina Nadi	Athlete Refugee Team	4: 33.54 PB

Semifinals

The Canadian Nicole Sifuentes was eliminated in ninth place in her semi-final run

The Kenyan Winny Chebet did not reach the final as seventh of her semi-final run

The German Konstanze Klosterhalfen had dared a tempo run in her semifinals, but was eliminated in eighth place

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

Run 1

August 5, 2017, 7:35 p.m. local time (8:35 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	4: 03.54
2	Laura Muir	Great Britain	4: 03.64
3	Caster Semenya	South Africa	4: 03.80
4th	Angelika Cichocka	Poland	4: 03.96
5	Hanna Klein	Germany	4: 04.45
6th	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	4: 05.33
7th	Rababe Arafi	Morocco	4: 05.75
8th	Zoe Buckman	Australia	4: 05.93
9	Nicole Sifuentes	Canada	4: 07.92
10	Jessica Judd	Great Britain	4: 10.14
11	Kate Grace	United States	4: 16.70
12	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia	4: 22.01

Run 2

August 5, 2017, 7:47 p.m. local time (8:47 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	4: 03.77
2	Meraf Bahta	Sweden	4: 04.04
3	Jenny Simpson	United States	4: 05.40
4th	Jenny Simpson	United States	4: 05.40
5	Malika Akkaoui	Morocco	4: 05.73
6th	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland	4: 05.80
7th	Winny Chebet	Kenya	4: 06.29
8th	Konstanze Klosterhalfen	Germany	4: 06.58
9	Sarah McDonald	Great Britain	4: 06.73
10	Sara Vaughn	United States	4: 06.83
11	Visit Sado	Ethiopia	4: 07.65
12	Gabriela Stafford	Canada	4: 08.51

final

August 7, 2017, 9:50 p.m. local time (10:50 p.m. CEST )

There was no clear favorite in this select field. The inner circle of the coin aspirants belonging Olympic champion in 2016 and runner-up world champion in 2015 Faith Kipyegon of Kenya, the Ethiopian defending champion, Olympic silver medalist from 2016 and world record holder Genzebe Dibaba, the US-American Jennifer Simpson as Olympic bronze medalist from 2016 and Vice World Champion in 2013 , the Dutch World Cup - Third from 2015, European Champion from 2014 and Vice European Champion from 2016 Sifan Hassan and the South African Caster Semenya, who had great successes above all as an 800-meter runner, is already world champion at this distance here in London .

For a long period, the British Laura Muir set the pace. The first lap was completed fairly quickly with 1: 05.34 min, but the second was much slower with 1: 11.77 min. In the last four hundred meters it got faster again. Even the section between 800 and 1200 meters was really fast with 1: 01.82 minutes. Three hundred meters from the finish at the beginning of the back straight, Hassan led, who tried to find her chance with a long sprint. The field was now tearing apart. Hassan was still in the lead at the start of the home stretch. Kipyegon followed her. Muir fought to catch up with the leading duo, but had to allow a small gap. With a distance of two meters from her, Simpson was in fourth place ahead of the Swede Meraf Bahta, who, however, was now running out of strength.

Now came the attack by the Olympic champion. Faith Kipyegon passed Hassan and became the new world champion by a clear margin. Beyond that everything changed again. Jenny Simpson passed the slacking Hassan inside and won the silver medal. From further back, the 800-meter world champion Caster Semenya sprinted a medal with bronze even in the longer distance. Sifan Hassan's pace work on the last three hundred meters was not rewarded, beaten by 37 hundredths of a second, she finished fifth behind Laura Muir, who was fourth, just seven hundredths of a second behind Semenya. Laura Weightman, also from Great Britain, came in sixth place ahead of the reigning European champion Angelika Cichocka from Poland and the Moroccan Rababe Arafi.

space	Athlete	country	Time (min)
	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	4: 02.59
	Jenny Simpson	United States	4: 02.76
	Caster Semenya	South Africa	4: 02.90
04th	Laura Muir	Great Britain	4: 02.97
05	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	4: 03.34
06th	Laura Weightman	Great Britain	4: 04.11
07th	Angelika Cichocka	Poland	4: 04.16
08th	Rababe Arafi	Morocco	4: 04.35
09	Meraf Bahta	Sweden	4: 04.76
10	Malika Akkaoui	Morocco	4: 05.87
11	Hanna Klein	Germany	4: 06.22
12	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	4: 06.72

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  World Champion Faith Kipyegon, Kenya

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  Vice World Champion Jennifer Simpson, USA

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  Bronze medalist Caster Semenya, South Africa

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  Britons Laura Muir ( right, No. 5 ) - fourth place - and Laura Weightman - sixth - here at the European Championships 2018

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  The Dutch European Champion from 2014 Sifan Hassan finished fifth

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  The reigning European champion Angelika Cichocka from Poland came in seventh place

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  Rababe Arafi from Morocco came in eighth

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  The Swede Meraf Bahta ( center ) finished ninth

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  The Moroccan Malika Akkaoui came in tenth

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  The German Hanna Klein came in eleventh place

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  Defending champion Genzebe Dibaba had to be content with twelfth place here

Web links

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, 1500 m women on the IAAF website (English), accessed on December 10, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 10, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on December 10, 2018

Video

• WCH London 2017 Highlights - 1500m - Women - Final - Kipyegon wins on youtube.com, published August 8, 2017, accessed December 10, 2018