1976 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	36 athletes from 19 countries
Competition location	Montreal Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	July 28, 1976 (preliminary) July 29, 1976 (semi-finals) July 30, 1976 (final)
Medalists Tatjana Kasankina ( URS )   Gunhild Hoffmeister ( GDR )   Ulrike Klapezynski ( GDR )

The women's 1,500-meter run at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal was held from July 28 to 30, 1976 in the Montreal Olympic Stadium. 36 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was Tatjana Kasankina from the Soviet Union. Gunhild Hoffmeister from the GDR won the silver medal ahead of her compatriot Ulrike Klapezynski .

The third GDR starter Christiane Wartenberg was eliminated in the semi-finals. Brigitte Kraus and Ellen Wellmann started
for the Federal Republic of Germany . Kraus was eliminated in the semi-finals, Wellmann reached the final and finished seventh there. Runners from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part

Existing records

World record	3: 56.0 min	Tatjana Kasankina ( Soviet Union )	Podolsk , Soviet Union (now Russia )	June 28, 1976
Olympic record	4: 01.38 min	Lyudmila Bragina ( Soviet Union )	Final of Munich , Federal Republic of Germany	September 9, 1972

Conducting the competition

The athletes started a total of four heats on July 28th. The four best runners and the two fastest runners reached the semi-finals on July 29th. From this, the four best runners and the following fastest qualified for the final, which took place on July 30th.

Time schedule

July 28th, 11.00 a.m .: Preliminary
July 29th, 3.30 p.m .: Semi-finals
July 30th, 5.30 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are local Montreal time ( UTC − 5 )

The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the others in light green.

Preliminary round

Date: July 28, 1976, from 11 a.m.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4: 10.84 min
2	Raissa Smechnova	Soviet Union	4: 10.88 min
3	Jan Merrill	United States	4: 10.92 min
4th	Mary Stewart	Great Britain	4: 11.10 min
5	Maricica Puică	Romania	4: 12.62 min
6th	Rossiza Pechliwanowa	Bulgaria	4: 13.11 min
7th	Judy Pollock	Australia	4: 14.22 min
8th	Bernadette Van Roy	Belgium	4: 16.27 min
9	Magdolna Lázár	Hungary	4: 23.30 min
DNS	Maria Ritter	Liechtenstein

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4: 07.11 min
2	Christiane Wartenberg	GDR	4: 07.13 min
3	Nina Holmén	Finland	4: 07.13 min
4th	Grete Waitz	Norway	4: 07.20 min
5	Ellen Wellmann	BR Germany	4: 07.20 min
6th	Francie Larrieu Smith	United States	4: 07.21 min
7th	Dianne Zorn	New Zealand	4: 12.81 min
8th	Thelma Wright	Canada	4: 15.23 min
9	Ndew Niang	Senegal	4: 44.64 min

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ulrike Klapezynski	GDR	4: 11.62 min
2	Tatiana Kasankina	Soviet Union	4: 12.10 min
3	Wesela Jatsinska	Bulgaria	4: 12.72 min
4th	Sonja Castelein	Belgium	4: 12.92 min
5	Penny Yule	Great Britain	4: 13.36 min
6th	Ileana Silai	Romania	4: 13.61 min
7th	Margherita Gargano	Italy	4: 15.94 min
8th	Carmen Valero	Spain	4: 17.65 min
9	Penny Werthner	Canada	4: 18.19 min

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Brigitte Kraus	BR Germany	4: 07.79 min
2	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	4: 08.23 min
3	Natalia Mărăşescu	Romania	4: 08.31 min
4th	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	4: 08.38 min
5	Mary Purcell	Ireland	4: 08.63 min
6th	Cyndy Poor	United States	4: 08.89 min
7th	Anne Garrett	New Zealand	4: 10.68 min
8th	Silvana Cruciata	Italy	4: 16.78 min
9	Lilja Guðmundsdóttir	Iceland	4: 20.27 min

Semifinals

Date: July 29, 1976, from 3:30 p.m.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ulrike Klapezynski	GDR	4: 02.13 min
2	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	4: 02.33 min
3	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4: 02.41 min
4th	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	4: 02.45 min
5	Jan Merrill	United States	4: 02.61 min
6th	Raissa Smechnova	Soviet Union	4: 03.20 min
7th	Brigitte Kraus	BR Germany	4: 04.21 min
8th	Grete Waitz	Norway	4: 04.80 min
9	Sonja Castelein	Belgium	4: 13.46 min

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tatiana Kasankina	Soviet Union	4: 07.37 min
2	Nina Holmén	Finland	4: 07.53 min
3	Ellen Wellmann	BR Germany	4: 07.54 min
4th	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4: 07.61 min
5	Mary Stewart	Great Britain	4: 07.65 min
6th	Wesela Jatsinska	Bulgaria	4: 07.89 min
7th	Natalia Mărăşescu	Romania	4: 07.92 min
8th	Christiane Wartenberg	GDR	4: 08.28 min
9	Francie Larrieu Smith	United States	4: 09.07 min

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Tatiana Kasankina	Soviet Union	4: 05.48 min
2	Gunhild Hoffmeister	GDR	4: 06.02 min
3	Ulrike Klapezynski	GDR	4: 06.09 min
4th	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	4: 06.57 min
5	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4: 07.20 min
6th	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4: 07.27 min
7th	Ellen Wellmann	BR Germany	4: 07.91 min
8th	Jan Merrill	United States	4: 08.54 min
9	Nina Holmén	Finland	4: 09.55 min

Date: July 30, 1976, 5:30 p.m.

The GDR runner Hoffmeister, reigning European champion from 1974 and Olympic silver medalist from 1972 , was highly rated. But the favorite was the world record holder Tatjana Kasankina, who had won gold over 800 meters four days earlier and was the first woman to break the 4-minute mark in June of the Olympic year.

The final race was approached slowly, the pace only increased gradually and with 300 meters to go the field was close together. Now Kasankina, who had always well positioned and managed her race with an overview, started her sprint and overtook Hoffmeister, who was running in front of her, on the home straight. Tatjana Kasankina won the double over 800 and 1500 meters , silver went to Gunhild Hoffmeister, who was a good half second behind. Seven hundredths of a second behind her, Ulrike Bruns, also from the GDR, won the bronze medal in front of Bulgarian Nikolina Schterewa, who came second over 800 meters. Lyudmila Bragina, the 1972 Olympic champion , came fifth ahead of the Italian Gabriella Dorio and the German Ellen Wellmann, who had to give up the final four years ago - at that time under the name Ellen Tittel.

literature

• Ernst Huberty / Willy B. Wange, The Olympic Games Montreal Innsbruck 1976, Lingen-Verlag, Cologne 1976, p. 243

Web links

• SportsReference 1500m , accessed December 19, 2017
• Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 36f, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 19, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 642 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ), accessed on 19 December 2017
2. ↑ Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 23, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 19, 2017
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Montréal 1976 Official Report, Volume III, Results , p. 37, English / French (PDF, 23 MB), accessed on December 19, 2017
4. ↑ SportsReference , accessed December 19, 2017