2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 1500 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 42 athletes from 28 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadium Australia | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 27, 2000 (preliminary round) September 28, 2000 (semi-finals) September 30, 2000 (final) |
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The women's 1,500-meter run at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 27, 28 and 30, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 4283 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Algerian Nouria Mérah-Benida . She won ahead of the two Romanians Violeta Szekely and Gabriela Szabo .
Sabine Fischer and Anita Weyermann started for Switzerland . Weyermann was eliminated in the semi-finals, Fischer reached the final and finished ninth.
Athletes from Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion 1996 | Swetlana Masterkowa ( Russia ) | 4: 00.83 min | Atlanta 1996 |
World Champion 1999 | 3: 59.53 min | Seville 1999 | |
European Champion 1998 | 4: 11.91 min | Budapest 1998 | |
Pan American Champion 1999 | Marla Runyan ( USA ) | 4: 16.86 min | Winnipeg 1999 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999 | Isabel Juárez ( Mexico ) | 4: 26.64 min | Bridgetown 1999 |
South America Champion 1999 | Bertha Sánchez ( Colombia ) | 4: 35.72 min | Bogotá 1999 |
Asian Champion 2000 | Wu Qingdong ( People's Republic of China ) | 4: 17.82 min | Jakarta 2000 |
African champion 2000 | Nouria Mérah-Benida ( Algeria ) | 4: 16.14 min | Algiers 2000 |
Oceania Champion 2000 | Salome Tabuatalei ( Fiji ) | 5: 15.11 min | Adelaide 2000 |
Existing records
World record | 3: 50.46 min | Qu Yunxia ( People's Republic of China ) | Beijing , People's Republic of China | September 11, 1993 |
Olympic record | 3: 53.96 min | Paula Ivan ( Romania ) | Final from Seoul , South Korea | October 1, 1988 |
Note: All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
Preliminary round
A total of three preliminary runs were completed. The first six athletes of each run qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the six fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
September 27, 2000, 9:35 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Suzy Favor Hamilton | United States | 4: 08.08 | |
2 | Anna Jakubczak | Poland | 4: 08.13 | |
3 | Gabriela Szabo | Romania | 4: 08.33 | |
4th | Süreyya Ayhan | Turkey | 4: 08.37 | |
5 | Carla Sacramento | Portugal | 4: 08.41 | |
6th | Helen Pattinson | Great Britain | 4: 08.80 | |
7th | Margaret Crowley | Australia | 4: 08.85 | |
8th | Anita Weyermann | Switzerland | 4: 09.28 | |
9 | Lyudmila Rogacheva | Russia | 4: 09.81 | |
10 | Mardrea Hyman | Jamaica | 4: 10.21 | |
11 | Abebech Negussie | Ethiopia | 4: 15.52 | |
12 | Julia Sakara | Zimbabwe | 4: 21.94 | |
13 | Tetiana Krywobok | Ukraine | 4: 22.11 | |
14th | Shazia Hidayat | Pakistan | 5: 07.17 | |
DNF | Leah Pells | Canada |
Forward 2
September 27, 2000, 9:44 am
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Violeta Szekely | Romania | 4: 10.18 | |
2 | Lidia Chojecka | Poland | 4: 10.34 | |
3 | Kelly Holmes | Great Britain | 4: 10.38 | |
4th | Veerle Dejaeghere | Belgium | 4: 10.68 | |
5 | Sabine Fischer | Switzerland | 4: 10.78 | |
6th | Seloua Ouaziz | Morocco | 4: 10.82 | |
7th | Marla Runyan | United States | 4: 10.83 | |
8th | Georgina Clarke | Australia | 4: 11.74 | |
9 | Toni Hodgkinson | New Zealand | 4: 12.59 | |
10 | Naomi Mugo | Kenya | 4: 13.18 | |
11 | Hareg Sidelil | Ethiopia | 4: 14.05 | |
12 | Natalia Rodríguez | Spain | 4: 22.82 | |
13 | Daniela Kuleska | Macedonia | 4: 33.50 | |
DNF | Svetlana Masterkova | Russia |
Forward 3
September 27, 2000, 9:53 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Kutre Dulecha | Ethiopia | 4: 09.88 | |
2 | Nouria Mérah-Benida | Algeria | 4: 10.24 | |
3 | Hayley Tullett | Great Britain | 4: 10.58 | |
4th | Elena Iagăr | Romania | 4: 11.35 | |
5 | Nuria Fernández | Spain | 4: 11.46 | |
6th | Irina Krakowiak | Lithuania | 4: 11.57 | |
7th | Sinéad Delahunty | Ireland | 4: 11.75 | |
8th | Fatma Lanouar | Tunisia | 4: 11.87 | |
9 | Shayne Culpepper | United States | 4: 12.52 | |
10 | Natalia Gorelova | Russia | 4: 12.84 | |
11 | Sarah Jamieson | Australia | 4: 12.90 | |
12 | Helena Javornik | Slovenia | 4: 18.18 | |
13 | Silvia Felipo | Andorra | 4: 45.32 | |
DNS | Hasna Benhassi | Morocco |
Semifinals
The first five athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Run 1
September 28, 2000, 7:00 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Nouria Mérah-Benida | Algeria | 4: 05.24 | |
2 | Suzy Favor Hamilton | United States | 4: 05.25 | |
3 | Hayley Tullett | Great Britain | 4: 05.34 | |
4th | Kelly Holmes | Great Britain | 4: 05.35 | |
5 | Lidia Chojecka | Poland | 4: 05.78 | |
6th | Marla Runyan | United States | 4: 06.14 | |
7th | Sabine Fischer | Switzerland | 4: 06.67 | |
8th | Margaret Crowley | Australia | 4: 09.16 | |
9 | Lyudmila Rogacheva | Russia | 4: 09.18 | |
10 | Nuria Fernández | Spain | 4: 10.92 | |
11 | Irina Krakowiak | Lithuania | 4: 14.57 | |
12 | Elena Iagăr | Romania | 4: 21.94 |
Run 2
September 28, 2000, 7:10 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Violeta Szekely | Romania | 4: 06.60 | |
2 | Kutre Dulecha | Ethiopia | 4: 06.78 | |
3 | Anna Jakubczak | Poland | 4: 07.03 | |
4th | Gabriela Szabo | Romania | 4: 07.38 | |
5 | Carla Sacramento | Portugal | 4: 07.65 | |
6th | Veerle Dejaeghere | Belgium | 4: 07.87 | |
7th | Seloua Ouaziz | Morocco | 4: 09.11 | |
8th | Süreyya Ayhan | Turkey | 4: 09.42 | |
9 | Helen Pattinson | Great Britain | 4: 09.60 | |
10 | Georgina Clarke | Australia | 4: 10.99 | |
11 | Mardrea Hyman | Jamaica | 4: 14.20 | |
12 | Anita Weyermann | Switzerland | 4: 30.80 |
final
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Nouria Mérah-Benida | Algeria | 4: 05.10 | |
2 | Violeta Szekely | Romania | 4: 05.15 | |
3 | Gabriela Szabo | Romania | 4: 05.27 | |
4th | Kutre Dulecha | Ethiopia | 4: 05.33 | |
5 | Lidia Chojecka | Poland | 4: 06.42 | |
6th | Anna Jakubczak | Poland | 4: 06.49 | |
7th | Kelly Holmes | Great Britain | 4: 08.02 | |
8th | Marla Runyan | United States | 4: 08.30 | |
9 | Sabine Fischer | Switzerland | 4: 08.84 | |
10 | Carla Sacramento | Portugal | 4: 11.15 | |
11 | Hayley Tullett | Great Britain | 4: 22.29 | |
12 | Suzy Favor Hamilton | United States | 4: 23.05 |
September 30, 2000, 8:20 pm
Two Polish, Romanian, US and British athletes as well as one participant each from Algeria, Ethiopia, Portugal and Switzerland qualified for the final.
The actual favorite Swetlana Masterkowa, Olympic champion from 1996 and reigning world and European champion , was eliminated after a fall in her preliminary run. The main candidates for medals were the Ethiopian World Cup third Kutre Dulecha and the two Romanians Violeta Szekely - World Cup fourth - and Gabriela Szabo - silver medalist from 1996.
The final race was approached at a very moderate pace and led by the visually impaired American Marla Runyan. The first round was completed in 1: 10.56 min. Team mate Suzy Favor Hamilton took over the lead and it got faster, for the second lap only 1: 05.37 minutes were needed. Six runners separated themselves more and more from their competitors. Lap three was run in 1: 01.03 min, so the pace was increased further. At the beginning of the last lap the field moved closer together again, the outcome of this race was completely open and there were still to be significant changes. At the beginning of the home stretch, Algerian Nouria Mérah-Benida was in the lead and had already established a visible lead. Behind them a group of five sprinted for the medals with Szekely, Dulecha, the two Polish women Lidia Chojecka and Anna Jakubczak and Hamilton. The race remained extremely exciting and eventful. First, the exhausted Hamilton touched the inside edge of the track and fell, while Szekely in particular came closer and closer to the front runner. In the end, Nouria Mérah-Benida won the race with just five hundredths of a second ahead of Violeta Szekely. Finally, Gabriela Szabo flew up from behind, who won the bronze medal. On the back straight she was still in last place. Kutre Dulecha was fourth ahead of Lidia Chojecka, Anna Jakubczak and Briton Kelly Holmes, who had won bronze over 800 meters five days earlier .
Marla Runyan, who finished eighth, was the first Olympic athlete to previously compete in the Paralympics .
Web links
- SportsReference 1500m , accessed April 4, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 4, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 4, 2018
Video
- TW Olympic games Sidney 2000 Nouria Merah Benida 1500 m , published on October 16, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed on April 4, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 795 , accessed on April 4, 2018