2004 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	45 athletes from 24 countries
Competition location	Athens Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 24, 2004 (preliminary round) August 26, 2004 (semi-finals) August 28, 2004 (final)
Medalists Kelly Holmes ( GBR )   Tatiana Tomaschowa ( RUS )   Maria Cioncan ( ROM )

The women's 1,500-meter run at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens was held on August 24, 26 and 28, 2004 in the Athens Olympic Stadium. 45 athletes took part.

Kelly Holmes from the United Kingdom was Olympic champion . She won in front of the Russian Tatjana Tomaschowa and the Romanian Maria Cioncan .

Athletes from Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current titleholders

Olympic champion 2000	Nouria Mérah-Benida ( Algeria )	4: 05.10 min	Sydney 2000
World Champion 2003	Tatiana Tomaschowa ( Russia )	3: 58.52 min	Paris 2003
European Champion 2002	Süreyya Ayhan ( Turkey )	3: 58.79 min	Munich 2002
Pan American Champion 2003	Adriana Muñoz ( Cuba )	4: 09.57 min	Santo Domingo 2003
Central America and Caribbean Champion 2003	Competition not in the championship program		St. George’s 2003
South American Champion 2003	Juliana de Azevedo ( Brazil )	4: 17.54 min	Barquisimeto 2003
Asian Champion 2003	Tatiana Borisova ( Kyrgyzstan )	4: 15.97 min	Manila 2003
African champion 2004	Nancy Langat ( Kenya )	4: 24.56 min	Brazzaville 2004
Oceania Champion 2002	Liz Auld ( New Zealand )	4: 38.37 min	Christchurch 2002

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 Athens local time ( UTC + 2 ).

Preliminary round

A total of three preliminary runs were completed. The first five athletes per run qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the nine 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.

The Ukrainian Iryna Lishchynska did not reach the finish line in the run-up and was eliminated

The French Hind Dehiba Chahyd came in eighth place in her preliminary run and was eliminated

As tenth of her preliminary run, the Norwegian Trine Pilskog did not reach the next round

The British Joanne Pavey finished thirteenth in her preliminary run and was eliminated

Forward 1

August 24, 2004, 8:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Tatiana Tomaschowa	Russia	4: 06.06
2	Natalija Tobias	Ukraine	4: 06.06
3	Nuria Fernández	Spain	4: 06.29
4th	Anna Jakubczak-Pawelec	Poland	4: 06.37
5	Elvan Abeylegesse	Turkey	4: 06.42
6th	Carrie Tollefson	United States	4: 06.46
7th	Hayley Tullett	Great Britain	4: 07.27
8th	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4: 07.73
9	Courtney Babcock	Canada	4: 08.18
10	Latifa Essarokh	France	4: 09.08
11	Mestawat Tadesse	Ethiopia	4: 11.78
12	Elena Antoci	Romania	4: 11.48
13	Silvia Felipo	Andorra	4: 44.40
14th	Sloan Siegrist	Guam	4: 44.53
DNS	Nouria Mérah-Benida	Algeria
	Bouchra Ghezielle	Morocco

Forward 2

August 24, 2004, 8:38 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Natalia Evdokimova	Russia	4: 05.55
2	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	4: 05.58
3	Daniela Jordanova	Bulgaria	4: 05.87
4th	Maria Martins	France	4: 05.95
5	Hasna Benhassi	Morocco	4: 05.98
6th	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4: 06.13
7th	Iris Fuentes-Pila	Spain	4: 06.32
8th	Nahida Touhami	Algeria	4: 06.41
9	Konstadina Efedaki	Greece	4: 06.73
10	Malindi Elmore	Canada	4: 09.81
11	Jasminka Guber	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4: 17.75
12	Meskerem Legesse	Ethiopia	4: 18.03
13	Alina Cucerzan	Romania	4: 18.07
14th	Elena Guerra	Uruguay	4: 35.31
15th	Kanchi Maya Koju	Nepal	4: 38.17
DNF	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine

Forward 3

August 24, 2004, 8:46 pm The x from Angola that was registered for the race did not start.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Maria Cioncan	Romania	4: 06.68
2	Carmen Douma-Hussar	Canada	4: 06.90
3	Wioletta Frankiewicz	Poland	4: 06.91
4th	Nancy Langat	Kenya	4: 06.94
5	Kutre Dulecha	Ethiopia	4: 06.95
6th	Olga Yegorova	Russia	4: 07.14
7th	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain	4: 07.19
8th	Hind Dehiba Chahyd	France	4: 07.96
9	Nelya Neporadna	Ukraine	4: 08.60
10	Trine Pilskog	Norway	4: 08.61
11	Sarah Jamieson	Australia	4: 09.25
12	Judit Varga	Hungary	4: 09.36
13	Joanne Pavey	Great Britain	4: 12.50
14th	Tatyana Borisova	Kyrgyzstan	4: 13.36
15th	Sumaira Zahoor	Pakistan	4: 49.33
DNS	Rosa Saul	Angola

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

August 26, 2004, 8:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Maria Cioncan	Romania	4: 06.69
2	Anna Jakubczak-Pawelec	Poland	4: 06.77
3	Tatiana Tomaschowa	Russia	4: 6.80
4th	Elvan Abeylegesse	Turkey	4: 07.10
5	Hasna Benhassi	Morocco	4: 07.39
6th	Natalija Tobias	Ukraine	4: 07.55
7th	Nancy Langat	Kenya	4: 07.57
8th	Kutre Dulecha	Ethiopia	4: 07.63
9	Nuria Fernández	Spain	4: 07.68
10	Iris Fuentes-Pila	Spain	4: 07.69
11	Hayley Tullett	Great Britain	4: 08.92
12	Konstadina Efedaki	Greece	4: 09.37

Run 2

The American Carrie Tollefson finished ninth in her semifinals and was eliminated

August 26, 2004, 8:41 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Natalia Evdokimova	Russia	4: 04.66
2	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	4: 04.77
3	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4: 04.83
4th	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain	4: 04.91
5	Daniela Jordanova	Bulgaria	4: 04.94
6th	Carmen Douma-Hussar	Canada	4: 05.09
7th	Olga Yegorova	Russia	4: 05.57
8th	Nahida Touhami	Algeria	4: 07.21
9	Carrie Tollefson	United States	4: 08.55
10	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4: 10.85
11	Wioletta Frankiewicz	Poland	4: 11.41
12	Maria Martins	France	4: 12.76

final

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	3: 57.90	NO
2	Tatiana Tomaschowa	Russia	3: 58.12
3	Maria Cioncan	Romania	3: 58.39
4th	Natalia Evdokimova	Russia	3: 59.05
5	Daniela Jordanova	Bulgaria	3: 59.10
6th	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	3: 59.27
7th	Anna Jakubczak-Pawelec	Poland	4: 00.15
8th	Elvan Abeylegesse	Turkey	4: 00.67
9	Carmen Douma-Hussar	Canada	4: 02.31
10	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain	4: 03.01
11	Olga Yegorova	Russia	4: 05.65
12	Hasna Benhassi	Morocco	4: 12.90

August 28, 2004, 8:30 p.m.

Three Russians and two Polish women qualified for the final. The field was completed by one participant each from Bulgaria, Great Britain, Canada, Morocco, Romania, Spain and Turkey.

The reigning world champion Tatiana Tomaschowa from Russia was the favorite to win . Her strongest competitors were her two teammates Natalja Evdokimowa and Olga Jegorowa and the British Olympic champion over 800 meters Kelly Holmes. The Moroccan Hasna Benhassi was difficult to assess on this route. But at least she had won the 800 meter silver just behind Holmes five days earlier.

The first rounds were led by the Russians with Evdokimova in the lead. The first 400-meter split was 1: 03.59 min, the second 1: 05.05 min. The race was not slow, but neither did it go towards a world or Olympic record . The field remained largely together in an elongated formation. The pace of the third lap - 1: 04.18 min - was within the scope of the first two 400-meter sections. The race really only started in the target curve. Holmes attacked from fifth position and tried to get past the Russians on the outside. When it hit the home stretch, Evdokimova was still just ahead. But her strength was now clearly weakening. Kelly Holmes played out her sprinting skills and also became an Olympic champion on the 1,500 meter course . Behind her, Tatiana Tomaschowa won silver, the Romanian Maria Cioncan came bronze in front of Natalja Evdokimowa and Bulgarian Daniela Jordanowa. The two Polish women Lidia Chojecka and Anna Jakubczak-Pawelec finished sixth and seventh.

Kelly Holmes was the first UK female medalist and Olympic champion in the discipline.

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  Olympic Champion Kelly Holmes, Great Britain

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  The Polish Lidia Chojecka finished sixth in the final

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  The Olympic eighth Elvan Abeylegesse from Turkey

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  The Spaniard Natalia Rodríguez came in tenth place in the final

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  The Moroccan Hasna Benhassi was twelfth in the Olympics

Web links

• SportsReference 1500 m , accessed May 7, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed May 7, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on May 7, 2018

Video

• Athletics - Women's 1500M - Athens 2004 Summer Olympic Games , published March 1, 2010 on youtube.com, accessed May 7, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF world records 1500 m women , accessed on May 7, 2018