2008 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	1500 meter run
gender	Women
place	Beijing National Stadium
Participants	33 athletes from 19 countries
Competition phase	August 21-23, 2008
Medalists
gold	Nancy Jebet Langat ( KEN )
silver	Iryna Lishchynska ( UKR )
bronze	Natalija Tobias ( UKR )

The 1,500-meter run at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing was held from August 21 to 23, 2008 in the National Stadium. 33 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Kenyan Nancy Jebet Langat , the other medals went to athletes from the Ukraine. Iryna Lishchynska won silver , Natalija Tobias won bronze.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion 2004	Kelly Holmes ( Great Britain )	3: 57.90 min	Athens 2004
World Champion 2007	Maryam Yusuf Jamal ( Bahrain )	3: 58.75 min	Osaka 2007
European Champion 2006	Tatiana Tomaschowa ( Russia )	3: 56.91 min	Gothenburg 2006
Pan American Champion 2007	Juliana Paula dos Santos ( Brazil )	4: 13.36 min	Rio de Janeiro 2007
Central America and Caribbean champion 2008	Rosibel García ( Colombia )	4: 24.62 min	Cali 2008
South American Champion 2007		4: 20.46 min	São Paulo 2007
Asian Champion 2007	Sinimole Paulose ( India )	4: 25.67 min	Amman 2007
Africa Champion 2008	Gelete Burka ( Ethiopia )	4: 08.25 min	Addis Ababa 2008
Oceania Champion 2008	Salome Dell ( Papua New Guinea )	4: 40.39 min	Saipan 2008

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

Preliminary round

There were three preliminary runs. The first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the next three fastest athletes - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

The British Stephanie Twell is eliminated as sixth of her preliminary run

The Kenyan Viola Jelagat Kibiwot fails in a slow advance and does not reach the final

Agnes Samaria from Namibia - here in the leading position of a race at the 2007 World Championships - finished seventh in her preliminary run and was eliminated

Forward 1

August 21, 2008 , 7:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Bahrain	4: 05.14 min
2	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain	4: 05.30 min
3	Siham Hilali	Morocco	4: 05.36 min
4th	Anna Mishchenko	Ukraine	4: 06.61 min	PB
5	Sarah Jamieson	Australia	4: 06.64 min
6th	Stephanie Twell	Great Britain	4: 06.68 min
7th	Anna Jakubczak-Pawelec	Poland	4: 07.33 min
8th	Christin Wurth-Thomas	United States	4: 09.70 min
9	Irene Jelagat	Kenya	4: 09.92 min
10	Konstadina Efedaki	Greece	4: 15.02 min
11	Nahida Touhami	Algeria	4: 18.99 min

Forward 2

August 21, 2008 , 7:09 pm

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4: 13.60 min
2	Iris Fuentes-Pila	Spain	4: 14.10 min
3	Btissam Lakhouad	Morocco	4: 14.34 min
4th	Susan Scott	Great Britain	4: 14.66 min
5	Viola Jelagat Kibiwot	Kenya	4: 15.62 min
6th	Wear burqa	Ethiopia	4: 15.77 min
7th	Agnes Samaria	Namibia	4: 15.80 min
8th	Erin Donohue	United States	4: 16.05 min
9	Lisa Corrigan	Australia	4: 16.32 min
10	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4: 19.57 min
11	Domingas Ogna	Guinea-Bissau	5: 05.76 min	NO

Forward 3

August 21, 2008 , 7:18 pm

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Nancy Jebet Langat	Kenya	4: 03.02 min
2	Natalija Tobias	Ukraine	4: 03.19 min
3	Lisa Dobriskey	Great Britain	4: 03.22 min	PB
4th	Shannon Rowbury	United States	4: 03.89 min
5	Anna Alminova	Russia	4: 04.66 min
6th	Sylwia Ejdys	Poland	4: 08.37 min
7th	René Kalmer	South Africa	4: 08.41 min
8th	Sonja Roman	Slovenia	4: 08.52 min
9	Liu Qing	People's Republic of China	4: 09.27 min
10	Meskerem Assefa	Ethiopia	4: 10.04 min
11	Bouchra Chaâbi	Morocco	4: 19.89 min

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Nancy Jebet Langat	Kenya	4: 00.23 min	PB
2	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4: 01.63 min
3	Natalija Tobias	Ukraine	4: 01.78 min	PB
4th	Lisa Dobriskey	Great Britain	4: 02.10 min	PB
5	Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Bahrain	4: 02.71 min
6th	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain	4: 03.19 min
7th	Shannon Rowbury	United States	4: 03.58 min
8th	Iris Fuentes-Pila	Spain	4: 04.86 min
9	Anna Mishchenko	Ukraine	4: 05.13 min	PB
10	Siham Hilali	Morocco	4: 05.57 min
11	Anna Alminova	Russia	4: 06.99 min
12	Btissam Lakhouad	Morocco	4: 07.25 min

August 23, 2008 , 7:50 p.m.

The favorites were the reigning world champion Maryam Yusuf Jamal from Bahrain and the Ukrainian vice world champion Iryna Lishchynska. Other candidates for the medals and top placements were the two Kenyans Viola Jelagat Kibiwot, fifth in the World Cup, and Nancy Jebet Langat, who performed very well at important sporting events in the Olympic season.

In the final, three representatives from Ukraine, two Spaniards and one runner each from Bahrain, Great Britain, Kenya, Morocco, Russia, Spain and the United States competed.

The pace in the finals wasn't particularly fast in the beginning. The Russian Anna Alminowa and Jamal led the field alternately. The transit time for the first four hundred meters was 1: 05.90 min. The picture was similar in the second round. At 1: 07.80 min, the race was a little slower. On the third four hundred meters, the now leading Jamal increased the pace slightly - lap time 1: 02.71 min. Now it got a lot faster. Langat was second ahead of Lishchynska. Behind it there was already a small gap to the rest of the field.

Jamal and Langat were now fighting for the lead on the back straight, they had set themselves apart from the competition. The Kenyan, who had stayed out of any leadership work, sprinted forward almost effortlessly. At the start of the home stretch she was clearly ahead of Jamal, followed by the two Ukrainians Lishchynska and Natalija Tobias a few meters behind. Nancy Jebet Langat increased her lead over the last hundred meters and became Olympic champion. The world champion, however, could no longer keep her pace. Iryna Lishchynska - silver, Natalija Tobias - bronze - and also the British Lisa Dobriskey - fourth place - overtook her. Maryam Yusuf Jamal finished fifth ahead of the Spaniard Natalia Rodríguez.

Nancy Jebet Langat won the first gold medal for Kenya in the women's 1,500 meters .
The medals of the Ukrainians Iryna Lishchynska and Natalija Tobias were the first for their country in this discipline.

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  Olympic champion Nancy Jebet Langat from Kenya - here in second place at the ISTAF 2009 in Berlin

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  Silver medal for Ukrainian Iryna Lishchynska - here in a leading position in another race

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  Bronze medalist Natalija Tobias from Ukraine - here in third place at the 2007 World Championships

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  The British Lisa Dobriskey is Olympic champion

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  Fifth place for Maryam Yusuf Jamal from Bahrain

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  Sixth-placed Spaniard Natalia Rodríguez

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  Shannon Rowbury from the USA becomes Olympic 7th

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  The Spaniard Iris Fuentes-Pila - here in second place at the 2007 World Championships - comes in eighth

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  The third Ukrainian in the race, Anna Mishchenko, is ninth

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  The Russian Olympic eleventh Anna Alminowa

Web links

• SportsReference 1500m women , accessed June 22, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website, accessed on June 22, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIIth Olympiad, Results Athletics , English / French (PDF, 3054 KB), accessed on June 22, 2018

Video

• Athletics - Women's 1500M - Final - Beijing 2008 Summer Olympic Games , published August 23, 2008 on youtube.com, accessed June 22, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Campeonato CAC de Atletismo 2008 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 18, 2018
2. ↑ Campeonato Sudamericano de Atletismo 2007 on athlecac.org, accessed on June 18, 2018
3. ↑ 17th Asian Athletics Championship 2007 ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at athleticsasia.org (PDF, 417 KB), accessed June 18, 2018 
4. ↑ Oceania Area Championships - 25/06/2008 to 28/06/2008 on athletics-oceania.com (PDF, 130 KB), accessed on June 18, 2018
5. ^ IAAF world records 1500 m women , accessed on June 22, 2018