2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 1500 m (women)
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sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 1500 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 41 athletes from 24 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Estádio Nilton Santos | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 12, 2016 (preliminary) August 14, 2016 (semi-finals) August 16, 2016 (final) |
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The women's 1,500 meter run at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 12, 14 and 16, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 41 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Kenyan Faith Kipyegon , who won ahead of the Ethiopian Genzebe Dibaba . Bronze went to the American Jenny Simpson .
Konstanze Klosterhalfen and Diana Sujew started for Germany, both of whom were eliminated in the semi-finals.
Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Anjelina Lohalith from South Sudan started for the refugee team under the Olympic flag and the abbreviation ROT .
Current titleholders
Olympic Champion |
Gamze Bulut ( Turkey )
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4: 10.40 min | London 2012 |
world champion |
Genzebe Dibaba ( Ethiopia )
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4: 08.09 min | Beijing 2015 |
European champion |
Angelika Cichocka ( Poland )
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4: 33.00 min | Amsterdam 2016 |
North / Central America / Caribbean Champion | Rachel Schneider ( USA )
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4: 14.78 min | San José 2015 |
South America Champion |
Muriel Coneo ( Colombia )
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4: 10.14 min | Lima 2015 |
Asian champion | Betlhem Desalegn ( United Arab Emirates )
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4: 29.39 min | Wuhan 2015 |
African champion |
Caster Semenya ( South Africa )
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4: 01.99 min | Durban 2016 |
Oceania champion | Coreena Cleland ( Australia )
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4: 27.36 min | Cairns 2015 |
Existing records
World record |
Genzebe Dibaba ( Ethiopia )
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3: 50.07 min | Monaco , Monaco | 17th July 2015 |
Olympic record |
Paula Ivan ( Romania )
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3: 53.96 min | Final from Seoul , South Korea | October 1, 1988 |
Note: All times are based on Rio local time ( UTC-3 ).
Preliminary round
The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. 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.
Run 1
August 12, 2016, 8:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Genzebe Dibaba |
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4: 10.61 | |
2 | Ciara Mageean |
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4: 11.51 | |
3 | Brenda Martinez |
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4: 11.74 | |
4th | Linden Hall |
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4: 11.75 | |
5 | Angelika Cichocka |
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4: 11.76 | |
6th | Konstanze Klosterhalfen |
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4: 11.76 | |
7th | Hilary Stellingwerff |
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4: 12.00 | |
8th | Maureen Koster |
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4: 13.15 | |
9 | Siham Hilali |
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4: 13.46 | |
10 | Amela Terzić |
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4:15, 17 | |
11 | Nancy Chepkwemoi |
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4: 15.41 | |
12 | Marta Pen |
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4: 18.53 | |
13 | Saraswati Bhattarai |
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4: 33.94 | NO |
14th | Celma Bonfim da Graça |
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4: 38.86 |
Run 2
August 12, 2016, 8:41 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Sifan Hassan |
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4: 06.64 | |
2 | Faith Kipyegon |
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4: 06.65 | |
3 | Sofia Ennaoui |
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4: 06.90 | |
4th | Jenny Simpson |
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4: 06.99 | |
5 | Malika Akkaoui |
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4: 07.42 | |
6th | Visit Sado |
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4: 08.11 | |
7th | Laura Weightman |
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4: 08.37 | |
8th | Jenny Blundell |
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4: 09.05 | |
9 | Gabriela Stafford |
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4: 09.45 | |
10 | Muriel Coneo |
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4: 09.50 | |
11 | Tigist Gashaw |
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4: 10.96 | |
12 | Florina Pierdevară |
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4: 11.55 | |
13 | Nikki Hamblin |
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4: 11.88 | |
14th | Anjelina Lohalith |
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4: 47.38 | Homeland: South Sudan |
Run 3
August 12, 2016, 8:52 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Dawit Seyaum |
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4: 05.33 | |
2 | Shannon Rowbury |
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4: 06.47 | |
3 | Laura Muir |
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4: 06.53 | |
4th | Rababe Arafi |
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4: 06.63 | |
5 | Meraf Bahta |
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4: 06.82 | |
6th | Zoe Buckman |
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4: 06.93 | |
7th | Nicole Sifuentes |
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4: 07.43 | |
8th | Viola Lagat |
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4: 08.09 | |
9 | Danuta Urbanik |
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4: 08.67 | |
10 | Diana Sujew |
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4: 09.07 | |
11 | Margherita Magnani |
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4: 09.74 | |
12 | Kadra Mohamed Dembil |
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4: 42.67 | NO |
13 | Nélia Martins |
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5: 00.53 | |
DNS | Bethlhem Deslagn |
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Semifinals
In each of the two semi-finals, the five best athletes qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , also advanced. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Run 1
August 14, 2016, 9:30 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Faith Kipyegon |
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4: 03.95 | |
2 | Dawit Seyaum |
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4: 05.33 | |
3 | Shannon Rowbury |
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4: 04.46 | |
4th | Visit Sado |
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4: 05.19 | |
5 | Laura Weightman |
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4: 05.28 | |
6th | Sofia Ennaoui |
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4: 05.29 | |
7th | Rababe Arafi |
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4: 05.60 | |
8th | Linden Hall |
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4: 05.81 | |
9 | Zoe Buckman |
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4: 06.95 | |
10 | Konstanze Klosterhalfen |
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4: 07.26 | |
11 | Ciara Mageean |
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4: 08.07 | |
12 | Brenda Martinez |
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4: 10.41 |
Run 2
August 14, 2016, 9:41 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Genzebe Dibaba |
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4: 03.06 | |
2 | Sifan Hassan |
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4: 03.62 | |
3 | Laura Muir |
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4: 04.16 | |
4th | Jenny Simpson |
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4: 05.07 | |
5 | Meraf Bahta |
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4: 06.41 | |
6th | Viola Lagat |
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4: 06.83 | |
7th | Nicole Sifuentes |
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4: 08.53 | |
8th | Malika Akkaoui |
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4: 08.55 | |
9 | Diana Sujew |
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4: 10.15 | |
10 | Danuta Urbanik |
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4: 11.34 | |
11 | Jenny Blundell |
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4: 13.25 | |
12 | Angelika Cichocka |
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4: 17.83 |
final
August 16, 2016, 10:30 p.m.
All three Ethiopians qualified for the final. There were also two US runners and two British runners as well as one starter each from Kenya, Morocco, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden.
A duel was expected between the Ethiopian world champion Genzebe Dibaba, who was also the world record holder , and the Kenyan vice world champion Faith Kipyegon. For the places behind these two, among others, the Dutch World Cup third and European champion from 2014 Sifan Hassan and the two fourth and fifth placed at the last World Championships Dawit Seyaum from Ethiopia and Laura Muir from Great Britain came into question.
The final race started at a leisurely pace - 400 meter split time 1: 16.57 min - and was led by the British Laura Weightman. At the beginning of the second round, the Ethiopian Besu Sado and the British Laura Muir took the lead, but they were soon replaced by Dibaba.
Kipyegon and Hassan worked their way forward together, while Dibaba began to increase the pace - second lap: 1: 10.54 min / third lap: 56.79 s. At the start of the last lap, Dibaba was ahead of Kipyegon and Muir. The trio had created a gap to the chasing field and Muir had to let go a little later. On the back straight, Kipyegon pushed the leader and pulled past her. Hassen, as well as the US runners Jenny Simpson and Shannon Rowbury, fought their way past Muir in the target curve with a clear gap behind them. Dibaba now had nothing more to add, so that Kipyegon crossed the finish line with an advantage of almost one and a half seconds. Behind silver medalist Dibaba, Simpson won bronze in front of her teammate Rowbury. Hassan followed in fifth, followed by the Swedes Meraf Bahta and Muir.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Faith Kipyegon |
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4: 08.92 | |
2 | Genzebe Dibaba |
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4: 10.27 | |
3 | Jenny Simpson |
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4: 10.53 | |
4th | Shannon Rowbury |
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4: 11.05 | |
5 | Sifan Hassan |
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4: 11.23 | |
6th | Meraf Bahta |
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4: 12.59 | |
7th | Laura Muir |
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4: 12.88 | |
8th | Dawit Seyaum |
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4: 13.14 | |
9 | Visit Sado |
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4: 13.58 | |
10 | Sofia Ennaoui |
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4: 14.72 | |
11 | Laura Weightman |
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4: 14.95 | |
12 | Rababe Arafi |
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4: 15.16 |
The Swede Meraf Bahta - here on the far right at the award ceremony of the European Championships 2018 - was sixth in the Olympics
Web links
- Results Book Rio 2016, official report at library.olympic.org, accessed October 11, 2018
- Results on the website of the World Athletics Federation IAAF 1500 m women (English), accessed on October 11, 2018
- Sports-Reference, result 1500 m women (English), accessed on October 11, 2018
Video
- Rio Replay: Women's 1500m Final on youtube.com, published August 21, 2016, accessed October 11, 2018
Individual evidence
- ^ IAAF news from the New York Times of July 18, 2015 (English) , accessed on October 11, 2018