Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres
at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Women's 1500 metres; at the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Venue	Beijing National Stadium
Dates	21 August 2008 (heats); 23 August 2008 (final)
Competitors	33 from 18 nations
Winning time	4:00.23
Medalists
	← 2004 2012 →

The women's 1500 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place from 21–23 August at the Beijing National Stadium.^[1]

The qualifying standards were 4:07.00 (A standard) and 4:08.00 (B standard).^[2]

This event was hit hard by the Russian doping scandal on 31 July 2008, as all three Russian entrants, Yuliya Fomenko, Tatyana Tomashova and Yelena Soboleva, were suspended from competition.^[3] These athletes were three of the favourites to take the medals in Beijing.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Qu Yunxia (CHN)	3:50.46	Beijing, China	11 September 1993
Olympic record	Paula Ivan (ROU)	3:53.96	Seoul, South Korea	1 October 1988

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Results

Round 1

Qualification: First 3 in each heat(Q) and the next 3 fastest(q) advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	Nancy Langat	Kenya	4:03.02	Q, SB
2	3	Nataliya Tobias	Ukraine	4:03.19	Q, SB
3	3	Lisa Dobriskey	Great Britain	4:03.22	Q, PB
4	3	Shannon Rowbury	United States	4:03.89	q
5	3	Anna Alminova	Russia	4:04.66	q
6	1	Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Bahrain	4:05.14	Q
7	1	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain	4:05.30	Q
8	1	Siham Hilali	Morocco	4:05.36	Q, SB
9	1	Anna Mishchenko	Ukraine	4:05.61	q, PB
10	1	Sarah Jamieson	Australia	4:06.64
11	1	Stephanie Twell	Great Britain	4:06.68
12	1	Anna Jakubczak	Poland	4:07.33
13	3	Sylwia Ejdys	Poland	4:08.37
14	3	René Kalmer	South Africa	4:08.41
15	3	Sonja Roman	Slovenia	4:08.52
16	3	Liu Qing	China	4:09.27
17	1	Christin Wurth-Thomas	United States	4:09.70
18	1	Irene Jelagat	Kenya	4:09.92
19	3	Meskerem Assefa	Ethiopia	4:10.04
20	2	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4:13.60	Q
21	2	Iris Fuentes-Pila	Spain	4:14.10	Q
22	2	Btissam Lakhouad	Morocco	4:14.34	Q
23	2	Susan Scott	Great Britain	4:14.66
24	1	Konstadína Efedáki	Greece	4:15.02
25	2	Viola Kibiwot	Kenya	4:15.62
26	2	Gelete Burka	Ethiopia	4:15.77
27	2	Agnes Samaria	Namibia	4:15.80
28	2	Erin Donohue	United States	4:16.05
29	2	Lisa Corrigan	Australia	4:16.32
30	1	Nahida Touhami	Algeria	4:18.99
31	2	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4:19.57
32	3	Bouchra Chaabi	Morocco	4:19.89
33	2	Domingas Togna	Guinea-Bissau	5:05.76	NR

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes^[4]
	Nancy Langat	Kenya	4:00.03	PB
	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4:01.63
	Nataliya Tobias	Ukraine	4:01.78	PB
4	Lisa Dobriskey	Great Britain	4:02.10	PB
5	Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Bahrain	4:02.71
6	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain	4:03.19	SB
7	Shannon Rowbury	United States	4:03.58
8	Iris Fuentes-Pila	Spain	4:04.86
9	Anna Mishchenko	Ukraine	4:05.13	PB
10	Siham Hilali	Morocco	4:05.57
11	Anna Alminova	Russia	4:06.99
12	Btissam Lakhouad	Morocco	4:07.25