2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres explained

The women's 1500 metres at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Nagai Stadium on 29, 31 August and 2 September.

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Iryna Lishchynska	Daniela Yordanova

Note. The silver medal was originally won by Yelena Soboleva of Russia but she was eventually stripped off after being banned for manipulating drug samples..

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 29, 2007	10:00	Heats
August 31, 2007	19:35	Semifinals
September 2, 2007	20:10	Final

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 6 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	1			4:09.05	Q
	1			4:09.47	Q
	1			4:09.52	Q
	1			4:09.58	Q
	1			4:09.60	Q
	1			4:09.67	Q
	1			4:10.02	q
	2			4:10.03	Q
	2			4:10.53	Q
10	2			4:10.61	Q
10	2			4:10.61	Q
12	1			4:10.69	q
13	3			4:10.85	Q
14	2			4:10.89	Q
15	3			4:10.96	Q
16	1			4:10.98	q
17	3			4:11.04	Q
17	3			4:11.04	Q
19	3			4:11.11	Q
20	3			4:11.22	q
21	2			4:11.24	q
21	3			4:11.24	q
23	3			4:11.51
24	3			4:12.10
25	3			4:12.71
26	2			4:14.38
27	2			4:15.43
28	2			4:18.59
29	1			4:20.21
30	3			4:20.46
31	2			4:21.22
32	1			4:21.64
33	2			4:22.12
34	1			5:45.25
35	3			5:45.99
	2			DSQ
	3			DSQ

Note: Both Yuliya Fomenko and Yelena Soboleva originally advanced to the semifinals but were later retrospectively disqualified.

Semifinals

Qualification: First 5 in each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	2			4:03.84	Q
	2			4:03.97	Q
	2			4:04.19	Q, SB
	2			4:05.25	Q
	2			4:05.80	q
	2			4:06.99	q, SB
	2			4:08.02	NR
	2			4:08.32
	2			4:08.39
10	2			4:08.60	SB
11	2			4:08.79
12	1			4:14.86	Q
13	1			4:15.22	Q
14	1			4:15.36	Q
15	1			4:15.43	Q
16	1			4:15.99
17	1			4:16.20
18	1			4:16.21
19	1			4:16.41
20	1			4:17.97
21	1			4:20.44
22	1			4:21.50
	1			DSQ
	2			DSQ

Note: Both Yuliya Fomenko and Yelena Soboleva originally advanced to the final but were later retrospectively disqualified.

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			3:58.75	SB
			4:00.69	SB
			4:00.82	SB
			4:01.52	PB
			4:02.10	PB
			4:07.61	NR
			4:07.82
			4:08.64
			4:10.56
10			4:14.00
			DSQ
			DSQ

Both Yuliya Fomenko and Yelena Soboleva originally participated in the final (with Soboleva finishing in second place), but were later retrospectively disqualified due to doping offences.

References

General

• 1500 metres results from IAAF.
• Results for 1500-metres from World Athletics.

Specific