Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres
Women's 1500 metres at the Games of the XXI Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
Date | 28–30 July | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 36 from 19 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 4:05.48 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics | ||
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Track events | ||
100 m | men | women |
200 m | men | women |
400 m | men | women |
800 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
5000 m | men | |
10,000 m | men | |
100 m hurdles | women | |
110 m hurdles | men | |
400 m hurdles | men | |
3000 m steeplechase | men | |
4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
4 × 400 m relay | men | women |
Road events | ||
Marathon | men | |
20 km walk | men | |
Field events | ||
Long jump | men | women |
Triple jump | men | |
High jump | men | women |
Pole vault | men | |
Shot put | men | women |
Discus throw | men | women |
Javelin throw | men | women |
Hammer throw | men | |
Combined events | ||
Pentathlon | women | |
Decathlon | men | |
The Women's 1500 metres competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada was held at the Olympic Stadium on 26–30 July.[1]
Competition format
[edit]The Women's 1500m competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Semifinals and a Final. The three fastest competitors from each race in the heats plus the next two fastest overall qualified for the Semifinals. The four fastest competitors from each of the Semifinal races plus the next fastest overall advanced to the Final.
Records
[edit]Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | ![]() |
3:56.0 | Podolsk, Soviet Union | 28 June 1976 |
Olympic record | ![]() |
4:01.4 | Munich, West Germany | 9 September 1972 |
Results
[edit]Round 1
[edit]Qual. rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) plus the next two fastest times (q) qualified.
Heat 1
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Gabriella Dorio | ![]() |
4:10.84 | Q |
2 | Raisa Smekhnova | ![]() |
4:10.88 | Q |
3 | Jan Merrill | ![]() |
4:10.92 | Q |
4 | Mary Stewart | ![]() |
4:11.10 | Q |
5 | Maricica Puică | ![]() |
4:12.62 | |
6 | Rositsa Pekhlivanova | ![]() |
4:13.11 | |
7 | Judy Amoore | ![]() |
4:14.22 | |
8 | Bernadette Van Roy | ![]() |
4:16.27 | |
9 | Magdolna Lázár | ![]() |
4:23.30 |
Heat 2
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Lyudmila Bragina | ![]() |
4:07.11 | Q |
2 | Christiane Wartenberg | ![]() |
4:07.13 | Q |
3 | Nina Holmén | ![]() |
4:07.14 | Q |
4 | Grete Waitz | ![]() |
4:07.20 | Q |
5 | Ellen Wellmann | ![]() |
4:07.20 | q |
6 | Francie Larrieu Smith | ![]() |
4:07.21 | q |
7 | Dianne Rodger | ![]() |
4:12.81 | |
8 | Thelma Wright | ![]() |
4:15.23 | |
9 | Ndew Niang | ![]() |
4:44.64 |
Heat 3
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Ulrike Bruns | ![]() |
4:11.62 | Q |
2 | Tatyana Kazankina | ![]() |
4:12.10 | Q |
3 | Vesela Yatsinska | ![]() |
4:12.72 | Q |
4 | Sonja Castelein | ![]() |
4:12.95 | Q |
5 | Penny Yule | ![]() |
4:13.36 | |
6 | Ileana Silai | ![]() |
4:13.61 | |
7 | Margherita Gargano | ![]() |
4:15.94 | |
8 | Carmen Valero | ![]() |
4:17.65 | |
9 | Penny Werthner | ![]() |
4:18.19 |
Heat 4
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Brigitte Kraus | ![]() |
4:07.79 | Q |
2 | Gunhild Hoffmeister | ![]() |
4:08.23 | Q |
3 | Natalia Mărăşescu | ![]() |
4:08.31 | Q |
4 | Nikolina Shtereva | ![]() |
4:08.38 | Q |
5 | Mary Tracey-Purcell | ![]() |
4:08.63 | |
6 | Cyndy Poor | ![]() |
4:08.89 | |
7 | Anne Audain | ![]() |
4:10.68 | |
8 | Silvana Cruciata | ![]() |
4:16.78 | |
9 | Lilja Guðmundsdóttir | ![]() |
4:20.27 |
Semifinals
[edit]Heat 1
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Ulrike Bruns | ![]() |
4:02.13 | Q |
2 | Nikolina Shtereva | ![]() |
4:02.33 | Q |
3 | Lyudmila Bragina | ![]() |
4:02.41 | Q |
4 | Gunhild Hoffmeister | ![]() |
4:02.45 | Q |
5 | Jan Merrill | ![]() |
4:02.61 | q |
6 | Raisa Smekhnova | ![]() |
4:03.20 | |
7 | Brigitte Kraus | ![]() |
4:04.21 | |
8 | Grete Waitz | ![]() |
4:04.80 | |
9 | Sonja Castelein | ![]() |
4:13.46 |
Heat 2
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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1 | Tatyana Kazankina | ![]() |
4:07.37 | Q |
2 | Nina Holmén | ![]() |
4:07.53 | Q |
3 | Ellen Wellmann | ![]() |
4:07.54 | Q |
4 | Gabriella Dorio | ![]() |
4:07.61 | Q |
5 | Mary Stewart | ![]() |
4:07.65 | |
6 | Vesela Yatsinska | ![]() |
4:07.89 | |
7 | Natalia Mărăşescu | ![]() |
4:07.92 | |
8 | Christiane Wartenberg | ![]() |
4:08.28 | |
9 | Francie Larrieu Smith | ![]() |
4:09.07 |
Final
[edit]Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
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Tatyana Kazankina | ![]() |
4:05.48 | |
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Gunhild Hoffmeister | ![]() |
4:06.02 | |
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Ulrike Bruns | ![]() |
4:06.09 | |
4 | Nikolina Shtereva | ![]() |
4:06.57 | |
5 | Lyudmila Bragina | ![]() |
4:07.20 | |
6 | Gabriella Dorio | ![]() |
4:07.27 | |
7 | Ellen Wellmann | ![]() |
4:07.91 | |
8 | Jan Merrill | ![]() |
4:08.54 | |
9 | Nina Holmén | ![]() |
4:09.55 |
References
[edit]- ^ "Athletics at the 1976 Montreal Games: Women's 1500 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
External links
[edit]- Official Olympic Report Archived 2012-02-12 at the Wayback Machine, la84foundation.org. Retrieved August 20, 2012.
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