2013 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres
at the 2013 World Championships

Gold medalist Abeba Aregawi

Venue

Luzhniki Stadium

Dates

11 August (heats)
13 August (semifinals)
15 August (final)

Competitors

37 from 23 nations

Winning time

4:02.67

Medalists

	Abeba Aregawi Sweden (SWE)
	Jennifer Simpson United States (USA)
	Hellen Onsando Obiri Kenya (KEN)

Events at the 2013 World Championships
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	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 1500 metres at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Luzhniki Stadium on 11–15 August.^[1]

From the start of the final, two Americans, defending champion Jennifer Simpson and super high schooler Mary Cain bracketed the field and closed to fill in the front of the pack. But most of the pack stayed in close order formation throughout with lots of jockeying for position and flying elbows. Cain tried to stay on the curb but kept getting moved back as new suitors moved forward then fell back. Zoe Buckman came forward then went to the curb to suffer the same fate ahead of Cain. Throughout world leader Abeba Aregawi hovered near the front but not passing Simpson. With 300 to go, Aregawi went around Simpson and made a break for it. But Simpson and the rest of the pack didn't go away. Just 100 meters later, Simpson looked like she would go by, but Aregawi wouldn't let her by. Then Hellen Onsando Obiri moved up with momentum, but couldn't make her way around either of them. Aregawi gained a couple of steps around the final turn, but Simpson came back to make it a close finish. Obiri lost ground but held on to keep the bronze. Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon tried to hang on to her teammate but Hannah England made an impressive run from back in the pack to pass her on the inside to get fourth.^[2]

Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:^[3]

World record	Qu Yunxia (CHN)	3:50.46	Beijing, People's Republic of China	11 September 1993
Championship record	Tatyana Tomashova (RUS)	3:58.52	Paris, France	31 August 2003
World Leading	Abeba Aregawi (SWE)	3:56.60	Paris, France	10 May 2013
African Record	Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG)	3:55.30	Barcelona, Spain	8 August 1992
Asian Record	Qu Yunxia (CHN)	3:50.46	Beijing, People's Republic of China	11 September 1993
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Mary Slaney (USA)	3:57.12	Stockholm, Sweden	26 July 1983
South American record	Letitia Vriesde (SUR)	4:05.67	Tokyo, Japan	31 August 1991
European Record	Tatyana Kazankina (URS)	3:52.47	Zürich, Switzerland	13 August 1980
Oceanian record	Sarah Jamieson (AUS)	4:00.93	Stockholm, Sweden	25 July 2006

Qualification standards

A time^[4]	B time
4:05.50	4:09.00

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
11 August 2013	10:25	Heats
13 August 2013	20:40	Semifinals
15 August 2013	21:20	Final

All times are local times (UTC+4)

Results

KEY:	Q	Qualified	q	Fastest non-qualifiers	NR	National record	PB	Personal best	SB	Seasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 6 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advanced to the semifinals.^[5]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia (ETH)	4:06.78	Q
2	3	Hellen Onsando Obiri	Kenya (KEN)	4:06.98	Q
3	2	Zoe Buckman	Australia (AUS)	4:06.99	Q
4	2	Jennifer Simpson	United States (USA)	4:07.16	Q
5	2	Yekaterina Sharmina	Russia (RUS)	4:07.17	Q
6	1	Abeba Aregawi	Sweden (SWE)	4:07.66	Q
7	1	Siham Hilali	Morocco (MAR)	4:07.82	Q
8	2	Rababe Arafi	Morocco (MAR)	4:07.84	Q
9	1	Svetlana Podosenova	Russia (RUS)	4:07.87	Q
10	1	Nancy Langat	Kenya (KEN)	4:07.98	Q
11	3	Hannah England	Great Britain (GBR)	4:08.05	Q
12	1	Renata Pliś	Poland (POL)	4:08.20	Q
13	1	Mary Cain	United States (USA)	4:08.21	Q
14	3	Yelena Korobkina	Russia (RUS)	4:08.33	Q
15	3	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain (ESP)	4:08.44	Q
16	3	Nicole Edwards Sifuentes	Canada (CAN)	4:08.54	Q
17	3	Sonja Roman	Slovenia (SLO)	4:08.58	q
18	1	Kate van Buskirk	Canada (CAN)	4:08.65	q
19	2	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya (KEN)	4:08.66	Q
20	1	Luiza Gega	Albania (ALB)	4:08.76	q
21	1	Maureen Koster	Netherlands (NED)	4:08.99	q
22	3	Sarah Brown	United States (USA)	4:09.00	q
23	3	Btissam Lakhouad	Morocco (MAR)	4:09.15	q
24	2	Mimi Belete	Bahrain (BHR)	4:09.27	Q
25	3	Diana Sujew	Germany (GER)	4:09.40
26	3	Ioana Doagă	Romania (ROU)	4:09.78
27	2	Sheila Reid	Canada (CAN)	4:10.90
28	2	Margherita Magnani	Italy (ITA)	4:11.15
29	1	Gelete Burka	Ethiopia (ETH)	4:11.26
30	2	Senbere Teferi	Ethiopia (ETH)	4:11.41
31	2	Cory McGee	United States (USA)	4:12.33
32	2	Betlhem Desalegn	United Arab Emirates (UAE)	4:12.97
33	1	Laura Weightman	Great Britain (GBR)	4:14.38
34	1	Rosibel García	Colombia (COL)	4:15.38	NR
35	3	Tuğba Koyuncu	Turkey (TUR)	4:15.56
36	2	Eliane Saholinirina	Madagascar (MAD)	4:18.04	SB
37	1	Amela Terzić	Serbia (SRB)	4:27.89

Semifinals

Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advanced to the final.^[6]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Zoe Buckman	Australia (AUS)	4:04.82	Q, PB
2	1	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya (KEN)	4:04.83	Q
3	1	Yelena Korobkina	Russia (RUS)	4:05.18	Q, PB
4	1	Mary Cain	United States (USA)	4:05.21	Q
5	1	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia (ETH)	4:05.23	Q
6	1	Nancy Langat	Kenya (KEN)	4:05.30	q
7	1	Siham Hilali	Morocco (MAR)	4:05.32	q
8	1	Svetlana Podosenova	Russia (RUS)	4:05.36
9	2	Abeba Aregawi	Sweden (SWE)	4:05.66	Q
10	2	Hellen Onsando Obiri	Kenya (KEN)	4:05.76	Q
11	2	Jennifer Simpson	United States (USA)	4:05.79	Q
12	1	Nicole Edwards Sifuentes	Canada (CAN)	4:06.30
13	2	Yekaterina Sharmina	Russia (RUS)	4:06.49	Q
14	2	Hannah England	Great Britain (GBR)	4:06.80	Q
15	2	Kate van Buskirk	Canada (CAN)	4:07.36	PB
16	2	Renata Pliś	Poland (POL)	4:08.02
17	1	Maureen Koster	Netherlands (NED)	4:08.15
18	1	Sonja Roman	Slovenia (SLO)	4:08.63
19	1	Luiza Gega	Albania (ALB)	4:08.79
20	2	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain (ESP)	4:09.18
21	2	Rababe Arafi	Morocco (MAR)	4:09.86
22	2	Sarah Brown	United States (USA)	4:12.16
23	2	Mimi Belete	Bahrain (BHR)	4:14.22
24	2	Btissam Lakhouad	Morocco (MAR)	9:99.99 !DNF

Final

The final was started at 21:20.^[7]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
01 !	Abeba Aregawi	Sweden (SWE)	4:02.67
02 !	Jennifer Simpson	United States (USA)	4:02.99
03 !	Hellen Onsando Obiri	Kenya (KEN)	4:03.86
04 !4	Hannah England	Great Britain (GBR)	4:04.98
05 !5	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya (KEN)	4:05.08
06 !6	Yekaterina Sharmina	Russia (RUS)	4:05.49
07 !7	Zoe Buckman	Australia (AUS)	4:05.77
08 !8	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia (ETH)	4:05.99
09 !9	Nancy Langat	Kenya (KEN)	4:06.01
10	Mary Cain	United States (USA)	4:07.19
11	Siham Hilali	Morocco (MAR)	4:09.16
12	Yelena Korobkina	Russia (RUS)	4:10.18

References

↑ Start list
↑ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/zoe-buckman-finishes-in-seventh-place-in-moscow-world-championship-1500m/story-e6frg7mf-1226698144380
↑ "Records & Lists – 1500 meters". IAAF. Retrieved 8 August 2013.
↑ IAAF World Championships Moscow 2013 – Standards, All Russia Athletic Federation, 2012, retrieved 8 August 2013
↑ Heats Results
↑ Semifinals Results
↑ Final Results

External links

1500 metres results at IAAF website

1500 metres at the IAAF World Championships in Athletics

Complete event overview

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