Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Lenin Central Stadium
Date	31 July 1980 (heats) 1 August 1980 (final)
Competitors	26 from 16 nations
Winning time	3:56.6 OR
Medalists
Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union Christiane Wartenberg  East Germany Nadezhda Olizarenko  Soviet Union

Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics
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
50 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

These are the official results of the Women's 1,500m metres event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Soviet Union. There were a total number of 26 participating athletes, with the final was held on Friday 1980-08-01.^[1]

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Tatyana Kazankina (URS)	3:56.6 OR
	Christiane Wartenberg (GDR)	3:57.8
	Nadezhda Olizarenko (URS)	3:59.6
4.	Gabriella Dorio (ITA)	4:00.3
5.	Ulrike Bruns (GDR)	4:00.7
6.	Lyubov Smolka (URS)	4:01.3
7.	Maricica Puică (ROU)	4:01.3
8.	Ileana Silai (ROU)	4:03.0
9.	Natalia Marasescu (ROU)	4:04.8

Semi-Finals

• Held on Wednesday 1980-07-30

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Tatyana Kazankina (URS)	3:59.2 OR
2.	Nadezhda Olizarenko (URS)	3:59.5
3.	Christiane Wartenberg (GDR)	4:00.4
4.	Ulrike Bruns (GDR)	4:01.6
5.	Maricica Puică (ROU)	4:01.7
6.	Vesela Yatsinska (BUL)	4:04.7
7.	Cornelia Bürki (SUI)	4:05.5
8.	Totka Petrova (BUL)	4:13.8
9.	Janet Marlow (GBR)	4:15.9
10.	Amsale Woldegibriel (ETH)	4:25.3
11.	Marcellina Emmanuel (TAN)	4:26.8
12.	Albertine Raheliarisoa (MAD)	4:30.8
13.	Margaret Morel (SEY)	4:37.9

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Lyubov Smolka (URS)	4:04.4
2.	Ileana Silai (ROU)	4:04.7
3.	Gabriella Dorio (ITA)	4:05.0
4.	Natalia Marasescu (ROU)	4:05.9
5.	Anna Bukis (POL)	4:06.0
6.	Beate Liebich (GDR)	4:06.8
7.	Nikolina Shtereva (BUL)	4:08.3
8.	Breda Pergar (YUG)	4:13.2
9.	Agnese Possamai (ITA)	4:14.7
10.	Mwinga Mwanjala (TAN)	4:20.9
11.	Trịnh Thị Bé (VIE)	4:38.6
—	Hala El-Moughrabi (SYR)	DNS
—	Geeta Zutshi (IND)	DNS

See also

• 1976 Women's Olympic 1,500 metres (Montreal)
• 1978 Women's European Championships 1,500 metres (Prague)
• 1982 Women's European Championships 1,500 metres (Athens)
• 1983 Women's World Championships 1,500 metres (Helsinki)
• 1984 Women's Olympic 1,500 metres (Los Angeles)

References

External links

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