Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	August 9 (heats) August 11 (final)
Competitors	22 from 16 nations
Winning time	4:03.25
Medalists
Gabriella Dorio  Italy Doina Melinte  Romania Maricica Puică  Romania

Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races

These are the official results of the Women's 1,500m metres event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. The final was held on August 11, 1984.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Gabriella Dorio  Italy
Silver	Doina Melinte  Romania
Bronze	Maricica Puică  Romania

Abbreviations

Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Gabriella Dorio (ITA)	4:03.25
	Doina Melinte (ROU)	4:03.76
	Maricica Puică (ROU)	4:04.15
4.	Roswitha Gerdes (FRG)	4:04.41
5.	Christine Benning (GBR)	4:04.70
6.	Christina Boxer (GBR)	4:05.53
7.	Brit McRoberts (CAN)	4:05.98
8.	Ruth Wysocki (USA)	4:08.32
9.	Fiţa Lovin (ROU)	4:09.11
10.	Debbie Scott (CAN)	4:10.41
11.	Lynne MacDougall (GBR)	4:10.58
12.	Elly van Hulst (NED)	4:11.58

Heats

• Held in 1984-08-09

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Christine Benning (GBR)	4:10.48
2.	Doina Melinte (ROU)	4:10.48
3.	Fiţa Lovin (ROU)	4:10.58
4.	Roswitha Gerdes (FRG)	4:10.64
5.	Brit McRoberts (CAN)	4:10.64
6.	Elly van Hulst (NED)	4:10.69
7.	Missy Kane (USA)	4:11.86
8.	Diana Richburg (USA)	4:13.35
9.	Helen Ritter (LIE)	4:19.39
10.	Justina Chepchirchir (KEN)	4:21.97
11.	Laverne Bryan (ANT)	4:32.44
12.	Kriscia Lorena García (ESA)	4:38.00

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Gabriella Dorio (ITA)	4:04.51
2.	Maricica Puică (ROU)	4:05.30
3.	Ruth Wysocki (USA)	4:06.65
4.	Christina Boxer (GBR)	4:07.40
5.	Lynne MacDougall (GBR)	4:09.08
6.	Debbie Scott (CAN)	4:09.16
7.	Jill McCabe (SWE)	4:16.48
8.	Alejandra Ramos (CHI)	4:22.03
9.	Liliana Góngora (ARG)	4:28.02
10.	Mariciane Mukamurenzi (RWA)	4:31.56
—	Margrit Klinger (FRG)	DNS

See also

• 1980 Women's Olympic 1,500 metres (Moscow)
• 1982 Women's European Championships 1,500 metres (Athens)
• 1983 Women's World Championships 1,500 metres (Helsinki)
• 1984 Women's Friendship Games 1,500 metres (Prague)
• 1986 Women's European Championships 1,500 metres (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Women's World Championships 1,500 metres (Rome)
• 1988 Women's Olympic 1,500 metres (Seoul)

References

External links

• Official Report
• Results
• Results