Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

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]

Women's 1500 metres
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
Date28–30 July
Competitors36 from 19 nations
Winning time4:05.48
Medalists
Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union
Gunhild Hoffmeister  East Germany
Ulrike Bruns  East Germany
Athletics at the
1976 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 mmenwomen
200 mmenwomen
400 mmenwomen
800 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
5000 mmen
10,000 mmen
100 m hurdleswomen
110 m hurdlesmen
400 m hurdlesmen
3000 m
steeplechase		men
4×100 m relaymenwomen
4×400 m relaymenwomen
Road events
Marathonmen
20 km walkmen
Field events
Long jumpmenwomen
Triple jumpmen
High jumpmenwomen
Pole vaultmen
Shot putmenwomen
Discus throwmenwomen
Javelin throwmenwomen
Hammer throwmen
Combined events
Pentathlonwomen
Decathlonmen

Competition format

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

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record  Tatyana Kazankina (URS) 3:56.0 Podolsk, Soviet Union 28 June 1976
Olympic record  Lyudmila Bragina (URS) 4:01.4 Munich, West Germany 9 September 1972

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) plus the next two fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1
RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Gabriella Dorio Italy 4:10.84Q
2Raisa Smekhnova Soviet Union 4:10.88Q
3Jan Merrill United States 4:10.92Q
4Mary Stewart Great Britain 4:11.10Q
5Maricica Puică Romania 4:12.62
6Rositsa Pekhlivanova Bulgaria 4:13.11
7Judy Amoore Australia 4:14.22
8Bernadette Van Roy Belgium 4:16.27
9Magdolna Lázár Hungary 4:23.30

Heat 2
RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Lyudmila Bragina Soviet Union 4:07.11Q
2Christiane Wartenberg East Germany 4:07.13Q
3Nina Holmén Finland 4:07.14Q
4Grete Waitz Norway 4:07.20Q
5Ellen Wellmann West Germany 4:07.20q
6Francie Larrieu Smith United States 4:07.21q
7Dianne Rodger New Zealand 4:12.81
8Thelma Wright Canada 4:15.23
9Ndew Niang Senegal 4:44.64

Heat 3
RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Ulrike Bruns East Germany 4:11.62Q
2Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union 4:12.10Q
3Vesela Yatsinska Bulgaria 4:12.72Q
4Sonja Castelein Belgium 4:12.95Q
5Penny Yule Great Britain 4:13.36
6Ileana Silai Romania 4:13.61
7Margherita Gargano Italy 4:15.94
8Carmen Valero Spain 4:17.65
9Penny Werthner Canada 4:18.19

Heat 4
RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Brigitte Kraus West Germany 4:07.79Q
2Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany 4:08.23Q
3Natalia Mărăşescu Romania 4:08.31Q
4Nikolina Shtereva Bulgaria 4:08.38Q
5Mary Tracey-Purcell Ireland 4:08.63
6Cyndy Poor United States 4:08.89
7Anne Audain New Zealand 4:10.68
8Silvana Cruciata Italy 4:16.78
9Lilja Guðmundsdóttir Iceland 4:20.27

Semifinals

Heat 1
RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Ulrike Bruns East Germany 4:02.13Q
2Nikolina Shtereva Bulgaria 4:02.33Q
3Lyudmila Bragina Soviet Union 4:02.41Q
4Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany 4:02.45Q
5Jan Merrill United States 4:02.61q
6Raisa Smekhnova Soviet Union 4:03.20
7Brigitte Kraus West Germany 4:04.21
8Grete Waitz Norway 4:04.80
9Sonja Castelein Belgium 4:13.46

Heat 2
RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union 4:07.37Q
2Nina Holmén Finland 4:07.53Q
3Ellen Wellmann West Germany 4:07.54Q
4Gabriella Dorio Italy 4:07.61Q
5Mary Stewart Great Britain 4:07.65
6Vesela Yatsinska Bulgaria 4:07.89
7Natalia Mărăşescu Romania 4:07.92
8Christiane Wartenberg East Germany 4:08.28
9Francie Larrieu Smith United States 4:09.07

Final
RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union 4:05.48
Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany 4:06.02
Ulrike Bruns East Germany 4:06.09
4Nikolina Shtereva Bulgaria 4:06.57
5Lyudmila Bragina Soviet Union 4:07.20
6Gabriella Dorio Italy 4:07.27
7Ellen Wellmann West Germany 4:07.91
8Jan Merrill United States 4:08.54
9Nina Holmén Finland 4:09.55

References
  1. "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.
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