Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games – Women's 1500 metres

Held on 11 August

Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Mary Stewart	England	4:15.88	Q
2	2	Penny Werthner	Canada	4:16.40	Q
3	1	Christine McMeekin	Scotland	4:16.99	Q
4	1	Alison Wright	New Zealand	4:17.03	Q
5	1	Wayua Kiteti	Kenya	4:17.11	Q
6	1	Christine Benning	England	4:17.19	Q
7	2	Angela Cook	Australia	4:17.45	Q
8	2	Anne Kiprop	Kenya	4:17.54	Q
9	1	Francine Gendron	Canada	4:17.58	Q
10	1	Christina Boxer	England	4:17.90	q
11	2	Hilary Hollick	Wales	4:18.36	Q
12	2	Margaret Coomber	Scotland	4:18.95	q
13	2	Rose Thompson	Kenya	4:20.98
14	2	Ruth Issack	Tanzania	4:20.98
15	1	Mwinga Mwanjala	Tanzania	4:21.37
16	1	Carmen Compton	Australia	4:22.61
17	1	Debbie Scott	Canada	4:24.36
18	2	Pamela Reece	Northern Ireland	4:41.46
19	1	Gladys Konadu	Ghana	4:43.08
20	1	Theodora Corea	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	4:53.71
21	2	Kandasamy Jayamani	Singapore	4:58.52
22	1	Beatrice Delancy	Turks and Caicos Islands	5:06.90
	2	Hannah Bantamoi	Sierra Leone	DNS

Held on 12 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mary Stewart	England	4:06.34
	Christine Benning	England	4:07.53
	Penny Werthner	Canada	4:08.14
4	Christine McMeekin	Scotland	4:12.43
5	Hilary Hollick	Wales	4:12.72
6	Alison Wright	New Zealand	4:12.93
7	Francine Gendron	Canada	4:16.88
8	Angela Cook	Australia	4:17.30
9	Wayua Kiteti	Kenya	4:18.72
10	Anne Kiprop	Kenya	4:23.17
11	Christina Boxer	England	4:26.14
12	Margaret Coomber	Scotland	4:26.28