2011 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres
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The Women's 1500 metres
1500 metres
The 1,500-metre run is the premier middle distance track event.Aerobic endurance is the biggest factor contributing to success in the 1500 metres but the athlete also requires significant sprint speed.In modern times, the 1,500-metre run has been run at a pace faster than the average person could...

 at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics
2011 World Championships in Athletics
The 13th IAAF World Championships in Athletics was an international athletics competition that was held in Daegu, South Korea. It started on 27 August 2011 and finished on 4 September 2011....

 was held at the Daegu Stadium on August 28 & 30, and September 1.

Maryam Yusuf Jamal
Maryam Yusuf Jamal
Maryam Yusuf Jamal is a Bahraini middle distance runner.Born in Ethiopia, 2005 was her first full season. She gained the national record and ran the fastest 3000 m of 2005 with a time of 8:28.87 at a race in Oslo...

 of Bahrain, the gold medallist in 2009
2009 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres
The women's 1500 metres at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Olympic Stadium between 18–23 August.-Medalists:-Records:-Qualification standards:-Schedule:-Heats:...

, had the two fastest times of the year prior to the competition. American Morgan Uceny
Morgan Uceny
Morgan Uceny is an American runner who specializes in the middle distance events.She started the 2011 season in spectacular fashion, winning excessively in the 1500m during the Diamond League...

 entered as the Diamond League leader and her compatriot Shannon Rowbury
Shannon Rowbury
Shannon Rowbury is an American middle distance runner under contract with Nike currently residing in San Francisco, California. Rowbury competed for the United States in the women's 1500 m at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China...

 (bronze in 2009) was also present. The 2010 World Indoor
2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres
The women's 1500 metres at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the ASPIRE Dome on 12 and 14 March.-Medalists:-Records:-Qualification standards:-Schedule:-Heats:...

 champion Kalkidan Gezahegne
Kalkidan Gezahegne
Kalkidan Gezahegne is an Ethiopian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.She was born in Addis Ababa. She won the silver medal in the 1500 metres at the 2008 World Junior Championships and won another junior silver at the 2009 African Junior Athletics Championships, finishing...

, Russia's Ekaterina Gorbunova and Btissam Lakhouad
Btissam Lakhouad
Btissam Lakhouad is a Moroccan middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.A Khouribga native, she competed in the 1500 m at both the 2007 and 2008 World Athletics Finals, finishing in sixth and eleventh place, respectively...

 of Morocco completed the top four fastest runners that year. Other prominent entrants included 2008 Olympic champion Nancy Jebet Langat, 2009 runner-up Lisa Dobriskey
Lisa Dobriskey
Lisa Jane Dobriskey is an English middle distance athlete. She was the Commonwealth champion in the 1500 m in 2006. More recently, she won a silver medal in the 1500 m at the 2009 World Championships....

 and world indoor medallists Natalia Rodríguez
Natalia Rodríguez (athlete)
Natalia Rodríguez Martínez is a Spanish middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. She represented Spain at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2008....

 and Gelete Burka.

The final was a tight pack, disrupted in the turn less than a lap and a half before the finish when Hellen Onsando Obiri fell taking out Uceny along with her. With a pack of 9 remaining, the competitors jockeyed for position on the final lap. As they entered the final straightaway Natalia Rodríguez
Natalia Rodríguez (athlete)
Natalia Rodríguez Martínez is a Spanish middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. She represented Spain at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2008....

 had a slight edge on the pack almost four wide. Jennifer Barringer Simpson and Hannah England
Hannah England
Hannah England is a British middle-distance athlete who specialises in the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run.Born in Oxford, England, she attended the Cherwell School in Summertown, North Oxford. England joined Oxford City Athletic Club as an under 13, her first major success coming in the UK...

 were trailing the pack but Simpson went wide and passed the field as Rodríguez started to falter. England followed Simpson in full sprint across the finish line.

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
Jennifer Barringer Simpson
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Hannah England
Hannah England
Hannah England is a British middle-distance athlete who specialises in the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run.Born in Oxford, England, she attended the Cherwell School in Summertown, North Oxford. England joined Oxford City Athletic Club as an under 13, her first major success coming in the UK...


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Natalia Rodríguez
Natalia Rodríguez (athlete)
Natalia Rodríguez Martínez is a Spanish middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. She represented Spain at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2008....


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Records

Prior to the competition, the records were as follows:
World record 3:50.46 Beijing
Beijing
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, China
People's Republic of China
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11 September 1993
Championship record 3:58.52 Paris
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, France
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31 August 2003
World Leading 4:00.33 Hengelo
Hengelo
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, Netherlands
Netherlands
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29 May 2011
African Record 3:55.30 Barcelona
Barcelona
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, Spain
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8 August 1992
Asian Record 3:50.46 Beijing, China 11 September 1993
North, Central American and Caribbean record 3:57.12 Stockholm
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, Sweden
Sweden
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26 July 1983
South American record 4:05.67 Tokyo
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, Japan
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31 August 1991
European Record 3:52.47 Zürich
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, Switzerland
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13 August 1980
Oceanian record 4:00.93 Stockholm, Sweden 25 July 2006

Qualification standards

A time B time
4:05.90 4:08.90

Schedule

Date Time Round
August 28, 2011 10:40 Heats
August 30, 2011 20:35 Semifinals
September 1, 2011 20:55 Final

Results

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

Heats

Qualification: First 6 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3 Maryam Yusuf Jamal
Maryam Yusuf Jamal
Maryam Yusuf Jamal is a Bahraini middle distance runner.Born in Ethiopia, 2005 was her first full season. She gained the national record and ran the fastest 3000 m of 2005 with a time of 8:28.87 at a race in Oslo...

 
4:07.04 Q
2 3 Nuria Fernández
Nuria Fernández
Nuria Fernández Domínguez is a Spanish middle distance runner. She specializes in the 1500 metres and is the Spanish record holder in the mile run and the 1500 m indoors....

 
4:07.29 Q
3 3 Morgan Uceny
Morgan Uceny
Morgan Uceny is an American runner who specializes in the middle distance events.She started the 2011 season in spectacular fashion, winning excessively in the 1500m during the Diamond League...

 
4:07.43 Q
4 3 Hellen Onsando Obiri  4:07.59 Q, PB
5 3 Yekaterina Martynova
Yekaterina Martynova
Yekaterina Mikhaylovna Martynova is a Russian runner who specializes in the middle distance events.-Achievements:-References:...

 
4:07.76 Q
6 3 Gelete Burka  4:07.91 Q
7 3 Aslı Çakır
Aslı Çakır
Aslı Çakır Alptekin, née Çakır, is a Turkish female middle distance runner. A member of the Üsküdar Belediyespor in Istanbul, she is coached by Ihsan Alptekin....

 
4:08.05 q
8 3 Ingvill Måkestad Bovim
Ingvill Måkestad Bovim
Ingvill Måkestad Bovim is a Norwegian runner who specializes in the middle distance events.-Achievements:-References:...

 
4:08.26 q
9 3 Kaila McKnight  4:08.74 q
10 3 Renata Pliś
Renata Pliś
Renata Pliś is a Polsh runner who specializes in the middle distance events.-Achievements:-References:...

 
4:08.83 q
11 3 Anna Mishchenko
Anna Mishchenko
Anna Valeriïvna Mishchenko , is a Ukrainian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.She won the 2006 Ukrainian national championships in the event. In 2008 she took sixth place in the European Athletics Indoor Cup in Moscow and represented Ukraine at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
4:09.02 q
12 2 Tugba Karakaya
Tuğba Karakaya
Tuğba Karakaya is a Turkish female middle distance runner. A native of Kayseri in Central Anatolia, she is a student of physical education and sports at the local Erciyes University...

 
4:10.38 Q
13 2 Btissam Lakhouad
Btissam Lakhouad
Btissam Lakhouad is a Moroccan middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.A Khouribga native, she competed in the 1500 m at both the 2007 and 2008 World Athletics Finals, finishing in sixth and eleventh place, respectively...

 
4:10.71 Q
14 2 Viola Kibiwot
Viola Kibiwot
Viola Jelagat Kibiwot is a runner form Kenya who specialises in 1500 metres.Kibiwot won her first international medal as a junior runner at the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, where she took the bronze medal for Kenya...

 
4:10.74 Q
15 2 Natalia Rodríguez
Natalia Rodríguez (athlete)
Natalia Rodríguez Martínez is a Spanish middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. She represented Spain at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2008....

 
4:10.76 Q
16 2 Jennifer Barringer Simpson  4:10.84 Q
17 2 Nataliya Tobias
Nataliya Tobias
Nataliya Viktorivna Tobias , née Sydorenko is a female middle distance runner from Ukraine, who specializes in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:She also competed at the 2004 Olympics....

 
4:10.99 Q
18 2 Olesya Syreva
Olesya Syreva
Olesya Syreva is an Russian middle/long-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 and 3000 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 2:03.69 min *1500 metres - 4:06.47 min *3000 metres - 8:53.20 min...

 
4:11.24 q
19 2 Natallia Kareiva  4:12.03
20 2 Genzeb Shumi  4:12.32
21 2 Meskerem Assefa  4:12.43
22 2 Lisa Dobriskey
Lisa Dobriskey
Lisa Jane Dobriskey is an English middle distance athlete. She was the Commonwealth champion in the 1500 m in 2006. More recently, she won a silver medal in the 1500 m at the 2009 World Championships....

 
4:12.70
23 1 Hannah England
Hannah England
Hannah England is a British middle-distance athlete who specialises in the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run.Born in Oxford, England, she attended the Cherwell School in Summertown, North Oxford. England joined Oxford City Athletic Club as an under 13, her first major success coming in the UK...

 
4:13.45 Q
24 1 Mimi Belete
Mimi Belete
Mimi Belete Gebregeiorges is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner who competes internationally for Bahrain. She won the 5000 metres title at the 2010 Asian Games....

 
4:13.50 Q
25 1 Siham Hilali
Siham Hilali
Siham Hilali is a female middle distance runner Morocco who specializes in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 2:06.17 min *1500 metres - 4:04.03 min *3000 metres - 9:03.16 min...

 
4:13.59 Q
26 1 Natalya Yevdokimova
Natalya Yevdokimova
Natalya Yevdokimova is a Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. Having run her first sub-four-minute 1500 m, she was selected for the 2004 Olympic Games where she finished fourth in the women's 1500 metres....

 
4:14.36 Q
27 1 Nancy Lagat  4:14.37 Q
28 1 Shannon Rowbury
Shannon Rowbury
Shannon Rowbury is an American middle distance runner under contract with Nike currently residing in San Francisco, California. Rowbury competed for the United States in the women's 1500 m at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China...

 
4:14.43 Q
29 1 Kalkidan Gezahegne
Kalkidan Gezahegne
Kalkidan Gezahegne is an Ethiopian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.She was born in Addis Ababa. She won the silver medal in the 1500 metres at the 2008 World Junior Championships and won another junior silver at the 2009 African Junior Athletics Championships, finishing...

 
4:14.45 q *
30 1 Isabel Macías
Isabel Macías
Isabel Macías Chow is a Spanish runner who specializes in the middle distance events.-Achievements:-References:...

 
4:14.75
31 3 Malika Akkaoui  4:14.79
32 1 Anzhela Shevchenko
Anzhela Shevchenko
Anzhela Shevchenko is a Ukrainian runner who specializes in the middle distance events.-Achievements:-References:...

 
4:16.22
33 2 Gladys Landaverde  4:28.50 SB
34 1 Tandiwe Nyathi  4:32.79 PB
35 1 Nikki Hamblin
Nikki Hamblin
Nikki Hamblin is a New Zealand middle distance runner who specialises in the 800 and 1500 metres. Born in England, Hamblin ran for the Dorchester Athletics Club before moving to New Zealand in 2006. She gained New Zealand citizenship in 2009...

 
4:36.70

  • Following a protest lodged by the Ethiopian federation
    Ethiopia at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics
    Ethiopia will compete at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics from August 27 to September 4 in Daegu, South Korea.-Team selection:A provisional list of 36 athletes wasannounced to represent the countryin the event...

    , due to a crash by New Zealand's
    New Zealand at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics
    New Zealand will compete at the 2011 World Championships in Athletics from August 27 to September 4 in Daegu, South Korea.-Team selection:Reigning World Shot Put champion Valerie Adams leads the initial team selection for the championships...

     Nikki Hamblin
    Nikki Hamblin
    Nikki Hamblin is a New Zealand middle distance runner who specialises in the 800 and 1500 metres. Born in England, Hamblin ran for the Dorchester Athletics Club before moving to New Zealand in 2006. She gained New Zealand citizenship in 2009...

     who caused Gezahegne
    Kalkidan Gezahegne
    Kalkidan Gezahegne is an Ethiopian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.She was born in Addis Ababa. She won the silver medal in the 1500 metres at the 2008 World Junior Championships and won another junior silver at the 2009 African Junior Athletics Championships, finishing...

     to staggere onto the infield.

Semifinals

Qualification: First 5 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 2 Natalia Rodríguez
Natalia Rodríguez (athlete)
Natalia Rodríguez Martínez is a Spanish middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. She represented Spain at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2008....

 
4:07.88 Q
2 2 Jennifer Barringer Simpson  4:07.90 Q
3 2 Nataliya Tobias
Nataliya Tobias
Nataliya Viktorivna Tobias , née Sydorenko is a female middle distance runner from Ukraine, who specializes in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:She also competed at the 2004 Olympics....

 
4:07.99 Q
4 2 Ingvill Måkestad Bovim
Ingvill Måkestad Bovim
Ingvill Måkestad Bovim is a Norwegian runner who specializes in the middle distance events.-Achievements:-References:...

 
4:08.03 Q
5 2 Btissam Lakhouad
Btissam Lakhouad
Btissam Lakhouad is a Moroccan middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.A Khouribga native, she competed in the 1500 m at both the 2007 and 2008 World Athletics Finals, finishing in sixth and eleventh place, respectively...

 
4:08.10 Q
6 2 Hannah England
Hannah England
Hannah England is a British middle-distance athlete who specialises in the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run.Born in Oxford, England, she attended the Cherwell School in Summertown, North Oxford. England joined Oxford City Athletic Club as an under 13, her first major success coming in the UK...

 
4:08.31 q
7 2 Mimi Belete
Mimi Belete
Mimi Belete Gebregeiorges is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner who competes internationally for Bahrain. She won the 5000 metres title at the 2010 Asian Games....

 
4:08.42 q
8 1 Tugba Karakaya
Tuğba Karakaya
Tuğba Karakaya is a Turkish female middle distance runner. A native of Kayseri in Central Anatolia, she is a student of physical education and sports at the local Erciyes University...

 
4:08.58 Q
9 2 Viola Kibiwot
Viola Kibiwot
Viola Jelagat Kibiwot is a runner form Kenya who specialises in 1500 metres.Kibiwot won her first international medal as a junior runner at the 2000 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, where she took the bronze medal for Kenya...

 
4:08.64
10 2 Yekaterina Martynova
Yekaterina Martynova
Yekaterina Mikhaylovna Martynova is a Russian runner who specializes in the middle distance events.-Achievements:-References:...

 
4:08.67
11 1 Hellen Onsando Obiri  4:08.93 Q
12 1 Kalkidan Gezahegne
Kalkidan Gezahegne
Kalkidan Gezahegne is an Ethiopian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.She was born in Addis Ababa. She won the silver medal in the 1500 metres at the 2008 World Junior Championships and won another junior silver at the 2009 African Junior Athletics Championships, finishing...

 
4:08.96 Q
13 1 Maryam Yusuf Jamal
Maryam Yusuf Jamal
Maryam Yusuf Jamal is a Bahraini middle distance runner.Born in Ethiopia, 2005 was her first full season. She gained the national record and ran the fastest 3000 m of 2005 with a time of 8:28.87 at a race in Oslo...

 
4:08.96 Q
14 1 Morgan Uceny
Morgan Uceny
Morgan Uceny is an American runner who specializes in the middle distance events.She started the 2011 season in spectacular fashion, winning excessively in the 1500m during the Diamond League...

 
4:09.03 Q
15 1 Nuria Fernández
Nuria Fernández
Nuria Fernández Domínguez is a Spanish middle distance runner. She specializes in the 1500 metres and is the Spanish record holder in the mile run and the 1500 m indoors....

 
4:09.53
16 1 Siham Hilali
Siham Hilali
Siham Hilali is a female middle distance runner Morocco who specializes in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 2:06.17 min *1500 metres - 4:04.03 min *3000 metres - 9:03.16 min...

 
4:09.64
17 1 Anna Mishchenko
Anna Mishchenko
Anna Valeriïvna Mishchenko , is a Ukrainian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.She won the 2006 Ukrainian national championships in the event. In 2008 she took sixth place in the European Athletics Indoor Cup in Moscow and represented Ukraine at the 2008 Summer Olympics...

 
4:09.78
18 1 Olesya Syreva
Olesya Syreva
Olesya Syreva is an Russian middle/long-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 and 3000 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 2:03.69 min *1500 metres - 4:06.47 min *3000 metres - 8:53.20 min...

 
4:09.83
19 1 Kaila McKnight  4:10.83
20 1 Renata Pliś
Renata Pliś
Renata Pliś is a Polsh runner who specializes in the middle distance events.-Achievements:-References:...

 
4:11.12
21 1 Shannon Rowbury
Shannon Rowbury
Shannon Rowbury is an American middle distance runner under contract with Nike currently residing in San Francisco, California. Rowbury competed for the United States in the women's 1500 m at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China...

 
4:11.49
22 2 Aslı Çakır
Aslı Çakır
Aslı Çakır Alptekin, née Çakır, is a Turkish female middle distance runner. A member of the Üsküdar Belediyespor in Istanbul, she is coached by Ihsan Alptekin....

 
4:11.51
23 1 Natalya Yevdokimova
Natalya Yevdokimova
Natalya Yevdokimova is a Russian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. Having run her first sub-four-minute 1500 m, she was selected for the 2004 Olympic Games where she finished fourth in the women's 1500 metres....

 
4:11.70
23 2 Nancy Lagat  4:12.92
2 Gelete Burka 

Final

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Jennifer Barringer Simpson  4:05.40
Hannah England
Hannah England
Hannah England is a British middle-distance athlete who specialises in the 800 metres, 1500 metres and mile run.Born in Oxford, England, she attended the Cherwell School in Summertown, North Oxford. England joined Oxford City Athletic Club as an under 13, her first major success coming in the UK...

 
4:05.68
Natalia Rodríguez
Natalia Rodríguez (athlete)
Natalia Rodríguez Martínez is a Spanish middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. She represented Spain at the Summer Olympics in 2000, 2004 and 2008....

 
4:05.87
Btissam Lakhouad
Btissam Lakhouad
Btissam Lakhouad is a Moroccan middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.A Khouribga native, she competed in the 1500 m at both the 2007 and 2008 World Athletics Finals, finishing in sixth and eleventh place, respectively...

 
4:06.18
Kalkidan Gezahegne
Kalkidan Gezahegne
Kalkidan Gezahegne is an Ethiopian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.She was born in Addis Ababa. She won the silver medal in the 1500 metres at the 2008 World Junior Championships and won another junior silver at the 2009 African Junior Athletics Championships, finishing...

 
4:06.42
Ingvill Måkestad Bovim
Ingvill Måkestad Bovim
Ingvill Måkestad Bovim is a Norwegian runner who specializes in the middle distance events.-Achievements:-References:...

 
4:06.85
Mimi Belete
Mimi Belete
Mimi Belete Gebregeiorges is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner who competes internationally for Bahrain. She won the 5000 metres title at the 2010 Asian Games....

 
4:07.60
Tugba Karakaya
Tuğba Karakaya
Tuğba Karakaya is a Turkish female middle distance runner. A native of Kayseri in Central Anatolia, she is a student of physical education and sports at the local Erciyes University...

 
4:08.14
Nataliya Tobias
Nataliya Tobias
Nataliya Viktorivna Tobias , née Sydorenko is a female middle distance runner from Ukraine, who specializes in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:She also competed at the 2004 Olympics....

 
4:08.68
10 Morgan Uceny
Morgan Uceny
Morgan Uceny is an American runner who specializes in the middle distance events.She started the 2011 season in spectacular fashion, winning excessively in the 1500m during the Diamond League...

 
4:19.71
11 Hellen Onsando Obiri  4:20.23
12 Maryam Yusuf Jamal
Maryam Yusuf Jamal
Maryam Yusuf Jamal is a Bahraini middle distance runner.Born in Ethiopia, 2005 was her first full season. She gained the national record and ran the fastest 3000 m of 2005 with a time of 8:28.87 at a race in Oslo...

4:22.67

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