The 1500 metres at the 2004 Summer Olympics

2004 Summer Olympics

The 2004 Summer Olympic Games, officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece from August 13 to August 29, 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team...

as part of the athletics program

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics

At the 2004 Summer Olympics, the athletics events were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 18 to August 29, except for the marathons , the race walks , and the shot put...

 were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 24 to August 28.

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	2	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....		4:05.55	Q
2	2	Kelly Holmes Kelly Holmes Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...		4:05.58	Q
3	2	Daniela Yordanova Daniela Yordanova Daniela Yordanova is a Bulgarian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. She tested positive for testosterone in an out-of-competition doping test in Sofia on 13 June 2008, which eventually got her kicked out of the 2008 Summer Olympics...		4:05.87	Q, SB
4	2	Maria Martins Maria Martins Maria Martins is a French middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 and 3000 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 2:02.83 min *1500 metres - 4:04.55 min...		4:05.95	Q
5	2	Hasna Benhassi Hasna Benhassi Hasna Benhassi is a Moroccan middle distance athlete.She first came to international prominence at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, winning a surprise silver medal behind Kelly Holmes. She repeated this feat by winning silver at the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki,...		4:05.98	Q
6	1	Tatyana Tomashova Tatyana Tomashova Tatyana Ivanovna Tomashova is a Russian middle distance runner. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she competed in 5000 metres, but she has participated in shorter races since, now competing mainly in the 1500 metres...		4:06.06	Q
6	1	Nataliya Sydorenko Tobias		4:06.06	Q
8	2	Lidia Chojecka Lidia Chojecka Lidia Chojecka is a Polish middle distance runner, who mostly competes in the 1500 metres and sometimes 3000 metres....		4:06.13	q
9	1	Nuria Fernandez 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....		4:06.29	Q
10	2	Iris Maria Fuentes-Pila		4:06.32	q
11	1	Anna Jakubczak Anna Jakubczak Anna Jakubczak is a Polish middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 2:00.78 min *1500 metres - 4:00.15 min *3000 metres - 9:17.75 min -External links:...		4:06.37	Q
12	2	Nahida Touhami Nahida Touhami Nahida Touhami is an Algerian middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 and 1500 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*200 metres - 24.85 s *400 metres - 53.08 s *800 metres - 1:59.65 min...		4:06.41	q
13	1	Elvan Abeylegesse Elvan Abeylegesse Elvan Abeylegesse is an Ethiopian-born Turkish middle and long distance track and field athlete, running in the disciplines of 1500 m, 3000 m and 5000 m, but also 10000 m, 2 miles and cross country...		4:06.42	Q
14	1	Carrie Tollefson Carrie Tollefson Carrie Tollefson is an American middle distance runner who was on the US 2004 Summer Olympic team....		4:06.46	q
15	3	Maria Cioncan Maria Cioncan Maria Cioncan was a middle distance runner from Romania, best known for winning a bronze medal in the 1500 metres event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Born in Maieru, she set personal bests in both 800 and 1500 metres during the games...		4:06.68	Q
16	2	Konstadina Efedaki		4:06.73	q
17	3	Carmen Douma-Hussar		4:06.90	Q
18	3	Wioletta Janowska Wioletta Janowska Wioletta Frankiewicz is a Polish runner. She competes in the 1500 metres, but she competes also in the 3000 metre steeplechase event, as she did in the 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, Finland. She weighs 58 kilograms and is 1.77 metres tall. She won National Indoor...		4:06.91	Q
19	3	Nancy Jebet Lagat		4:06.94	Q
20	3	Kutre Dulecha Kutre Dulecha Kutre Dulecha is a middle distance runner from Ethiopia. She mainly competes in 1500 metres, where she set a world junior record in 1997. She became world indoor champion in 2004, Ethiopia's first ever women's 1500 m medalist at the championships...		4:06.95	Q
21	3	Olga Yegorova Olga Yegorova Olga Yegorova is a Russian middle distance runner.Her first international appearance came at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where she finished 9th in the 1500m won by future world record holder Qu Yunxia...		4:07.14	q
22	3	Natalia Rodriguez 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....		4:07.19	q
23	1	Hayley Tullett Hayley Tullett Hayley Tullett is a Welsh middle distance runner mainly competing over 1500 metres. Her main claim to fame is the bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships...		4:07.27	q
24	1	Carla Sacramento Carla Sacramento Carla Cristina Paquete Sacramento, OIH is a middle distance runner from Portugal.-Biography:Carla Sacramento has won medals at a variety of distances but her speciality is the 1500 m...		4:07.73	q
25	3	Hind Dehiba Hind Dehiba Hind Dehiba is a Moroccan-French runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.Her first podium finish at the 2005 European Athletics Indoor Championships came with controversy. She took the bronze medal but impeded fourth-placed Helen Clitheroe in the final stages of the 1500 m...		4:07.96
26	1	Courtney Babcock Courtney Babcock Courtney Babcock is a Canadian runner, who is a two-time national champion in the women's 5.000 metres.Born and raised in Chatham, Ontario Babcock now trains in the United States. Her father was a hockey player who was drafted by the Montreal Canadiens . In high school she was more interested in...		4:08.18
27	3	Nelya Neporadna Nelya Neporadna Nelya Neporadna is a Ukrainian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.She finished eleventh at the 2003 World Championships in Paris and won the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto....		4:08.60
28	3	Trine Pilskog		4:08.61
29	1	Latifa Essarokh		4:09.08
30	3	Sarah Jamieson Sarah Jamieson Sarah Jamieson is an Australian middle distance runner.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 2:02.81 *1500 metres - 4:00.93 *One mile run - 4:23.40 *3000 metres - 8:48.41...		4:09.25
31	3	Judit Varga Judit Varga Judit Varga is a Hungarian middle distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:-External links:...		4:09.36
32	2	Malindi Elmore		4:09.81
33	1	Elena Iagăr		4:11.48
34	1	Mestawat Tadesse Mestawat Tadesse Mestawat Tadesse is an Ethiopian middle distance runner, who specializes in the 1500 metres.Tadesse finished fifth at the 2006 African Championships and tenth at the 2006 World Athletics Final.-Personal bests:...		4:11.78
35	3	Joanne Pavey		4:12.50
36	3	Tatiana Borisova		4:13.36
37	2	Jasminka Guber		4:17.75	PB
38	2	Meskerem Legesse		4:18.03
39	2	Alina Cucerzan		4:18.07
40	2	Elena Guerra		4:35.31
41	2	Kanchhi Maya Koju		4:38.17	PB
42	1	Silvia Felipo		4:44.40	SB
43	1	Sloan Siegrist		4:44.53
44	3	Sumaira Zahoor		4:49.33

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Bouchra Ghezielle

Bouchra Ghézielle, née Ben Thami is a Moroccan-French track and field athlete, now competing for France. She competes mainly on the 1500 m distance but also on 800 m and 3000 m distances....

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Iryna Lishchynska

Iryna Lishchynska , née Nedelenko is a Ukrainian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 1:59.15 min...

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Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	2	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....		4:04.66	Q
2	2	Kelly Holmes Kelly Holmes Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...		4:04.77	Q
3	2	Lidia Chojecka Lidia Chojecka Lidia Chojecka is a Polish middle distance runner, who mostly competes in the 1500 metres and sometimes 3000 metres....		4:04.83	Q
4	2	Natalia Rodriguez 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....		4:04.91	Q
5	2	Daniela Yordanova Daniela Yordanova Daniela Yordanova is a Bulgarian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. She tested positive for testosterone in an out-of-competition doping test in Sofia on 13 June 2008, which eventually got her kicked out of the 2008 Summer Olympics...		4:04.94	Q, SB
6	2	Carmen Douma-Hussar		4:05.09	q
7	2	Olga Yegorova Olga Yegorova Olga Yegorova is a Russian middle distance runner.Her first international appearance came at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where she finished 9th in the 1500m won by future world record holder Qu Yunxia...		4:05.57	q
8	1	Maria Cioncan Maria Cioncan Maria Cioncan was a middle distance runner from Romania, best known for winning a bronze medal in the 1500 metres event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Born in Maieru, she set personal bests in both 800 and 1500 metres during the games...		4:06.69	Q
9	1	Anna Jakubczak Anna Jakubczak Anna Jakubczak is a Polish middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 2:00.78 min *1500 metres - 4:00.15 min *3000 metres - 9:17.75 min -External links:...		4:06.77	Q
10	1	Tatyana Tomashova Tatyana Tomashova Tatyana Ivanovna Tomashova is a Russian middle distance runner. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she competed in 5000 metres, but she has participated in shorter races since, now competing mainly in the 1500 metres...		4:06.80	Q
11	1	Elvan Abeylegesse Elvan Abeylegesse Elvan Abeylegesse is an Ethiopian-born Turkish middle and long distance track and field athlete, running in the disciplines of 1500 m, 3000 m and 5000 m, but also 10000 m, 2 miles and cross country...		4:07.10	Q
12	2	Nahida Touhami Nahida Touhami Nahida Touhami is an Algerian middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 and 1500 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*200 metres - 24.85 s *400 metres - 53.08 s *800 metres - 1:59.65 min...		4:07.21
13	1	Hasna Benhassi Hasna Benhassi Hasna Benhassi is a Moroccan middle distance athlete.She first came to international prominence at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, winning a surprise silver medal behind Kelly Holmes. She repeated this feat by winning silver at the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki,...		4:07.39	Q
14	1	Nataliya Sydorenko Tobias		4:07.55
15	1	Nancy Jebet Lagat		4:07.57
16	1	Kutre Dulecha Kutre Dulecha Kutre Dulecha is a middle distance runner from Ethiopia. She mainly competes in 1500 metres, where she set a world junior record in 1997. She became world indoor champion in 2004, Ethiopia's first ever women's 1500 m medalist at the championships...		4:07.63
17	1	Nuria Fernandez 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....		4:07.68
18	1	Iris Maria Fuentes-Pila		4:07.69
19	2	Carrie Tollefson Carrie Tollefson Carrie Tollefson is an American middle distance runner who was on the US 2004 Summer Olympic team....		4:08.55
20	1	Hayley Tullett Hayley Tullett Hayley Tullett is a Welsh middle distance runner mainly competing over 1500 metres. Her main claim to fame is the bronze medal at the 2003 World Championships...		4:08.92
21	1	Konstadina Efedaki		4:09.37
22	2	Carla Sacramento Carla Sacramento Carla Cristina Paquete Sacramento, OIH is a middle distance runner from Portugal.-Biography:Carla Sacramento has won medals at a variety of distances but her speciality is the 1500 m...		4:10.85
23	2	Wioletta Janowska Wioletta Janowska Wioletta Frankiewicz is a Polish runner. She competes in the 1500 metres, but she competes also in the 3000 metre steeplechase event, as she did in the 10th IAAF World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki, Finland. She weighs 58 kilograms and is 1.77 metres tall. She won National Indoor...		4:11.41
24	2	Maria Martins Maria Martins Maria Martins is a French middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 and 3000 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 2:02.83 min *1500 metres - 4:04.55 min...		4:12.76

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Kelly Holmes Kelly Holmes Dame Kelly Holmes, DBE, MBE is a retired British middle distance athlete. She specialised in the 800 metres and 1500 metres events and won a gold medal for both distances at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens...		3:57.90	NR
	Tatyana Tomashova Tatyana Tomashova Tatyana Ivanovna Tomashova is a Russian middle distance runner. At the 2000 Summer Olympics she competed in 5000 metres, but she has participated in shorter races since, now competing mainly in the 1500 metres...		3:58.12	PB
	Maria Cioncan Maria Cioncan Maria Cioncan was a middle distance runner from Romania, best known for winning a bronze medal in the 1500 metres event at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Born in Maieru, she set personal bests in both 800 and 1500 metres during the games...		3:58.39	PB
4	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....		3:59.05	PB
5	Daniela Yordanova Daniela Yordanova Daniela Yordanova is a Bulgarian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. She tested positive for testosterone in an out-of-competition doping test in Sofia on 13 June 2008, which eventually got her kicked out of the 2008 Summer Olympics...		3:59.10	PB
6	Lidia Chojecka Lidia Chojecka Lidia Chojecka is a Polish middle distance runner, who mostly competes in the 1500 metres and sometimes 3000 metres....		3:59.27	SB
7	Anna Jakubczak Anna Jakubczak Anna Jakubczak is a Polish middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.-Achievements:-Personal bests:*800 metres - 2:00.78 min *1500 metres - 4:00.15 min *3000 metres - 9:17.75 min -External links:...		4:00.15	PB
8	Elvan Abeylegesse Elvan Abeylegesse Elvan Abeylegesse is an Ethiopian-born Turkish middle and long distance track and field athlete, running in the disciplines of 1500 m, 3000 m and 5000 m, but also 10000 m, 2 miles and cross country...		4:00.67
9	Carmen Douma-Hussar		4:02.31	PB
10	Natalia Rodriguez 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....		4:03.01	SB
11	Olga Yegorova Olga Yegorova Olga Yegorova is a Russian middle distance runner.Her first international appearance came at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, where she finished 9th in the 1500m won by future world record holder Qu Yunxia...		4:05.65
12	Hasna Benhassi Hasna Benhassi Hasna Benhassi is a Moroccan middle distance athlete.She first came to international prominence at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece, winning a surprise silver medal behind Kelly Holmes. She repeated this feat by winning silver at the 2005 World Athletics Championships in Helsinki,...		4:12.90