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The championship records for the event are 3:27.65 minute for men, set by Hicham El Guerrouj in 1999, and 3:51.95 minutes for women, set by Sifan Hassan in 2019. [1] The world record has never been broken or equalled at the competition by either men or women, reflecting the lack of pacemaking and athletes' more tactical approach to championship ...
Like the men, championship level women's 1500s also typically turn into strategic, sit and kick affairs. In 2017, strategic worked for Faith Kipyegon to leave the world record holder Genzebe Dibaba behind. Sifan Hassan was also left behind by that tactic.
When the Olympic Games were revived in 1896, metric distances were run, including the 1500; however, most of the best milers in the world were absent, and the winning time of 4:33 1/5 by Australian Edwin Flack was 17 4/5 seconds slower than the amateur mile record, despite the fact one mile is 109.344 metres longer than 1500 metres.
Sergey Bubka's 1993 pole vault world indoor record of 6.15 m was not considered to be a world record, because it was set before the new rule came into effect. Bubka's world record of 6.14 m, set outdoors in 1994, was surpassed by six consecutive records set indoors, most recently by Armand Duplantis in 2023 with a 6.22 m mark. In 2020 ...
The best women's times for the race were controversially [4] set by Chinese runners, all set in the same race on just two dates four years apart at the Chinese National Games. At least one of those top Chinese athletes has admitted to being part of a doping program. [5] This women's record was finally broken by Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia in 2015.
Record Athlete & Nat. Perf. Location Date World record Genzebe Dibaba (ETH) 3:50.07: Monte Carlo, Monaco: 17 July 2015 Championship record Sifan Hassan (NED) 3:51.95: Doha, Qatar: 5 October 2019 World Leading Faith Kipyegon (KEN) 3:52.59: Eugene, United States: 28 May 2022 African Record Genzebe Dibaba (ETH) 3:50.07: Monte Carlo, Monaco: 17 ...
The 24-year-old, who won two Olympic gold medals in 2024, capped off her brilliant year by smashing her own women’s 5,000m road world record at the Cursa dels Nassos race in Barcelona, Spain.
Women's 1500 metres at the 2015 World Championships Venue Beijing National Stadium Dates 22 August (heats) 23 August (semifinals) 25 August (final) Competitors 35 from 20 nations Winning time 4:08.09 Medalists Genzebe Dibaba Ethiopia Faith Kipyegon Kenya Sifan Hassan Netherlands ← 2013 2017 → Events at the 2015 World Championships Track events 100 m men women 200 m men women 400 m men ...