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Unfortunately for the European and American contenders Australian Jessica Hull lived up to her expectations and took the silver medal, cementing her place as one of the greatest female 1500m runners of all time, especially after running the 5th fastest 1500m ever two weeks earlier in a race where Faith Kipyegon won and broke the world record.
The 1500 m was the event that first saw the disqualification of a World Championships medallist on the grounds of doping. The 1987 women's bronze medallist Sandra Gasser gave a positive test for anabolic steroids at the competition and received a two-year ban from the sport later that month. [5]
The men's 1500 m has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1896. The women's event was not introduced until over seventy years later, but it has been a permanent fixture since it was first held in 1972. The Olympics final and the World Athletics Championships final are the most prestigious 1500 m races at an elite level. The ...
1500 m: 3:27.40 Bernard Lagat: Nike August 6, 2004 Weltklasse Zürich: Zürich, Switzerland [4] 5000 m: 12:46.96 Grant Fisher: Bowerman TC: September 2, 2022 Memorial Van Damme: Brussels, Belgium [5] 10,000 m: 26:33.84 Grant Fisher: Bowerman TC March 6, 2022 The TEN: San Juan Capistrano, United States [6] Marathon: 2:05:38 Khalid Khannouchi ...
Paavo Nurmi breaks the 1,500 m world record in Helsinki in 1924. The 1500-metre run became a standard racing distance in Europe in the late 19th century, perhaps as a metric version of the mile, a popular running distance since at least the 1850s in English-speaking countries. [1] A distance of 1500 m sometimes is called the "metric mile". The ...
This is a list of the NCAA Division I outdoor champions in the 1500 meters or its imperial equivalent mile run. The mile was contested until 1975, while the metric 1500 meters was contested in Olympic years starting in 1932. Metrication occurred in 1976, so all subsequent championships were at the metric distance.
0–9. 1983 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres; 1983 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres; 1987 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 1500 metres
The specification for the women's javelin changed in 1999. With the old model, Fatima Whitbread threw 77.44 m in 1986. Pentathlon: 4402 pts Sue Longden: 24 May 1980 Birmingham, United Kingdom Heptathlon: 6981 pts Katarina Johnson-Thompson: 2–4 October 2019 World Championships: Doha, Qatar [79]