Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

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Women's 1500 metres
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue Olympic Stadium
Date 28–30 July
Competitors 36 from 19 nations
Winning time 4:05.48
Medalists
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1st Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union
2nd Gunhild Hoffmeister  East Germany
3rd Ulrike Bruns  East Germany
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Athletics at the
1976 Summer Olympics
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Track events
100 m   men   women
200 m men women
400 m men women
800 m men women
1500 m men women
5000 m men
10,000 m men
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men
3000 m
steeplechase		 men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men
20 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men
Combined events
Pentathlon women
Decathlon men

The Women's 1500 metres competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada was held at the Olympic Stadium on 23–26 July.

Competition format

The Women's 1500m competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Semifinals and a Final. The three fastest competitors from each race in the heats plus the next two fastest overall qualified for the Semifinals. The four fastest competitors from each of the Semifinal races plus the next fastest overall advanced to the Final.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record  Tatyana Kazankina (URS) 3:56.0 Podolsk, Soviet Union 28 June 1976
Olympic record  Lyudmila Bragina (URS) 4:01.4 Munich, West Germany 9 September 1972

Results

Round 1

Qual. rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) plus the next two fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Gabriella Dorio  Italy 4:10.84 Q
2 Raisa Smekhnova  Soviet Union 4:10.88 Q
3 Jan Merrill  United States 4:10.92 Q
4 Mary Stewart  Great Britain 4:11.10 Q
5 Maricica Puică  Romania 4:12.62
6 Rositsa Pekhlivanova  Bulgaria 4:13.11
7 Judy Amoore  Australia 4:14.22
8 Bernadette Van Roy  Belgium 4:16.27
9 Magdolna Lázár  Hungary 4:23.30

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Lyudmila Bragina  Soviet Union 4:07.11 Q
2 Christiane Wartenberg  East Germany 4:07.13 Q
3 Nina Holmén  Finland 4:07.14 Q
4 Grete Waitz  Norway 4:07.20 Q
5 Ellen Wellmann  West Germany 4:07.20 q
6 Francie Larrieu Smith  United States 4:07.21 q
7 Dianne Rodger  New Zealand 4:12.81
8 Thelma Wright  Canada 4:15.23
9 Ndew Niang  Senegal 4:44.64

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Ulrike Bruns  East Germany 4:11.62 Q
2 Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union 4:12.10 Q
3 Vesela Yatsinska  Bulgaria 4:12.72 Q
4 Sonia Castelein  Belgium 4:12.95 Q
5 Penny Yule  Great Britain 4:13.36
6 Ileana Silai  Romania 4:13.61
7 Margherita Gargano  Italy 4:15.94
8 Carmen Valero 23x15px Spain 4:17.65
9 Penny Werthner  Canada 4:18.19

Heat 4

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Brigitte Kraus  West Germany 4:07.79 Q
2 Gunhild Hoffmeister  East Germany 4:08.23 Q
3 Natalia Mărăşescu  Romania 4:08.31 Q
4 Nikolina Shtereva  Bulgaria 4:08.38 Q
5 Mary Tracey-Purcell  Ireland 4:08.63
6 Cyndy Poor  United States 4:08.89
7 Anne Audain  New Zealand 4:10.68
8 Silvana Cruciata  Italy 4:16.78
9 Lilja Guðmundsdóttir  Iceland 4:20.27

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Ulrike Bruns  East Germany 4:02.13 Q
2 Nikolina Shtereva  Bulgaria 4:02.33 Q
3 Lyudmila Bragina  Soviet Union 4:02.41 Q
4 Gunhild Hoffmeister  East Germany 4:02.45 Q
5 Jan Merrill  United States 4:02.61 q
6 Raisa Smekhnova  Soviet Union 4:03.20
7 Brigitte Kraus  West Germany 4:04.21
8 Grete Waitz  Norway 4:04.80
9 Sonia Castelein  Belgium 4:13.46

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union 4:07.37 Q
2 Nina Holmén  Finland 4:07.53 Q
3 Ellen Wellmann  West Germany 4:07.54 Q
4 Gabriella Dorio  Italy 4:07.61 Q
5 Mary Stewart  Great Britain 4:07.65
6 Vesela Yatsinska  Bulgaria 4:07.89
7 Natalia Mărăşescu  Romania 4:07.92
8 Christiane Wartenberg  East Germany 4:08.28
9 Francie Larrieu Smith  United States 4:09.07

Final

Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1st Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union 4:05.48
2nd Gunhild Hoffmeister  East Germany 4:06.02
3rd Ulrike Bruns  East Germany 4:06.09
4 Nikolina Shtereva  Bulgaria 4:06.57
5 Lyudmila Bragina  Soviet Union 4:07.20
6 Gabriella Dorio  Italy 4:07.27
7 Ellen Wellmann  West Germany 4:07.91
8 Jan Merrill  United States 4:08.54
9 Nina Holmén  Finland 4:09.55

References

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