2022 World Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres at the 2022 World Championships
Faith Kipyegon shortly after the final.
Venue	Hayward Field
Dates	15 July (heats) 16 July (semi-finals) 18 July (final)
Competitors	46 from 24 nations
Winning time	3:52.96
Medalists
Faith Kipyegon    Kenya   Gudaf Tsegay    Ethiopia   Laura Muir    Great Britain
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The women's 1500 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene from 15 to 18 July 2022. ^[1]

Summary

Gudaf Tsegay took the lead soon after the start with only her Ethiopian teammate Hirut Meshesha, Olympic Champion Faith Kipyegon and Olympic silver medalist Laura Muir following closely with a gap opening quickly back to the rest. The first lap was completed in an electric 55.12 seconds with the first four maintaining a gap over the rest of the field until the end of the second lap, completed in 68 seconds, when Meshesha dropped off the first three, who now looked like confirmed medallists after only 800 metres. Tsegay still led at the bell with Kipyegon only taking the lead halfway down the back straight on the last lap. Kipyegon extended her lead over Tsegay to almost 10 metres by the finish with another five metres back to Muir in third.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows: ^[2]

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 July 2015
Asian Record	Qu Yunxia  (CHN)	3:50.46	Beijing, China	11 September 1993
North, Central American and Caribbean record	Shelby Houlihan  (USA)	3:54.99	Doha, Qatar	5 October 2019
South American Record	Letitia Vriesde  (SUR)	4:05.67	Tokyo, Japan	31 August 1991
European Record	Sifan Hassan  (NED)	3:51.95	Doha, Qatar	5 October 2019
Oceanian record	Jessica Hull  (AUS)	3:58.81	Tokyo, Japan	4 August 2021

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 4:04.20. ^[3]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:

Date	Time	Round
15 July	18:10	Heats
16 July	19:05	Semi-finals
18 July	19:50	Final

Results

Heats

The first 6 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualify for the heats. ^[4]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia  (ETH)	4:02.68	Q
2	3	Winny Chebet	Kenya  (KEN)	4:03.12	Q, SB
3	3	Linden Hall	Australia  (AUS)	4:03.21	Q
4	3	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland  (POL)	4:03.52	Q, SB
5	3	Katharina Trost	Germany  (GER)	4:03.53	Q, PB
6	3	Cory Ann McGee	United States  (USA)	4:03.61	Q
7	3	Winnie Nanyondo	Uganda  (UGA)	4:03.81	q
8	2	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya  (KEN)	4:04.53	Q
9	2	Jessica Hull	Australia  (AUS)	4:04.68	Q
10	2	Freweyni Hailu	Ethiopia  (ETH)	4:04.85	Q
11	2	Elle St. Pierre	United States  (USA)	4:04.94	Q
12	2	Hanna Klein	Germany  (GER)	4:05.13	Q
13	2	Adelle Tracey	Jamaica  (JAM)	4:05.14	Q
14	2	Nozomi Tanaka	Japan  (JPN)	4:05.30	q, SB
15	2	Marta Pérez	Spain  (ESP)	4:05.92	q, SB
16	2	Hanna Hermansson	Sweden  (SWE)	4:06.30	q, PB
17	3	Diana Mezuliáníková	Czech Republic  (CZE)	4:06.55	q, SB
18	2	Katie Snowden	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	4:06.92	q
19	1	Hirut Meshesha	Ethiopia  (ETH)	4:07.05	Q
20	3	Edinah Jebitok	Kenya  (KEN)	4:07.12
21	2	Laura Galván	Mexico  (MEX)	4:07.25
22	2	Sintayehu Vissa	Italy  (ITA)	4:07.33
23	2	Natalia Hawthorn	Canada  (CAN)	4:07.37
24	1	Laura Muir	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	4:07.53	Q
25	1	Georgia Griffith	Australia  (AUS)	4:07.65	Q
26	1	Sinclaire Johnson	United States  (USA)	4:07.68	Q
27	1	Gaia Sabbatini	Italy  (ITA)	4:07.82	Q
28	3	Federica Del Buono	Italy  (ITA)	4:08.42
29	1	Kristiina Mäki	Czech Republic  (CZE)	4:08.43	Q
30	1	Marta Pen Freitas	Portugal  (POR)	4:08.58
31	3	Melissa Courtney-Bryant	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	4:09.07
32	1	Yolanda Ngarambe	Sweden  (SWE)	4:09.15
33	1	Judith Kiyeng	Kenya  (KEN)	4:09.30
34	1	Lucia Stafford	Canada  (CAN)	4:09.67
35	1	Elise Vanderelst	Belgium  (BEL)	4:10.45
36	1	Sarah Healy	Ireland  (IRL)	4:11.31
37	3	Nathalie Blomqvist	Finland  (FIN)	4:11.98
38	1	Şilan Ayyildiz	Turkey  (TUR)	4:12.67
39	3	Alma Delia Cortes	Mexico  (MEX)	4:13.92
40	1	Ran Urabe	Japan  (JPN)	4:14.82
41	3	Gresa Bakraçi	Kosovo  (KOS)	4:22.77
42	2	Anjelina Lohalith	Athlete Refugee Team  (ART)	4:23.84	NR

Semi-finals

The first 5 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final. ^[5]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia  (ETH)	4:01.28	Q
2	1	Laura Muir	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	4:01.78	Q, SB
3	1	Jessica Hull	Australia  (AUS)	4:01.81	Q
4	1	Freweyni Hailu	Ethiopia  (ETH)	4:02.28	Q
5	1	Cory Ann McGee	United States  (USA)	4:02.74	Q
6	1	Winny Chebet	Kenya  (KEN)	4:03.08	q, SB
7	2	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya  (KEN)	4:03.98	Q
8	2	Hirut Meshesha	Ethiopia  (ETH)	4:04.05	Q
9	1	Marta Pérez	Spain  (ESP)	4:04.24	q, SB
10	2	Sinclaire Johnson	United States  (USA)	4:04.51	Q
11	1	Hanna Klein	Germany  (GER)	4:04.62
12	1	Linden Hall	Australia  (AUS)	4:04.65
13	2	Georgia Griffith	Australia  (AUS)	4:05.16	Q
14	2	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland  (POL)	4:05.17	Q
15	2	Nozomi Tanaka	Japan  (JPN)	4:05.79
16	2	Katharina Trost	Germany  (GER)	4:05.85
17	1	Hanna Hermansson	Sweden  (SWE)	4:06.70
18	2	Adelle Tracey	Jamaica  (JAM)	4:06.96
19	1	Diana Mezuliáníková	Czech Republic  (CZE)	4:07.62
20	2	Katie Snowden	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	4:08.29
21	1	Elle St. Pierre	United States  (USA)	4:09.84
22	2	Kristiina Mäki	Czech Republic  (CZE)	4:21.67
23	2	Winnie Nanyondo	Uganda  (UGA)	DNF	qR
	2	Gaia Sabbatini	Italy  (ITA)	DQ	TR17.2.2

Final

The final was started on 18 July at 19:50. ^[6]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	1	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya  (KEN)	3:52.96
	4	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia  (ETH)	3:54.52
	2	Laura Muir	Great Britain & N.I.  (GBR)	3:55.28	SB
4	6	Freweyni Hailu	Ethiopia  (ETH)	4:01.28
5	3	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland  (POL)	4:01.43	SB
6	8	Sinclaire Johnson	United States  (USA)	4:01.63
7	12	Jessica Hull	Australia  (AUS)	4:01.82
8	5	Winnie Nanyondo	Uganda  (UGA)	4:01.98
9	13	Georgia Griffith	Australia  (AUS)	4:03.26
10	10	Cory Ann McGee	United States  (USA)	4:03.70
11	7	Marta Pérez	Spain  (ESP)	4:04.25
12	9	Hirut Meshesha	Ethiopia  (ETH)	4:05.86
13	11	Winny Chebet	Kenya  (KEN)	4:15.13

References

1. Timetable
2. "1500 Metres Women − Records". IAAF . Retrieved 9 July 2022.
3. "Competitions Entry Standards 2022 – IAAF World Championships – PDF title, Qualification Standards for the IAAF World Athletics Championships Oregon 2022" (PDF). iaaf.org. 9 July 2022.
4. Heats Results
5. Semi-Final Results
6. Final results