2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Venue	Omnisport Apeldoorn [1]
Location	Apeldoorn, Netherlands
Dates	6 March 2025 (round 1) 7 March 2025 (final)
Competitors	22 from 13 nations
Winning time	4:07.23
Medalists
Agathe Guillemot    France   Salomé Afonso    Portugal   Revee Walcott-Nolan    Great Britain
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The women's 1500 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships is scheduled to be held on the short track of Omnisport in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, on 6 and 7 March 2025. This will be the 37th time the event is contested at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. Athletes can qualify by achieving the entry standard or by their World Athletics Ranking in the event.

Round 1 is scheduled for 6 March during the evening session. The final is scheduled for 7 March during the evening session.

Background

The women's 1500 metres was contested 36 times before 2025, held every time since the second edition of the European Athletics Indoor Championships (1971–2023). ^[2] The 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held in Omnisport Apeldoorn in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. ^[3] The removable indoor athletics track was retopped for these championships in September 2024. ^[3]

Gudaf Tsegay is the world record holder in the event, with a time of 3:53.09 set in 2021. ^[4] Abeba Aregawi is the European record holder with a time of 3:57.91, set in 2014. ^[4] The championship record is held by Laura Muir, set at the 2017 championships. ^[5] Muir is also the defending European Indoor champion.

Records before the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships

Record	Athlete (nation)	Time (s)	Location	Date
World record [4]	Gudaf Tsegay  (ETH)	3:53.09	Liévin, France	9 February 2021
European record [4]	Abeba Aregawi  (SWE)	3:57.91	Stockholm, Sweden	6 February 2014
Championship record [5]	Laura Muir  (GBR)	4:02.39	Belgrade, Serbia	4 March 2017
World leading [6]	Gudaf Tsegay  (ETH)	3:53.92	Toruń, Poland	16 February 2025
European leading [6]	Georgia Bell  (GBR)	4:00.63	Birmingham, Great Britain	15 February 2025

Qualification

For the women's 1500 metres, the qualification period runs from 25 February 2024 until 23 February 2025. ^[7] Athletes can qualify by achieving the entry standards of 4:08.00 s indoors or 4:02.00 s outdoor, or by virtue of their World Athletics Ranking for the event. ^[7] There is a target number of 27 athletes. ^[7]

Rounds

Round 1

Round 1 is scheduled for 6 March, starting at 19:10 (UTC+1) in the evening. ^[8] First 3 in each heat (Q) qualify for the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Bérénice Cleyet-Merle	France	4:13.51	Q
2	Weronika Lizakowska	Poland	4:13.51	Q
3	Patricia Silva	Portugal	4:13.93	Q
4	Marina Martínez	Spain	4:14.86
5	Elise Vanderelst	Belgium	4:16.68
6	Ava Lloyd	Great Britain	4:18.74
7	Hannah Anderson	Finland	4:22.98
8	Koraini Kyriakopoulou	Greece	4:25.82
[9]

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Georgia Bell	Great Britain	4:11.31	Q
2	Agathe Guillemot	France	4:11.52	Q
3	Salomé Afonso	Portugal	4:11.82	Q
4	Kristiina Sasínek Mäki	Czech Republic	4:12.60
5	Sofia Thøgersen	Denmark	4:14.02
6	Suus Altorf	Netherlands	4:15.09
7	Ingeborg Østgård	Norway	4:22.98
[10]

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Esther Guerrero	Spain	4:14.21	Q
2	Revée Walcott-Nolan	Great Britain	4:14.38	Q
3	Joceline Wind	Switzerland	4:14.51	Q
4	Marissa Damink	Netherlands	4:15.16
5	Diana Mezuliáníková	Czech Republic	4:18.29
6	Anne Gine Løvnes	Norway	4:18.50
7	Marta Zenoni	Italy	4:19.50
[11]

Final

The final is scheduled for 7 March, starting at 21:00 (UTC+1) in the evening.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Agathe Guillemot	France	4:07.23
	Salomé Afonso	Portugal	4:07.66
	Revée Walcott-Nolan	Great Britain	4:08.45 [.442]
4	Georgia Bell	Great Britain	4:08.45 [.443]
5	Esther Guerrero	Spain	4:09.45
6	Weronika Lizakowska	Poland	4:09.64
7	Patricia Silva	Portugal	4:09.97
8	Joceline Wind	Switzerland	4:10.42
9	Bérénice Cleyet-Merle	France	4:10.60
[12]

References

1. "Six months until Apeldoorn! New track surface for 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships", European Athletics , 6 September 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
2. András Szabó, "Statistics Handbook", pp. 6 and 322–323, European Athletics . Retrieved 21 November 2024.
3. "Omnisport with renovated track is ready for European Athletics Indoor Championships 2025", European Athletics Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 2025, 6 September 2024. Retrieved 14 January 2025.
4. "All time Top lists – Senior – 1500 Metres women", World Athletics . Retrieved 13 January 2025.
5. "Women's 1500m - Final Results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2023-03-04. Retrieved 2023-03-04.
6. "Season Top Lists – Senior 2025 – 1500 Metres Short Track women", World Athletics , 2025. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
7. "Qualification System and Entry Standards", European Athletics , 29 October 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
8. "Competition schedule – European Athletics Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 2025", European Athletics , 15 February 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024.
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11. "1500m Women - Round 1 - Heat 3 result" (PDF). European Athletics . 6 March 2025. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2025. Retrieved 26 March 2025.
12. "1500m Women - Final result" (PDF). European Athletics . 7 March 2025. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 March 2025. Retrieved 26 March 2025.