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The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletics since 1983. It is equivalent to 1.5 kilometers or approximately 15⁄16 miles. The event is closely associated with its slightly longer cousin, the mile race, from which it derives its nickname "the metric mile".
Ciara Mageean is a middle-distance runner from Portaferry in Northern Ireland who specialises in the 1500 metres. She is the 2024 European Athletics Championships gold medalist at the distance, the first individual Irish European champion since Sonia O'Sullivan.
Jakob Ingebrigtsen is a Norwegian middle- and long-distance runner, who is the current world record holder for the indoor 1500 metres and the 2000 metres, and holds the world best time over the two mile distance. Ingebrigtsen is a two-time World champion, winning gold medals in the 5000 metres in 2022 and 2023 and a four-time European champion, winning gold medals in the 1500 m and 5000 m in 2018 and 2022. He also won a gold medal in the 1500 m at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, setting an Olympic and European record. In addition to the 1500 m, Ingebrigtsen holds European records in the mile and 5000 m, and is one of only three men to run a sub-3:30 1500 m, sub-7:30 3000 m and a sub-12:50 5000 m.
Sarah Healy is an Irish middle-distance runner. She won gold for the 1500m and 3000m at the 2018 European Athletics U18 Championships in Győr, Hungary. Healy also won silver in the 1500m the following year. She won the Irish National Cross Country Championships in November 2022.
Lemlem Hailu is an Ethiopian middle- and long-distance runner. She won the gold medal in the 3000 metres at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. Hailu earned bronze in the 1500 metres at the 2019 African Games.
Sophie Becker is an Irish athlete who competes as in the sprint events and mainly specialises in the 400 m.
Cole Hocker is an American middle- and long-distance runner. He holds multiple national titles in annual competitions organized by USA Track & Field, including four titles in the 1500 meters and one title in the 3000 meters. In March 2024, he won a silver medal in the 1500 m at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships in Glasgow. Hocker also placed sixth in the 1500 m at the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo and seventh at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest.
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Andrew Coscoran is an Irish athlete who specializes in middle distance running.
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The following table is an overview of national records in the 1500 metres.
Brian Fay is an Irish long-distance runner. He has been the Irish national champion at 3000m steeplechase, and Irish national record holder over 5000m.
Nick Griggs is an Irish middle and long-distance runner from County Tyrone.
Luke McCann is an Irish track and field athlete.
Fiona Everard is an Irish cross country runner. In November 2023, she became the Irish female national cross-country champion.
Darragh McElhinney is an Irish middle and long distance runner. He is a multiple-time national champion.
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- ↑ McLausland, Malcolm (22 June 2023). "Irish athletes hit the front at European Games in Poland". Irish News. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
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