Athletics at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Template:Short description Template:Short descriptionScript error: No such module "infobox".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". Template:Sidebar games events The women's 1500 metres at the 2008 Summer Olympics took place from 21–23 August at the Beijing National Stadium.^[1]

The qualifying standards were 4:07.00 (A standard) and 4:08.00 (B standard).^[2]

The event was hit hard by the Russian doping scandal on 31 July 2008, as all three Russian entrants, Yuliya Fomenko, Tatyana Tomashova and Yelena Soboleva, were suspended from competition.^[3] These athletes were three of the favourites in Beijing.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world record, Olympic record, and world leading time were as follows:

No new world or Olympic records were set for this event.

Qualification: First 3 in each heat(Q) and the next 3 fastest(q) advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	3	Nancy Langat	Template:FlagIOC	4:03.02	Q, SB
2	3	Nataliya Tobias	Template:FlagIOC	4:03.19	Q, SB
3	3	Lisa Dobriskey	Template:FlagIOC	4:03.22	Q, PB
4	3	Shannon Rowbury	Template:FlagIOC	4:03.89	q
5	3	Anna Alminova	Template:FlagIOC	4:04.66	q
6	1	Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Template:FlagIOC	4:05.14	Q
7	1	Natalia Rodríguez	Template:FlagIOC	4:05.30	Q
8	1	Siham Hilali	Template:FlagIOC	4:05.36	Q, SB
9	1	Anna Mishchenko	Template:FlagIOC	4:05.61	q, PB
10	1	Sarah Jamieson	Template:FlagIOC	4:06.64
11	1	Stephanie Twell	Template:FlagIOC	4:06.68
12	1	Anna Jakubczak	Template:FlagIOC	4:07.33
13	3	Sylwia Ejdys	Template:FlagIOC	4:08.37
14	3	René Kalmer	Template:FlagIOC	4:08.41
15	3	Sonja Roman	Template:FlagIOC	4:08.52
16	3	Liu Qing	Template:FlagIOC	4:09.27
17	1	Christin Wurth-Thomas	Template:FlagIOC	4:09.70
18	1	Irene Jelagat	Template:FlagIOC	4:09.92
19	3	Meskerem Assefa	Template:FlagIOC	4:10.04
20	2	Iryna Lishchynska	Template:FlagIOC	4:13.60	Q
21	2	Iris Fuentes-Pila	Template:FlagIOC	4:14.10	Q
22	2	Btissam Lakhouad	Template:FlagIOC	4:14.34	Q
23	2	Susan Scott	Template:FlagIOC	4:14.66
24	1	Konstadína Efedáki	Template:FlagIOC	4:15.02
25	2	Viola Kibiwot	Template:FlagIOC	4:15.62
26	2	Gelete Burka	Template:FlagIOC	4:15.77
27	2	Agnes Samaria	Template:FlagIOC	4:15.80
28	2	Erin Donohue	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.05
29	2	Lisa Corrigan	Template:FlagIOC	4:16.32
30	1	Nahida Touhami	Template:FlagIOC	4:18.99
31	2	Lidia Chojecka	Template:FlagIOC	4:19.57
32	3	Bouchra Chaabi	Template:FlagIOC	4:19.89
33	2	Domingas Togna	Template:FlagIOC	5:05.76	NR

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes^[4]
Script error: No such module "sort".	Nancy Langat	Template:FlagIOC	4:00.03	PB
Script error: No such module "sort".	Iryna Lishchynska	Template:FlagIOC	4:01.63
Script error: No such module "sort".	Nataliya Tobias	Template:FlagIOC	4:01.78	PB
4	Lisa Dobriskey	Template:FlagIOC	4:02.10	PB
5	Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Template:FlagIOC	4:02.71
6	Natalia Rodríguez	Template:FlagIOC	4:03.19	SB
7	Shannon Rowbury	Template:FlagIOC	4:03.58
8	Iris Fuentes-Pila	Template:FlagIOC	4:04.86
9	Anna Mishchenko	Template:FlagIOC	4:05.13	PB
10	Siham Hilali	Template:FlagIOC	4:05.57
11	Anna Alminova	Template:FlagIOC	4:06.99
12	Btissam Lakhouad	Template:FlagIOC	4:07.25

Intermediate	Athlete	Country	Mark
400m	Anna Alminova	Script error: No such module "flag".	1:05.90
800m	Anna Alminova	Script error: No such module "flag".	2:13.70
1200m	Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Script error: No such module "flag".	3:16.41

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