2007 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres

Events at the 2007 World Championships
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	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 1500 metres at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Nagai Stadium on 29, 31 August and 2 September.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Maryam Yusuf Jamal  Bahrain	Iryna Lishchynska  Ukraine	Daniela Yordanova  Bulgaria

Note. The silver medal was originally won by Yelena Soboleva of Russia but she was eventually stripped off after being banned for manipulating drug samples..

Schedule

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 6 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Mariem Alaoui Selsouli	Morocco	4:09.05	Q
2	1	Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Bahrain	4:09.47	Q
3	1	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4:09.52	Q
4	1	Iris Fuentes-Pila	Spain	4:09.58	Q
5	1	Hilary Stellingwerff	Canada	4:09.60	Q
6	1	Abby Westley	United Kingdom	4:09.67	Q
7	1	Sarah Jamieson	Australia	4:10.02	q
8	2	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4:10.03	Q
9	2	Viola Kibiwot	Kenya	4:10.53	Q
10	2	Lisa Dobriskey	United Kingdom	4:10.61	Q
11	1	Natalya Panteleyeva	Russia	4:10.69	q
12	3	Treniere Clement	United States	4:10.85	Q
13	2	Erin Donohue	United States	4:10.89	Q
14	3	Agnes Samaria	Namibia	4:10.96	Q
15	1	Tetyana Holovchenko	Ukraine	4:10.98	q
16	1	Veronica Nyaruai	Kenya	4:21.50	Q
16	3	Sonja Roman	Slovenia	4:11.04	Q
18	3	Lisa Corrigan	Australia	4:11.11	Q
19	3	Nataliya Tobias	Ukraine	4:11.22	q
20	2	Dolores Checa	Spain	4:11.24	q
20	3	Marina Munćan	Serbia	4:11.24	q
22	3	Bouchra Chaabi	Morocco	4:11.51
23	3	Carmen Douma-Hussar	Canada	4:12.10
24	3	Qing Liu	China	4:12.71
25	2	Nahida Touhami	Algeria	4:14.38
26	2	Cristina Vasiloiu	Romania	4:15.43
27	2	Wioletta Frankiewicz	Poland	4:18.59
28	1	Christin Wurth-Thomas	United States	4:20.21
29	3	Mestawot Tadesse	Ethiopia	4:20.46
30	2	Ragnhild Kvarberg	Norway	4:21.22
31	1	Mika Yoshikawa	Japan	4:21.64
32	2	Siham Hilali	Morocco	4:22.12
33	1	Aishath Reesha	Maldives	5:45.25
34	3	Wanumbi Kapia	Democratic Republic of the Congo	5:45.99
-	2	Yuliya Fomenko	Russia	DSQ	*
-	3	Yelena Soboleva	Russia	DSQ	*

Note: Both Yuliya Fomenko and Yelena Soboleva originally advanced to the semifinals but were later retrospectively disqualified.

Semifinals

Qualification: First 5 in each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4:03.84	Q
2	2	Viola Kibiwot	Kenya	4:03.97	Q
3	2	Daniela Yordanova	Bulgaria	4:04.19	Q, SB
4	2	Mariem Alaoui Selsouli	Morocco	4:05.25	Q
5	2	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4:05.80	q
6	2	Iris Fuentes-Pila	Spain	4:06.99	q, SB
7	2	Marina Munćan	Serbia	4:08.02	NR
8	2	Treniere Clement	United States	4:08.32
9	2	Lisa Dobriskey	United Kingdom	4:08.39
10	2	Sonja Roman	Slovenia	4:08.60	SB
11	2	Lisa Corrigan	Australia	4:08.79
12	1	Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Bahrain	4:14.86	Q
13	1	Natalya Panteleyeva	Russia	4:15.22	Q
14	1	Agnes Samaria	Namibia	4:15.36	Q
15	1	Nataliya Tobias	Ukraine	4:15.43	Q
16	1	Hilary Stellingwerff	Canada	4:15.99
17	1	Sarah Jamieson	Australia	4:16.20
18	1	Abby Westley	United Kingdom	4:16.21
19	1	Erin Donohue	United States	4:16.41
20	1	Tetyana Holovchenko	Ukraine	4:17.97
21	1	Dolores Checa	Spain	4:20.44
22	1	Veronica Nyaruai	Kenya	4:21.50
-	1	Yuliya Fomenko	Russia	DSQ	*
-	2	Yelena Soboleva	Russia	DSQ	*

Note: Both Yuliya Fomenko and Yelena Soboleva originally advanced to the final but were later retrospectively disqualified.

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Bahrain	3:58.75	SB
	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4:00.69	SB
	Daniela Yordanova	Bulgaria	4:00.82	SB
4	Mariem Alaoui Selsouli	Morocco	4:01.52	PB
5	Viola Kibiwot	Kenya	4:02.10	PB
6	Agnes Samaria	Namibia	4:07.61	NR
7	Natalya Panteleyeva	Russia	4:07.82
8	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4:08.64
9	Nataliya Tobias	Ukraine	4:10.56
10	Iris Fuentes-Pila	Spain	4:14.00
-	Yuliya Fomenko	Russia	DSQ
-	Yelena Soboleva	Russia	DSQ

Both Yuliya Fomenko and Yelena Soboleva originally participated in the final (with Soboleva finishing in second place), but were later retrospectively disqualified due to doping offences.

References

General

• 1500 metres results from IAAF.
• Results for 1500-metres from World Athletics.

Specific