The women's 1500 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 5 March 2021 at 12:22 (heats), and on 6 March at 19:50 (final) local time. The event was won by Belgium's Elise Vanderelst in a time of 4:18.44 minutes.
In the final Spain's Águeda Marqués and Great Britain's Holly Archer were initially disqualified for jostling. Archer had her disqualification overturned on appeal and won the silver medal.Chowdury, Saj (2021-03-06). European Indoors 2021: Holly Archer takes silver after winning appeal. BBC Sport. Retrieved 2021-03-07.
Records Standing records prior to the 2021 European Athletics Indoor ChampionshipsWorld record3:53.09Liévin, France9 February 2021European record3:57.91Stockholm, Sweden6 February 2014Championship record4:02.39Belgrade, Serbia4 March 2017World Leading3:53.09Liévin, France9 February 2021European Leading3:59.58Liévin, France9 February 2021
Results Heats
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) advance to the Final.
Rank Heat Athlete Nationality Time Note 1 3 Hanna Klein 4:09.35 Q 2 1 Holly Archer 4:09.77 Q, 3 1 Gesa Felicitas Krause 4:09.92 Q, 4 3 Águeda Marqués 4:09.94 Q, 5 1 Elise Vanderelst 4:10.49 q 6 3 Katie Snowden 4:10.70 q 7 1 Marta Pérez 4:11.27 q 8 1 Diana Mezuliáníková 4:11.48 9 3 Martyna Galant 4:12.08 10 2 Daryia Barysevich 4:12.11 Q 11 2 Esther Guerrero 4:12.39 Q 12 1 Federica Del Buono 4:12.79 13 3 Marta Pen Freitas 4:12.95 14 2 Caterina Granz 4:13.53 15 3 Lenuța Simiuc 4:14.94 16 2 Gaia Sabbatini 4:17.21 17 1 Orysya Demyanyuk 4:17.52 18 2 Claudia Bobocea 4:18.00 19 2 Klaudia Kazimierska 4:18.24 20 2 Lindsey De Grande 4:18.45 21 3 Anastasia-Panayiota Marinakou 4:19.60 22 3 Vera Hoffmann 4:20.50
Final
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Elise Vanderelst 4:18.44 Holly Archer 4:19.91 Hanna Klein 4:20.07 4 Marta Pérez 4:20.39 5 Esther Guerrero 4:20.45 6 Katie Snowden 4:21.81 7 Daryia Barysevich 4:22.98 8 Gesa Felicitas Krause 4:24.26 Águeda Marqués
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