The women's 1500 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene from 15 to 18 July 2022.Timetable

Summary

Gudaf Tsegay took the lead soon after the start with only her Ethiopian teammate Hirut Meshesha, Olympic Champion Faith Kipyegon and Olympic silver medalist Laura Muir following closely with a gap opening quickly back to the rest. The first lap was completed in an electric 55.12 seconds with the first four maintaining a gap over the rest of the field until the end of the second lap, completed in 68 seconds, when Meshesha dropped off the first three, who now looked like confirmed medallists after only 800 metres. Tsegay still led at the bell with Kipyegon only taking the lead halfway down the back straight on the last lap. Kipyegon extended her lead over Tsegay to almost 10 metres by the finish with another five metres back to Muir in third.

Records Before the competition records were as follows:

RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record3:50.07Monte Carlo, Monaco17 July 2015Championship record3:51.95Doha, Qatar5 October 2019World Leading3:52.59Eugene, United States28 May 2022African Record3:50.07Monte Carlo, Monaco17 July 2015Asian Record3:50.46Beijing, China11 September 1993North, Central American and Caribbean record3:54.99Doha, Qatar5 October 2019South American Record4:05.67Tokyo, Japan31 August 1991European Record3:51.95Doha, Qatar5 October 2019Oceanian record3:58.81Tokyo, Japan4 August 2021

Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 4:04.20.

Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:

Date Time Round15 July 18:10 Heats16 July 19:05 Semi-finals18 July 19:50 Final

Results

Heats

The first 6 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualify for the heats.Heats Results

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Gudaf Tsegay 4:02.68 Q 2 3 Winny Chebet 4:03.12 Q, 3 3 Linden Hall 4:03.21 Q 4 3 Sofia Ennaoui 4:03.52 Q, 5 3 Katharina Trost 4:03.53 Q, 6 3 Cory Ann McGee 4:03.61 Q 7 3 Winnie Nanyondo 4:03.81 q 8 2 Faith Kipyegon 4:04.53 Q 9 2 Jessica Hull 4:04.68 Q 10 2 Freweyni Hailu 4:04.85 Q 11 2 Elle St. Pierre 4:04.94 Q 12 2 Hanna Klein 4:05.13 Q 13 2 Adelle Tracey 4:05.14 Q 14 2 Nozomi Tanaka 4:05.30 q, 15 2 Marta Pérez 4:05.92 q, 16 2 Hanna Hermansson 4:06.30 q, 17 3 Diana Mezuliáníková 4:06.55 q, 18 2 Katie Snowden 4:06.92 q 19 1 Hirut Meshesha 4:07.05 Q 20 3 Edinah Jebitok 4:07.12 21 2 Laura Galván 4:07.25 22 2 Sintayehu Vissa 4:07.33 23 2 Natalia Hawthorn 4:07.37 24 1 Laura Muir 4:07.53 Q 25 1 Georgia Griffith 4:07.65 Q 26 1 Sinclaire Johnson 4:07.68 Q 27 1 Gaia Sabbatini 4:07.82 Q 28 3 Federica Del Buono 4:08.42 29 1 Kristiina Mäki 4:08.43 Q 30 1 Marta Pen Freitas 4:08.58 31 3 Melissa Courtney-Bryant 4:09.07 32 1 Yolanda Ngarambe 4:09.15 33 1 Judith Kiyeng 4:09.30 34 1 Lucia Stafford 4:09.67 35 1 Elise Vanderelst 4:10.45 36 1 Sarah Healy 4:11.31 37 3 Nathalie Blomqvist 4:11.98 38 1 Şilan Ayyildiz 4:12.67 39 3 Alma Delia Cortes 4:13.92 40 1 Ran Urabe 4:14.82 41 3 Gresa Bakraçi 4:22.77 42 2 Anjelina Lohalith 4:23.84

Semi-finals The first 5 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.Semi-Final Results

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 1 Gudaf Tsegay 4:01.28 Q 2 1 Laura Muir 4:01.78 Q, 3 1 Jessica Hull 4:01.81 Q 4 1 Freweyni Hailu 4:02.28 Q 5 1 Cory Ann McGee 4:02.74 Q 6 1 Winny Chebet 4:03.08 q, 7 2 Faith Kipyegon 4:03.98 Q 8 2 Hirut Meshesha 4:04.05 Q 9 1 Marta Pérez 4:04.24 q, 10 2 Sinclaire Johnson 4:04.51 Q 11 1 Hanna Klein 4:04.62 12 1 Linden Hall 4:04.65 13 2 Georgia Griffith 4:05.16 Q 14 2 Sofia Ennaoui 4:05.17 Q 15 2 Nozomi Tanaka 4:05.79 16 2 Katharina Trost 4:05.85 17 1 Hanna Hermansson 4:06.70 18 2 Adelle Tracey 4:06.96 19 1 Diana Mezuliáníková 4:07.62 20 2 Katie Snowden 4:08.29 21 1 Elle St. Pierre 4:09.84 22 2 Kristiina Mäki 4:21.67 23 2 Winnie Nanyondo 2 Gaia Sabbatini

Final The final was started on 18 July at 19:50.Final results

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Faith Kipyegon 3:52.96 4 Gudaf Tsegay 3:54.52 2 Laura Muir 3:55.28 4 6 Freweyni Hailu 4:01.28 5 3 Sofia Ennaoui 4:01.43 6 8 Sinclaire Johnson 4:01.63 7 12 Jessica Hull 4:01.82 8 5 Winnie Nanyondo 4:01.98 9 13 Georgia Griffith 4:03.26 10 10 Cory Ann McGee 4:03.70 11 7 Marta Pérez 4:04.25 12 9 Hirut Meshesha 4:05.86 13 11 Winny Chebet 4:15.13

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