Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

The Women's 1500 metres competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada was held at the Olympic Stadium on 26–30 July.[1]

Women's 1500 metres
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
Date28–30 July
Competitors36 from 19 nations
Winning time4:05.48
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Gunhild Hoffmeister  East Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Ulrike Bruns  East Germany
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Competition format

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The Women's 1500m competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Semifinals and a Final. The three fastest competitors from each race in the heats plus the next two fastest overall qualified for the Semifinals. The four fastest competitors from each of the Semifinal races plus the next fastest overall advanced to the Final.

Records

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Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record   Tatyana Kazankina (URS) 3:56.0 Podolsk, Soviet Union 28 June 1976
Olympic record   Lyudmila Bragina (URS) 4:01.4 Munich, West Germany 9 September 1972

Results

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Round 1

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Qual. rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) plus the next two fastest times (q) qualified.

Heat 1

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Gabriella Dorio   Italy 4:10.84 Q
2 Raisa Smekhnova   Soviet Union 4:10.88 Q
3 Jan Merrill   United States 4:10.92 Q
4 Mary Stewart   Great Britain 4:11.10 Q
5 Maricica Puică   Romania 4:12.62
6 Rositsa Pekhlivanova   Bulgaria 4:13.11
7 Judy Amoore   Australia 4:14.22
8 Bernadette Van Roy   Belgium 4:16.27
9 Magdolna Lázár   Hungary 4:23.30

Heat 2

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Lyudmila Bragina   Soviet Union 4:07.11 Q
2 Christiane Wartenberg   East Germany 4:07.13 Q
3 Nina Holmén   Finland 4:07.14 Q
4 Grete Waitz   Norway 4:07.20 Q
5 Ellen Wellmann   West Germany 4:07.20 q
6 Francie Larrieu Smith   United States 4:07.21 q
7 Dianne Rodger   New Zealand 4:12.81
8 Thelma Wright   Canada 4:15.23
9 Ndew Niang   Senegal 4:44.64

Heat 3

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Ulrike Bruns   East Germany 4:11.62 Q
2 Tatyana Kazankina   Soviet Union 4:12.10 Q
3 Vesela Yatsinska   Bulgaria 4:12.72 Q
4 Sonja Castelein   Belgium 4:12.95 Q
5 Penny Yule   Great Britain 4:13.36
6 Ileana Silai   Romania 4:13.61
7 Margherita Gargano   Italy 4:15.94
8 Carmen Valero   Spain 4:17.65
9 Penny Werthner   Canada 4:18.19

Heat 4

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Brigitte Kraus   West Germany 4:07.79 Q
2 Gunhild Hoffmeister   East Germany 4:08.23 Q
3 Natalia Mărăşescu   Romania 4:08.31 Q
4 Nikolina Shtereva   Bulgaria 4:08.38 Q
5 Mary Tracey-Purcell   Ireland 4:08.63
6 Cyndy Poor   United States 4:08.89
7 Anne Audain   New Zealand 4:10.68
8 Silvana Cruciata   Italy 4:16.78
9 Lilja Guðmundsdóttir   Iceland 4:20.27

Semifinals

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Heat 1

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Ulrike Bruns   East Germany 4:02.13 Q
2 Nikolina Shtereva   Bulgaria 4:02.33 Q
3 Lyudmila Bragina   Soviet Union 4:02.41 Q
4 Gunhild Hoffmeister   East Germany 4:02.45 Q
5 Jan Merrill   United States 4:02.61 q
6 Raisa Smekhnova   Soviet Union 4:03.20
7 Brigitte Kraus   West Germany 4:04.21
8 Grete Waitz   Norway 4:04.80
9 Sonja Castelein   Belgium 4:13.46

Heat 2

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Tatyana Kazankina   Soviet Union 4:07.37 Q
2 Nina Holmén   Finland 4:07.53 Q
3 Ellen Wellmann   West Germany 4:07.54 Q
4 Gabriella Dorio   Italy 4:07.61 Q
5 Mary Stewart   Great Britain 4:07.65
6 Vesela Yatsinska   Bulgaria 4:07.89
7 Natalia Mărăşescu   Romania 4:07.92
8 Christiane Wartenberg   East Germany 4:08.28
9 Francie Larrieu Smith   United States 4:09.07

Final

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
  Tatyana Kazankina   Soviet Union 4:05.48
  Gunhild Hoffmeister   East Germany 4:06.02
  Ulrike Bruns   East Germany 4:06.09
4 Nikolina Shtereva   Bulgaria 4:06.57
5 Lyudmila Bragina   Soviet Union 4:07.20
6 Gabriella Dorio   Italy 4:07.27
7 Ellen Wellmann   West Germany 4:07.91
8 Jan Merrill   United States 4:08.54
9 Nina Holmén   Finland 4:09.55

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1976 Montreal Games: Women's 1500 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
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