Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres
at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Women's 1500 metres; at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Lenin Central Stadium
Date	31 July 1980 (heats); 1 August 1980 (final)
Competitors	26 from 16 nations
Winning time	3:56.6 OR
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

These are the official results of the women's 1,500m metres event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. There were a total number of 26 participating athletes, with the final was held on Friday 1980-08-01.^[1]

Final edit

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	3:56.6 OR
	Christiane Wartenberg	East Germany	3:57.8
	Nadezhda Olizarenko	Soviet Union	3:59.6
4	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:00.3
5	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	4:00.7
6	Lyubov Smolka	Soviet Union	4:01.3
7	Maricica Puică	Romania	4:01.3
8	Ileana Silai	Romania	4:03.0
9	Natalia Mărășescu	Romania	4:04.8

Semi-finals edit

Held on Wednesday 1980-07-30

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	3:59.2 OR
2	Nadezhda Olizarenko	Soviet Union	3:59.5
3	Christiane Wartenberg	East Germany	4:00.4
4	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	4:01.6
5	Maricica Puică	Romania	4:01.7
6	Vesela Yatsinska	Bulgaria	4:04.7
7	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	4:05.5
8	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	4:13.8
9	Janet Marlow	Great Britain	4:15.9
10.	Amsale Woldegibriel	Ethiopia	4:25.3
11.	Marcellina Emmanuel	Tanzania	4:26.8
12.	Albertine Rahéliarisoa	Madagascar	4:30.8
13.	Margaret Morel	Seychelles	4:37.9

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Lyubov Smolka	Soviet Union	4:04.4
2	Ileana Silai	Romania	4:04.7
3	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:05.0
4	Natalia Mărășescu	Romania	4:05.9
5	Anna Bukis	Poland	4:06.0
6	Beate Liebich	East Germany	4:06.8
7	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	4:08.3
8	Breda Pergar	Yugoslavia	4:13.2
9	Agnese Possamai	Italy	4:14.7
10.	Mwinga Mwanjala	Tanzania	4:20.9
11.	Trịnh Thị Bé	Vietnam	4:38.6
—	Hala El-Moughrabi	Syria	DNS
—	Geeta Zutshi	India	DNS