1500 metres
The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletics since 1983. It is equivalent to 1.5 kilometers or approximately 15⁄16 miles. The event is closely associated with its slightly longer cousin, the mile race, from which it derives its nickname "the metric mile".[1]
Athletics 1500 metres | |
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World records | |
Men | Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 3:26.00 (1998) |
Women | Faith Kipyegon (KEN) 3:49.11 (2023) |
Olympic records | |
Men | Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR) 3:28.32 (2021) |
Women | Faith Kipyegon (KEN) 3:53.11 (2021) |
World Championship records | |
Men | Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 3:27.65 (1999) |
Women | Sifan Hassan (NED) 3:51.95 (2019) |
The demands of the race are similar to that of the 800 metres, but with a slightly higher emphasis on aerobic endurance and a slightly lower sprint speed requirement. The 1500 metre race is predominantly aerobic, but anaerobic conditioning is also required.[2]
Each lap run during the world-record race run by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco in 1998 in Rome, Italy averaged just under 55 seconds (or under 13.8 seconds per 100 metres).[3]
1,500 metres is three and three-quarter laps around a 400-metre track. During the 1970s and 1980s this race was dominated by British runners, along with an occasional Finn, American, or New Zealander. Through the 1990s, many African runners began to win Olympic medals in this race, especially runners from Kenya, Ethiopia, and East Africa, as well as North African runners from Morocco and Algeria. In the 2020s, European runners began to emerge again in the men's event, with Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the youngest of a dynasty of Norwegian middle-distance runners, winning Olympic Gold in 2021, and Scottish and British runner Jake Wightman winning the World Championship title the following year at the head of an all-European podium. Faith Kipyegon of Kenya maintained Africa's grip on the global titles in the female event in the same time period, although here again, Europeans Sifan Hassan and Laura Muir, and Americans such as Jenny Simpson also contended for the podium.
In the Modern Olympic Games, the men's 1,500-metre race has been contested from the beginning, and at every Olympic Games since. The first winner, in 1896, was Edwin Flack of Australia, who also won the first gold medal in the 800-metre race. The women's 1,500-metre race was first added to the Summer Olympics in 1972, and the winner of the first gold medal was Lyudmila Bragina of the Soviet Union. During the Olympic Games of 1972 through 2008, the women's 1,500-metre race has been won by three Soviets plus one Russian, one Italian, one Romanian, one Briton, one Kenyan, and two Algerians. The 2012 Olympic results are still undecided as a result of multiple doping cases. The best women's times for the race were controversially[4] set by Chinese runners, all set in the same race on just two dates four years apart at the Chinese National Games. At least one of those top Chinese athletes has admitted to being part of a doping program.[5] This women's record was finally broken by Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia in 2015.
In American high schools, the 1,600-metre run, also colloquially referred to as "metric mile", is the designated official distance by the National Governing Body the NFHS. Because of the legacy, since US customary units are better-known in America, the mile run (which is 1609.344 metres in length) is more frequently run than the 1,500-metre run. For convenience, national rankings are standardized by converting all 1,500-metre run times to their mile run equivalents.[6]
Strategy
Many 1500 metres events, particularly at the championship level, turn into slow, strategic races, with the pace quickening and competitors jockeying for position in the final lap to settle the race in a final sprint. Such is the difficulty of maintaining the pace throughout the duration of the event, most records are set in planned races led by pacemakers or "rabbits" who sacrifice their opportunity to win by leading the early laps at a fast pace before dropping out.
The person who wins the race is behind watching.
Continental records
Area | Men | Women | ||||
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Time | Athlete | Nation | Time | Athlete | Nation | |
Africa (records) | 3:26.00 WR | Hicham El Guerrouj | Morocco | 3:49.11 WR | Faith Kipyegon | Kenya |
Asia (records) | 3:29.14 | Rashid Ramzi | Bahrain | 3:50.46 | Yunxia Qu | China |
Europe (records) | 3:27.14 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | Norway | 3:51.95 | Sifan Hassan | Netherlands |
North, Central America and Caribbean (records) | 3:29.02 | Yared Nuguse | United States | 3:54.99 | Shelby Houlihan | United States |
Oceania (records) | 3:29.41 | Oliver Hoare | Australia | 3:56.92 | Linden Hall | Australia |
South America (records) | 3:33.25 | Hudson de Souza | Brazil | 4:05.67 | Letitia Vriesde | Suriname |
All-time top 25
Men
- Correct as of July 2023.[10]
Ath.# | Perf.# | Time | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place | Ref. |
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1 | 1 | 3:26.00 | Hicham El Guerrouj | Morocco | 14 July 1998 | Rome | |
2 | 3:26.12 | El Guerrouj #2 | 24 August 2001 | Brussels | |||
2 | 3 | 3:26.34 | Bernard Lagat | Kenya | 24 August 2001 | Brussels | |
4 | 3:26.45 | El Guerrouj #3 | 12 August 1998 | Zürich | |||
3 | 5 | 3:26.69 | Asbel Kiprop | Kenya | 17 July 2015 | Monaco | [11] |
6 | 3:26.89 | El Guerrouj #4 | 16 August 2002 | Zürich | |||
7 | 3:26.96 | El Guerrouj #5 | 08 September 2002 | Rieti | |||
4 | 8 | 3:27.14 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | Norway | 16 July 2023 | Chorzów | [12] |
9 | 3:27.21 | El Guerrouj #6 | 11 August 2000 | Zürich | |||
10 | 3:27.34 | El Guerrouj #7 | 19 July 2002 | Monaco | |||
5 | 11 | 3:27.37 | Noureddine Morceli | Algeria | 12 July 1995 | Nice | |
12 | 3:27.40 | Lagat #2 | 06 August 2004 | Zürich | |||
13 | 3:27.52 | Morceli #2 | 25 July 1995 | Monaco | |||
14 | 3:27.64 | El Guerrouj #8 | 6 August 2004 | Zürich | |||
6 | 15 | 3:27.64 | Silas Kiplagat | Kenya | 18 July 2014 | Monaco | [13] |
16 | 3:27.65 | El Guerrouj #9 | 24 August 1999 | Seville | |||
17 | 3:27.72 | Kiprop #2 | 19 July 2013 | Monaco | [14] | ||
18 | 3:27.91 | Lagat #3 | 19 July 2002 | Monaco | |||
19 | 3:27.95 | Ingebrigtsen #2 | 15 June 2023 | Oslo | [15] | ||
7 | 20 | 3:28.12 | Noah Ngeny | Kenya | 11 August 2000 | Zürich | |
8 | 21 | 3:28.28 | Timothy Cheruiyot | Kenya | 09 July 2021 | Monaco | [16] |
22 | 3:28.32 | Ingebrigtsen #3 | 07 August 2021 | Tokyo | [17] | ||
23 | 3:28.37 | Morceli #3 | 09 September 1995 | Monaco | |||
El Guerrouj #10 | 08 August 1998 | Monaco | |||||
25 | 3:28.38 | El Guerrouj #11 | 06 July 2001 | Saint-Denis | |||
9 | 3:28.75 | Taoufik Makhloufi | Algeria | 17 July 2015 | Monaco | [18] | |
10 | 3:28.76 | Mohamed Katir | Spain | 09 July 2021 | Monaco | [19] | |
11 | 3:28.79 | Abdalaati Iguider | Morocco | 17 July 2015 | Monaco | ||
12 | 3:28.80 | Elijah Manangoi | Kenya | 21 July 2017 | Monaco | [20] | |
13 | 3:28.81 | Mo Farah | Great Britain | 19 July 2013 | Monaco | [14] | |
Ronald Kwemoi | Kenya | 18 July 2014 | Monaco | [21] | |||
15 | 3:28.95 | Fermín Cacho | Spain | 13 August 1997 | Zürich | ||
16 | 3:28.98 | Mehdi Baala | France | 05 September 2003 | Brussels | ||
17 | 3:29.02 | Daniel Kipchirchir Komen | Kenya | 14 July 2006 | Rome | ||
Yared Nuguse | United States | 15 June 2023 | Oslo | [15] | |||
19 | 3:29.05 | Josh Kerr | Great Britain | 07 August 2021 | Tokyo | [22] | |
20 | 3:29.11 | Abel Kipsang | Kenya | 16 July 2023 | Chorzów | [23] | |
21 | 3:29.14 | Rashid Ramzi | Bahrain | 14 July 2006 | Rome | ||
22 | 3:29.18 | Vénuste Niyongabo | Burundi | 22 August 1997 | Brussels | ||
Mario García | Spain | 15 June 2023 | Oslo | [24] | |||
24 | 3:29.23 | Jake Wightman | Great Britain | 19 July 2022 | Eugene | [25] | |
25 | 3:29.26 | Azeddine Habz | France | 15 June 2023 | Oslo | [26] |
Women
- Correct as of September 2023.[27]
Ath.# | Perf.# | Time | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | 3:49.11 | Faith Kipyegon | Kenya | 02 June 2023 | Florence | [28] |
2 | 2 | 3:50.07 | Genzebe Dibaba | Ethiopia | 17 July 2015 | Monaco | [29] |
3 | 3:50.37 | Kipyegon #2 | Kenya | 10 August 2022 | Monaco | [30] | |
3 | 4 | 3:50.46 | Yunxia Qu | China | 11 September 1993 | Beijing | |
5 | 3:50.72 | Kipyegon #3 | 16 September 2023 | Eugene | [31] | ||
4 | 6 | 3:50.98 | Bo Jiang | China | 18 October 1997 | Shanghai | |
7 | 3:51.07 | Kipyegon #4 | 09 July 2021 | Monaco | [32] | ||
5 | 8 | 3:51.34 | Yinglai Lang | China | 18 October 1997 | Shanghai | |
9 | 3:51.41+ | Kipyegon #5 | 21 July 2023 | Monaco | [33] | ||
6 | 10 | 3:51.92 | Junxia Wang | China | 11 September 1993 | Beijing | |
7 | 11 | 3:51.95 | Sifan Hassan | Netherlands | 05 October 2019 | Doha | [34] |
8 | 12 | 3:52.47 | Tatyana Kazankina | Soviet Union | 13 August 1980 | Zürich | |
13 | 3:52.59 | Kipyegon #6 | 28 May 2022 | Eugene | [35] | ||
14 | 3:52.96 | Kipyegon #7 | 18 July 2022 | Eugene | [36] | ||
15 | 3:53.11 | Kipyegon #8 | 06 August 2021 | Tokyo | [37] | ||
16 | 3.53.23 | Kipyegon #9 | 21 August 2021 | Eugene | [38] | ||
17 | 3:53.60 | Hassan #2 | 09 July 2021 | Monaco | [39] | ||
18 | 3:53.63 | Hassan #3 | 10 June 2021 | Florence | |||
9 | 19 | 3:53.91 | Lili Yin | China | 18 October 1997 | Shanghai | |
19 | 3:53.91 | Kipyegon #10 | 10 June 2021 | Florence | |||
10 | 21 | 3:53.93 | Diribe Welteji | Ethiopia | 16 September 2023 | Eugene | [40] |
11 | 22 | 3:53.96 | Paula Ivan | Romania | 01 October 1988 | Seoul | |
12 | 23 | 3:53.97 | Lixin Lan | China | 18 October 1997 | Shanghai | |
13 | 24 | 3:54.01 | Gudaf Tsegay | Ethiopia | 20 June 2021 | Chorzów | |
25 | 3:54.03 | Tsegay #2 | 28 May 2023 | Rabat | [41] | ||
14 | 3:54.23 | Olga Dvirna | Soviet Union | 27 July 1982 | Kyiv | ||
15 | 3:54.50 | Laura Muir | Great Britain | 06 August 2021 | Tokyo | [42] | |
16 | 3:54.52 | Zhang Ling | China | 18 October 1997 | Shanghai | ||
17 | 3:54.87 | Hirut Meshesha | Ethiopia | 16 July 2023 | Chorzów | [43] | |
18 | 3:54.93 | Birke Haylom | Ethiopia | 16 July 2023 | Chorzów | [44] | |
19 | 3:54.99 | Shelby Houlihan | United States | 05 October 2019 | Doha | ||
20 | 3:55.07 | Yanmei Dong | China | 18 October 1997 | Shanghai | ||
21 | 3:55.30 | Hassiba Boulmerka | Algeria | 08 August 1992 | Barcelona | ||
22 | 3:55.33 | Süreyya Ayhan | Turkey | 05 September 2003 | Brussels | ||
23 | 3:55.68 | Yuliya Fomenko | Russia | 08 July 2006 | Saint-Denis | ||
Freweyni Hailu | Ethiopia | 16 September 2023 | Eugene | [45] | |||
25 | 3:55.87 | Ciara Mageean | Ireland | 08 September 2023 | Brussels | [46] |
Men (indoor)
- Correct as of February 2023.[47]
Rank | Time | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 3:30.60 | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | Norway | 17 February 2022 | Liévin | |
2 | 3:31.04 | Samuel Tefera | Ethiopia | 16 February 2019 | Birmingham | |
3 | 3:31.18 | Hicham El Gurreouj | Morocco | 2 February 1997 | Stuttgart | |
4 | 3:31.25+ | Yomif Kejelcha | Ethiopia | 3 March 2019 | Boston | |
5 | 3:31.76 | Haile Gebrselassie | Ethiopia | 1 February 1998 | Stuttgart | |
6 | 3:32.11 | Laban Rotich | Kenya | 1 February 1998 | Stuttgart | |
7 | 3:32.35 | Ollie Hoare | Australia | 13 February 2021 | New York City | |
8 | 3:32.48 | Neil Gourley | Great Britain | 25 February 2023 | Birmingham | [48] |
9 | 3:32.86+ | Josh Kerr | Great Britain | 27 February 2022 | Boston | |
10 | 3:32.97 | Selemon Barega | Ethiopia | 17 February 2021 | Toruń | |
11 | 3:33.08 | Daniel Komen | Kenya | 13 February 2005 | Karlsruhe | |
12 | 3:33.10 | Deresse Mekonnen | Ethiopia | 20 February 2010 | Birmingham | |
13 | 3:33.17 | Vénuste Niyongabo | Burundi | 22 February 1998 | Liévin | |
14 | 3:33.22+ | Yared Nuguse | United States | 11 February 2023 | New York City | |
15 | 3:33.23 | Augustine Choge | Kenya | 19 February 2011 | Birmingham | |
16 | 3:33.28 | Adel Mechaal | Spain | 25 February 2023 | Birmingham | [48] |
17 | 3:33.32 | Andrés Manuel Díaz | Spain | 24 February 1999 | Athens | |
18 | 3:33.34 | Bernard Lagat | Kenya | 11 February 2005 | Fayetteville | |
19 | 3:33.36 | Abel Kipsang | Kenya | 20 March 2022 | Belgrade | |
20 | 3:33.49 | Andrew Coscoran | Ireland | 25 February 2023 | Birmingham | [48] |
21 | 3:33.59 | Teddese Lemi | Ethiopia | 20 March 2022 | Belgrade | |
22 | 3:33.76+ | Edward Cheserek | Kenya | 9 February 2018 | Boston | |
23 | 3:33.96 | Haron Keitany | Kenya | 8 February 2009 | Ghent | |
24 | 3:33.99 | Ivan Hesko | Ukraine | 13 February 2005 | Karlsruhe | |
25 | 3:34.10 | Abdelaati Iguider | Morocco | 14 February 2012 | Liévin |
Women (indoor)
- Correct as of February 2023.[49]
Rank | Time | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place | Ref |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 3:53.09 | Gudaf Tsegay | Ethiopia | 9 February 2021 | Liévin | |
2 | 3:55.17 | Genzebe Dibaba | Ethiopia | 1 February 2014 | Karlsruhe | |
3 | 3:57.91 | Abeba Aregawi | Sweden | 6 February 2014 | Stockholm | |
4 | 3:58.28 | Yelena Soboleva | Russia | 18 February 2006 | Moscow | |
5 | 3:59.58 | Laura Muir | Great Britain | 9 February 2021 | Liévin | |
6 | 3:59.75 | Gelete Burka | Ethiopia | 9 March 2008 | Valencia | |
7 | 3:59.79 | Maryam Yusuf Jamal | Bahrain | 9 March 2008 | Valencia | |
8 | 3:59.87+ | Konstanze Klosterhalfen | Germany | 8 February 2020 | New York City | |
9 | 3:59.98 | Regina Jacobs | United States | 1 February 2003 | Boston | |
10 | 4:00.20+ | Elle Purrier | United States | 8 February 2020 | New York City | |
11 | 4:00.27 | Doina Melinte | Romania | 9 February 1990 | East Rutherford | |
12 | 4:00.28 | Dawit Seyaum | Ethiopia | 28 February 2016 | Boston | |
13 | 4:00.46 | Sifan Hassan | Netherlands | 19 February 2015 | Stockholm | |
14 | 4:00.52+ | Jemma Reekie | Great Britain | 8 February 2020 | New York City | |
15 | 4:00.72 | Natalya Gorelova | Russia | 27 February 2003 | Moscow | |
16 | 4:00.8 h | Mary Decker | United States | 8 February 1980 | New York City | |
17 | 4:00.80+ | Gabriela DeBues-Stafford | Canada | 8 February 2020 | New York City | |
18 | 4:01.26 | Yuliya Chizenko | Russia | 18 February 2006 | Moscow | |
19 | 4:01.57 | Lemlem Hailu | Ethiopia | 19 February 2020 | Liévin | |
20 | 4:01.77 | Nuria Fernández | Spain | 14 February 2009 | Valencia | |
21 | 4:01.90 | Kutre Dulecha | Ethiopia | 15 February 2004 | Karlsruhe | |
22 | 4:02.01 | Hirut Meshasha | Ethiopia | 15 February 2023 | Liévin | |
23 | 4:02.09 | Beatrice Chepkoech | Kenya | 4 February 2020 | Düsseldorf | |
24 | 4:02.12 | Axumawit Embaye | Ethiopia | 28 January 2022 | Karlsruhe | |
25 | 4:02.3 h | Lyudmila Rogachova | Soviet Union | 14 February 1990 | Moscow |
Olympic medalists
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World Championships medalists
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European Championships medalists
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World Indoor Championships medalists
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- A Known as the World Indoor Games
Season's bests
- "i" indicates performance on 200m indoor track
Other sports
1,500 metres is also an event in swimming, speed skating, and wheelchair racing. The world records for the distance in swimming for men are 14:31.02 (swum in a 50-metre pool) by Sun Yang, 14:08.06 (swum in a 25-metre pool) by Gregorio Paltrinieri; and by women 15:25.48 (swum in a 50-metre pool)[51] by Katie Ledecky, and 15:19.71 (swum in a 25-metre pool) by Mireia Belmonte García.
The world records for the distance in speed skating are 1:40.17 by Kjeld Nuis and 1:49.83 by Miho Takagi.
The records for wheelchair racing vary by disability classification:
- T51: 4:53.50 by Hélder Mestre
- T52: 3:29.79 by Raymond Martin
- T53 and T54: 2:51.84 by Brent Lakatos
Notes and references
- In the United States, where the mile race remains highly popular, 'metric mile' often refers to a 1600 metre race, an event generally not run outside its borders.
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- On 17 August 2015, the Court of Arbitration for Sport says it approved a settlement agreed to by Turkish athlete Aslı Çakır Alptekin and the IAAF. Alptekin has agreed to forfeit her 1500 metres Olympic title and serve an eight-year ban for blood doping.12 On 29 March 2017, Turkish athlete Gamze Bulut was banned for doping and lost her Olympic silver medal. Maryam Yusuf Jamal of Bahrain was advanced to gold, the silver medal was awarded to Tatyana Tomashova of Russia, and the bronze medal was awarded to Abeba Aregawi of Ethiopia. Tomashova was earlier found guilty of doping and missed the 2008 Olympics because of that, and was banned after the Olympics for failing another drug test.3
- "Katie Ledecky Chops 2 Seconds Off 1500 Free World Record at 2015 FINA World Championships". swimmingworldmagazine.com. 4 August 2015.