1500 metres 2707254 224556369 2008-07-09T11:47:34Z Zorrobot 7218328 robot Modifying: [[sv:Löpning 1 500 meter]] The '''1,500 metres''' (or '''meters''') is a premier [[middle distance track event]]. It is judged{{Who|date=February 2008}} a very tough distance to perform at mentally. The distance is often witness to some of the more tactical, more physical races in the sport,{{Fact|date=February 2008}} as many championship races are won in the final few metres. In modern times, it has become more of a prolonged sprint with each lap averaging under 55 seconds for the world record performance by [[Hicham El Guerrouj]] of Morocco in 1998 at [[Rome]].<ref>[http://www.iaaf.org/statistics/toplists/inout=O/age=N/season=0/sex=M/all=y/legal=A/disc=1500/detail.htmx iaaf.org - 0 Toplists M - O<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> Thus, speed is necessary, and it seems that the more aerobic conditioning, the better{{Who|date=March 2008}}. The 1500 is three and three-quarter laps around a 400 metre track. Through the 1980s the event was dominated by [[United Kingdom|British]] runners, but through the 1990s, the [[Africa]]n runners began to take over, with runners from [[Kenya]], [[Morocco]] and [[Algeria]] winning the Olympic titles. In [[United States|American]] [[high schools]], the one mile (which is 1609.344 metres) and 1600 m, also colloquially referred to as "[[metric mile]]," are more frequently run than the 1500 m, since [[Imperial unit]]s are more well known in the US. Which is used depends on the state the high school is in, and, for convenience, national rankings are standardized by converting all 1600 m times to their one mile equivalents.{{Fact|date=February 2008}} ==Top Ten Fastest Athletes== ===Men=== *Updated [[July 25]], [[2007]]. {| class="wikitable" ! Rank !! Res. !! Athlete !! Nation !! Date !! Place |- ! 1. | '''3:26.00''' || [[Hicham El Guerrouj]] || {{MAR}} || [[14 july]] [[1998]] || [[Rome]] |- ! 2. | '''3:26.34''' || [[Bernard Lagat]] || {{USA}} || [[24 august]] [[2001]] || [[Brussels]] |- ! 3. | '''3:27.37''' || [[Noureddine Morceli]] || {{ALG}} || [[12 july]] [[1995]] || [[Nice]] |- ! 4. | '''3:28.12''' || [[Noah Ngeny]] || {{KEN}} || [[11 august]] [[2000]] || [[Zürich]] |- ! 5. | '''3:28.95''' || [[Fermín Cacho]] || {{ESP}} || [[13 august]] [[1997]] || [[Zürich]] |- ! 6. | '''3:28.98''' || [[Mehdi Baala]] || {{FRA}} || [[5 september]] [[2003]] || [[Brussels]] |- ! 7. | '''3:29.02''' || [[Daniel Kipchirchir Komen]] || {{KEN}} || [[9 july]] [[2006]] || [[Rome]] |- ! 8. | '''3:29.14''' || [[Rashid Ramzi]] || {{BHR}} || [[14 july]] [[2006]] || [[Rome]] |- ! 9. | '''3:29.18''' || [[Vénuste Niyongabo]] || {{BDI}} || [[22 August]] [[1997]] || [[Brussels]] |- ! 10. | '''3:29.29''' || [[William Chirchir]] || {{KEN}} || [[24 august]] [[2001]] || [[Brussels]] |} ===Women=== *Updated [[May 18]] [[2006]]. {| class="wikitable" ! Rank !! Res. !! Athlete !! Nation !! Date !! Place |- ! 1. | '''3:50.46''' || [[Qu Yunxia]] || {{CHN}} || [[11 september]] [[1993]] || [[Beijing]] |- ! 2. | '''3:50.98''' || [[Jiang Bo]] || {{CHN}} || [[18 october]] [[1997]] || [[Shanghai]] |- ! 3. | '''3:51.34''' || [[Lang Yinglai]] || {{CHN}} || [[18 october]] [[1997]] || [[Shanghai]] |- ! 4. | '''3:51.92''' || [[Wang Junxia]] || {{CHN}} || [[11 september]] [[1993]] || [[Beijing]] |- ! 5. | '''3:52.47''' || [[Tatyana Kazankina]] || {{URS}} || [[13 august]] [[1980]] || [[Zürich]] |- ! 6. | '''3:53.91''' || [[Yin Lili]] || {{CHN}} || [[18 october]] [[1997]] || [[Shanghai]] |- ! 7. | '''3:53.96''' || [[Paula Ivan]] || {{flag|Romania|1965}} || [[1 october]] [[1988]] || [[Seoul]] |- ! 8. | '''3:53.97''' || [[Lan Lixin]] || {{CHN}} || [[18 october]] [[1997]] || [[Shanghai]] |- ! 9. | '''3:54.23''' || [[Olga Dvirna]] || {{URS}} || [[27 july]] [[1982]] || [[Kiev]] |- ! 10. | '''3:54.52''' || [[Zhang Ling (athlete)|Zhang Ling]] || {{CHN}} || [[18 october]] [[1997]] || [[Shanghai]] |} ==Best Year Performance== ===Men's Seasons Best (Outdoor)=== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- !YEAR!!align="left" style="width: 8em"|TIME!!align="left" style="width: 18em"|ATHLETE!!align="left" style="width: 10em"|PLACE |- |align="center"|[[1971 in athletics (track and field)|1971]] |align="center"|'''3:36.0''' |{{flagathlete|[[Marty Liquori]]|USA}} |align="center"|[[Milan]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1972 in athletics (track and field)|1972]] |align="center"|'''3:36.33''' |{{flagathlete|[[Pekka Vasala]]|FIN}} |align="center"|[[Munich]] |- |align="center"|[[1973 in athletics (track and field)|1973]] |align="center"|'''3:34.6''' |{{flagathlete|[[Filbert Bayi]]|TAN}} |align="center"|[[Helsinki]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1974 in athletics (track and field)|1974]] |align="center"|'''3:32.16''' |{{flagathlete|[[Filbert Bayi]]|TAN}} |align="center"|[[Christchurch]] |- |align="center"|[[1975 in athletics (track and field)|1975]] |align="center"|'''3:32.4''' |{{flagathlete|[[John Walker (runner)|John Walker]]|NZL}} |align="center"|[[Oslo]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1976 in athletics (track and field)|1976]] |align="center"|'''3:34.19''' |{{flagathlete|[[John Walker (runner)|John Walker]]|NZL}} |align="center"|[[Stockholm]] |- |align="center"|[[1977 in athletics (track and field)|1977]] |align="center"|'''3:32.72''' |{{flagathlete|[[John Walker (runner)|John Walker]]|NZL}} |align="center"|[[Brussels]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1978 in athletics (track and field)|1978]] |align="center"|'''3:35.48''' |{{flagathlete|[[David Moorcroft]]|GBR}} |align="center"|[[Edmonton]] |- |align="center"|[[1979 in athletics (track and field)|1979]] |align="center"|'''3:32.03''' |{{flagathlete|[[Sebastian Coe]]|GBR}} |align="center"|[[Zürich]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1980 in athletics (track and field)|1980]] |align="center"|'''3:31.36''' |{{flagathlete|[[Steve Ovett]]|GBR}} |align="center"|[[Koblenz]] |- |align="center"|[[1981 in athletics (track and field)|1981]] |align="center"|'''3:31.57''' |{{flagathlete|[[Steve Ovett]]|GBR}} |align="center"|[[Budapest]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1982 in athletics (track and field)|1982]] |align="center"|'''3:32.12''' |{{flagathlete|[[Sydney Maree]]|USA}} |align="center"|[[Brussels]] |- |align="center"|[[1983 in athletics (track and field)|1983]] |align="center"|'''3:30.77''' |{{flagathlete|[[Steve Ovett]]|GBR}} |align="center"|[[Rieti]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1984 in athletics (track and field)|1984]] |align="center"|'''3:31.54''' |{{flagathlete|[[Saïd Aouita]]|MAR}} |align="center"|[[Hengelo]] |- |align="center"|[[1985 in athletics (track and field)|1985]] |align="center"|'''3:29.46''' |{{flagathlete|[[Saïd Aouita]]|MAR}} |align="center"|[[Berlin]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1986 in athletics (track and field)|1986]] |align="center"|'''3:29.77''' |{{flagathlete|[[Sebastian Coe]]|GBR}} |align="center"|[[Rieti]] |- |align="center"|[[1987 in athletics (track and field)|1987]] |align="center"|'''3:30.69''' |{{flagathlete|[[Saïd Aouita]]|MAR}} |align="center"|[[Oslo]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1988 in athletics (track and field)|1988]] |align="center"|'''3:30.95''' |{{flagathlete|[[Steve Cram]]|GBR}} |align="center"|[[Brussels]] |- |align="center"|[[1989 in athletics (track and field)|1989]] |align="center"|'''3:30.55''' |{{flagathlete|[[Abdi Bile]]|SOM}} |align="center"|[[Rieti]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1990 in athletics (track and field)|1990]] |align="center"|'''3:32.60''' |{{flagathlete|[[Noureddine Morceli]]|ALG}} |align="center"|[[Bologna]] |- |align="center"|[[1991 in athletics (track and field)|1991]] |align="center"|'''3:31.00''' |{{flagathlete|[[Noureddine Morceli]]|ALG}} |align="center"|[[Helsinki]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1992 in athletics (track and field)|1992]] |align="center"|'''3:28.86''' |{{flagathlete|[[Noureddine Morceli]]|ALG}} |align="center"|[[Rieti]] |- |align="center"|[[1993 in athletics (track and field)|1993]] |align="center"|'''3:29.20''' |{{flagathlete|[[Noureddine Morceli]]|ALG}} |align="center"|[[Narbonne]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1994 in athletics (track and field)|1994]] |align="center"|'''3:30.61''' |{{flagathlete|[[Noureddine Morceli]]|ALG}} |align="center"|[[Villeneuve d'Ascq]] |- |align="center"|[[1995 in athletics (track and field)|1995]] |align="center"|'''3:27.37''' |{{flagathlete|[[Noureddine Morceli]]|ALG}} |align="center"|[[Nice]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1996 in athletics (track and field)|1996]] |align="center"|'''3:29.05''' |{{flagathlete|[[Hicham El Guerrouj]]|MAR}} |align="center"|[[Brussels]] |- |align="center"|[[1997 in athletics (track and field)|1997]] |align="center"|'''3:28.91''' |{{flagathlete|[[Hicham El Guerrouj]]|MAR}} |align="center"|[[Zürich]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1998 in athletics (track and field)|1998]] |align="center"|'''3:26.00''' |{{flagathlete|[[Hicham El Guerrouj]]|MAR}} |align="center"|[[Rome]] |- |align="center"|[[1999 in athletics (track and field)|1999]] |align="center"|'''3:27.65''' |{{flagathlete|[[Hicham El Guerrouj]]|MAR}} |align="center"|[[Seville]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[2000 in athletics (track and field)|2000]] |align="center"|'''3:27.21''' |{{flagathlete|[[Hicham El Guerrouj]]|MAR}} |align="center"|[[Zürich]] |- |align="center"|[[2001 in athletics (track and field)|2001]] |align="center"|'''3:26.12''' |{{flagathlete|[[Hicham El Guerrouj]]|MAR}} |align="center"|[[Brussels]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[2002 in athletics (track and field)|2002]] |align="center"|'''3:26.89''' |{{flagathlete|[[Hicham El Guerrouj]]|MAR}} |align="center"|[[Zürich]] |- |align="center"|[[2003 in athletics (track and field)|2003]] |align="center"|'''3:28.40''' |{{flagathlete|[[Hicham El Guerrouj]]|MAR}} |align="center"|[[Brussels]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[2004 in athletics (track and field)|2004]] |align="center"|'''3:27.40''' |{{flagathlete|[[Bernard Lagat]]|KEN}} |align="center"|[[Zürich]] |- |align="center"|[[2005 in athletics (track and field)|2005]] |align="center"|'''3:29.30''' |{{flagathlete|[[Bernard Lagat]]|USA}} |align="center"|[[Rieti]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[2006 in athletics (track and field)|2006]] |align="center"|'''3:29.02''' |{{flagathlete|[[Daniel Kipchirchir Komen]]|KEN}} |align="center"|[[Rome]] |- |align="center"|[[2007 in athletics (track and field)|2007]] |align="center"|'''3:30.54''' |{{flagathlete|[[Alan Webb (athlete)|Alan Webb]]|USA}} |align="center"|[[Saint-Denis]] |} ===Women's Seasons Best (Outdoor)=== {| class="wikitable sortable" style="font-size:95%;" |- !YEAR!!align="left" style="width: 8em"|TIME!!align="left" style="width: 18em"|ATHLETE!!align="left" style="width: 10em"|PLACE |- |align="center"|[[1976 in athletics (track and field)|1976]] |align="center"|'''3:56.0''' |{{flagathlete|[[Tatyana Kazankina]]|URS}} |align="center"|[[Podolsk]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1977 in athletics (track and field)|1977]] |align="center"|'''4:02.65''' |{{flagathlete|[[Natalia Marasescu]]|ROU|1965}} |align="center"|[[Bucharest]] |- |align="center"|[[1978 in athletics (track and field)|1978]] |align="center"|'''3:59.01''' |{{flagathlete|[[Gyana Romanova]]|URS}} |align="center"|[[Prague]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1979 in athletics (track and field)|1979]] |align="center"|'''3:57.4''' |{{flagathlete|[[Totka Petrova]]|BUL|1971}} |align="center"|[[Athens]] |- |align="center"|[[1980 in athletics (track and field)|1980]] |align="center"|'''3:52.47''' |{{flagathlete|[[Tatyana Kazankina]]|URS}} |align="center"|[[Zürich]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1981 in athletics (track and field)|1981]] |align="center"|'''3:57.78''' |{{flagathlete|[[Olga Dvirna]]|URS}} |align="center"|[[Budapest]] |- |align="center"|[[1982 in athletics (track and field)|1982]] |align="center"|'''3:54.23''' |{{flagathlete|[[Olga Dvirna]]|URS}} |align="center"|[[Kiev]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1983 in athletics (track and field)|1983]] |align="center"|'''3:57.12''' |{{flagathlete|[[Mary Slaney]]|USA}} |align="center"|[[Stockholm]] |- |align="center"|[[1984 in athletics (track and field)|1984]] |align="center"|'''3:56.63''' |{{flagathlete|[[Nadezhda Ralldugina]]|URS}} |align="center"|[[Prague]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1985 in athletics (track and field)|1985]] |align="center"|'''3:57.24''' |{{flagathlete|[[Mary Slaney]]|USA}} |align="center"|[[Brussels]] |- |align="center"|[[1986 in athletics (track and field)|1986]] |align="center"|'''3:56.7''' |{{flagathlete|[[Doina Melinte]]|ROU|1965}} |align="center"|[[Bucharest]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1987 in athletics (track and field)|1987]] |align="center"|'''3:58.56''' |{{flagathlete|[[Tatyana Dorovskikh]]|URS}} |align="center"|[[Rome]] |- |align="center"|[[1988 in athletics (track and field)|1988]] |align="center"|'''3:53.96''' |{{flagathlete|[[Paula Ivan]]|ROU|1965}} |align="center"|[[Seoul]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1989 in athletics (track and field)|1989]] |align="center"|'''3:59.23''' |{{flagathlete|[[Paula Ivan]]|ROU|1965}} |align="center"|[[Nice]] |- |align="center"|[[1990 in athletics (track and field)|1990]] |align="center"|'''3:58.69''' |{{flagathlete|[[Doina Melinte]]|ROU}} |align="center"|[[Villeneuve d'Ascq]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1991 in athletics (track and field)|1991]] |align="center"|'''3:59.16''' |{{flagathlete|[[Natalya Artyomova]]|RUS}} |align="center"|[[Zürich]] |- |align="center"|[[1992 in athletics (track and field)|1992]] |align="center"|'''3:55.30''' |{{flagathlete|[[Hassiba Boulmerka]]|ALG}} |align="center"|[[Barcelona]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1993 in athletics (track and field)|1993]] |align="center"|'''3:50.46''' |{{flagathlete|[[Qu Yunxia]]|CHN}} |align="center"|[[Beijing]] |- |align="center"|[[1994 in athletics (track and field)|1994]] |align="center"|'''3:59.10''' |{{flagathlete|[[Sonia O'Sullivan]]|IRL}} |align="center"|[[Nice]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1995 in athletics (track and field)|1995]] |align="center"|'''3:58.85''' |{{flagathlete|[[Sonia O'Sullivan]]|IRL}} |align="center"|[[Monaco]] |- |align="center"|[[1996 in athletics (track and field)|1996]] |align="center"|'''3:56.77''' |{{flagathlete|[[Svetlana Masterkova]]|RUS}} |align="center"|[[Zürich]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1997 in athletics (track and field)|1997]] |align="center"|'''3:50.98''' |{{flagathlete|[[Jiang Bo]]|CHN}} |align="center"|[[Shanghai]] |- |align="center"|[[1998 in athletics (track and field)|1998]] |align="center"|'''3:56.97''' |{{flagathlete|[[Gabriela Szabo]]|ROU}} |align="center"|[[Monaco]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[1999 in athletics (track and field)|1999]] |align="center"|'''3:59.31''' |{{flagathlete|[[Violeta Szekely]]|ROU}} |align="center"|[[Zürich]] |- |align="center"|[[2000 in athletics (track and field)|2000]] |align="center"|'''3:57.40''' |{{flagathlete|[[Suzy Favor-Hamilton]]|USA}} |align="center"|[[Oslo]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[2001 in athletics (track and field)|2001]] |align="center"|'''3:59.35''' |{{flagathlete|[[Violeta Szekely]]|ROU}} |align="center"|[[Monaco]] |- |align="center"|[[2002 in athletics (track and field)|2002]] |align="center"|'''3:57.75''' |{{flagathlete|[[Süreyya Ayhan]]|TUR}} |align="center"|[[Brussels]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[2003 in athletics (track and field)|2003]] |align="center"|'''3:55.33''' |{{flagathlete|[[Süreyya Ayhan]]|TUR}} |align="center"|[[Brussels]] |- |align="center"|[[2004 in athletics (track and field)|2004]] |align="center"|'''3:57.90''' |{{flagathlete|[[Kelly Holmes]]|GBR}} |align="center"|[[Athens]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[2005 in athletics (track and field)|2005]] |align="center"|'''3:56.79''' |{{flagathlete|[[Maryam Yusuf Jamal]]|BHR}} |align="center"|[[Rieti]] |- |align="center"|[[2006 in athletics (track and field)|2006]] |align="center"|'''3:55.68''' |{{flagathlete|[[Yuliya Fomenko]]|RUS}} |align="center"|[[Saint-Denis]] |- bgcolor="#e0e0e0" |align="center"|[[2007 in athletics (track and field)|2007]] |align="center"|'''3:57.30''' |{{flagathlete|[[Yelena Soboleva]]|RUS}} |align="center"|[[Moscow]] |} ==Other Sports== 1,500 metres is also an event in [[swimming]] and [[speed skating]]. The world records for the distance in swimming are 14:10.10 by [[Grant Hackett]] and 15:42.39 by [[Laure Manaudou]]. Both records were set in [[Short course]] pools. The world records for the distance in [[speed skating]] are 1:42.01 by [[Denny Morrison]] and 1:51.79 by [[Cindy Klassen]].<ref>[http://www.geocities.com/speedsk8fan/sskwr.html Current Speedskating World Records<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ==See also== *[[World record progression 1500 metres]] == References == *[http://www.apulanta.fi/matti/yu/ytbyeve_Men.html#1500m Statistics] <references/> ==External links== *[http://www.iaaf.org/ International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF)] – official site *[http://www.athletix.org/statistics/stats.html World Record progression in athletics] *[http://www.world-masters-athletics.org/ World Masters Athletics] - official site *[http://www.mastersathletics.net/1500-metres-Men-All-Time-Masters-Athle.370.0.html World Rankings] *[http://www.alltime-athletics.com Athletics all-time performances] {{Track events}} [[Category:Events in athletics]] [[Category:Middle distance races]] [[ca:1500 metres llisos]] [[cs:Běh na 1500 m]] [[da:1500-meter-løb]] [[de:1500-Meter-Lauf]] [[et:1500 meetri jooks]] [[es:1500 metros (atletismo)]] [[fr:1 500 mètres (athlétisme)]] [[it:1500 metri piani]] [[he:ריצת 1500 מטר]] [[nl:1500 meter (atletiek)]] [[ja:1500メートル競走]] [[no:1500 meter (friidrett)]] [[pl:Bieg na 1500 m]] [[pt:1500 metros rasos]] [[ru:Бег на 1500 метров]] [[fi:1 500 metrin juoksu]] [[sv:Löpning 1 500 meter]] [[tr:1500 metre (atletizm)]]