Athletics at the 2001 Summer Universiade – Women's 1500 metres explained

The women's 1500 metres event at the 2001 Summer Universiade was held at the Workers Stadium in Beijing, China on 28 and 29 August.^[1] ^[2]

The winning margin was 1.93 seconds which as of 2024 is the greatest winning margin in the women's 1500 metres at these games.

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Süreyya Ayhan	Maria Cristina Grosu	Sabine Fischer

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1			4:13.79	Q^[3]
2	1			4:14.76	Q
3	1			4:14.95	Q
4	1			4:14.96	q
5	2			4:15.18	Q
6	2			4:15.29	Q
7	1			4:15.37	q
8	2			4:15.49	Q
9	2			4:15.87	q
10	2			4:16.24
11	1			4:16.43
12	3			4:17.45	Q
13	1			4:17.53
14	3			4:17.68	Q
15	1			4:17.70
16	3			4:17.76	Q
17	3			4:18.19
18	2			4:18.34
19	3			4:18.36
20	3			4:18.50
21	2			4:19.12
22	3			4:19.13
23	3			4:19.19
24	2			4:19.93
25	1			4:23.28	^[4]
26	2			4:25.95
27	2			4:27.38
28	3			4:27.43
29	3			4:32.48
30	3			4:38.47
31	3			4:39.65
32	2			4:40.56
33	1			4:41.12
34	3			4:48.55
35	2			4:53.90
36	1			4:56.19

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
			4:06.91
			4:08.84
			4:08.93
			4:11.68
			4:12.38
			4:12.53
			4:12.58
			4:12.75
			4:13.89
10			4:14.66
11			4:18.29
12			4:33.81

Notes and References

https://web.archive.org/web/20050408165241/http://www.athletix.org/Results/Universiade_01.html Results
https://www.tilastopaja.eu/db/results.php?Season=2001&CID=12983753 Full results at Tilastopaja
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/english/200108/28/eng20010828_78602.html Chinese Stars Li and Lan Eliminated from Women's 1500m Final
Web site: Australian 2001 Almanac . 2014-10-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160304083810/http://athhistory.imgstg.com/almanac/Almanac-2001.pdf . 2016-03-04 . dead .