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Host City: Moskva, Soviet Union

Format: Top four in each heat and next fastest advanced to the final.

Date Started: July 30, 1980

Date Finished: August 1, 1980

(Competitors: 24; Countries: 14; Finalists: 9)

Venue(s): Grand Arena, Central Lenin Stadium Area, Moskva

Overview by IAAF

Kazankina had improved her four year-old world record of 3:56.0 by a second just four weeks before the Games, and showed her form in the preliminary round, following the pace before kicking with 300m to go to run 3:59.12. That last 300m was run in 45.3. The final seemed to be a copy of the 1976 race for the first two laps, as Olizarenko led through 400m in 65.5, and Smolka took the field through 800m in 2:13.7. With 600m to go Kazankina took off and her third lap was an unprecedented 58.4. She passed 1200m in 3:12.3 8m ahead of Smolka, with Wartenberg a metre behind. Wartenberg gained slightly on Kazankina in the last 300m, running her last lap in 59.0, and was nearly 15m clear of a fast-finishing Olizarenko for second. Kazankina’s last 800m had been run in less than 2 minutes, and 12 days later she set a world record of 3:52.47 which lasted for 13 years.

Summary by Sports-reference.com

Tatyana Kazankina was the defending champion and the fastest in the field by far. She had set the world record of 3:56.0 in 1976, shortly before the Olympics, and that had not been approached until July 1980, when she broke the record with 3:55.0 at the Znamensky Memoiral in Moskva. In round one, she showed her form when she broke 4-minutes with 3:59.12, very fast for a heat. The final started slowly, but Kazankina took the lead with 1½ laps remaining and ran her third lap in a very quick 58.4. She won over Christiane Wartenberg by about 10 metres. Twelve days later, at the Weltklasse Meet in Zürich, Kazankina lowered her world record again, to 3:52.47, a mark which would last until 1993.

		Results

*1500 m*	Women	Final	1 August

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	3.56.56	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	URS	17 Dec 51
2	3.57.71	Christiane Wartenberg	East Germany	GDR	27 Oct 56	NR
3	3.59.52	Nadezhda Olizarenko	Soviet Union	URS	28 Nov 53
4	4.00.30	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	ITA	26 Jun 57
5	4.00.62	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	GDR	17 Nov 53
6	4.01.25	Lyubov Smolka	Soviet Union	URS	29 Nov 52
7	4.01.26	Maricica Puica	Romania	ROU	29 Jul 50
8	4.02.98	Ileana Silai	Romania	ROU	14 Oct 41
9	4.04.74	Natalia Marasescu	Romania	ROU	3 Oct 52
*1500 m*	Women	Heat 1	30 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	3.59.12	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	URS	17 Dec 51
2	3.59.48	Nadezhda Olizarenko	Soviet Union	URS	28 Nov 53
3	4.00.31	Christiane Wartenberg	East Germany	GDR	27 Oct 56
4	4.01.52	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	GDR	17 Nov 53
5	4.01.68	Maricica Puica	Romania	ROU	29 Jul 50
6	4.04.70	Vesela Yatsinska	Bulgaria	BUL	16 Jan 51
7	4.05.45	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	SUI	3 Oct 53
8	4.13.80	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	BUL	17 Dec 56
9	4.15.81	Janet Marlow	Great Britain	GBR	9 Dec 58
10	4.25.30	Amsale Woldegibriel	Ethiopia	ETH	8 Oct 60
11	4.26.78	Marcellina Emmanuel	Tanzania	TAN	7 Nov 64
12	4.30.80	Albertine Raheliarisoa	Madagascar	MAD	15 Jun 61
13	4.37.90	Margaret Morel	Seychelles	SEY	19 Feb 58
*1500 m*	Women	Heat 2	30 July

Rank	Mark	Athlete	Country	NOC	Birth Date	Records
1	4.04.36	Lyubov Smolka	Soviet Union	URS	29 Nov 52
2	4.04.70	Ileana Silai	Romania	ROU	14 Oct 41
3	4.04.91	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	ITA	26 Jun 57
4	4.05.83	Natalia Marasescu	Romania	ROU	3 Oct 52
5	4.05.97	Anna Bukis	Poland	POL	8 Sep 53
6	4.06.75	Beate Liebich	East Germany	GDR	21 Feb 58
7	4.08.25	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	BUL	21 Jan 55
8	4.13.16	Breda Pergar	Yugoslavia	YUG	22 Feb 53
9	4.13.67	Agnese Possamai	Italy	ITA	17 Jan 53
10	4.20.84	Mwinga Mwanjala	Tanzania	TAN	13 Jan 60
11	4.38.60	Be Thi Trinh	Vietnam	VIE	3 Sep 55