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1980 Olympic Games Moscow - Women's 1500 m

 

 

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  1980_olympic_stadium.jpg
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
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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