These are the official results of the Women's 1.500 metres event at the 1993 IAAF World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany. There were a total number of 40 participating athletes, with three qualifying heats and the final held on Sunday 1993-08-22.

The three Chinese athletes in this race showed their inexperience at this level. Yan Wei looked at the starter while all the other athletes were looking forward at their first step. At the gun, all three were squeezed to the back having to halt their steps, with Liu Dong being left at the back of the field. Liu sped around the outside of the field in the first 125 metres to reach the front, but Olympic champion Hassiba Boulmerka had no interest in letting her take the pace, instead aggressively holding Liu to the outside. Boxed at the back of the pack for the first 400 meters, Lü Yi then ran around the far outside of the pack to join Liu's shoulder on the outside. Just before 800 meters, Yan worked her way through traffic to get behind Lü, temporarily boxing in Sonia O'Sullivan. Crossing the start line for the second time, Liu accelerated into the lead with Lü in tow. Boulmerka continued to fight, holding off Lü with the field stringing out behind them. Over the next lap, it became a four-woman breakaway as O'Sullivan was the only other able to hold onto the pace. Liu continued to increase the gap to Boulmerka, opening up 10 metres down the backstretch as Lü sprinted past Boulmerka into second. O'Sullivan followed Lü then sprinted past her on the final curve. Liu was gone, pulling away to a 15-metre win. O'Sullivan maintained her position as Lü faded. Boulmerka was unable to make any headway against O'Sullivan and had to settle for bronze.

• Startlist

Order / Lane	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	PB	SB 1993
1	Raj Kumari Pandey	NEP	4:34.47
2	Sarah Howell	CAN
3	Maite Zúñiga	ESP	4:00.59	4:12.27i
4	Lyubov Kremlyova	RUS	3:58.71	4:04.88
5	Anna Brzezinska	POL	4:11.15i	4:11.15i
6	Laurence Niyonsaba	RWA
7	Theresia Kiesl	AUT	4:16.02i	4:16.02i
8	Ravilya Agletdinova-Kotovich	BLR	3:58.40
9	Alisa Harvey-Hill	USA	4:08.54i	4:12.04i
10	Yi Lu	CHN
11	Sonia O'Sullivan	IRL	3:59.60	3:59.60
12	Sonia McGeorge	GBR
13	Bettina Andersen	DEN
14	Blandine Bitzner-Ducret	FRA	4:07.17	4:07.17

Order / Lane	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	PB	SB 1993
1	Oksana Mernikova	BLR
2	Elena Fidatov	ROU	4:05.61	4:05.61
3	Harumi Hiroyama-Suzuki	JPN
4	Alia Al Matari	JOR
5	Angela Chalmers	CAN	4:08.64
6	Karolina Tonono	FIJ	4:46.83
7	Wei Yan	CHN
8	Gwen Griffiths-van Lingen	RSA	4:04.73	4:04.73
9	Lyudmila Derevyankina	KGZ	4:05.89
10	Annette Peters	USA	4:08.87	4:08.87
11	Malgorzata Rydz	POL	4:01.91	4:02.29
12	Vera Chuvashova	RUS	4:09.89	4:09.89
13	Hassiba Boulmerka	ALG	3:55.30	4:09.97

Order / Lane	ATHLETE	COUNTRY	PB	SB 1993
1	Shirley Cespedes	CRC
2	Andrea Sollárová	SVK	4:11.91	4:11.91
3	Carla Sacramento	POR	4:04.10	4:06.33
4	Martha Portoblanco	NCA
5	Simone Weidner	GER
6	Fabia Trabaldo	ITA	4:03.82	4:03.82
7	Leah Pells	CAN	4:14.82
8	Violeta Beclea-Szekely	ROU	3:59.35	3:59.35
9	Dong Liu	CHN	4:05.14
10	Gina Procaccio	USA	4:12.17i
11	Soraya Vieira Telles	BRA	4:10.07
12	Lyudmila Rogachova	RUS	3:56.91	4:05.77
13	Sandra Gasser	SUI	4:05.48	4:07.98i