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1976 Olympic Games Montreal - Women's 1500 m

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Category: 1976 Olympic Games Montreal - (Athletics)
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Host City: Montréal, Canada Format: Top four in each heat and next fastest advanced to the final.
Date Started: July 28, 1976 Format: Top four in each heat and next two fastest advanced to the semi-finals.
Date Finished: July 30, 1976  
(Competitors: 36; Countries: 19; Finalists: 9)  
    Venue(s): Olympic Stadium, Olympic Park, Montréal, Québec
Overview by IAAF    1976_olympic_stadium.jpg
Raisa Katyukova (URS) ran 4:03.20, a time beaten by only six other athletes in 1976, yet missed making the final, after placing sixth in her semi-final. The race was won by Klapezynski in 4:02.13, ahead of Shtereva (4:02.33) and Bragina (4:02.41). Kazankina, world record holder at 3:56.0, won the other semi in 4:07.37. Kazankina, the 800m gold medallist, was known to have the fastest kick, but she had been through five races in the previous seven days, and yet no-one wanted to set an honest pace to test the Russian. Nina Holmen (FIN) took the field through laps of 68.7 and 70.2 before Dorio took over. The Italian led until just before the the bell, reached in 3:08.1, at which point Bragina took over. The Russian was caught with 250m to go, and Hoffmeister and Klapezynski went past. Kazankina began to move up from sixth place, and flowed past the Germans with 50m to go, to win in 4:05.48 after a remarkably quick last lap of 56.9.
       
Summary by Sports-reference.com      
Gunhild Hoffmeister (GDR), the 1972 silver medalist, had won the 1974 European Championships and was highly considered. But in June 1976, Soviet Tatyana Kazankina had shattered the world record with the first sub-4 time, 3:56.0, at a Soviet meeting. A few days before the 1,500 started she had won the 800 in world record time and was the favorite. With her 800 speed, she had the fastest kick, but for some reason, nobody set a fast pace in the final. Lying in the pack on the final backstretch she kicked around the final curve and passed Hoffmeister with 50 metres to go to complete the 800/1,500 double.
 

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record  Tatyana Kazankina (URS) 3:56.0 Podolsk, Soviet Union 28 June 1976
Olympic record  Lyudmila Bragina (URS) 4:01.4 Munich, West Germany 9 September 1972
 
        Results        
 
1500 m Women     Final 30 July      
                 
Rank Mark     Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 4.05.48     Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union URS 17 Dec 51  
2 4.06.02     Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany GDR 6 Jul 44  
3 4.06.09     Ulrike Bruns East Germany GDR 17 Nov 53  
4 4.06.57     Nikolina Shtereva Bulgaria BUL 21 Jan 55  
5 4.07.20     Lyudmila Bragina Soviet Union URS 24 Jul 43  
6 4.07.27     Gabriella Dorio Italy ITA 26 Jun 57 NJR
7 4.07.91     Ellen Wellmann West Germany FRG 26 Jun 48  
8 4.08.54     Jan Merrill United States USA 18 Jun 56  
9 4.09.55     Nina Holmén Finland FIN 29 Sep 51  
1500 m Women     Semifinal 1 29 July      
                 
Rank Mark     Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 4.02.13     Ulrike Bruns East Germany GDR 17 Nov 53  
2 4.02.33     Nikolina Shtereva Bulgaria BUL 21 Jan 55  
3 4.02.41     Lyudmila Bragina Soviet Union URS 24 Jul 43  
4 4.02.45     Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany GDR 6 Jul 44  
5 4.02.61     Jan Merrill United States USA 18 Jun 56  
6 4.03.20     Raisa Smekhnova Soviet Union URS 16 Sep 50  
7 4.04.21     Brigitte Kraus West Germany FRG 12 Aug 56  
8 4.04.80     Grete Waitz Norway NOR 1 Oct 53  
9 4.13.46     Sonja Castelein Belgium BEL 10 Jun 54  
1500 m Women     Semifinal 2 29 July      
                 
Rank Mark     Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 4.07.37     Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union URS 17 Dec 51  
2 4.07.53     Nina Holmén Finland FIN 29 Sep 51  
3 4.07.54     Ellen Wellmann West Germany FRG 26 Jun 48  
4 4.07.61     Gabriella Dorio Italy ITA 26 Jun 57  
5 4.07.65     Mary Stewart Great Britain GBR 25 Feb 56  
6 4.07.89     Vesela Yatsinska Bulgaria BUL 16 Jan 51  
7 4.07.92     Natalia Marasescu Romania ROU 3 Oct 52  
8 4.08.28     Christiane Wartenberg East Germany GDR 27 Oct 56  
9 4.09.07     Francie Larrieu Smith United States USA 23 Nov 52  
1500 m Women     Heat 1 28 July      
                 
Rank Mark     Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 4.10.84     Gabriella Dorio Italy ITA 26 Jun 57  
2 4.10.88     Raisa Smekhnova Soviet Union URS 16 Sep 50  
3 4.10.92     Jan Merrill United States USA 18 Jun 56  
4 4.11.10     Mary Stewart Great Britain GBR 25 Feb 56  
5 4.12.62     Maricica Puica Romania ROU 29 Jul 50  
6 4.13.11     Rositza Pekhlivanova Bulgaria BUL 31 Jan 55  
7 4.14.22     Judy Pollock Australia AUS 25 Jun 40  
8 4.16.27     Bernadette Van Roy Belgium BEL 10 Sep 48  
9 4.23.30     Magdolna Lázár Hungary HUN 5 May 51  
1500 m Women     Heat 2 28 July      
                 
Rank Mark     Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 4.07.11     Lyudmila Bragina Soviet Union URS 24 Jul 43  
2 4.07.13     Christiane Wartenberg East Germany GDR 27 Oct 56  
3 4.07.14     Nina Holmén Finland FIN 29 Sep 51  
4 4.07.20     Grete Waitz Norway NOR 1 Oct 53  
5 4.07.20     Ellen Wellmann West Germany FRG 26 Jun 48  
6 4.07.21     Francie Larrieu Smith United States USA 23 Nov 52  
7 4.12.81     Dianne Rodger New Zealand NZL 9 Nov 56  
8 4.15.23     Thelma Wright Canada CAN 9 Oct 51  
9 4.44.64     Ndew Niang Senegal SEN 20 Aug 54  
1500 m Women     Heat 3 28 July      
                 
Rank Mark     Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 4.11.62     Ulrike Bruns East Germany GDR 17 Nov 53  
2 4.12.10     Tatyana Kazankina Soviet Union URS 17 Dec 51  
3 4.12.72     Vesela Yatsinska Bulgaria BUL 16 Jan 51  
4 4.12.95     Sonja Castelein Belgium BEL 10 Jun 54  
5 4.13.36     Penny Forse Great Britain GBR 7 Jun 49  
6 4.13.61     Ileana Silai Romania ROU 14 Oct 41  
7 4.15.94     Margherita Gargano Italy ITA 18 Nov 52  
8 4.17.65     Carmen Valero Spain ESP 4 Oct 55  
9 4.18.19     Penny Werthner Canada CAN 5 Jul 51  
1500 m Women     Heat 4 28 July      
                 
Rank Mark     Athlete Country NOC Birth Date Records
1 4.07.79     Brigitte Kraus West Germany FRG 12 Aug 56  
2 4.08.23     Gunhild Hoffmeister East Germany GDR 6 Jul 44  
3 4.08.31     Natalia Marasescu Romania ROU 3 Oct 52  
4 4.08.38     Nikolina Shtereva Bulgaria BUL 21 Jan 55  
5 4.08.63     Mary Purcell Ireland IRL 22 May 49  
6 4.08.89     Cindy Poor United States USA 18 May 53  
7 4.10.68     Anne Audain New Zealand NZL 1 Nov 55  
8 4.16.78     Silvana Cruciata Italy ITA 15 Feb 53  
9 4.20.27     Liljá Gudmundsdóttir Iceland ISL 3 Jan 55  
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

 

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