Athletics_at_the_1976_Summer_Olympics_–_Women's_1500_metres

Women's 1500 metres
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Women's 1500 metres; at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	28–30 July
Competitors	36 from 19 nations
Winning time	4:05.48
Medalists
	← 1972 1980 →

Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

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The Women's 1500 metres competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada was held at the Olympic Stadium on 26–30 July.^[1]

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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

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:10.84	Q
2	Raisa Smekhnova	Soviet Union	4:10.88	Q
3	Jan Merrill	United States	4:10.92	Q
4	Mary Stewart	Great Britain	4:11.10	Q
5	Maricica Puică	Romania	4:12.62
6	Rositsa Pekhlivanova	Bulgaria	4:13.11
7	Judy Amoore	Australia	4:14.22
8	Bernadette Van Roy	Belgium	4:16.27
9	Magdolna Lázár	Hungary	4:23.30

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4:07.11	Q
2	Christiane Wartenberg	East Germany	4:07.13	Q
3	Nina Holmén	Finland	4:07.14	Q
4	Grete Waitz	Norway	4:07.20	Q
5	Ellen Wellmann	West Germany	4:07.20	q
6	Francie Larrieu Smith	United States	4:07.21	q
7	Dianne Rodger	New Zealand	4:12.81
8	Thelma Wright	Canada	4:15.23
9	Ndew Niang	Senegal	4:44.64

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	4:11.62	Q
2	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	4:12.10	Q
3	Vesela Yatsinska	Bulgaria	4:12.72	Q
4	Sonja Castelein	Belgium	4:12.95	Q
5	Penny Yule	Great Britain	4:13.36
6	Ileana Silai	Romania	4:13.61
7	Margherita Gargano	Italy	4:15.94
8	Carmen Valero	Spain	4:17.65
9	Penny Werthner	Canada	4:18.19

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Brigitte Kraus	West Germany	4:07.79	Q
2	Gunhild Hoffmeister	East Germany	4:08.23	Q
3	Natalia Mărăşescu	Romania	4:08.31	Q
4	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	4:08.38	Q
5	Mary Tracey-Purcell	Ireland	4:08.63
6	Cyndy Poor	United States	4:08.89
7	Anne Audain	New Zealand	4:10.68
8	Silvana Cruciata	Italy	4:16.78
9	Lilja Guðmundsdóttir	Iceland	4:20.27

Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	4:02.13	Q
2	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	4:02.33	Q
3	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4:02.41	Q
4	Gunhild Hoffmeister	East Germany	4:02.45	Q
5	Jan Merrill	United States	4:02.61	q
6	Raisa Smekhnova	Soviet Union	4:03.20
7	Brigitte Kraus	West Germany	4:04.21
8	Grete Waitz	Norway	4:04.80
9	Sonja Castelein	Belgium	4:13.46

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	4:07.37	Q
2	Nina Holmén	Finland	4:07.53	Q
3	Ellen Wellmann	West Germany	4:07.54	Q
4	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:07.61	Q
5	Mary Stewart	Great Britain	4:07.65
6	Vesela Yatsinska	Bulgaria	4:07.89
7	Natalia Mărăşescu	Romania	4:07.92
8	Christiane Wartenberg	East Germany	4:08.28
9	Francie Larrieu Smith	United States	4:09.07