1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres

Events at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
5000 m walk				women
10,000 m walk		men
Road events
20 km road run		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The women's 1500 metres event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 30 and 31 July.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Doina Homneac  Romania
Silver	Snežana Pajkić  Yugoslavia
Bronze	Yvonne van der Kolk  Netherlands

Results

Final

31 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Doina Homneac	Romania	4:12.94
	Snežana Pajkić	Yugoslavia	4:16.19
	Yvonne van der Kolk	Netherlands	4:16.35
4	Ana Padurean	Romania	4:16.41
5	Elena Politova	Soviet Union	4:18.19
6	Ilse Smolders	Belgium	4:19.26
7	Mónika Balint	Hungary	4:19.77
8	Alexandra Reichling	West Germany	4:31.99
9	Anne Lardner	New Zealand	4:32.28
10	Monika Rönnholm	Finland	4:34.08
11	Patrizia Di Napoli	Italy	4:34.65
12	Nicole Geukes	West Germany	DNF

Heats

30 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Snežana Pajkić	Yugoslavia	4:25.29	Q
2	Ilse Smolders	Belgium	4:25.54	Q
3	Ana Padurean	Romania	4:25.66	Q
4	Anne Lardner	New Zealand	4:25.85	Q
5	Nicole Geukes	West Germany	4:26.31	q
6	Jodie Bilotta	United States	4:33.30
7	Julia Vaquero	Spain	4:34.01
8	Nathalie Rouillard	Canada	4:34.91
9	Natalya Vorobyova	Soviet Union	4:38.01
10	Olga Zapeda	Honduras	5:11.77

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Doina Homneac	Romania	4:23.12	Q
2	Elena Politova	Soviet Union	4:23.89	Q
3	Yvonne van der Kolk	Netherlands	4:24.26	Q
4	Mónika Balint	Hungary	4:26.07	Q
5	Alexandra Reichling	West Germany	4:27.61	q
6	Monika Rönnholm	Finland	4:28.00	q
7	Patrizia Di Napoli	Italy	4:29.28	q
8	Getenesh Urge	Ethiopia	4:29.96
9	Lianne McVey	Canada	4:37.73
10	Jasmin Jones	United States	4:43.48
11	Liu Shixiang	China	DNF
12	Lorie Ann Adams	Guyana	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 17 countries participated in the event.

•  Belgium (1)
•  Canada (2)
•  China (1)
•  Ethiopia (1)
•  Finland (1)
•  Guyana (1)
•  Honduras (1)
•  Hungary (1)
•  Italy (1)
•  Netherlands (1)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Romania (2)
•  Soviet Union (2)
•  Spain (1)
•  United States (2)
•  West Germany (2)
•  Yugoslavia (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1988 Sudbury CAN Jul 27-31, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 7 Apr 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015