1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres

Events at the 1990 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 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Deveti Septemvri Stadium on 11 and 12 August.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Qu Yunxia  China
Silver	Claudia Mirela Bortoi  Romania
Bronze	Malin Ewerlöf  Sweden

Results

Final

12 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Qu Yunxia	China	4:13.67
	Claudia Mirela Bortoi	Romania	4:14.19
	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	4:14.61
4	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4:15.29
5	Liu Li	China	4:17.81
6	Céline Martin	France	4:18.04
7	Yelena Mostovaya	Soviet Union	4:18.10
8	Suzy Walsham	Australia	4:19.23
9	Olga Yegorova	Soviet Union	4:19.90
10	Marina Bastos	Portugal	4:20.92
11	Caroline Kwambai	Kenya	4:22.08
12	Egigayehu Worku	Ethiopia	4:22.89
13	Natalie Tait	United Kingdom	4:28.80
14	Anna Gunasekera	Canada	4:31.50
15	Najat Ouali	Morocco	4:34.72

Heats

11 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Liu Li	China	4:22.53	Q
2	Claudia Mirela Bortoi	Romania	4:22.60	Q
3	Marina Bastos	Portugal	4:23.27	Q
4	Suzy Walsham	Australia	4:23.66	Q
5	Egigayehu Worku	Ethiopia	4:23.89	q
6	Claire Forbes	United Kingdom	4:24.36
7	Olga Sheleva	Bulgaria	4:24.72
8	Christine Stief	West Germany	4:25.24
9	Maria Teresa Tonziello	Italy	4:31.23
10	Melrose Mansaray	Sierra Leone	4:46.03
11	Khadija Mohamed	Somalia	5:02.16

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Céline Martin	France	4:22.15	Q
2	Qu Yunxia	China	4:22.44	Q
3	Yelena Mostovaya	Soviet Union	4:22.50	Q
4	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4:22.82	Q
5	Najat Ouali	Morocco	4:23.96	q
6	Caroline Kwambai	Kenya	4:24.19	q
7	Sinéad Delahunty	Ireland	4:27.15
8	Emebet Shiferaw	Ethiopia	4:31.00
9	Elizabeth Tungaraza	Tanzania	4:49.89

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Natalie Tait	United Kingdom	4:25.98	Q
2	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	4:26.01	Q
3	Olga Yegorova	Soviet Union	4:26.29	Q
4	Anna Gunasekera	Canada	4:27.28	Q
5	Lina Chesire	Kenya	4:27.30
6	Katja Kowald	West Germany	4:27.35
7	Liliana Salageanu	Romania	4:29.39
8	Irma Betancourt	Mexico	4:29.60
9	Yumi Osaki	Japan	4:29.66
10	Alena Gresaková	Czechoslovakia	4:30.89
11	Monica Samila	Tanzania	4:54.22

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 31 athletes from 22 countries participated in the event.

•  Australia (1)
•  Bulgaria (1)
•  Canada (1)
•  China (2)
•  Czechoslovakia (1)
•  Ethiopia (2)
•  France (1)
•  Ireland (1)
•  Italy (1)
•  Japan (1)
•  Kenya (2)
•  Mexico (1)
•  Morocco (1)
•  Portugal (2)
•  Romania (2)
•  Sierra Leone (1)
•  Somalia (1)
•  Soviet Union (2)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Tanzania (2)
•  United Kingdom (2)
•  West Germany (2)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1990 Plovdiv BUL Aug 8-12, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 26 Apr 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015