1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres

Events at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m		men		women
60 m hurdles		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Combined events
Pentathlon				women
Heptathlon		men

The women's 1500 metres event at the 1997 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 8–9.

Doping disqualification

The silver medal had originally been won by Mary Slaney of the United States, but she was later found guilty of a doping offense and stripped of it.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yekaterina Podkopayeva  Russia	Patricia Djaté-Taillard  France	Lidia Chojecka  Poland

Results

Heats

First 4 of each heat (Q) and next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Patricia Djaté-Taillard	France	4:09.00	Q
	2	Mary Slaney	United States	DQ (4:10.27)	Q for final, but later DQ for doping[1]
2	2	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	4:11.02	Q, PB
3	2	Catalina Gheorghiu	Romania	4:11.02	Q, SB
4	1	Yekaterina Podkopayeva	Russia	4:11.23	Q
5	1	Suzy Hamilton	United States	4:11.47	Q
6	1	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4:11.51	Q
7	1	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4:11.57	Q, PB
8	1	Kutre Dulecha	Ethiopia	4:11.60	q, AR
9	2	Margarita Marusova	Russia	4:11.73	q
10	2	Mayte Zúñiga	Spain	4:12.15	q
11	1	Sylvia Kühnemund	Germany	4:12.22	q
12	1	Frédérique Quentin	France	4:15.32
13	1	Shirley Griffiths	Great Britain	4:15.45
14	2	Jackline Maranga	Kenya	4:15.57
15	2	Gwen Griffiths	South Africa	4:20.52
16	2	Niusha Mancilla	Bolivia	4:28.70	SB
18	2	Małgorzata Rydz	Poland	DNF
19	1	Sinéad Delahunty	Ireland	DNS
19	1	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	DNS
19	2	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	DNS

Final

^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Yekaterina Podkopayeva	Russia	4:05.19	PB
	Patricia Djaté-Taillard	France	4:06.16	NR
	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4:06.25	NR
4	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4:06.33	NR
5	Sylvia Kühnemund	Germany	4:06.56	PB
6	Catalina Gheorghiu	Romania	4:07.04	PB
7	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	4:09.72	PB
8	Kutre Dulecha	Ethiopia	4:09.76	AR
9	Suzy Hamilton	United States	4:10.82
10	Mayte Zúñiga	Spain	4:11.56
11	Margarita Marusova	Russia	4:14.43
(2) 12	Mary Slaney	United States	DQ (4:05.22)	Doping[1]

References

1. Mark Butler (ed.), "DOPING VIOLATIONS AT IAAF WORLD INDOOR CHAMPIONSHIPS", IAAF Statistics Book – World Indoor Championships SOPOT 2014 (PDF), IAAF, pp. 47–48, retrieved 27 September 2015
2. Heats results
3. Final results (archived)