1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres

Events at the 1998 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		women
10,000 m		men
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
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The women's 1500 metres event at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Annecy, France, at Parc des Sports on 31 July and 2 August.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Lan Lixin  China
Silver	Yimenashu Taye  Ethiopia
Bronze	Bouchra Benthami  Morocco

Results

Final

2 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Lan Lixin	China	4:10.05
	Yimenashu Taye	Ethiopia	4:11.97
	Bouchra Benthami	Morocco	4:12.76
4	Rose Kosgei	Kenya	4:13.14
5	Song Liqing	China	4:13.76
6	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain	4:16.20
7	Benita Willis	Australia	4:16.75
8	Iona Oltean	Romania	4:16.79
9	Malgorzata Bury	Poland	4:17.14
10	Georgie Clarke	Australia	4:20.44
11	Hisae Yoshimatsu	Japan	4:20.84
12	Sonja Stolić	Yugoslavia	4:21.43

Heats

31 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Bouchra Benthami	Morocco	4:15.74	Q
2	Song Liqing	China	4:15.88	Q
3	Rose Kosgei	Kenya	4:16.10	Q
4	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain	4:16.23	Q
5	Yimenashu Taye	Ethiopia	4:16.59	q
6	Malgorzata Bury	Poland	4:17.22	q
7	Benita Willis	Australia	4:18.25	q
8	Sonja Stolić	Yugoslavia	4:21.19	q
9	Alesya Turova	Belarus	4:21.72
10	Kattell Villain	France	4:25.67
11	Ryoko Takezawa	Japan	4:26.80
12	Diala El-Chabi	Lebanon	4:52.53

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Georgie Clarke	Australia	4:20.50	Q
2	Lan Lixin	China	4:20.53	Q
3	Iona Oltean	Romania	4:20.58	Q
4	Hisae Yoshimatsu	Japan	4:20.99	Q
5	René Kalmer	South Africa	4:22.75
6	Melanie Schulz	Germany	4:23.05
7	Sonja Roman	Slovenia	4:27.11
8	Ljiljana Culibrk	Croatia	4:30.18
9	Tinneke Boonen	Belgium	4:34.00
10	Genet Teka	Ethiopia	4:36.17
11	Zalia Aliou	Togo	4:36.64
12	Daniela Kuleska	Macedonia	4:44.56

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event.

•  Australia (2)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Belgium (1)
•  China (2)
•  Croatia (1)
•  Ethiopia (2)
•  France (1)
•  Germany (1)
•  Japan (2)
•  Kenya (1)
•  Lebanon (1)
•  Macedonia (1)
•  Morocco (1)
•  Poland (1)
•  Romania (1)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  South Africa (1)
•  Spain (1)
•  Togo (1)
•  Yugoslavia (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1998 Annecy FRA Jul 28-Aug 2, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 3 Dec 2013, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015