1500 metres

Athletics 1500 metres
Men's 1500 m final at the 2023 World Championships in Budapest. Jakob Ingebrigtsen leads with Josh Kerr to the far left and Yared Nuguse in center frame.
World records
Men	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 3:26.00 (1998)
Women	Faith Kipyegon (KEN) 3:49.04 (2024)
Short track world records
Men	Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR) 3:30.60 (2022)
Women	Gudaf Tsegay (ETH) 3:53.09 (2021)
Olympic records
Men	Cole Hocker (USA) 3:27.65 (2024)
Women	Faith Kipyegon (KEN) 3:51.29 (2024)
World Championship records
Men	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR) 3:27.65 (1999)
Women	Sifan Hassan (NED) 3:51.95 (2019)
World junior (U20) records
Men	Ronald Kwemoi (KEN) 3:28.81 (2014)
Women	Lang Yinglai (CHN) 3:51.34 (1997)

The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletics since 1983. It is equivalent to 1.5 kilometers or approximately 15⁄16 miles. The event is closely associated with its slightly longer cousin, the mile race, from which it derives its nickname "the metric mile".^[1]

The demands of the race are similar to that of the 800 metre run, but with a slightly higher emphasis on aerobic endurance and a slightly lower sprint speed requirement. The 1500 metre run is predominantly aerobic, but anaerobic conditioning is also required.^[2]

Each lap run during the men's world-record race of 3:26.00, run by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco in 1998, averaged just under 55 seconds (or under 13.8 seconds per 100 metres or 2:17.33 minutes per kilometer).^[3] Since El Guerrouj, only three other men in history have broken the 3:27 barrier; Bernard Lagat, Asbel Kiprop, and Jakob Ingebrigtsen. El Guerrouj remains the only man to break the 3:27 barrier more than once.^[4]

1,500 metres is three and three-quarter laps around a 400-metre track (seven and a half laps around an indoor 200 m track). During the 1970s and 1980s this race was dominated by British runners, along with an occasional Finn, American, or New Zealander. Through the 1990s, many African runners began to win Olympic medals in this race, especially runners from Kenya, Ethiopia, and East Africa, as well as North African runners from Morocco and Algeria. In the mid-2010s and 2020s, European and American runners began to emerge again in the men's event. American Matthew Centrowitz Jr. won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In the 2020 Summer Olympics, Jakob Ingebrigtsen, the youngest of a dynasty of Norwegian middle-distance runners, won Olympic Gold, while Scottish and British runner Jake Wightman won the World Championship title the following year at the head of an all-European podium. Wightman's compatriot Josh Kerr won gold at the world championships the year after. In the 2024 Summer Olympics, Americans and Europeans continued to dominate the podium, with Cole Hocker, Kerr, and Yared Nuguse earning gold, silver, and bronze respectively. Faith Kipyegon of Kenya maintained Africa's grip on the global titles in the female event in the same time period, although here again, Europeans Sifan Hassan and Laura Muir, and Americans such as Jenny Simpson also contended for the podium. Unfortunately for the European and American contenders Australian Jessica Hull lived up to her expectations and took the silver medal, cementing her place as one of the greatest female 1500m runners of all time, especially after running the 5th fastest 1500m ever two weeks earlier in a race where Faith Kipyegon won and broke the world record.

In the Modern Olympic Games, the men's 1,500-metre race has been contested from the beginning, and at every Olympic Games since. The first winner, in 1896, was Edwin Flack of Australia, who also won the first gold medal in the 800-metre race. The women's 1,500-metre race was first added to the Summer Olympics in 1972, and the winner of the first gold medal was Lyudmila Bragina of the Soviet Union. During the Olympic Games of 1972 through 2008, the women's 1,500-metre race has been won by three Soviets plus one Russian, one Italian, one Romanian, one Briton, one Kenyan, and two Algerians. The 2012 Olympic results are still undecided as a result of multiple doping cases. The best women's times for the race were controversially^[5] set by Chinese runners, all set in the same race on just two dates four years apart at the Chinese National Games. At least one of those top Chinese athletes has admitted to being part of a doping program.^[6] This women's record was finally broken by Genzebe Dibaba of Ethiopia in 2015.

In American high schools, the 1,600-metre run, also colloquially referred to as "metric mile", is the designated official distance by the National Governing Body the NFHS. Because of the legacy, since US customary units are better-known in America, the mile run (which is 1609.344 metres in length) is more frequently run than the 1,500-metre run. For convenience, national rankings are standardized by converting all 1,500-metre run times to their mile run equivalents.^[7]

Many 1500 metres events, particularly at the championship level, turn into slow, strategic races, with the pace quickening and competitors jockeying for position in the final lap to settle the race in a final sprint. Such is the difficulty of maintaining the pace throughout the duration of the event, most records are set in planned races led by pacemakers or "rabbits" who sacrifice their opportunity to win by leading the early laps at a fast pace before dropping out.

The person who wins the race is behind watching.

— Filbert Bayi, former world record holder^[8]

• Updated 6 August 2024.^[9][10]

Area	Men			Women
	Time	Athlete	Nation	Time	Athlete	Nation
Africa (records)	3:26.00 WR	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	3:49.04 WR	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya
Asia (records)	3:29.14	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	3:50.46	Qu Yunxia	China
Europe (records)	3:26.73	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	3:51.95	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands
North, Central America and Caribbean (records)	3:27.65	Cole Hocker	United States	3:54.99	Shelby Houlihan	United States
Oceania (records)	3:29.41	Oliver Hoare	Australia	3:50.83	Jessica Hull	Australia
South America (records)	3:33.25	Hudson de Souza	Brazil	4:05.67	Letitia Vriesde	Suriname

Outdoor tables show data for two definitions of "Top 25" - the top 25 1500m times and the top 25 athletes:

- denotes top performance for athletes in the top 25 1500m times

- denotes lesser performances, still in the top 25 1500m times, by repeat athletes

- denotes top performance (only) for other top 25 athletes who fall outside the top 25 1500m times

• Updated 22 August 2024.^[11]

Ath.#	Perf.#	Time	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place	Ref.
1	1	3:26.00	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	14 July 1998	Rome
	2	3:26.12	El Guerrouj #2		24 August 2001	Brussels
2	3	3:26.34	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	24 August 2001	Brussels
	4	3:26.45	El Guerrouj #3		12 August 1998	Zürich
3	5	3:26.69	Asbel Kiprop	Kenya	17 July 2015	Monaco	[12]
4	6	3:26.73	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	12 July 2024	Monaco	[13]
	7	3:26.89	El Guerrouj #4		16 August 2002	Zürich
	8	3:26.96	El Guerrouj #5		8 September 2002	Rieti
	9	3:27.14	Ingebrigtsen #2		16 July 2023	Chorzów	[14]
	10	3:27.21	El Guerrouj #6		11 August 2000	Zürich
	11	3:27.34	El Guerrouj #7		19 July 2002	Monaco
5	12	3:27.37	Noureddine Morceli	Algeria	12 July 1995	Nice
	13	3:27.40	Lagat #2		6 August 2004	Zürich
	14	3:27.52	Morceli #2		25 July 1995	Monaco
	15	3:27.64	El Guerrouj #8		6 August 2004	Zürich
6	15	3:27.64	Silas Kiplagat	Kenya	18 July 2014	Monaco	[15]
	17	3:27.65	El Guerrouj #9		24 August 1999	Seville
7	17	3:27.65	Cole Hocker	United States	6 August 2024	Saint-Denis	[16]
	19	3:27.72	Kiprop #2		19 July 2013	Monaco	[17]
8	20	3:27.79	Josh Kerr	Great Britain	6 August 2024	Saint-Denis	[16]
9	21	3:27.80	Yared Nuguse	United States	6 August 2024	Saint-Denis	[16]
	22	3:27.83	Ingebrigtsen #3		22 August 2024	Lausanne	[18]
	23	3:27.91	Lagat #3		19 July 2002	Monaco
	24	3:27.95	Ingebrigtsen #4		15 June 2023	Oslo	[19]
10	25	3:28.12	Noah Ngeny	Kenya	11 August 2000	Zürich
11		3:28.28	Timothy Cheruiyot	Kenya	9 July 2021	Monaco	[20]
12		3:28.75	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	17 July 2015	Monaco	[21]
13		3:28.76	Mohamed Katir	Spain	9 July 2021	Monaco	[20]
14		3:28.79	Abdalaati Iguider	Morocco	17 July 2015	Monaco
15		3:28.80	Elijah Manangoi	Kenya	21 July 2017	Monaco	[22]
			Brian Komen	Kenya	12 July 2024	Monaco	[13]
17		3:28.81	Mo Farah	Great Britain	19 July 2013	Monaco	[17]
			Ronald Kwemoi	Kenya	18 July 2014	Monaco	[23]
19		3:28.95	Fermín Cacho	Spain	13 August 1997	Zürich
20		3:28.98	Mehdi Baala	France	5 September 2003	Brussels
21		3:29.02	Daniel Kipchirchir Komen	Kenya	14 July 2006	Rome
22		3:29.11	Abel Kipsang	Kenya	16 July 2023	Chorzów	[14]
23		3:29.14	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	14 July 2006	Rome
24		3:29.18	Vénuste Niyongabo	Burundi	22 August 1997	Brussels
			Mario García	Spain	15 June 2023	Oslo	[24]

• Updated 30 August 2024.^[25]

Ath.#	Perf.#	Time	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place	Ref.
1	1	3:49.04	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	7 July 2024	Paris	[26]
	2	3:49.11	Kipyegon #2		2 June 2023	Florence	[27]
2	3	3:50.07	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	17 July 2015	Monaco	[28]
3	4	3:50.30	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia	20 April 2024	Xiamen	[29]
	5	3:50.37	Kipyegon #3		10 August 2022	Monaco	[30]
4	6	3:50.46	Qu Yunxia	China	11 September 1993	Beijing
	7	3:50.72	Kipyegon #4		16 September 2023	Eugene	[31]
5	8	3:50.83	Jessica Hull	Australia	7 July 2024	Paris	[32]
6	9	3:50.98	Jiang Bo	China	18 October 1997	Shanghai
	10	3:51.07	Kipyegon #5		9 July 2021	Monaco	[33]
	11	3:51.29	Kipyegon #6		10 August 2024	Saint-Denis	[34]
7	12	3:51.34	Lang Yinglai	China	18 October 1997	Shanghai
	13	3:51.41+	Kipyegon #7		21 July 2023	Monaco	[35]
8	14	3:51.92	Wang Junxia	China	11 September 1993	Beijing
9	15	3:51.95	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	5 October 2019	Doha	[36]
10	16	3:52.47	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	13 August 1980	Zürich
	17	3:52.56	Hull #2		10 August 2024	Saint-Denis	[37]
	18	3:52.59	Kipyegon #8		28 May 2022	Eugene	[38]
11	19	3:52.61	Georgia Bell	Great Britain	10 August 2024	Saint-Denis	[39]
12	20	3:52.75	Diribe Welteji	Ethiopia	10 August 2024	Saint-Denis	[40]
	21	3:52.89	Kipyegon #9		30 August 2024	Rome	[41]
	22	3:52.96	Kipyegon #10		18 July 2022	Eugene	[42]
	23	3:53.11	Kipyegon #11		6 August 2021	Tokyo	[43]
13	24	3:53.22	Birke Haylom	Ethiopia	20 April 2024	Xiamen	[44]
	25	3:53.23	Kipyegon #12		21 August 2021	Eugene	[45]
14		3:53.37	Laura Muir	Great Britain	10 August 2024	Saint-Denis	[46]
15		3:53.91	Yin Lili	China	18 October 1997	Shanghai
16		3:53.96	Paula Ivan	Romania	1 October 1988	Seoul
17		3:53.97	Lan Lixin	China	18 October 1997	Shanghai
18		3:54.16	Freweyni Hailu	Ethiopia	30 August 2024	Rome	[47]
19		3:54.23	Olga Dvirna	Soviet Union	27 July 1982	Kyiv
20		3:54.52	Zhang Ling	China	18 October 1997	Shanghai
21		3:54.87	Hirut Meshesha	Ethiopia	16 July 2023	Chorzów	[14]
22		3:54.99	Shelby Houlihan	United States	5 October 2019	Doha
23		3:55.07	Dong Yanmei	China	18 October 1997	Shanghai
24		3:55.30	Hassiba Boulmerka	Algeria	8 August 1992	Barcelona
25		3:55.33	Süreyya Ayhan	Turkey	5 September 2003	Brussels
			Nikki Hiltz	United States	30 June 2024	Eugene	[48]

• Updated 11 February 2024.^[49]

Rank	Time	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place	Ref
1	3:30.60	Jakob Ingebrigtsen	Norway	17 February 2022	Liévin
2	3:31.04	Samuel Tefera	Ethiopia	16 February 2019	Birmingham
3	3:31.18	Hicham El Guerrouj	Morocco	2 February 1997	Stuttgart
4	3:31.25+	Yomif Kejelcha	Ethiopia	3 March 2019	Boston
5	3:31.76	Haile Gebrselassie	Ethiopia	1 February 1998	Stuttgart
6	3:32.11	Laban Rotich	Kenya	1 February 1998	Stuttgart
7	3:32.35	Olli Hoare	Australia	13 February 2021	New York City
8	3:32.48	Neil Gourley	Great Britain	25 February 2023	Birmingham	[50]
9	3:32.86+	Josh Kerr	Great Britain	27 February 2022	Boston
10	3:32.97	Selemon Barega	Ethiopia	17 February 2021	Toruń
11	3:33.08	Daniel Komen	Kenya	13 February 2005	Karlsruhe
12	3:33.10	Deresse Mekonnen	Ethiopia	20 February 2010	Birmingham
13	3:33.17	Vénuste Niyongabo	Burundi	22 February 1998	Liévin
14	3:33.22+	Yared Nuguse	United States	11 February 2023	New York City
15	3:33.23	Augustine Choge	Kenya	19 February 2011	Birmingham
16	3:33.28	Adel Mechaal	Spain	25 February 2023	Birmingham	[50]
17	3:33.32	Andrés Manuel Díaz	Spain	24 February 1999	Piraeus
18	3:33.34+	Bernard Lagat	Kenya	11 February 2005	Fayetteville
19	3:33.36	Abel Kipsang	Kenya	20 March 2022	Belgrade
20	3:33.49	Andrew Coscoran	Ireland	25 February 2023	Birmingham	[50]
21	3:33.59	Teddese Lemi	Ethiopia	20 March 2022	Belgrade
22	3:33.66	Hobbs Kessler	United States	4 February 2024	Boston	[51]
23	3:33.76+	Edward Cheserek	Kenya	9 February 2018	Boston
24	3:33.86+	George Mills	Great Britain	11 February 2024	New York City	[52]
25	3:33.96	Haron Keitany	Kenya	8 February 2009	Ghent

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 3:33.27 (top 25 performances)

• Yomif Kejelcha also ran 3:31.58 (2019) and 3:33.17+ (2019).
• Jakob Ingebrigtsen also ran 3:31.80 (2021), 3:32.38 (2023) and 3:33.02 (2022).
• Hicham El Guerrouj also ran 3:32.01 (1998) and 3:33.01+ (1997).
• Haile Gebrselassie also ran 3:32.39 (1997) and 3:33.27 (1998).
• Samuel Tefera also ran 3:32.77 (2022).

• Updated 11 February 2024.^[53]

Rank	Time	Athlete	Nation	Date	Place	Ref
1	3:53.09	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia	9 February 2021	Liévin
2	3:55.17	Genzebe Dibaba	Ethiopia	1 February 2014	Karlsruhe
3	3:55.28	Freweyni Hailu	Ethiopia	6 February 2024	Toruń	[54]
4	3:55.47	Diribe Welteji	Ethiopia	6 February 2024	Toruń	[54]
5	3:56.47	Hirut Meshesha	Ethiopia	6 February 2024	Toruń	[54]
6	3:57.91	Abeba Aregawi	Sweden	6 February 2014	Stockholm
7	3:58.28	Yelena Soboleva	Russia	18 February 2006	Moscow
8	3:58.43	Birke Haylom	Ethiopia	4 February 2024	Boston	[55]
9	3:58.79	Tigist Girma	Ethiopia	6 February 2024	Toruń	[54]
10	3:59.58	Laura Muir	Great Britain	9 February 2021	Liévin
11	3:59.75	Gelete Burka	Ethiopia	9 March 2008	Valencia
12	3:59.79	Maryam Yusuf Jamal	Bahrain	9 March 2008	Valencia
13	3:59.87+	Konstanze Klosterhalfen	Germany	8 February 2020	New York City
14	3:59.98	Regina Jacobs	United States	1 February 2003	Boston
15	4:00.20+	Elle Purrier	United States	8 February 2020	New York City
16	4:00.27+	Doina Melinte	Romania	9 February 1990	East Rutherford
17	4:00.28	Dawit Seyaum	Ethiopia	28 February 2016	Boston
18	4:00.46	Sifan Hassan	Netherlands	19 February 2015	Stockholm
19	4:00.52+	Jemma Reekie	Great Britain	8 February 2020	New York City
20	4:00.72	Natalya Gorelova	Russia	27 February 2003	Moscow
21	4:00.8h	Mary Decker	United States	8 February 1980	New York City
	4:00.80+	Gabriela DeBues-Stafford	Canada	8 February 2020	New York City
23	4:00.97	Habitam Alemu	Ethiopia	10 February 2024	Liévin	[56]
24	4:01.17	Beatrice Chepkoech	Kenya	6 February 2024	Toruń	[54]
25	4:01.19+	Jessica Hull	Australia	11 February 2024	New York City	[57]

Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 3:59.79 (top 25 performances)

• Gudaf Tsegay also ran 3:54.77 (2022), 3:57.19 (2022), 3:57.38 (2022), 3:57.47 (2023), 3:58.11 (2024) and 3:59.48+ (2023).
• Genzebe Dibaba also ran 3:56.46+ (2016), 3:57.45 (2018), 3:58.80 (2017) and 3:59.08 (2019).
• Freweyni Hailu also ran 3:57.24 (2024).
• Diribe Welteji also ran 3:57.48 (2024).
• Abeba Aregawi also ran 3:58.40 (2013).

• Updated 16 July 2023.^[9][10]

Age group	Men			Women
	Time	Athlete	Nation	Time	Athlete	Nation
U20 (records)	3:28.81	Ronald Kwemoi	Kenya	3:51.34	Lang Yinglai	China
U18 (world bests)	3:33.26	Cameron Myers	Australia	3:54.52	Zhang Ling	China

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Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1896 Athens details	Edwin Flack  Australia	Arthur Blake  United States	Albin Lermusiaux  France
1900 Paris details	Charles Bennett  Great Britain	Henri Deloge  France	John Bray  United States
1904 St. Louis details	Jim Lightbody  United States	Frank Verner  United States	Lacey Hearn  United States
1908 London details	Mel Sheppard  United States	Harold Wilson  Great Britain	Norman Hallows  Great Britain
1912 Stockholm details	Arnold Jackson  Great Britain	Abel Kiviat  United States	Norman Taber  United States
1920 Antwerp details	Albert Hill  Great Britain	Philip Baker  Great Britain	Lawrence Shields  United States
1924 Paris details	Paavo Nurmi  Finland	Willy Schärer  Switzerland	H. B. Stallard  Great Britain
1928 Amsterdam details	Harri Larva  Finland	Jules Ladoumègue  France	Eino Purje  Finland
1932 Los Angeles details	Luigi Beccali  Italy	Jerry Cornes  Great Britain	Phil Edwards  Canada
1936 Berlin details	Jack Lovelock  New Zealand	Glenn Cunningham  United States	Luigi Beccali  Italy
1948 London details	Henry Eriksson  Sweden	Lennart Strand  Sweden	Willem Slijkhuis  Netherlands
1952 Helsinki details	Josy Barthel  Luxembourg	Bob McMillen  United States	Werner Lueg  Germany
1956 Melbourne details	Ron Delany  Ireland	Klaus Richtzenhain  United Team of Germany	John Landy  Australia
1960 Rome details	Herb Elliott  Australia	Michel Jazy  France	István Rózsavölgyi  Hungary
1964 Tokyo details	Peter Snell  New Zealand	Josef Odložil  Czechoslovakia	John Davies  New Zealand
1968 Mexico City details	Kipchoge Keino  Kenya	Jim Ryun  United States	Bodo Tümmler  West Germany
1972 Munich details	Pekka Vasala  Finland	Kipchoge Keino  Kenya	Rod Dixon  New Zealand
1976 Montreal details	John Walker  New Zealand	Ivo Van Damme  Belgium	Paul-Heinz Wellmann  West Germany
1980 Moscow details	Sebastian Coe  Great Britain	Jürgen Straub  East Germany	Steve Ovett  Great Britain
1984 Los Angeles details	Sebastian Coe  Great Britain	Steve Cram  Great Britain	José Manuel Abascal  Spain
1988 Seoul details	Peter Rono  Kenya	Peter Elliott  Great Britain	Jens-Peter Herold  East Germany
1992 Barcelona details	Fermín Cacho  Spain	Rachid El Basir  Morocco	Mohamed Suleiman  Qatar
1996 Atlanta details	Noureddine Morceli  Algeria	Fermín Cacho  Spain	Stephen Kipkorir  Kenya
2000 Sydney details	Noah Ngeny  Kenya	Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco	Bernard Lagat  Kenya
2004 Athens details	Hicham El Guerrouj  Morocco	Bernard Lagat  Kenya	Rui Silva  Portugal
2008 Beijing details	Asbel Kiprop  Kenya	Nick Willis  New Zealand	Mehdi Baala  France
2012 London details	Taoufik Makhloufi  Algeria	Leonel Manzano  United States	Abdalaati Iguider  Morocco
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Matthew Centrowitz Jr.  United States	Taoufik Makhloufi  Algeria	Nick Willis  New Zealand
2020 Tokyo details	Jakob Ingebrigtsen  Norway	Timothy Cheruiyot  Kenya	Josh Kerr  Great Britain
2024 Paris details	Cole Hocker  United States	Josh Kerr  Great Britain	Yared Nuguse  United States

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Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1972 Munich details	Lyudmila Bragina  Soviet Union	Gunhild Hoffmeister  East Germany	Paola Pigni  Italy
1976 Montreal details	Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union	Gunhild Hoffmeister  East Germany	Ulrike Klapezynski  East Germany
1980 Moscow details	Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union	Christiane Wartenberg  East Germany	Nadezhda Olizarenko  Soviet Union
1984 Los Angeles details	Gabriella Dorio  Italy	Doina Melinte  Romania	Maricica Puică  Romania
1988 Seoul details	Paula Ivan  Romania	Laimutė Baikauskaitė  Soviet Union	Tetyana Samolenko  Soviet Union
1992 Barcelona details	Hassiba Boulmerka  Algeria	Lyudmila Rogachova  Unified Team	Qu Yunxia  China
1996 Atlanta details	Svetlana Masterkova  Russia	Gabriela Szabo  Romania	Theresia Kiesl  Austria
2000 Sydney details	Nouria Mérah-Benida  Algeria	Violeta Szekely  Romania	Gabriela Szabo  Romania
2004 Athens details	Kelly Holmes  Great Britain	Tatyana Tomashova  Russia	Maria Cioncan  Romania
2008 Beijing details	Nancy Langat  Kenya	Iryna Lishchynska  Ukraine	Nataliya Tobias  Ukraine
2012 London details	Maryam Yusuf Jamal  Bahrain[58]	Abeba Aregawi  Ethiopia	Shannon Rowbury  United States
2016 Rio de Janeiro details	Faith Kipyegon  Kenya	Genzebe Dibaba  Ethiopia	Jennifer Simpson  United States
2020 Tokyo details	Faith Kipyegon  Kenya	Laura Muir  Great Britain	Sifan Hassan  Netherlands
2024 Paris details	Faith Kipyegon  Kenya	Jessica Hull  Australia	Georgia Bell  Great Britain

Championships	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983 Helsinki details	Steve Cram (GBR)	Steve Scott (USA)	Saïd Aouita (MAR)
1987 Rome details	Abdi Bile (SOM)	José Luis González (ESP)	Jim Spivey (USA)
1991 Tokyo details	Noureddine Morceli (ALG)	Wilfred Kirochi (KEN)	Hauke Fuhlbrügge (GER)
1993 Stuttgart details	Noureddine Morceli (ALG)	Fermín Cacho (ESP)	Abdi Bile (SOM)
1995 Gothenburg details	Noureddine Morceli (ALG)	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	Vénuste Niyongabo (BDI)
1997 Athens details	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	Fermín Cacho (ESP)	Reyes Estévez (ESP)
1999 Seville details	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	Noah Ngeny (KEN)	Reyes Estévez (ESP)
2001 Edmonton details	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	Bernard Lagat (KEN)	Driss Maazouzi (FRA)
2003 Saint-Denis details	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	Mehdi Baala (FRA)	Ivan Heshko (UKR)
2005 Helsinki details	Rashid Ramzi (BHR)	Adil Kaouch (MAR)	Rui Silva (POR)
2007 Osaka details	Bernard Lagat (USA)	Rashid Ramzi (BHR)	Shedrack Kibet Korir (KEN)
2009 Berlin details	Yusuf Saad Kamel (BHR)	Deresse Mekonnen (ETH)	Bernard Lagat (USA)
2011 Daegu details	Asbel Kiprop (KEN)	Silas Kiplagat (KEN)	Matthew Centrowitz (USA)
2013 Moscow details	Asbel Kiprop (KEN)	Matthew Centrowitz (USA)	Johan Cronje (RSA)
2015 Beijing details	Asbel Kiprop (KEN)	Elijah Manangoi (KEN)	Abdalaati Iguider (MAR)
2017 London details	Elijah Manangoi (KEN)	Timothy Cheruiyot (KEN)	Filip Ingebrigtsen (NOR)
2019 Doha details	Timothy Cheruiyot (KEN)	Taoufik Makhloufi (ALG)	Marcin Lewandowski (POL)
2022 Eugene details	Jake Wightman (GBR)	Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)	Mohamed Katir (ESP)
2023 Budapest details	Josh Kerr (GBR)	Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)	Narve Gilje Nordås (NOR)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya (KEN)	5	6	1	12
2	Morocco (MAR)	4	2	2	8
3	Algeria (ALG)	3	1	0	4
4	Great Britain (GBR)	3	0	0	3
5	Bahrain (BHR)	2	1	0	3
6	United States (USA)	1	2	3	6
7	Somalia (SOM)	1	0	1	2
9	Spain (ESP)	0	3	3	6
10	Norway (NOR)	0	2	2	4
11	France (FRA)	0	1	1	2
12	Ethiopia (ETH)	0	1	0	1
13	Burundi (BDI)	0	0	1	1
	Germany (GER)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	Portugal (POR)	0	0	1	1
	South Africa (RSA)	0	0	1	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	0	1	1

Championships	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1983 Helsinki details	Mary Decker (USA)	Zamira Zaytseva (URS)	Yekaterina Podkopayeva (URS)
1987 Rome details	Tetyana Samolenko (URS)	Hildegard Körner (GDR)	Doina Melinte (ROU)
1991 Tokyo details	Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG)	Tetyana Dorovskikh (URS)	Lyudmila Rogachova (URS)
1993 Stuttgart details	Liu Dong (CHN)	Sonia O'Sullivan (IRL)	Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG)
1995 Gothenburg details	Hassiba Boulmerka (ALG)	Kelly Holmes (GBR)	Carla Sacramento (POR)
1997 Athens details	Carla Sacramento (POR)	Regina Jacobs (USA)	Anita Weyermann (SUI)
1999 Seville details	Svetlana Masterkova (RUS)	Regina Jacobs (USA)	Kutre Dulecha (ETH)
2001 Edmonton details	Gabriela Szabo (ROU)	Violeta Szekely (ROU)	Natalya Gorelova (RUS)
2003 Saint-Denis details	Tatyana Tomashova (RUS)	Süreyya Ayhan (TUR)	Hayley Tullett (GBR)
2005 Helsinki details	Tatyana Tomashova (RUS)	Olga Yegorova (RUS)	Bouchra Ghezielle (FRA)
2007 Osaka details	Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BHR)	Iryna Lishchynska (UKR)	Daniela Yordanova (BUL)
2009 Berlin details	Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BHR)	Lisa Dobriskey (GBR)	Shannon Rowbury (USA)
2011 Daegu details	Jennifer Simpson (USA)	Hannah England (GBR)	Natalia Rodríguez (ESP)
2013 Moscow details	Abeba Aregawi (SWE)	Jennifer Simpson (USA)	Hellen Obiri (KEN)
2015 Beijing details	Genzebe Dibaba (ETH)	Faith Kipyegon (KEN)	Sifan Hassan (NED)
2017 London details	Faith Kipyegon (KEN)	Jennifer Simpson (USA)	Caster Semenya (RSA)
2019 Doha details	Sifan Hassan (NED)	Faith Kipyegon (KEN)	Gudaf Tsegay (ETH)
2022 Eugene details	Faith Kipyegon (KEN)	Gudaf Tsegay (ETH)	Laura Muir (GBR)
2023 Budapest details	Faith Kipyegon (KEN)	Diribe Welteji (ETH)	Sifan Hassan (NED)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Kenya (KEN)	3	2	1	6
2	Russia (RUS)	3	1	1	5
3	United States (USA)	2	4	1	7
4	Algeria (ALG)	2	0	1	3
5	Bahrain (BHR)	2	0	0	2
7	Ethiopia (ETH)	1	2	2	5
	Soviet Union (URS)	1	2	2	5
9	Romania (ROU)	1	1	1	3
10	Netherlands (NED)	1	0	2	3
11	Portugal (POR)	1	0	1	2
12	China (CHN)	1	0	0	1
	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
14	Great Britain (GBR)	0	3	2	5
15	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	0	1
	Ireland (IRL)	0	1	0	1
	Ukraine (UKR)	0	1	0	1
	Turkey (TUR)	0	1	0	1
19	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
	Switzerland (SUI)	0	0	1	1

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1985 Paris[A]	Michael Hillardt (AUS)	José Luis González (ESP)	Joseph Chesire (KEN)
1987 Indianapolis details	Marcus O'Sullivan (IRL)	José Manuel Abascal (ESP)	Han Kulker (NED)
1989 Budapest details	Marcus O'Sullivan (IRL)	Hauke Fuhlbrügge (GDR)	Jeff Atkinson (USA)
1991 Seville details	Noureddine Morceli (ALG)	Fermín Cacho (ESP)	Mário Silva (POR)
1993 Toronto details	Marcus O'Sullivan (IRL)	David Strang (GBR)	Branko Zorko (CRO)
1995 Barcelona details	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	Mateo Cañellas (ESP)	Erik Nedeau (USA)
1997 Paris details	Hicham El Guerrouj (MAR)	Rüdiger Stenzel (GER)	William Tanui (KEN)
1999 Maebashi details	Haile Gebrselassie (ETH)	Laban Rotich (KEN)	Andrés Manuel Díaz (ESP)
2001 Lisbon details	Rui Silva (POR)	Reyes Estévez (ESP)	Noah Ngeny (KEN)
2003 Birmingham details	Driss Maazouzi (FRA)	Bernard Lagat (KEN)	Abdelkader Hachlaf (MAR)
2004 Budapest details	Paul Korir (KEN)	Ivan Heshko (UKR)	Laban Rotich (KEN)
2006 Moscow details	Ivan Heshko (UKR)	Daniel Kipchirchir Komen (KEN)	Elkanah Angwenyi (KEN)
2008 Valencia details	Deresse Mekonnen (ETH)	Daniel Kipchirchir Komen (KEN)	Juan Carlos Higuero (ESP)
2010 Doha details	Deresse Mekonnen (ETH)	Abdalaati Iguider (MAR)	Haron Keitany (KEN)
2012 Istanbul details	Abdalaati Iguider (MAR)	İlham Tanui Özbilen (TUR)	Mekonnen Gebremedhin (ETH)
2014 Sopot details	Ayanleh Souleiman (DJI)	Aman Wote (ETH)	Abdalaati Iguider (MAR)
2016 Portland details	Matthew Centrowitz Jr. (USA)	Jakub Holuša (CZE)	Nick Willis (NZL)
2018 Birmingham details	Samuel Tefera (ETH)	Marcin Lewandowski (POL)	Abdalaati Iguider (MAR)
2022 Belgrade details	Samuel Tefera (ETH)	Jakob Ingebrigtsen (NOR)	Abel Kipsang (KEN)
2024 Glasgow details	Geordie Beamish (NZL)	Cole Hocker (USA)	Hobbs Kessler (USA)

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1985 Paris[A]	Elly van Hulst (NED)	Fița Lovin (ROU)	Brit McRoberts (CAN)
1987 Indianapolis details	Doina Melinte (ROU)	Tatyana Samolenko (URS)	Svetlana Kitova (URS)
1989 Budapest details	Doina Melinte (ROU)	Svetlana Kitova (URS)	Yvonne Mai (GDR)
1991 Seville details	Lyudmila Rogachova (URS)	Ivana Kubešová (TCH)	Tudorita Chidu (ROU)
1993 Toronto details	Yekaterina Podkopayeva (RUS)	Violeta Beclea (ROU)	Sandra Gasser (SUI)
1995 Barcelona details	Regina Jacobs (USA)	Carla Sacramento (POR)	Maite Zúñiga (ESP)
1997 Paris details	Yekaterina Podkopayeva (RUS)	Patricia Djaté-Taillard (FRA)	Lidia Chojecka (POL)
1999 Maebashi details	Gabriela Szabo (ROU)	Violeta Beclea-Szekely (ROU)	Lidia Chojecka (POL)
2001 Lisbon details	Hasna Benhassi (MAR)	Violeta Beclea-Szekely (ROU)	Natalya Gorelova (RUS)
2003 Birmingham details	Regina Jacobs (USA)	Kelly Holmes (GBR)	Yekaterina Rozenberg (RUS)
2004 Budapest details	Kutre Dulecha (ETH)	Carmen Douma-Hussar (CAN)	Gulnara Galkina (RUS)
2006 Moscow details	Yuliya Fomenko (RUS)	Yelena Soboleva (RUS)	Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BHR)
2008 Valencia details	Gelete Burka (ETH)	Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BHR)	Daniela Yordanova (BUL)
2010 Doha details	Kalkidan Gezahegne (ETH)	Natalia Rodríguez (ESP)	Gelete Burka (ETH)
2012 Istanbul details	Genzebe Dibaba (ETH)	Mariem Alaoui Selsouli (MAR)	Hind Dehiba (FRA)
2014 Sopot details	Abeba Aregawi (SWE)	Axumawit Embaye (ETH)	Nicole Sifuentes (CAN)
2016 Portland details	Sifan Hassan (NED)	Dawit Seyaum (ETH)	Gudaf Tsegay (ETH)
2018 Birmingham details	Genzebe Dibaba (ETH)	Laura Muir (GBR)	Sifan Hassan (NED)
2022 Belgrade details	Gudaf Tsegay (ETH)	Axumawit Embaye (ETH)	Hirut Meshesha (ETH)
2024 Glasgow details	Freweyni Hailu (ETH)	Nikki Hiltz (USA)	Emily Mackay (USA)

• ^A Known as the World Indoor Games

• "i" indicates performance on 200m indoor track

1,500 metres is also an event in swimming, speed skating, and wheelchair racing. The world records for the distance in swimming for men are 14:31.02 (swum in a 50-metre pool) by Sun Yang, 14:08.06 (swum in a 25-metre pool) by Gregorio Paltrinieri; and by women 15:20.48 (swum in a 50-metre pool)^[59] by Katie Ledecky, and 15:19.71 (swum in a 25-metre pool) by Mireia Belmonte García.

The world records for the distance in speed skating are 1:40.17 by Kjeld Nuis and 1:49.83 by Miho Takagi.

The records for wheelchair racing vary by disability classification:

• T51: 4:53.50 by Hélder Mestre
• T52: 3:29.79 by Raymond Martin
• T53 and T54: 2:51.84 by Brent Lakatos

• IAAF list of 1500-metres records in XML
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