Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres at the Games of the XXIII Olympiad
Venue	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Dates	August 9 (heats) August 11 (final)
Competitors	22 from 16 nations
Winning time	4:03.25
Medalists
Gabriella Dorio  Italy Doina Melinte  Romania Maricica Puică  Romania
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Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics
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
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
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
Wheelchair races
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These are the official results of the Women's 1,500m metres event at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. The final was held on August 11, 1984.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Gabriella Dorio  Italy
Silver	Doina Melinte  Romania
Bronze	Maricica Puică  Romania

Abbreviations[]

Final[]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:03.25
	Doina Melinte	Romania	4:03.76
	Maricica Puică	Romania	4:04.15
4	Roswitha Gerdes	West Germany	4:04.41
5	Christine Benning	Great Britain	4:04.70
6	Christina Boxer	Great Britain	4:05.53
7	Brit McRoberts	Canada	4:05.98
8	Ruth Wysocki	United States	4:08.32
9	Fiţa Lovin	Romania	4:09.11
10.	Debbie Scott	Canada	4:10.41
11.	Lynne MacDougall	Great Britain	4:10.58
12.	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	4:11.58

Heats[]

• Held in 1984-08-09

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Christine Benning	Great Britain	4:10.48
2	Doina Melinte	Romania	4:10.48
3	Fiţa Lovin	Romania	4:10.58
4	Roswitha Gerdes	West Germany	4:10.64
5	Brit McRoberts	Canada	4:10.64
6	Elly van Hulst	Netherlands	4:10.69
7	Missy Kane	United States	4:11.86
8	Diana Richburg	United States	4:13.35
9	Helen Ritter	Liechtenstein	4:19.39
10.	Justina Chepchirchir	Kenya	4:21.97
11.	Laverne Bryan	Antigua and Barbuda	4:32.44
12.	Kriscia Lorena García	El Salvador	4:38.00

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:04.51
2	Maricica Puică	Romania	4:05.30
3	Ruth Wysocki	United States	4:06.65
4	Christina Boxer	Great Britain	4:07.40
5	Lynne MacDougall	Great Britain	4:09.08
6	Debbie Scott	Canada	4:09.16
7	Jill McCabe	Sweden	4:16.48
8	Alejandra Ramos	Chile	4:22.03
9	Liliana Góngora	Argentina	4:28.02
10.	Mariciane Mukamurenzi	Rwanda	4:31.56
—	Margrit Klinger	West Germany	DNS

See also[]

• 1980 Women's Olympic 1,500 metres (Moscow)
• 1982 Women's European Championships 1,500 metres (Athens)
• 1983 Women's World Championships 1,500 metres (Helsinki)
• 1984 Women's Friendship Games 1,500 metres (Prague)
• 1986 Women's European Championships 1,500 metres (Stuttgart)
• 1987 Women's World Championships 1,500 metres (Rome)
• 1988 Women's Olympic 1,500 metres (Seoul)

References[]

External links[]

• Official Report
• Results
• Results