Athletics at the 1991 Summer Universiade – Women's 1500 metres

Athletics at the 1991 Summer Universiade
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
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 1500 metres event at the 1991 Summer Universiade was held at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield on 24 and 25 July 1991.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sonia O'Sullivan  Ireland	Romania	Qu Yunxia  China

Results[]

Heats[]

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Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Qu Yunxia	China	4:07.71	Q, AR
2	2		Australia	4:12.01	Q
3	2		Romania	4:13.09	Q
4	2		Germany	4:13.13	Q
5	2	Lynne Robinson	Great Britain	4:13.67	Q
6	1	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	4:14.92	Q
7	1	Lyudmila Borisova	Soviet Union	4:15.60	Q
8	1		Finland	4:15.93	Q
9	1	Christine Toonstra	Netherlands	4:16.05	Q
10	1	Elisa Rea	Italy	4:16.41	Q
11	1		Germany	4:16.42	q
12	1		United States	4:16.96	q
13	1	Edith Nakiyingi	Uganda	4:17.31
14	2		Ireland	4:19.35
15	1	Simona Staicu	Romania	4:20.44
16	2	Stephanie Best	United States	4:20.49
17	1		Czechoslovakia	4:21.01
18	2		Italy	4:22.82
19	2		Soviet Union	4:24.40	[3]
20	1	Maxine Newman	Great Britain	4:24.49
21	1	Mireille Sankaatsing	Suriname	4:27.54
22	2		Indonesia	4:58.43

Final[]

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	4:12.14
		Romania	4:12.24
	Qu Yunxia	China	4:12.43
4		Australia	4:12.60
5	Lyudmila Borisova	Soviet Union	4:12.80
6	Lynne Robinson	Great Britain	4:13.40	PB
7		Germany	4:14.55
8		Germany	4:14.64
9	Christine Toonstra	Netherlands	4:14.93
10		Finland	4:15.60
11	Elisa Rea	Italy	4:16.22
12		United States	4:16.97

References[]