2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres

Events at the 2000 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
10,000 m walk		men		women
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 2000 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Santiago, Chile, at Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos on 19 and 21 October.

Medalists

Gold	Abebech Nigussie Ethiopia
Silver	Rose Kosgei Kenya
Bronze	Georgie Clarke Australia

Results

Final

21 October

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Abebech Nigussie	Ethiopia	4:19.93
	Rose Kosgei	Kenya	4:20.16
	Georgie Clarke	Australia	4:20.21
4	Zanelle Grobler	South Africa	4:21.41
5	Rasa Drazdauskaitė	Lithuania	4:21.58
6	Chen Fang	China	4:22.81
7	Florence Kyalo	Kenya	4:22.95
8	Melissa Rollison	Australia	4:25.17
9	Irina Vashchuk	Ukraine	4:25.28
10	Ljiljana Culibrk	Croatia	4:25.81
11	Christina Carruzzo	Switzerland	4:26.57
	Jéssica Augusto	Portugal	DNF

Heats

19 October

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Abebech Nigussie	Ethiopia	4:19.66	Q
2	Rose Kosgei	Kenya	4:20.31	Q
3	Zanelle Grobler	South Africa	4:21.80	Q
4	Rasa Drazdauskaitė	Lithuania	4:22.02	Q
5	Melissa Rollison	Australia	4:22.46	q
6	Ljiljana Culibrk	Croatia	4:22.96	q
7	Irina Vashchuk	Ukraine	4:24.09	q
8	Agnes Tschurtschenthaler	Italy	4:28.43
9	Katharina Splinter	Germany	4:29.91
10	Yâprak Kalemoglu	Turkey	4:34.21
11	Evelyn Guerra	Panama	4:53.85
12	Anarika February	Guyana	5:07.43
13	Dinora Molina	Honduras	5:22.26
	Esther Desviat	Spain	DNF

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Chen Fang	China	4:18.10	Q
2	Florence Kyalo	Kenya	4:19.38	Q
3	Georgie Clarke	Australia	4:23.16	Q
4	Jéssica Augusto	Portugal	4:24.15	Q
5	Christina Carruzzo	Switzerland	4:24.28	q
6	Emma Ward	United Kingdom	4:24.47
7	Maerenet Gebray	Ethiopia	4:27.99
8	Kate McIlroy	New Zealand	4:28.51
9	Irene Alfonso	Spain	4:28.70
10	Krisztina Papp	Hungary	4:30.64
11	Julie Coulaud	France	4:32.57
12	Dina Lebo Phalula	South Africa	4:44.20
13	Ioana Parusheva	Bulgaria	4:47.27
14	Getrude Banda	Malawi	4:53.09
	Kerstin Werner	Germany	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 23 countries participated in the event.

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