2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres

2012 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	women
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
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The women's 1500 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics will be held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 13 and 15 July.^[1][2][3]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Faith Kipyegon  Kenya	Amela Terzić  Serbia	Senbere Teferi  Ethiopia

Prior to the competition^[update], the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record	Lang Yinglai (CHN)	3:51.34	Shanghai, China	18 October 1997
Championship Record	Liu Dong (CHN)	4:05.14	Seoul, South Korea	20 September 1992
World Junior Leading	Faith Kipyegon (KEN)	4:03.82	Shanghai, China	19 May 2012
Broken records during the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Championship Record	Faith Kipyegon (KEN)	4:04.96	Barcelona, Spain	25 July 2012

Qualification: The first 3 of each heat (Q) and the 3 fastest times (q) qualified

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	1	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	4:10.17	Q
2	2	Senbere Teferi	Ethiopia	4:10.78	Q
3	2	Amela Terzić	Serbia	4:11.53	Q, NJ
4	3	Nancy Chepkwemoi	Kenya	4:13.43	Q
5	2	Sofia Ennaoui	Poland	4:13.68	Q, PB
6	3	Alem Embaye	Ethiopia	4:14.03	Q
7	1	Jessica Judd	Great Britain	4:14.64	Q, SB
8	1	Mary Cain	United States	4:14.77	Q
9	3	Jennifer Walsh	Great Britain	4:16.08	Q
10	2	Maruša Mišmaš	Slovenia	4:17.14	q, PB
11	1	Luminita Achim	Romania	4:18.25	q, PB
12	3	Saki Yoshimizu	Japan	4:18.30	q, PB
13	3	Frida Berge	Norway	4:18.66	PB
14	3	Nataliya Soltan	Ukraine	4:20.92	PB
15	1	Marta Pen	Portugal	4:20.95	PB
16	1	Caterina Granz	Germany	4:21.25
17	1	Rebekah Greene	New Zealand	4:21.99	SB
18	2	Andrina Schläpfer	Switzerland	4:22.29	SB
19	2	Emine Hatun Tuna	Turkey	4:23.08
20	1	Marta Pérez	Spain	4:23.57	PB
21	2	Jenny Blundell	Australia	4:24.35
22	2	Lee Da-mi	South Korea	4:24.78	PB
23	2	Meropi Panagiotou	Cyprus	4:25.10
24	3	Maria Bernard	Canada	4:25.47
25	2	Anežka Drahotová	Czech Republic	4:26.77	PB
26	1	Choi Soo-mi	South Korea	4:28.01
27	3	Federica Del Buono	Italy	4:28.66
28	1	Nataliia Pryshchepa	Ukraine	4:29.00
29	1	Sofía Pitoúli	Greece	4:29.36
30	3	Oona Kettunen	Finland	4:29.60
31	3	Hannah Meier	United States	4:31.20
32	2	Zsanett Kenesei	Hungary	4:31.63
33	3	Teodora Simovic	Serbia	4:32.22
34	3	Beatriz Álvarez	Spain	4:34.25
35	1	Darine Benamer	Algeria	4:40.85
36	2	Iuliana Madalina Leonte	Romania	4:43.83
	3	Aicha Bilal Fall	Mauritania	DNF
	1	Winnie Nanyondo	Uganda	DNS

Rank	Order	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	1	Faith Kipyegon	Kenya	4:04.96	CR
	6	Amela Terzić	Serbia	4:07.59	PB, NR
	7	Senbere Teferi	Ethiopia	4:08.28	PB
4	9	Nancy Chepkwemoi	Kenya	4:09.72
5	10	Jessica Judd	GBR	4:09.93	PB
6	3	Mary Cain	USA	4:11.01	PB NHSR
7	12	Axumawit Embaye	Ethiopia	4:12.92	PB
8	8	Jennifer Walsh	GBR	4:12.96	PB
9	4	Maruša Mišmaš	SLO	4:14.96	PB
10	5	Sofia Ennaoui	POL	4:15.23
11	11	Saki Yoshimizu	JPN	4:16.84	PB
12	2	Luminita Achim	ROU	4:22.07

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According to an unofficial count, 37 athletes from 28 countries participated in the event.

• WJC12 1500 metres schedule