2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships
The final underway
Venue	Nanjing's Cube at Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park
Location	Nanjing, China
Dates	23 March
Winning time	3:54.86 CR
Medalists
Gudaf Tsegay    Ethiopia   Diribe Welteji    Ethiopia   Georgia Hunter Bell    Great Britain
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2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
60 m hurdles	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Heptathlon	men
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The women's 1500 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships took place on the short track of the Nanjing's Cube at Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park in Nanjing, China on 23 March 2025. It was the 21st time the event was contested at the World Athletics Indoor Championships. Athletes qualified by achieving the entry standard or by their World Athletics Ranking in the event.

The heats took place on 21 March during the evening session. The final took place on 23 March during the evening session.

The women's 1500 metres was contested 20 times before 2025, at every previous edition of the World Athletics Indoor Championships.

Records before the 2025 World Athletics Indoor Championships

Record	Athlete (nation)	Time (s)	Location	Date
World record[1]	Gudaf Tsegay (ETH)	3:53.09	Liévin, France	9 February 2021
Championship record[2]		3:57.19	Belgrade, Serbia	19 March 2022
World leading[3]		3:53.92	Toruń, Poland	8 February 2025

For the women's 1500 metres, the qualification period ran from 1 September 2024 until 9 March 2025.^[4] Athletes qualified by achieving the entry standards of 4:03.00 or 4:22.50 in the mile.^[5] Athletes were also able to qualify by virtue of their World Athletics Ranking for the event or by virtue of their World Athletics Indoor Tour wildcard.^[4] There was a target number of 30 athletes.^[5]

The heats took place on 21 March, starting at 18:33 (UTC+8) in the evening.^[6] The first 3 of each heat (Q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia	4:11.87	Q
2	Sinclaire Johnson	United States	4:12.18	Q
3	Susan Ejore	Kenya	4:12.41	Q
4	Simone Plourde	Canada	4:13.97
5	Sintayehu Vissa	Italy	4:14.25
6	Joceline Wind	Switzerland	4:17.81
7	Anita Poma [de]	Peru	4:21.77	NR
8	July da Silva Fereira [de]	Brazil	4:22.24	PB
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Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Georgia Bell	Great Britain	4:09.21	Q
2	Georgia Griffith	Australia	4:09.78	Q, PB
3	Esther Guerrero	Spain	4:09.90	Q
4	Worknesh Mesele	Ethiopia	4:10.61
5	Gabija Galvydytė	Lithuania	4:11.69
6	Maia Ramsden	New Zealand	4:14.89
7	Vera Sjöberg	Sweden	4:17.35
8	María Pía Fernández	Uruguay	4:21.39	SB
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Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Diribe Welteji	Ethiopia	4:12.25	Q
2	Heather MacLean	United States	4:13.26	Q
3	Salomé Afonso	Portugal	4:13.39	Q
4	Lucia Stafford	Canada	4:13.45
5	Revée Walcott-Nolan	Great Britain	4:15.76
6	Sophie O'Sullivan	Ireland	4:16.68	PB
7	Claire Uwitonze	Rwanda	4:17.33	NR
8	Laura Nagel	New Zealand	4:18.61	PB
9	Xu Hui	China	4:33.65
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The final took place on 23 March, starting at 20:28 (UTC+8) in the evening.^[6]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Gudaf Tsegay	Ethiopia	3:54.86	CR
	Diribe Welteji	Ethiopia	3:59.30
	Georgia Bell	Great Britain	3:59.84	PB
4	Georgia Griffith	Australia	4:00.80	AR
5	Susan Lokayo Ejore	Kenya	4:03.89
6	Sinclaire Johnson	United States	4:04.07	PB
7	Heather MacLean	United States	4:05.45
8	Salomé Afonso	Portugal	4:07.67
9	Esther Guerrero	Spain	4:07.76
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