1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres

1990 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
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
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Road events
20 km	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
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 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Deveti Septemvri Stadium on 11 and 12 August.^[1][2]

Medalists

Gold	Qu Yunxia  China
Silver	Claudia Mirela Bortoi  Romania
Bronze	Malin Ewerlöf  Sweden

Results

Final

12 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Qu Yunxia	China	4:13.67
	Claudia Mirela Bortoi	Romania	4:14.19
	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	4:14.61
4	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4:15.29
5	Liu Li	China	4:17.81
6	Céline Martin	France	4:18.04
7	Yelena Mostovaya	Soviet Union	4:18.10
8	Suzy Walsham	Australia	4:19.23
9	Olga Yegorova	Soviet Union	4:19.90
10	Marina Bastos	Portugal	4:20.92
11	Caroline Kwambai	Kenya	4:22.08
12	Egigayehu Worku	Ethiopia	4:22.89
13	Natalie Tait	United Kingdom	4:28.80
14	Anna Gunasekera	Canada	4:31.50
15	Najat Ouali	Morocco	4:34.72

Heats

11 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Liu Li	China	4:22.53	Q
2	Claudia Mirela Bortoi	Romania	4:22.60	Q
3	Marina Bastos	Portugal	4:23.27	Q
4	Suzy Walsham	Australia	4:23.66	Q
5	Egigayehu Worku	Ethiopia	4:23.89	q
6	Claire Forbes	United Kingdom	4:24.36
7	Olga Sheleva	Bulgaria	4:24.72
8	Christine Stief	West Germany	4:25.24
9	Maria Teresa Tonziello	Italy	4:31.23
10	Melrose Mansaray	Sierra Leone	4:46.03
11	Khadija Mohamed	Somalia	5:02.16

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Céline Martin	France	4:22.15	Q
2	Qu Yunxia	China	4:22.44	Q
3	Yelena Mostovaya	Soviet Union	4:22.50	Q
4	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4:22.82	Q
5	Najat Ouali	Morocco	4:23.96	q
6	Caroline Kwambai	Kenya	4:24.19	q
7	Sinéad Delahunty	Ireland	4:27.15
8	Emebet Shiferaw	Ethiopia	4:31.00
9	Elizabeth Tungaraza	Tanzania	4:49.89

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Natalie Tait	United Kingdom	4:25.98	Q
2	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	4:26.01	Q
3	Olga Yegorova	Soviet Union	4:26.29	Q
4	Anna Gunasekera	Canada	4:27.28	Q
5	Lina Chesire	Kenya	4:27.30
6	Katja Kowald	West Germany	4:27.35
7	Liliana Salageanu	Romania	4:29.39
8	Irma Betancourt	Mexico	4:29.60
9	Yumi Osaki	Japan	4:29.66
10	Alena Gresaková	Czechoslovakia	4:30.89
11	Monica Samila	Tanzania	4:54.22

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 31 athletes from 22 countries participated in the event.

References