Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade – Women's 1500 metres

The women's 1500 metres event at the 1973 Summer Universiade was held at the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow with the final on 17 August.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] It was the first time that this event was contested by women at the Uniersiade.

Results

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Paola Pigni-Cacchi	Italy	4:10.69
	Glenda Reiser	Canada	4:12.50
	Tonka Petrova	Bulgaria	4:13.50
4	Thelma Wright	Canada	4:13.82
5	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	4:14.22	^[5]
6	Norine Braithwaite	Great Britain	4:15.30
7	Skaidrite Velberga	Soviet Union	4:18.97	^[5]
8	Margherita Gargano	Italy	4:21.8
9	Izabela Mróz	Poland	4:24.5
10	Enriqueta Nava	Mexico	4:24.55
11	Marie-Françoise Dubois	France	4:25.64	^[6]
12	Kathy Gibbons	United States	4:26.4
13	Francie Larrieu	United States	4:29.8
14	Sylvia Schenk	West Germany	4:31.04
15	Yolande Roche	France	4:32.08	^[6]
16	Charlotte Bradley	Mexico	4:35.12
17	Geertje Meersseman	Belgium	4:40.4

^ "Results". Poughkeepsie Journal. 18 August 1973. p. 16. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
^ "Results". Spokane Chronicle. 18 August 1973. p. 10. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
^ "Nur ein Finale ohne einheimische Athleten" [Only one final without local athletes]. Leichtathletik (in German). 35/1973. Bartels & Wernitz: 1250–1251. 28 August 1973. ISSN 0343-5369.
^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ ^a ^b Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p127)
^ ^a ^b French results

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