Athletics at the 2005 Summer Universiade – Women's 1500 metres

The women's 1500 metres event at the 2005 Summer Universiade was held on 16–18 August in İzmir, Turkey.

The winning margin was 0.04 seconds which as of 2024 is the narrowest winning margin in the women's 1500 metres at these games.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Olesya Syreva Russia	Tetyana Holovchenko Ukraine	Liu Qing China

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Lisa Dobriskey	Great Britain	4:12.38	Q
2	1	Liu Qing	China	4:13.50	Q
3	1	Hilary Stellingwerff	Canada	4:14.05	Q
4	1	Mariem Alaoui Selsouli	Morocco	4:15.64	q
5	1	Jolene Byrne	Ireland	4:15.64	q
6	3	Olesya Syreva	Russia	4:17.25	Q
7	3	Sviatlana Kouhan	Belarus	4:17.35	Q
8	3	Tetyana Holovchenko	Ukraine	4:18.21	Q
9	3	Rebecca Forlong	New Zealand	4:20.12	q
10	2	Sonja Stolić	Serbia and Montenegro	4:22.04	Q
11	2	Sonja Roman	Slovenia	4:23.47	Q
12	2	Sara Palmas	Italy	4:25.36	Q
13	2	Darolyn Trembath	Canada	4:26.17
14	3	Arzu Berk	Turkey	4:26.36
15	3	Marilena Sophocleous	Cyprus	4:27.12	NJR
16	3	Grace Ebor	Nigeria	4:28.17
17	2	Rini Budiarti	Indonesia	4:30.70
18	1	Louise Mørch	Denmark	4:33.59
19	2	Gabriela Traña	Costa Rica	4:38.30
20	2	Akuvi Degbotse-Goe	Togo	5:10.61
21	2	Fati Larley	Ghana	5:14.71
22	3	Argianany Nahr	Netherlands Antilles	5:33.26
	1	Lívia Tóth	Hungary	DNF

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Olesya Syreva	Russia	4:12.69
	Tetyana Holovchenko	Ukraine	4:12.73
	Liu Qing	China	4:12.76
4	Sviatlana Kouhan	Belarus	4:13.06
5	Lisa Dobriskey	Great Britain	4:13.28
6	Jolene Byrne	Ireland	4:14.32
7	Hilary Stellingwerff	Canada	4:16.78
8	Sonja Stolić	Serbia and Montenegro	4:17.57
9	Sonja Roman	Slovenia	4:18.71
10	Mariem Alaoui Selsouli	Morocco	4:18.81
11	Rebecca Forlong	New Zealand	4:22.78
12	Sara Palmas	Italy	4:25.61

References

• Finals results
• Full results