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unusual facts about 1500 metres


Atsushi Sato

Sato began running at an early age and represented his junior and senior high schools in Aizuwakamatsu in the 1500 metres and 5000 metres.


Abebech Negussie

Abebech Negussie (born 2 January 1983 in Arsi) is a retired Ethiopian middle distance runner, who specialized in 1500 metres.

Andrey Loginov

Andrey Loginov (born 3 March 1972 in Tiraspol, Moldovan SSR) is a retired Russian middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 and 1500 metres.

Branko Zorko

Branko Zorko (born July 1, 1967 in Hodošan) is a Croatian retired middle distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres discipline and competed at an international level throughout the 1990s.

Daniel Kipchirchir Komen

Daniel Kipchirchir Komen (born November 27, 1984 in Chemorgong, Koibatek District) is a Kenyan middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.

Daniela Yordanova

Daniela Yordanova (born 8 March 1976 in Slivnitsa) is a Bulgarian middle distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres.

Dream Mile

The term "Dream Mile" is also used to describe several other major athletics events, notably the 1974 Commonwealth Games 1500 metres race ("metric mile") fought out between Filbert Bayi and John Walker in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Genet Gebregiorgis

She won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres at the 1995 All-Africa Games held in Harare.

Gideon Gathimba

His personal best times are 3:33.63 minutes in the 1500 metres, achieved in June 2008 in Rabat; 3:52.98 minutes in the mile run, achieved in June 2009 in Ostrava; and 7:49.65 minutes in the 3000 metres (indoor), achieved in January 2009 in Glasgow.

Klaus-Peter Justus

Klaus-Peter Justus (born 1 July 1951 in Königsee, Thuringia) is a retired East German middle distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres.

Leandro de Oliveira

Leandro Prates de Oliveira (born 2 February 1982 in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia) is a Brazilian track and field athlete who specialises in the 1500 metres.

Lucas Rotich

His personal best times are 3:43.64 minutes in the 1500 metres, achieved in May 2008 in Rehlingen; 7:35.57 minutes in the 3000 metres, achieved in May 2011 in Doha; 12:55.06 minutes in the 5000 metres from the 2010 Bislett Games; and 26:43.98 minutes in the 10,000 metres, achieved in September 2011 at the Brussels Diamond League meeting.

Lucy Wangui Kabuu

While in Japan, she won the 1500 metres at the high school championships and, after graduation in 2002, she commenced training with the Suzuki Track and Field Club.

Rüdiger Stenzel

He came second in the 1992 German championships behind Jens-Peter Herold thus qualifying for the Olympic 1500 metres competition where he went out before the final.

William Chirchir

William Chirchir (born 6 February 1979 in Bomet) is a Kenyan runner (Kipsigis tribe) who specializes in the 1500 metres.


see also

Alex Kipchirchir

In August, he completed a 800 and 1500 metres double at the 2006 African Championships in Athletics in Bambous, Mauritius.

Arsik

Andaliman, essential for the distinctive taste of the dish, is known to grow only in the Batak highlands above 1500 metres of North Tapanuli and Samosir, hence this dish is regarded as specifically of the Batak Toba and Mandailing, who dwell in these areas.

Australia at the 1900 Summer Olympics

When the last of the other nine competitors (the United Kingdom and France were the only nations to send teams) finished, Rowley was still 1500 metres from the finish; officials allowed him to retire and claim 10th place at that point.

Colwell Bay

The bay's northernmost point is Cliff's End (Fort Albert) the closest point of the Island to the British mainland, with Hurst Castle lying at the end of a long peninsula just 1500 metres (a little less than a mile) to the northwest.

Esther Wanjiru

Wanjiru became the first Kenyan woman to win Commonwealth Games gold medal, although Jackline Maranga won 1500 metres later at the same games.

Goran Nava

Later in his career he began to race more often in the indoor 1500 metres, competing in the European Indoor Championships in 2011 and 2013.

Haron Keitany

In 2008, he won 1500 metres races at the African Championships, the IAAF Golden League meeting of Weltklasse Zürich, and World Athletics Final.

Karl Fleschen

He holds the current world record in the rarely contested 4 x 1500 metres relay (14:38.8 minutes with Thomas Wessinghage, Harald Hudak and Michael Lederer).

Kipkoech Cheruiyot

He represented Kenya at the Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics and finished 7th in the men's 1500 metres race, which was won by his compatriot Peter Rono.

Mount Buffalo National Park

The majority of the plateau is at an elevation of 1500 metres (5000 ft), where inverted treelines in valley bottoms give rise to grasslands, with bog and fen communities of Sphagnum and Empodisma in watercourses.

Paulien van Deutekom

During her first ever World Cup meeting in the Olympic Oval in Calgary she skated a new Dutch record over 1500 metres, skating 1:55.43, overtaking the record from Annamarie Thomas.

Ryan Gregson

He improved his personal best over 1500 metres by more than four seconds to 3:31.06 and finished 5th, beating among others former World Champion and Olympic medalist Bernard Lagat and breaking Simon Doyle's 19-year-old Australian and Oceanian record.

Shireen Bailey

She did earn selection for the 1990 Commonwealth Games in Auckland, where she finished eighth in the 1500 metres final in 4:13.31.

Tashir

It is 42 km north of the provincial centre Vanadzor, in a valley on the road Stepanavan-Tbilisi highway, at a height of 1500 metres above sea level.

World record progression 1500 metres freestyle

The first world record in the men's 1500 metres freestyle in a long course (50 metres) swimming pool was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1908.