# 1995 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 1500 metres

These are the results of the Women's 1500 metres event at the 1995 World Championships in Athletics in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Gone were the Chinese sensations of two years earlier, not a single representative in this field, their only distance running representative in these championships incapable of making a final. The start of the final was aggressive but slow as many elbows were flying as athletes maneuvered for position at a slow pace. 1991 champion and Olympic champion Hassiba Boulmerka wanted to go into her customary second spot but found it difficult to find a leader. After 200 meters, Yvonne Graham ran around the crowd to self nominate herself into the lead, followed by Boulmerka. The leaders remained in that position for a kilometer, with the chasers right behind jockeying for position. Entering the final lap, Kelly Holmes had positioned herself in third place. Crossing the start line for the final time, the fireworks began. Boulmerka ran past Graham with Holmes less than a metre behind. With 200 to go, Boulmerka and Holmes were running stride for stride, Holmes on the outside of the turn. Carla Sacramento was the next chaser and the medalists were decided with a breakaway. By the end of the turn, Boulmerka had won the battle, but she pulled into lane 2. Holmes lined herself up in lane 1 to make a run at Boulmerka, but instead the gap kept slowly widening. The winning margin was 0.62 seconds.

## Medalists

| Gold | Hassiba Boulmerka Algeria (ALG) |
| Silver | Kelly Holmes Great Britain (GBR) |
| Bronze | Carla Sacramento Portugal (POR) |

## Results
### Heats

First 6 of each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Hassiba Boulmerka | Algeria | 4:11.34 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Kelly Holmes | Great Britain | 4:11.87 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Lyudmila Borisova | Russia | 4:12.07 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Sarah Thorsett | United States | 4:12.10 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Carla Sacramento | Portugal | 4:12.12 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Maite Zúñiga | Spain | 4:12.13 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Petya Strashilova | Bulgaria | 4:13.27 | q |
| 8 | 1 | Maria Akraka | Sweden | 4:13.38 | q |
| 9 | 3 | Yvonne Graham | Jamaica | 4:13.70 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | Margarita Marusova | Russia | 4:13.91 | Q |
| 11 | 3 | Ruth Wysocki | United States | 4:13.93 | Q |
| 12 | 3 | Anna Brzezińska | Poland | 4:14.34 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | Theresia Kiesl | Austria | 4:14.52 | Q |
| 14 | 3 | Leah Pells | Canada | 4:14.69 | Q |
| 15 | 1 | Julia Sakara | Zimbabwe | 4:15.02 | q |
| 16 | 3 | Blandine Bitzner-Ducret | France | 4:16.21 | q |
| 17 | 2 | Kutre Dulecha | Ethiopia | 4:17.70 | Q |
| 18 | 2 | Lyudmila Rogachova | Russia | 4:18.14 | Q |
| 19 | 2 | Małgorzata Rydz | Poland | 4:18.40 | Q |
| 20 | 2 | Suzy Hamilton | United States | 4:18.49 | Q |
| 21 | 3 | Marta Domínguez | Spain | 4:18.61 | q |
| 22 | 2 | Angela Chalmers | Canada | 4:18.77 | Q |
| 23 | 2 | Frederique Quentin | France | 4:18.86 | Q |
| 24 | 2 | Yelena Bychkovskaya | Belarus | 4:18.97 | q |
| 25 | 2 | Svetlana Miroshnik | Ukraine | 4:19.12 | |
| 26 | 3 | Bigna Samuel | Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 4:25.94 | |
| 27 | 2 | Khin Khin Htwe | Myanmar | 4:26.69 | |
| 28 | 3 | Nompumelelo Zwane | Swaziland | 4:49.32 | |
| 29 | 2 | Rosemary Omundsen | Papua New Guinea | 4:51.86 | |
| 30 | 1 | Nirmala Bharati | Nepal | 4:53.60 | |

### Semifinals

First 5 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 2 | Małgorzata Rydz | Poland | 4:08.70 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Lyudmila Rogachova | Russia | 4:08.72 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Lyudmila Borisova | Russia | 4:08.83 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Angela Chalmers | Canada | 4:08.92 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Ruth Wysocki | United States | 4:09.03 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Hassiba Boulmerka | Algeria | 4:09.13 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Kelly Holmes | Great Britain | 4:09.15 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | Maite Zúñiga | Spain | 4:09.61 | q |
| 9 | 2 | Yvonne Graham | Jamaica | 4:09.62 | q |
| 10 | 1 | Carla Sacramento | Portugal | 4:10.03 | Q |
| 11 | 2 | Suzy Hamilton | United States | 4:10.28 | |
| 12 | 1 | Anna Brzezińska | Poland | 4:10.75 | Q |
| 13 | 1 | Margarita Marusova | Russia | 4:10.92 | Q |
| 14 | 1 | Blandine Bitzner-Ducret | France | 4:11.11 | |
| 15 | 1 | Petya Strashilova | Bulgaria | 4:11.62 | |
| 16 | 2 | Frederique Quentin | France | 4:11.66 | |
| 17 | 2 | Kutre Dulecha | Ethiopia | 4:11.86 | |
| 18 | 1 | Leah Pells | Canada | 4:12.07 | |
| 19 | 1 | Sarah Thorsett | United States | 4:12.26 | |
| 20 | 1 | Theresia Kiesl | Austria | 4:12.31 | |
| 21 | 1 | Maria Akraka | Sweden | 4:13.16 | |
| 22 | 2 | Yelena Bychkovskaya | Belarus | 4:15.99 | |
| 23 | 2 | Julia Sakara | Zimbabwe | 4:16.67 | |
| 24 | 1 | Marta Domínguez | Spain | 4:18.72 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Hassiba Boulmerka | Algeria | 4:02.42 |
| | Kelly Holmes | Great Britain | 4:03.04 |
| | Carla Sacramento | Portugal | 4:03.79 |
| 4 | Angela Chalmers | Canada | 4:04.74 |
| 5 | Lyudmila Borisova | Russia | 4:04.78 |
| 6 | Anna Brzezińska | Poland | 4:05.65 |
| 7 | Ruth Wysocki | United States | 4:07.08 |
| 8 | Maite Zúñiga | Spain | 4:07.27 |
| 9 | Lyudmila Rogachova | Russia | 4:07.83 |
| 10 | Yvonne Graham | Jamaica | 4:08.01 |
| 11 | Margarita Marusova | Russia | 4:11.64 |
| 12 | Małgorzata Rydz | Poland | 4:20.83 |