Women's 1500 metres at the Games of the XXII Olympiad
Venue	Lenin Central Stadium
Date	31 July 1980 (heats) 1 August 1980 (final)
Competitors	26 from 16 nations
Winning time	3:56.6 OR
Medalists
Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union Christiane Wartenberg  East Germany Nadezhda Olizarenko  Soviet Union
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Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

These are the official results of the women's 1,500m metres event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union. There were a total number of 26 participating athletes, with the final was held on Friday 1980-08-01.^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	3:56.6 OR
	Christiane Wartenberg	East Germany	3:57.8
	Nadezhda Olizarenko	Soviet Union	3:59.6
4	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:00.3
5	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	4:00.7
6	Lyubov Smolka	Soviet Union	4:01.3
7	Maricica Puică	Romania	4:01.3
8	Ileana Silai	Romania	4:03.0
9	Natalia Mărășescu	Romania	4:04.8

• Held on Wednesday 1980-07-30

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	3:59.2 OR
2	Nadezhda Olizarenko	Soviet Union	3:59.5
3	Christiane Wartenberg	East Germany	4:00.4
4	Ulrike Bruns	East Germany	4:01.6
5	Maricica Puică	Romania	4:01.7
6	Vesela Yatsinska	Bulgaria	4:04.7
7	Cornelia Bürki	Switzerland	4:05.5
8	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	4:13.8
9	Janet Marlow	Great Britain	4:15.9
10.	Amsale Woldegibriel	Ethiopia	4:25.3
11.	Marcellina Emmanuel	Tanzania	4:26.8
12.	Albertine Rahéliarisoa	Madagascar	4:30.8
13.	Margaret Morel	Seychelles	4:37.9

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Lyubov Smolka	Soviet Union	4:04.4
2	Ileana Silai	Romania	4:04.7
3	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	4:05.0
4	Natalia Mărășescu	Romania	4:05.9
5	Anna Bukis	Poland	4:06.0
6	Beate Liebich	East Germany	4:06.8
7	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	4:08.3
8	Breda Pergar	Yugoslavia	4:13.2
9	Agnese Possamai	Italy	4:14.7
10.	Mwinga Mwanjala	Tanzania	4:20.9
11.	Trịnh Thị Bé	Vietnam	4:38.6
—	Hala El-Moughrabi	Syria	DNS
—	Geeta Zutshi	India	DNS

• 1976 Women's Olympic 1,500 metres (Montreal)
• 1978 Women's European Championships 1,500 metres (Prague)
• 1982 Women's European Championships 1,500 metres (Athens)
• 1983 Women's World Championships 1,500 metres (Helsinki)
• 1984 Women's Olympic 1,500 metres (Los Angeles)

• Results^[usurped]
• Results