1969 European Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres

Women's 1500 metres at the European Athletics Championships

1969 European Athletics Championships
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
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
v t e

The women's 1500 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 19 and 20 September 1969.^[1]

Gold	Jaroslava Jehličková  Czechoslovakia
Silver	Maria Gommers  Netherlands
Bronze	Paola Pigni  Italy

20 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jaroslava Jehličková	Czechoslovakia	4:10.77	WR
	Maria Gommers	Netherlands	4:11.9	NR
	Paola Pigni	Italy	4:12.0	NR
4	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4:13.2	NR
5	Ilja Keizer	Netherlands	4:13.3
6	Regina Kleinau	East Germany	4:15.2	NR
7	Rita Ridley	Great Britain	4:15.9	NR
8	Anne-Marie Nenzell	Sweden	4:16.6	NR
9	Anneloes Bosman	Netherlands	4:17.6
10	Alla Kolesnikova	Soviet Union	4:18.2
11	Gunhild Hoffmeister	East Germany	4:23.2
12	Emília Přivřelová	Czechoslovakia	4:32.8

19 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Paola Pigni	Italy	4:17.2	CR Q
2	Rita Ridley	Great Britain	4:18.2	Q
3	Lyudmila Bragina	Soviet Union	4:18.3	Q
4	Gunhild Hoffmeister	East Germany	4:18.4	Q
5	Ilja Keizer	Netherlands	4:18.6	Q
6	Emília Přivřelová	Czechoslovakia	4:19.0	Q
7	Lyudmila Safonova	Soviet Union	4:21.3
8	Vasilena Amzina	Bulgaria	4:22.2
9	Maria Linca	Romania	4:24.6
10	Zofia Kołakowska	Poland	4:25.4
11	Anne O'Brien	Ireland

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Maria Gommers	Netherlands	4:17.9	Q
2	Anneloes Bosman	Netherlands	4:18.1	Q
3	Alla Kolesnikova	Soviet Union	4:19.1	Q
4	Regina Kleinau	East Germany	4:21.5	Q
5	Anne-Marie Nenzell	Sweden	4:22.2	Q
6	Jaroslava Jehličková	Czechoslovakia	4:28.4	Q
7	María Budavári	Hungary	4:31.6
8	Thelwyn Bateman	Great Britain	4:35.2
9	Angela Ramello	Italy	4:36.6
10	Veselinka Milošević	Yugoslavia	4:36.9
	Waltraud Pöhland	East Germany	DNF

According to an unofficial count, 22 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.