1500 m (indoor), women

What to remember

Seven and a half laps of a 200 m indoor track: that is the indoor 1500 m. In Liévin on February 9, 2021, at the Meeting Hauts-de-France Pas-de-Calais, Ethiopia's Gudaf Tsegay ran it in 3 min 53.09 s, an average of 23.167 km/h (14.395 mph).

Nicknamed "the metric mile", the distance asks for slightly more endurance than the 800 m and slightly less pure speed. Tsegay has shown wide range: she became world indoor 1500 m champion in Belgrade in 2022, after a bronze in 2016, then world 5000 m champion in Eugene the same year and world 10,000 m champion in 2023.

Over 5000 m she held the world record from 2023 to 2025, and she had also won Olympic bronze over that distance at the Tokyo Games. In the outdoor 1500 m, her world championship medals include bronze in 2019 and silver in 2022.