2003 European Athletics U23 Championships – Women's 1500 metres

2003 European Athletics U23 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	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
20 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 1500 metres event at the 2003 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Bydgoszcz, Poland, at Zawisza Stadion on 17 and 19 July.^[1][2][3][4]

Gold	Olesya Chumakova  Russia
Silver	Lisa Dobriskey  United Kingdom
Bronze	Ingvill Måkestad  Norway

19 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Olesya Chumakova	Russia	4:11.75
	Lisa Dobriskey	United Kingdom	4:12.95
	Ingvill Måkestad	Norway	4:13.58
4	Johanna Nilsson	Sweden	4:13.64
5	Christina Carruzzo	Switzerland	4:15.15
6	Yelena Soboleva	Russia	4:15.22
7	Marina Munćan	Serbia and Montenegro	4:15.32
8	Natalie Lewis	United Kingdom	4:15.47
9	Irene Alfonso	Spain	4:15.55
10	Julie Coulaud	France	4:18.09
11	Louise Whittaker	United Kingdom	4:22.93
	Rasa Drazdauskaitė	Lithuania	DQ†	Doping

^†: Rasa Drazdauskaitė ranked initially 2nd (4:12.16), but was disqualified for infringement of IAAF doping rules.^[5]

17 July
Qualified: first 4 in each heat and 4 best to the Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Louise Whittaker	United Kingdom	4:15.31	Q
2	Yelena Soboleva	Russia	4:15.37	Q
3	Lisa Dobriskey	United Kingdom	4:15.43	Q
4	Julie Coulaud	France	4:15.68	q
5	Iryna Vashchuk	Ukraine	4:15.98
6	Nastassia Staravoitava	Belarus	4:16.01
7	Katarzyna Czubska	Poland	4:18.13
8	Ragnhild Kvarberg	Norway	4:19.19
9	Joanna Podolska	Poland	4:19.65
10	Daniela Cîmpanu	Romania	4:23.45
11	Daniela Kuleska	North Macedonia	4:24.90
12	Kajsa Haglund	Sweden	4:28.05
	Rasa Drazdauskaitė	Lithuania	DQ	Q†

^†: Rasa Drazdauskaitė initially reached the final (4:14.90), but was disqualified later for infringement of IAAF doping rules.^[5]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Olesya Chumakova	Russia	4:13.79	Q
2	Natalie Lewis	United Kingdom	4:14.10	Q
3	Ingvill Måkestad	Norway	4:15.11	Q
4	Marina Munćan	Serbia and Montenegro	4:15.28	Q
5	Irene Alfonso	Spain	4:15.43	q
6	Christina Carruzzo	Switzerland	4:15.88	q
7	Johanna Nilsson	Sweden	4:15.95	q
8	Monika Augustin-Vogel	Switzerland	4:16.28
9	Angela Rinicella	Italy	4:16.67
10	Irina Latve	Latvia	4:19.09
11	Corine van Beek	Netherlands	4:21.10
12	Mieke Geens	Belgium	4:27.68

According to an unofficial count, 25 athletes from 18 countries participated in the event.