2002 European Athletics Championships – Women's 1500 metres

The women's 1500 metres at the 2002 European Athletics Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 9–11.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Süreyya Ayhan Turkey	Gabriela Szabo Romania	Tatyana Tomashova Russia

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Süreyya Ayhan	Turkey	4:04.42	Q
2	3	Tatyana Tomashova	Russia	4:05.04	Q
3	3	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	4:05.14	Q
4	3	Nuria Fernández	Spain	4:05.42	Q
5	3	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4:05.70	q
6	3	Alesia Turava	Belarus	4:05.75	q
7	3	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4:05.78	q
8	1	Judit Varga	Hungary	4:07.71	Q
9	1	Daniela Yordanova	Bulgaria	4:07.76	Q
10	1	Iris Fuentes-Pila	Spain	4:07.89	Q
11	1	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	4:08.11
12	2	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4:08.89	Q
13	2	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain	4:08.91	Q
14	2	Kathleen Friedrich	Germany	4:08.98
15	1	Elena Iagăr	Romania	4:09.37
16	2	Helen Pattinson	Great Britain	4:09.66
17	2	Lena Nilsson	Sweden	4:09.89
18	3	Hayley Tullett	Great Britain	4:10.68
19	2	Veerle Dejaeghere	Belgium	4:10.88
20	1	Yekaterina Puzanova	Russia	4:11.49
21	1	Maria Tsirba	Germany	4:12.75
22	1	Trine Pilskog	Norway	4:13.84
23	3	Maria Lynch	Ireland	4:14.41
24	3	Heidi Jensen	Denmark	4:16.01
25	1	Rasa Drazdauskaitė	Lithuania	4:16.80
25	3	Kristin Roset	Norway	4:17.40
26	1	Anjolie Wisse	Netherlands	4:17.89
27	2	Geraldine Hendricken	Ireland	4:18.13
28	2	Helena Javornik	Slovenia	4:18.46
29	2	Lívia Tóth	Hungary	4:19.53
30	3	Sonja Roman	Slovenia	4:19.87
31	2	Sara Palmas	Italy	4:28.31

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Süreyya Ayhan	Turkey	3:58.79	NR
	Gabriela Szabo	Romania	3:58.81
	Tatyana Tomashova	Russia	4:01.28	PB
4	Judit Varga	Hungary	4:02.37
5	Daniela Yordanova	Bulgaria	4:03.03
6	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain	4:06.15
7	Alesia Turava	Belarus	4:06.64
8	Nuria Fernández	Spain	4:07.11
9	Lidia Chojecka	Poland	4:10.56
10	Iryna Lishchynska	Ukraine	4:11.70
11	Iris Fuentes-Pila	Spain	4:13.02
12	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	4:17.01