The women's 1500 metres at the 2012 European Athletics Championships were held at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium on 30 June and 1 July.

The dirtiest race in history In this race, the first four classified were disqualified for doping, meaning the medals went to the athletes who reached the finish line in 5th to 7th place.

On 25 February 2016, the IAAF announced that Mischenko, the silver medal winner, had been found to have irregularities in her biological passport. She was banned from competition for two years until 17 August 2017, and all her results since June 28, 2012 were deleted from the records, including the silver medal won in this event.Positive cases in athletics iaaf.org 19 February 2016

After the disqualifications, Nuria Fernández of Spain was declared the winner of the event.

Medalists Gold Nuria FernándezSilver Diana SujewBronze Tereza Čapková

Records Standing records prior to the 2012 European Athletics ChampionshipsWorld record3:50.46Beijing, China11 September 1993European record3:52.47Zürich, Switzerland13 August 1980Championship record3:56.91Gothenburg, Sweden13 August 2006World Leading3:56.54Rome, Italy31 May 2012European Leading3:59.61Moscow, Russia13 June 2012

Schedule Date Time Round 30 June 2012 12:10 Round 1 1 July 2012 16:10 Final

Results

Round 1 First 4 in each heat (Q) and 4 best performers (q) advance to the Final. Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Note 1 Anna Mishchenko 4:08.95 Q, Doping 1 Aslı Çakır Alptekin 4:09.44 Q, Doping 1 Kristina Khaleyeva 4:09.69 Q, Doping 2 1 Isabel Macías 4:10.06 Q 3 1 Tereza Čapková 4:10.22 q 4 1 Diana Sujew 4:10.72 q 2 Ekaterina Gorbunova 4:11.58 Q, Doping 5 2 Corinna Harrer 4:11.59 Q 2 Gamze Bulut 4:11.68 Q, Doping 6 2 Nuria Fernández 4:11.77 Q 7 2 Ingvill Måkestad Bovim 4:11.97 q 8 1 Marina Munćan 4:12.33 q 9 2 Luiza Gega 4:12.54 10 1 Hind Dehiba 4:12.79 SB 11 1 Denise Krebs 4:12.85 12 1 Ioana Doaga 4:13.73 13 1 Angelika Cichocka 4:14.59 14 2 Johanna Lehtinen 4:14.83 SB 15 2 Iris Fuentes-Pila 4:15.95 16 2 Sonja Roman 4:16.68 2 Anzhela Shevchenko 4:17.41 Doping 17 1 Ciara Mageean 4:19.23 18 2 Tuğba Karakaya 4:19.58 SB 19 2 Orla Drumm 4:19.61 20 2 Lidia Chojecka 4:20.66 1 Charlene Thomas Stepping off the track

Final Rank Name Nationality Time Note Aslı Çakır Alptekin 4:05.31 Doping Gamze Bulut 4:06.04 Doping Anna Mishchenko 4:07.74 Doping Ekaterina Gorbunova 4:08.63 Doping Nuria Fernández 4:08.80 SB Diana Sujew 4:09.28 Tereza Čapková 4:10.17 Kristina Khaleyeva 4:10.26 Doping Corinna Harrer 4:10.38 Isabel Macías 4:11.12 Ingvill Måkestad Bovim 4:13.32 Marina Munćan 4:15.63

References

Round 1 Results Final Results European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 Full results