The women's 1500 metres at the 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on the short track of Omnisport in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, on 6 and 7 March 2025. This was the 37th time the event was contested at the European Athletics Indoor Championships. Athletes can qualify by achieving the entry standard or by their World Athletics Ranking in the event.
Round 1 is scheduled for 6 March during the evening session. The final is scheduled for 7 March during the evening session.
Background The women's 1500 metres was contested 36 times before 2025, held every time since the second edition of the European Athletics Indoor Championships (1971–2023).András Szabó, "Statistics Handbook", pp. 6 and 322–323, European Athletics. Retrieved 21 November 2024. The 2025 European Athletics Indoor Championships will be held in Omnisport Apeldoorn in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. The removable indoor athletics track was retopped for these championships in September 2024.
Gudaf Tsegay is the world record holder in the event, with a time of 3:53.09 set in 2021. Abeba Aregawi is the European record holder with a time of 3:57.91, set in 2014. The championship record is held by Laura Muir, set at the 2017 championships. Muir is also the defending European Indoor champion.
+Records before the 2025 European Athletics Indoor ChampionshipsRecordAthlete (nation) (s)LocationDateWorld record"All time Top lists – Senior – 1500 Metres women", World Athletics. Retrieved 13 January 2025.3:53.09Liévin, France9 February 2021European record3:57.91Stockholm, Sweden6 February 2014Championship record4:02.39Belgrade, Serbia4 March 2017World leading"Season Top Lists – Senior 2025 – 1500 Metres Short Track women", World Athletics, 2025. Retrieved 6 February 2025.3:53.92Toruń, Poland16 February 2025European leading4:00.63Birmingham, Great Britain15 February 2025
Qualification For the women's 1500 metres, the qualification period runs from 25 February 2024 until 23 February 2025."Qualification System and Entry Standards", European Athletics, 29 October 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024. Athletes can qualify by achieving the entry standards of 4:08.00 s indoors or 4:02.00 s outdoor, or by virtue of their World Athletics Ranking for the event. There is a target number of 27 athletes.
Rounds Round 1 Round 1 was held on 6 March, starting at 19:10 (UTC+1) in the evening."Competition schedule – European Athletics Indoor Championships Apeldoorn 2025", European Athletics, 15 February 2024. Retrieved 21 November 2024. First 3 in each heat () qualify for the final. Heat 1 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Bérénice Cleyet-Merle 4:13.51 2 Weronika Lizakowska 4:13.51 3 Patricia Silva 4:13.93 4 Marina Martínez 4:14.86 5 Elise Vanderelst 4:16.68 6 Ava Lloyd 4:18.74 7 Hannah Anderson 4:22.98 8 Koraini Kyriakopoulou 4:25.82
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Georgia Bell 4:11.31 2 Agathe Guillemot 4:11.52 3 Salomé Afonso 4:11.82 4 Kristiina Sasínek Mäki 4:12.60 5 Sofia Thøgersen 4:14.02 6 Suus Altorf 4:15.09 7 Ingeborg Østgård 4:22.98
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Esther Guerrero 4:14.21 2 Revée Walcott-Nolan 4:14.38 3 Joceline Wind 4:14.51 4 Marissa Damink 4:15.16 5 Diana Mezuliáníková 4:18.29 6 Anne Gine Løvnes 4:18.50 7 Marta Zenoni 4:19.50
Final The final was held on 7 March, starting at 21:00 (UTC+1) in the evening. Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes Agathe Guillemot 4:07.23 Salomé Afonso 4:07.66 Revée Walcott-Nolan 4:08.45 4 Georgia Bell 4:08.45 5 Esther Guerrero 4:09.45 6 Weronika Lizakowska 4:09.64 7 Patricia Silva 4:09.97 8 Joceline Wind 4:10.42 9 Bérénice Cleyet-Merle 4:10.60
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