Women · World record

1500 Metres

The current record and its documented progression: 17 ratified records from 1967 to 2025, plus 13 earlier marks recorded before the IAAF began ratifying records.

Current record

3:48.68

Faith KipyegonKENEugene · 5 Jul 2025

1 year standing0.36 s improvementAll-time top 25 →

Record progression

Each step is a documented record; red marks the fully automatic timing era

1967 · 4:17.3 Anne Smith1967 · 4:15.6 Maria Gommers1969 · 4:12.4 Paola Pigni1969 · 4:10.7 Jaroslava Jehličková1971 · 4:09.6 Karin Burneleit1972 · 4:06.9 Ludmila Bragina1972 · 4:06.5 Ludmila Bragina1972 · 4:05.1 Ludmila Bragina1972 · 4:01.4 Ludmila Bragina1976 · 3:56.0 Tatyana Kazankina1980 · 3:55.0 Tatyana Kazankina1980 · 3:52.47 Tatyana Kazankina1993 · 3:50.46 Qu Yunxia2015 · 3:50.07 Genzebe Dibaba2023 · 3:49.11 Faith Kipyegon2024 · 3:49.04 Faith Kipyegon2025 · 3:48.68 Faith Kipyegon 3:48.684:17.30

19671971 · Burneleit 4:09.61972 · Bragina 4:01.41993 · Yunxia 3:50.462025 · Kipyegon 3:48.68

Documented records

17 ratified · most recent first · Wikipedia (EN) revision 1371398916, imported 2 Sep 2026

MarkAthleteNationVenueDateStood
3:48.68 Faith Kipyegon KEN Eugene, United States 5 Jul 2025 1 yr
3:49.04 Faith Kipyegon KEN Paris, France 7 Jul 2024 363 d
3:49.11 Faith Kipyegon KEN Florence, Italy 2 Jun 2023 1 yr
3:50.07 Genzebe Dibaba ETH Fontvieille, Monaco 17 Jul 2015 7 yrs
3:50.46 Qu Yunxia CHN Beijing, China 11 Sep 1993 21 yrs
3:52.47 Tatyana Kazankina URS Zürich, Switzerland 3 Aug 1980 13 yrs

Rows link to a profile only where the athlete appears on a published list. Struck marks were rescinded or never ratified, and A marks a performance at altitude; both come from the source article's own key and markers, and eras are kept as it lists them. Nothing is inferred.

Before official ratification

13 entries · not ratified · marks from before the IAAF (now World Athletics) began ratifying records, or never ratified, shown for context only

5:18.2Anna Mushkina URS19 Aug 1927
5:07.0Anna Mushkina URS16 Sep 1934
5:02.0Lydia Freiberg URS13 Jul 1936
4:47.2Yevdokiya Vasilyeva URS30 Jul 1936
4:45.2Yevdokiya Vasilyeva URS13 Sep 1937
4:41.8Anna Zaytseva-Bosenko URS10 Jun 1940
4:38.0Yevdokiya Vasilyeva URS17 Aug 1944
4:37.8Olga Ovsyannikova URS15 Sep 1946
4:37.0Nina Pletnyova URS30 Aug 1952
4:35.4Phyllis Perkins GBR17 May 1956
4:30.0Diane Leather GBR16 May 1957
4:29.7Diane Leather GBR19 Jul 1957
4:19.0Marise Chamberlain NZL8 Dec 1962