Talk:1500 metres

Incorrect ranking of male athletes
Looks like the numbering in the athlete column is off. It goes from #8 for Timothy Cheruiyot to #10 for Taoufik Makhloufi with no ties in between to account for the extra position. Just wanted to flag this for someone else to confirm before it is edited. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Dirkdagger (talk • contribs) 00:22, 4 July 2023 (UTC)

shanghai 1997
results from china in 1990's, especially shanghai, October 1997,  should be ignored. unless the atheletes abilities are verified by very similar results outside of China.

You can see a table of results from china national games here, from their own national press,

1997 is an aberration..the results cannot be trustred. claims of world records and rank from china should be excluded.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200509/28/eng20050928_211249.html —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.126.107.100 (talk) 04:14, 22 August 2008 (UTC)


 * I totally agree, but unfortunately these results are confirmed by the IAAF.85.217.14.76 (talk) 12:13, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

1600 meters
I'd like to see some discussion of the question of whether there's ever been any serious consideration of replacing 1500-meter races with 1600-meter races at the international level. In a sense, the 1500-meter distance is an anomaly. Most tracks are designed for 400-meter laps, so 400-, 800-, 1600-, and 3200-meter distances represent even multiples of the laps, making the 1600-meter distance a more logical part of the progression, as well as easier to define and follow on the track. Moreover, 1600 meters is so close to a statute mile (1760 yards or 1609 meters) that every 1600-meter race could also be run as a traditional mile race, for purposes of producing mile times. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.82.231.152 (talk) 18:55, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm not aware of any discussion on 1600 m replacing the 1500 m. It may be an "anomaly", but it's grandfathered by now. And men are running 110 m hurdles, aren't they? GregorB 19:56, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

Removal of external links
The "external links" section I removed consisted entirely of links to sites not specifically about the 1500, and all added by an anon user in a single edit. That same user added identical "external links" sections to a large number of other athletics articles in the space of a few days. Removing only the spam links is a great idea, but in this case that means all of them. 129.97.79.144 18:51, 1 November 2007 (UTC)
 * You want to remove the IAAF link? What is your rationale? The other general athletics links are also valuable, with uptodate stats. Which are the spam sites and give reasons for their removal, they all loook fine to me. David D. (Talk) 15:51, 12 November 2007 (UTC)


 * See External_links item 14 and my comments on Talk:Hammer_throw 129.97.79.144 16:04, 12 November 2007 (UTC)
 * How is the governing body of the sport only indirectly related? David D. (Talk) 16:17, 12 November 2007 (UTC)

Why is the 1500 run so much more frequently than the mile/1600 m?
Not that a mile should necessarily mean anything in Europe, where the sport of track & field is most dominant, but why run 3 3/4 laps instead of 4 laps? I think this is something that bears mentioning in the article - is it because it's half of 3000 meters (little bit more logical to run 3000 instead of 3200)? It seems a little odd going at it from the other way, though, because the 400 and 800 are run, as whole numbers of laps, and this distance isn't that much more than them. Nosleep break my slumber 23:05, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Dead link
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"Foremost"
This article leads off stating that the 1500 is the foremost distance event - upon what is that based?? Trackikle (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 08:47, 4 September 2014 (UTC)


 * I have the same question 9 years later. 96.245.39.202 (talk) 18:33, 8 July 2023 (UTC)

Measure units
It's pretty ridiculous that minutes, seconds and milliseconds were never mentioned in the article. I consider it still a valuable info when people not familiar with the topic try to read 3:26.34. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.253.52.95 (talk) 11:24, 30 April 2016 (UTC)

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Colour coding
In the "All-time top 25" section, what do the green/yellow colours mean? This should be explained in an easy-to-find place. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A00:23C8:7B09:FA01:8942:B59C:B5FF:1695 (talk) 23:35, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

1500m race in the 70's and 80's
This sentence

"During the 1970s and 1980s this race was dominated by British runners, along with an occasional Finn, American, or New Zealander."

is incorrect. Joaquim Cruz from Brazil won gold medal in the 1984 Olympics, silver in the 1988 Olympics, and Bronze in the 1983 World Championships (plus a couple of gold medals in the Pan-American games). Brazil should be included in this list. 47.186.175.140 (talk) 19:04, 28 October 2023 (UTC)