1500m Olympic Stadium

Aug 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21

Edwin Flack (AUS) Athens 1896 4:33.20

Women

Men

London Olympics men’s 1500m gold medallist Taoufik Makhloufi (ALG)

1900 4:06.20

1904 4:05.40

1908 4:03.40

1912 3:56.80

1924 3:53.60

1928 3:53.20

1932 3:51.20

1936 3:47.80

1952 3:45.20

1956 3:41.20

1960 3.35.60

1968 3.34.91

1984 3.32.53

Noah Ngeny (KEN) Sydney 3.32.07

Lyudmila Bragina (URS) Munich 1972 4:06.47, 

1972 4:01.38 

1980 3:56.56 

Paula Ivan (ROU) Seoul 1988 3:53.96 

OLYMPIC RECORD EVOLUTION

World records

Hicham El Guerrouj (USA) Rome, 1998 3:26.00

Genzebe Dibaba (ETH) Monaco, 2015 3:50.07

Sources: Rio 2016, Olympic.org, IAAF

Pictures: Associated Press