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Athletics at the 1991 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 1500 metres event at the 1991 Summer Universiade was held at the Don Valley Stadium in Sheffield on 24 and 25 July 1991.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sonia O'Sullivan  Ireland	Iulia Besliu  Romania	Qu Yunxia  China

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Qu Yunxia	China	4:07.71	Q, AR
2	2	Sarah Collins	Australia	4:12.01	Q
3	2	Iulia Besliu	Romania	4:13.09	Q
4	2	Katje Hoffman	Germany	4:13.13	Q
5	2	Lynne Robinson	Great Britain	4:13.67	Q
6	1	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	4:14.92	Q
7	1	Lyudmila Borisova	Soviet Union	4:15.60	Q
8	1	Tuuli Merikoski-Silius	Finland	4:15.93	Q
9	1	Christine Toonstra	Netherlands	4:16.05	Q
10	1	Elisa Rea	Italy	4:16.41	Q
11	1	Heike Oehme	Germany	4:16.42	q
12	1	Darcy Arreola	United States	4:16.96	q
13	1	Edith Nakiyingi	Uganda	4:17.31
14	2	Geraldine Hendricken	Ireland	4:19.35
15	1	Simona Staicu	Romania	4:20.44
16	2	Stephanie Best	United States	4:20.49
17	1	Andrea Sollárová	Czechoslovakia	4:21.01
18	2	Patrizia Morreale	Italy	4:22.82
19	2	Yelena Storchovaya	Soviet Union	4:24.40
20	1	Maxine Newman	Great Britain	4:24.49
21	1	Mireille Sankaatsing	Suriname	4:27.54
22	2	Marcelina Piran	Indonesia	4:58.43

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sonia O'Sullivan	Ireland	4:12.14
	Iulia Besliu	Romania	4:12.24
	Qu Yunxia	China	4:12.43
4	Sarah Collins	Australia	4:12.60
5	Lyudmila Borisova	Soviet Union	4:12.80
6	Lynne Robinson	Great Britain	4:13.40	PB
7	Katje Hoffmann	Germany	4:14.55
8	Heike Oehme	Germany	4:14.64
9	Christine Toonstra	Netherlands	4:14.93
10	Tuuli Merikoski-Silius	Finland	4:15.60
11	Elisa Rea	Italy	4:16.22
12	Darcy Arreola	United States	4:16.97

References

1. Mel Watman (1 August 1991). "May dismay with silver". Athletics Today. 5 (31). Surrey: Athletics Today Publications Limited: 19–22. ISSN 0269-1302.
2. Results at Tilastopaja
3. Heats results
4. Soviet results Archived 31 October 2021 at the Wayback Machine (p128)
5. Final results

• Athletics at the 1991 Summer Universiade
• 1500 metres at the Summer World University Games