Athletics at the 2003 Summer Universiade – Women's 1500 metres

The women's 1500 metres event at the 2003 Summer Universiade was held in Daegu, South Korea on 26–28 August.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Nataliya Tobias Ukraine	Johanna Lehtinen Finland	Malindi Elmore Canada

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Malindi Elmore	Canada	4:13.57	Q^[1]
2	1	Mieke Geens	Belgium	4:14.83	Q
3	1	Lívia Tóth	Hungary	4:14.91	Q
4	1	René Kalmer	South Africa	4:14.92	Q
5	1	Svetlana Cherkasova	Russia	4:14.94	Q
6	1	Svetlana Lukasheva	Kazakhstan	4:15.32	q
7	2	Yuliya Chizhenko	Russia	4:16.06	Q
8	2	Johanna Risku	Finland	4:16.18	Q
9	2	Nataliya Sydorenko	Ukraine	4:16.20	Q
10	2	Justyna Lesman	Poland	4:16.31	Q^[2]
11	2	Sonja Roman	Slovenia	4:16.73	Q
12	1	Nastassia Staravoitava	Belarus	4:17.22	q
13	1	Lisa Dobriskey	Great Britain	4:17.32
14	2	Rebecca Stallwood	Canada	4:21.46	^[1]
15	2	Irina Krakoviak	Lithuania	4:25.89
16	1	Khadija Touati	Algeria	4:29.35
17	2	Marlene Breytenbach	South Africa	4:29.93
18	2	Alhelí Tapia	Mexico	4:33.04	^[3]
19	1	Yuliya Belkova	Azerbaijan	4:36.64
20	1	Nam Sun-ha	South Korea	4:37.48
21	2	Karla Silva	Peru	4:43.20
22	1	Ljiljana Ćulibrk	Croatia	4:47.12
23	2	Diana Chelimo	Uganda	4:49.97
24	2	Akuvi Degbotse-Goe	Togo	5:17.48
	2	Lisbeth Pedersen	Norway	DNF

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Nataliya Sydorenko	Ukraine	4:11.69
	Johanna Risku	Finland	4:11.88
	Malindi Elmore	Canada	4:12.00
4	Yuliya Chizhenko	Russia	4:12.79
5	Justyna Lesman	Poland	4:13.93
6	Svetlana Lukasheva	Kazakhstan	4:14.07
7	Lívia Tóth	Hungary	4:14.15
8	René Kalmer	South Africa	4:14.78
9	Nastassia Staravoitava	Belarus	4:14.80
10	Svetlana Cherkasova	Russia	4:14.86
11	Sonja Roman	Slovenia	4:16.20
12	Mieke Geens	Belgium	4:24.71

Medalists