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The Women's 1500 metres at the 2000 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics programme was held at Stadium Australia on Wednesday 27 September, Thursday 28 September, and Saturday 30 September 2000. The top six runners in each of the initial three heats automatically qualified for the semi-final. The next six fastest runners from across the heats also qualified for the semi-final. The top five runners in each semi-final automatically qualified for the final. The next two fastest runners from across the heats also qualified for the final. There were a total number of 43 participating athletes. The last lap was the battleground for this final. With one lap to go Carla Sacramento held the lead, breaking clear being chased by Lidia Chojecka on the outside and Suzy Favor-Hamilton edging ahead on the inside. Over the next 200 metees Sacramento couldn't hold the lead as Favor-Hamilton edged ahead and a pack of six formed behind, led by Nouria Mérah-Benida. Hamilton held the lead around the turn as Mérah-Benida moved to her shoulder. As the final straightaway neared, Favor-Hamilton looked at her feet expecting her usual final acceleration. It wasn't there, Mérah-Benida went by, then Anna Jakubczak, Chojecka and Violeta Szekely. After a small gap, Kutre Dulecha went by Favor-Hamilton who crashed to the track untouched. Years later Favor-Hamilton admitted she deliberately fell when she realized that she could not win. As a result, she finished in last place. At the head of the straightaway, Mérah-Benida opened up a clear lead over the two Polish runners and was running away from the field. Moving out to lane 3, Szekely ran around Jakubczak and Chojecka, with Dulecha following in her wake. With speed, suddenly Merah-Benida's lead started to shrink. 30 metres from the finish, Mérah-Benida's form started to deteriorate as she looked like she had a flat tire for her right leg. She managed to keep going enough, meaning across the finish just slightly ahead of Szekely's furious run to the finish. All the way down the straightaway, Dulecha looked like she would hold on for the bronze, but out of nowhere (dead last with 200 metres to go, more than 10 metres behind the leaders) Gabriela Szabo came sprinting down the outside to take the medal. Only .23 separated the first four athletes, but none of them was directly battling the other, each taking a different pace and path to the tight finish. ==Records== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Athletics at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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