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1500m Women
OLYMPIC RECORD EVOLUTION 1500m Women
ATHLETE
NAME
SCORE
OLYMPIC GAME
DATE
COUNTRY
TIME
[minutes:seconds, 1/100 of a second]
1960
Lidiya SKOBLIKOVA
2:25.20
Squaw Valley 1960
21 FEBRUARY
URS
1964
Lidiya SKOBLIKOVA
2:22.60
Innsbruck 1964
31 JANUARY
URS
1968
Kaija MUSTONEN
2:22.40
Grenoble 1968
10 FEBRUARY
FIN
1972
Dianne HOLUM
2:20.85
Sapporo 1972
09 FEBRUARY
USA
1976
Galina STEPANSKAYA
2:16.58
Innsbruck 1976
05 FEBRUARY
URS
1980
Annie BORCKINK
2:10.95
Lake Placid 1980
14 FEBRUARY
NED
1984
Karin KANIA
2:03.42
Sarajevo 1984
09 FEBRUARY
GDR
1988
Yvonne VAN GENNIP
2:00.68
Calgary 1988
27 FEBRUARY
NED
1998
Marianne TIMMER
1:57.58
Nagano 1998
16 FEBRUARY
NED
2002
Anni Friesinger
1:54.02
Salt Lake City 2002
20 FEBRUARY
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