2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres
# 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Women's 1500 metres

The women's 1500 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 5 March 2021 at 12:22 (heats), and on 6 March at 19:50 (final) local time. The event was won by Belgium's Elise Vanderelst in a time of 4:18.44 minutes.

In the final Spain's Águeda Marqués and Great Britain's Holly Archer were initially disqualified for jostling. Archer had her disqualification overturned on appeal and won the silver medal.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Elise Vanderelst Belgium | Holly Archer Great Britain | Hanna Klein Germany |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships :

| World record | Gudaf Tsegay (ETH) | 3:53.09 | Liévin, France | 9 February 2021 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| European record | Abeba Aregawi (SWE) | 3:57.91 | Stockholm, Sweden | 6 February 2014 |
| Championship record | Laura Muir (GBR) | 4:02.39 | Belgrade, Serbia | 4 March 2017 |
| World Leading | Gudaf Tsegay (ETH) | 3:53.09 | Liévin, France | 9 February 2021 |
| European Leading | Laura Muir (GBR) | 3:59.58 | Liévin, France | 9 February 2021 |

## Results

### Heats

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 3 | Hanna Klein | Germany | 4:09.35 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Holly Archer | Great Britain | 4:09.77 | Q, PB |
| 3 | 1 | Gesa Felicitas Krause | Germany | 4:09.92 | Q, SB |
| 4 | 3 | Águeda Marqués | Spain | 4:09.94 | Q, PB |
| 5 | 1 | Elise Vanderelst | Belgium | 4:10.49 | q |
| 6 | 3 | Katie Snowden | Great Britain | 4:10.70 | q |
| 7 | 1 | Marta Pérez | Spain | 4:11.27 | q |
| 8 | 1 | Diana Mezuliáníková | Czech Republic | 4:11.48 | PB |
| 9 | 3 | Martyna Galant | Poland | 4:12.08 | |
| 10 | 2 | Daryia Barysevich | Belarus | 4:12.11 | Q |
| 11 | 2 | Esther Guerrero | Spain | 4:12.39 | Q |
| 12 | 1 | Federica Del Buono | Italy | 4:12.79 | SB |
| 13 | 3 | Marta Pen Freitas | Portugal | 4:12.95 | |
| 14 | 2 | Caterina Granz | Germany | 4:13.53 | |
| 15 | 3 | Lenuța Simiuc | Romania | 4:14.94 | PB |
| 16 | 2 | Gaia Sabbatini | Italy | 4:17.21 | |
| 17 | 1 | Orysya Demyanyuk | Ukraine | 4:17.52 | |
| 18 | 2 | Claudia Bobocea | Romania | 4:18.00 | |
| 19 | 2 | Klaudia Kazimierska | Poland | 4:18.24 | |
| 20 | 2 | Lindsey De Grande | Belgium | 4:18.45 | |
| 21 | 3 | Anastasia-Panayiota Marinakou | Greece | 4:19.60 | SB |
| 22 | 3 | Vera Hoffmann | Luxembourg | 4:20.50 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Elise Vanderelst | Belgium | 4:18.44 |
| | Holly Archer | Great Britain | 4:19.91 |
| | Hanna Klein | Germany | 4:20.07 |
| 4 | Marta Pérez | Spain | 4:20.39 |
| 5 | Esther Guerrero | Spain | 4:20.45 |
| 6 | Katie Snowden | Great Britain | 4:21.81 |
| 7 | Daryia Barysevich | Belarus | 4:22.98 |
| 8 | Gesa Felicitas Krause | Germany | 4:24.26 |
| | Águeda Marqués | Spain | DQ |
