Lan Lixin (; born 14 February 1979) is a female
Chinese
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middle-distance runner.
On 18 October 1997 in
Shanghai
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she ran the
1500 metres
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in 3:53.97 minutes. This ranks her eighth in the world of all time, behind
Qu Yunxia
Qu Yunxia (; born 25 December 1972 in Dalian) is a Chinese Olympic athlete who specialized in the 1500 metres.
At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona she won a bronze medal in 1500 m.
On 9 November 1993 she set the world record in the 1500 me ...
,
Jiang Bo,
Lang Yinglai,
Wang Junxia
Wang Junxia (; born January 19, 1973) is a Chinese former long-distance runner who is the current world record holder at 3,000 meters. She also held the world record for the 10,000 meters for 23 years, between 1993 and 2016. Her best years lay ...
,
Tatyana Kazankina
Tatyana Vasilyevna Kazankina (russian: Татья́на Васи́льевна Каза́нкина; born 17 December 1951 in Petrovsk, Saratov Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union) is a Soviet/Russian former runner who set s ...
,
Yin Lili and
Paula Ivan
Paula Ivan (born 20 July 1963 as Ionescu, later known as Ilie) is a retired Romanian middle-distance runner.
Born in Herăști, Giurgiu County, she graduated from the Gheorghe Șincai High School in Bucharest in 1982. In 1987, Ivan won gold ...
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IAAF Top Lists - 1500 Metres women
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At the 1998 World Junior Championships she won the 1500 metres
The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ...
.
Achievements
References
1979 births
Living people
Chinese female middle-distance runners
World Athletics record holders (relay)
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