Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade – Women's 1500 metres

Athletics at the 1973 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 1500 metres event at the 1973 Summer Universiade was held at the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow with the final on 17 August.^[1][2][3][4] It was the first time that this event was contested by women at the Uniersiade.

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Paola Pigni-Cacchi	Italy	4:10.69
	Glenda Reiser	Canada	4:12.50
	Tonka Petrova	Bulgaria	4:13.50
4	Thelma Wright	Canada	4:13.82
5	Tatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	4:14.22	[5]
6	Norine Braithwaite	Great Britain	4:15.30
7	Skaidrite Velberga	Soviet Union	4:18.97	[5]
8	Margherita Gargano	Italy	4:21.8
9	Izabela Mróz	Poland	4:24.5
10	Enriqueta Nava	Mexico	4:24.55
11	Marie-Françoise Dubois	France	4:25.64	[6]
12	Kathy Gibbons	United States	4:26.4
13	Francie Larrieu	United States	4:29.8
14	Sylvia Schenk	West Germany	4:31.04
15	Yolande Roche	France	4:32.08	[6]
16	Charlotte Bradley	Mexico	4:35.12
17	Geertje Meersseman	Belgium	4:40.4