Marina Muncan Eliminated in Olympic 1500 Heats

Marina Muncan ran well of her recent PR (4:06.48), finishing in 11th place (4:11.25) in the first heat of the women's 1500 meter competition in London. Muncan's heat was the fastest of the three: it went out in 2:13, and produced four of the event's six non-automatic qualifiers who got through to the semi-finals on time. Heat #2 was the slowest, going out in 2:23 and with a winning time of 4:13.32. The last qualifier from heat #3 (which went out in 2:18) ran 4:07.83.

Heat 1: Women's 1500 meters

 1  1697   Abeba Aregawi           ETH   4:04.55 Q
 2  2899   Tatyana Tomashova       RUS   4:05.10 Q
 3  1259   Maryam Yusuf Jamal      BRN   4:05.39 Q
 4  2341   Hellen Onsando Obiri    KEN   4:05.40 Q
 5  1855   Hannah England          GBR   4:05.73 Q
 6  1320   Hilary Stellingwerff    CAN   4:05.79 Q
 7  3314   Shannon Rowbury         USA   4:06.03 q
 8  2616   Lucy Van Dalen          NZL   4:07.04 q
 9  2995   Lucia Klocová           SVK   4:07.79 q
10  1938   Corinna Harrer          GER   4:07.83 q
11  2956   Marina Muncan           SRB   4:11.25 
12  1530   Tereza Capková          CZE   4:12.15 
13  3188   Anzhelika Shevchenko    UKR   4:12.97 
14  1656   Natalia Rodríguez       ESP   4:16.18 
15  3090   Tugba Karakaya          TUR   4:29.21 
.   2472   Btissam Lakhouad        MAR   DNF