High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1,500 meter run (approximately 0.932 miles or 4921 feet, 3.1 inches in distance) is the premier middle distance track event. In modern times, the 1,500 meter run has become more like a prolonged quarter-mile race with each lap averaging under 55 seconds during the world-record race run by Hicham El Guerrouj of Morocco in 1998 in Rome, Italy. 1,500 meters is three and three-quarter laps around a 400 meter track. During the 1970s and 1980s this race was dominated by British runners, along with an occasional Finn, American, or New Zealander, but through the 1990s a large number of African runners began to take over in being the masters of this race, with runners from Kenya, Morocco, and Algeria winning the Olympic gold medals.

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