The race starts in about 3.5 hours but we wanted to get the thread up now as it's going to be a busy next few hours for us here in Moscow (men's steeple final, 400 hurdle fials etc).
Start lists is as follows.
Order / Lane ATHLETE COUNTRY SB 2013 PB
1 Jennifer Simpson USA 04:00.48 03:59.90
2 Faith Chepngetich Kipyegon KEN 03:56.98 03:56.98
3 Abeba Aregawi SWE 03:56.60 03:56.54
4 Ekaterina Sharmina RUS 04:04.55 03:59.49
5 Hannah England GBR 04:03.38 04:01.89
6 Elena Korobkina RUS 04:05.18 04:05.18
7 Zoe Buckman AUS 04:04.82 04:04.82
8 Nancy Jebet Langat KEN 04:01.41 04:00.13
9 Genzebe Dibaba ETH 03:57.54 03:57.54
10 Hellen Onsando Obiri KEN 03:58.58 03:58.58
11 Mary Cain USA 04:04.62 04:04.62
12 Siham Hilali MAR 04:02.16 04:01.33
Our initial race preview was here:
1500 semi-recap here: