BEIJING // Nancy Jebet Langat of Kenya has won the women's 1,500 metres. Langat followed world champion Maryam Jamal of Bahrain in a breakaway with 500m to go and overtook her coming into the last bend, pulling away to win the final in 4 minutes, 0.23 seconds. Ukrainians got the silver and bronze medals, with Iryna Lyshchynska second in 4:01.63 and Nataliya Tobias third in 4:01.78. Jamal faded to finish fifth, losing three places in the last 50m.
Yelena Soboleva, who set a world indoor 1,500m record earlier this year, was provisionally suspended for a suspected antidoping violation and dropped from the Russian team for Beijing. *AP
