European Athletics Championships 2012/800 m women

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	18 athletes from 14 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 28th (preliminary) June 29th (final)
Medalists Lynsey Sharp ( GBR )   Maryna Arsamassawa ( BLR )   Lilija Lobanowa ( UKR )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The women's 800-meter run at the 2012 European Athletics Championships was held on June 28 and 29, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

British Lynsey Sharp became the European champion . She won in front of the Belarusian Maryna Arsamassawa . Bronze went to the Ukrainian Lilija Lobanowa .

Existing records

World record	1: 53.28 min	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Munich , FR Germany	July 26, 1983
European record
EM record	1: 55.41 min	Olga Mineeva	EM Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

The since 1982 existing EM -record remained completely intact even at these European Championships. The two-minute mark was not undercut in any of the races.

doping

There were three doping-related disqualifications in this competition. Two cases were Russian runners and one was an athlete from Ukraine .

• Jelena Arshakova (Russia), first to arrive, was banned for two years in 2013 due to abnormal hemoglobin levels in her biological passport , all of her results from July 12, 2011 were retrospectively canceled.
• Irina Maratschowa (Russia), initially in third place, was banned for two years by the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC) in 2016 because of abnormal hemoglobin levels in her biological passport . She had to give up the medal she won at the European Championships in 2012.
• Tetjana Petlyuk (Ukraine), eliminated fifth in the first heat, was banned by the Ukrainian Athletics Federation until January 17, 2015 due to deviations in her biological passport . Among other things, her result at the European Championships in 2012 was canceled.

The main victims were the following five runners:

• Three athletes who received their medals late:
  • The British Lynsey Sharp was only later declared European champion after she had initially been considered a silver medalist.
  • The Belarusian Maryna Arsamassawa was initially fourth and could not take part in the award ceremony and then received her silver medal.
  • The Ukrainian Lilija Lobanowa was also withheld from the award ceremony as the fifth and she later received her bronze medal.
• Two athletes who should actually have participated in the final:
  • The Turkish Merve Aydin would have qualified for the final because of her placement as second in the third heat.
  • The Greek Eléni Filándra would have been eligible to start in the final over her time.

Preliminary round

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  Mirela Lavric didn't have a chance to qualify for the final even after her time

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  Tetjana Petljuk, who was fifth in the first heat, and was not qualified to advance, was later disqualified for doping offenses

The preliminary round was carried out in three runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. Among them were two of the three doping sinners.

Forward 1

June 28, 2012, 7:05 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lynsey Sharp	Great Britain	2: 01.88
2	Natalija Piliušina	Lithuania	2: 02.12
3	Teodora Kolarova	Bulgaria	2: 02.45
4th	Mirela Lavric	Romania	2: 11.61
DOP	Elena Arshakova	Russia	admitted to the finals
DOP	Tetiana Petlyuk	Ukraine

Forward 2

Eglė Balčiūnaitė was eliminated as the sixth of their prerunner

June 28, 2012, 7:12 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Maryna Arsamassawa	Belarus	2: 00.54
2	Lilia Lobanova	Ukraine	2: 01.60
3	Jemma Simpson	Great Britain	2: 01.64
4th	Eléni Filándra	Greece	2: 02.37 actually qualified for the final
5	Eglė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	2: 05.21
6th	Viktoria Tegenfeldt	Sweden	2: 05.74

Forward 3

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  Lenka Masná missed the final with her fourth place in the third heat

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  Suvi Selvenius did not reach the final as fifth of their preliminary run

June 28, 2012, 7:19 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lucia Klocová	Slovakia	2: 02.55
2	Merve Aydın	Turkey	2: 02.81 actually qualified for the final
3	Ewelina Sętowska-Dryk	Poland	2: 04.30
4th	Lenka Masná	Czech Republic	2: 05.75
5	Suvi Selvenius	Finland	2: 06.39
DOP	Irina Maracheva	Russia	admitted to the finals
DNS	Jenny Meadows	Great Britain

final

European champion Lynsey Sharp

June 29, 2012, 9:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Lynsey Sharp	Great Britain	2: 00.52
2	Maryna Arsamassawa	Belarus	2: 01.02
3	Lilia Lobanova	Ukraine	2: 01.29
4th	Lucia Klocová	Slovakia	2: 01.38
5	Jemma Simpson	Great Britain	2: 02.14
6th	Natalija Piliušina	Lithuania	2: 06.59
DOP	Elena Arshakova	Russia
	Irina Maracheva	Russia

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  Vice European Champion Maryna Arsamassawa

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  Lucia Klocová finished fourth

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  Jemma Simpson finished fifth

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  Natalija Piliušina reached sixth place

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  Jelena Arshakova - subsequently disqualified for doping offenses

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 23, 2020
• Women 800m European Championship 2012 Hel-sinki on todor66.com, accessed January 23, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 23, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Women 800m European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 515 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 23, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, 800 m women on sport-schau.de, accessed on January 23, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 23, 2020

Video

• Yelena ARZHAKOVA 1: 58.51 - 800m European Athletics Champi-onships Helsinki 2012 on youtube.com, accessed on January 23, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m women , accessed January 23, 2020
2. ↑ Russians doped - bronze for Denise Krebs , NRZ, October 28, 2013, accessed on January 23, 2019
3. ↑ Irina Maracheva among four Russians banned for doping , BBC Sport, January 25, 2016, accessed January 23, 2019
4. ↑ Athens 2004 Olympic shot put gold medallist given retrospective two-year doping ban on insidethegames.biz, April 5, 2013, accessed January 23