European Athletics Championships 2018/800 m women

discipline	Women's 800-meter run
city	Berlin
place	Olympiastadion Berlin
Participants	33 athletes from 22 countries
Competition phase	August 7, 2018 (preliminary) August 8, 2018 (semi-finals) August 10, 2018 (final)
Medalists
gold	Natalija Pryschtschepa ( UKR )
silver	Rénelle Lamote ( FRA )
bronze	Olha Lyachowa ( UKR )

The 800-meter runners just before the finish

The women's 800-meter run at the European Athletics Championships 2018 took place on August 7, 8 and 10 in the Olympic Stadium in the German capital, Berlin .

Natalija Pryschtschepa from Ukraine became European champion . The French Rénelle Lamote won silver. With Olha Lyachowa , a second Ukrainian won the bronze medal

Records

World record	Jarmila Kratochvílová	1: 53.28 min	Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany )	July 26, 1983
European record
Championship record	Olga Mineeva	1: 55.41 min	8 European Championships in Athens , Greece	September 8, 1982

Prelims

The Irish Síofra Cléirigh Büttner did not reach the semifinals after finishing sixth in her preliminary run

Second heat: Elena Bellò ( left ), Sanne Wolters-Verstegen - both eliminated

As eighth of her heat, the Belgian Renée Eykens had no chance to qualify for the semi-finals

Eighth place in the fourth heat was too little for Sara Kuivisto from Finland to make it to the semi-finals

From the four preliminary races, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

August 7, 2018, 11:05 a.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	4th	Olha Lyachowa	Ukraine	2: 00.26 SB
2	8th	Lynsey Sharp	Great Britain	2: 00.32
3	7th	Selina Büchel	Switzerland	2: 00.42 SB
4th	6th	Angelika Cichocka	Poland	2: 01.01 SB
5	2	Yusneysi Santiusti	Italy	2: 02.46
6th	3	Síofra Cléirigh Büttner	Ireland	2: 02.80
7th	5	Natalia Evangelidou	Cyprus	2: 03.38
8th	1	Bianka Kéri	Hungary	2: 03.44 SB

Run 2

August 7, 2018, 11:11 am CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	2	Adelle Tracey	Great Britain	2: 01.91
2	5	Charline Mathias	Luxembourg	2: 02.08
3	4th	Lore Hoffmann	Switzerland	2: 02.23 PB
4th	3	Cynthia Anaïs	France	2: 02.27
5	8th	Sanne Wolters-Verstegen	Netherlands	2: 02.72
6th	7th	Elena Bellò	Italy	2: 02.77
7th	1	Claire Mooney	Ireland	2: 04.26
DNS	6th	Hedda Hynne	Norway

Run 3

August 7, 2018, 11:23 a.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	3	Natalija Pryshchepa	Ukraine	2: 04.07
2	1	Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	Great Britain	2: 04.08
3	8th	Lovisa Lindh	Sweden	2: 04.28
4th	7th	Claudia Saunders	France	2: 04.46
5	2	Darja Baryssewitsch	Belarus	2: 04.65
6th	5	Līga Velvere	Latvia	2: 05.13
7th	6th	Yngvild Elvemo	Norway	2: 05.79
8th	4th	Renée Eykens	Belgium	2: 56.24

Run 4

August 7, 2018, 11:17 a.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	3	Hanna Hermansson	Sweden	2: 01.33
2	4th	Rénelle Lamote	France	2: 01.34
3	5	Christina Hering	Germany	2: 01.57
4th	6th	Anna Sabat	Poland	2: 01.67
5	7th	Aníta Hinriksdóttir	Iceland	2: 02.15
6th	8th	Eglė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	2: 02.18 SB
7th	2	Gabriela Gajanová	Slovakia	2: 02.57
8th	1	Sara Kuivisto	Finland	2: 02.62
9	8th	Gresa Bakrraqi	Kosovo	2: 02.62

Semifinals

Finish of the first semi-final ( from left to right ): Winner Natalija Pryschtschepa, Selina Büchel - third, Lynsey Sharp - second

The Swede Hanna Hermansson only missed the final by five hundredths of a second

From the two semi-finals, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final. In addition, the Swede Lovisa Lindh was the ninth athlete to start the final, as she had been pushed off the track in the semifinals by the Icelandic Aníta Hinriksdóttir. The Swedish Athletics Federation had previously lodged a protest. Aníta Hinriksdóttir, who did not qualify for the final, was disqualified for her misconduct.

Run 1

August 8, 2018, 7:55 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	4th	Natalija Pryshchepa	Ukraine	2: 02.71
2	3	Lynsey Sharp	Great Britain	2: 02.73
3	5	Selina Büchel	Switzerland	2: 02.84
4th	7th	Angelika Cichocka	Poland	2: 03.14
5	1	Lovisa Lindh	Sweden	2: 03.25 got the right to start the final after being handicapped
6th	6th	Christina Hering	Germany	2: 04.04
7th	2	Eglė Balčiūnaitė	Lithuania	2: 04.60
DSQ	8th	Aníta Hinriksdóttir	Iceland	IAAF Rule 163.2 - Disability

Run 2

August 8, 2018, 8:02 p.m. CEST

space	train	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	5	Rénelle Lamote	France	1: 59.44
2	7th	Adelle Tracey	Great Britain	1: 59.86 PB
3	8th	Anna Sabat	Poland	2: 00.32 PB
4th	6th	Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	Great Britain	2: 00.39 SB
5	4th	Olha Lyachowa	Ukraine	2: 00.47
6th	1	Hanna Hermansson	Sweden	2: 00.52 SB
7th	2	Lore Hoffmann	Switzerland	2: 01.67 PB
8th	6th	Charline Mathias	Luxembourg	2: 02.01

final

August 10, 2018, 9:20 p.m. CEST

The favorites again included the 2016 European champion Natalija Pryschtschepa from Ukraine, the French runner-up European champion in 2016 Rénelle Lamote, the Polish Angelika Cichocka - who was sixth in the World Cup in 2017, the best European at this event, the British sixth in 2016 and eighth in the World Cup from 2017 Lynsey Sharp, Shelayna Oskan-Clarke, also from Great Britain, as fifth of the 2015 World Championships and thus best European at these World Championships. However, Cichocka had missed the final by one place in the first semifinal run.

Oskan-Clarke led the field for the first four hundred meters. The pace was not particularly fast, the intermediate time after one lap was 59.25 seconds. The group of nine runners was still close together here. This time there were not eight finalists, as usual, but nine finalists, because Sweden's Lovisa Lindh, who was third in the 2016 European Championship , was hindered in the semifinals and therefore had a special right to start. On the back straight, the Swiss Selina Büchel took the lead, Oskan-Clarke was second, followed by Lamote. The defending champion Pryschtschepa, who initially ran further back, has now improved to fourth position. All runners were still close together. And it stayed tight until the end. Natalija Pryschtschepa prevailed on the last hundred meters and thus defended her European title. The winning time of 2: 00.38 minutes was not particularly fast. Like two years ago, Rénelle Lamote became vice European champion. Her gap to the winner was 24 hundredths of a second. Bronze won another seventeen hundredths of a second back by Ukrainian Olha Lyachowa. The British Adelle Tracey finished fourth, she only missed a medal by seven hundredths of a second. Anna Sabat from Poland was fifth ahead of Linsey Sharp.

space	train	Athlete	country	Time (min)
	7th	Natalija Pryshchepa	Ukraine	2: 00.38
	6th	Rénelle Lamote	France	2: 00.62
	8th	Olha Lyachowa	Ukraine	2: 00.79
4th	4th	Adelle Tracey	Great Britain	2: 00.86
5	5	Anna Sabat	Poland	2: 01.26
6th	2	Lynsey Sharp	Great Britain	2: 01.83
7th	1	Selina Büchel	Switzerland	2: 02.05
8th	3	Shelayna Oskan-Clarke	Great Britain	2: 02.26
9	8th	Lovisa Lindh	Sweden	2: 02.36 SB

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  Field of 800 meter runners

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  Vice European Champion Rénelle Lamote, France

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  Bronze medalist Olha Lyachowa, Ukraine

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  Fourth place for the British Adelle Tracey

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  The Polish Anna Sabat came in fifth place

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  The British Lynsey Sharp finished sixth

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  Selina Büchel from Switzerland came in seventh

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  Shelayna Oskan-Clarke, third British woman in this final, came in eighth

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  The Swede Lovisa Lindh came in ninth place

Web links and sources

• Official Results European Athletics Championships 2018 on the EAA website , English (PDF, 49.183 KB), accessed on January 13, 2019
• Results of the European Athletics Championships 2018 at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 13, 2019
• Reports on the European Championships 2018 on Leichtathletik.de, accessed on January 13, 2019

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Knuffad Lindh till final efter protest. In: sverigesradio.se. Sveriges Radio , August 8, 2018, accessed August 30, 2018 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 73 (PDF), accessed on January 13, 2019