World Athletics Championships 1993/800 m women

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	30 athletes from 23 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 14th (preliminary) August 15th (semi-finals) August 17th (final)
Medalists Maria de Lurdes Mutola ( MOZ )   Lyubov Gurina ( RUS )   Ella Kovacs ( ROM )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The women's 800-meter run at the 1993 World Athletics Championships was held from August 14th to 17th, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

The world champion was the three-time Africa champion ( 1990 : 800 meters / 1500 meters - 1993 : 800 meters) Maria de Lurdes Mutola from Mozambique , the second place went to the Russian vice world champion from 1983 , third from the World Cup in 1987 and third from the European Championship in 1986, Ljubow Gurina . As at the 1991 World Championships, bronze went to Romanian Ella Kovacs .

Existing records

World record	1: 53.28 min	Jarmila Kratochvílová	Munich , FR Germany	July 26, 1983
World Cup record	1: 54.68 min		1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 9, 1983

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

The world champion Maria de Lurdes Mutola from Mozambique set a new African record in the final on August 17th with 1: 55.43 min.

doping

There was a doping case in this competition.

The first seventh-placed Russian defending champion Lilija Nurutdinova tested positive for the anabolic steroid stanozolol and received a four-year ban, which led to the end of her sports career. Your result at these world championships was canceled.

Two female athletes in particular were disadvantaged;

• The Polish Anna Brzezińska would actually have been entitled to participate in the semi-finals based on her time achieved in the third heat.
• The German Christine Wachtel could actually have taken part in the final through her placement in the second semi-final race.

Preliminary round

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first two athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the six fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semi-finals.

Forward 1

August 14, 1993, 9:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Liu Li	People's Republic of China	1: 59.60
2	Lyubov Gurina	Russia	1: 59.90
3	Christine Wachtel	Germany	2: 01.42
4th	Satu Jaaskelainen	Finland	2: 03.66
5	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	2: 03.74
6th	Sheila Seebaluk	Mauritius	2: 10.54
7th	Ablavi Agbenyeke	Togo	2: 23.19
DNS	Letitia Vriesde	Suriname

Forward 2

August 14, 1993, 9:23 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tina Paulino	Mozambique	2: 01.46
2	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	2: 01.70
3	Natallja Duchnowa	Belarus	2: 01.78
4th	Wang Yuan	People's Republic of China	2: 02.98
5	Luciana Mendes	Brazil	2: 03.55
6th	Shiny Wilson	India	2: 06.65
7th	Alia Almatari	Jordan	2: 15.23
8th	Shermaine Ross	Grenada	2: 15.84

Forward 3

August 14, 1993, 9:31 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Diane Modahl	Great Britain	2: 00.80
2	Amy Wickus	United States	2: 00.91
3	Sabine Zwiener	Germany	2: 01.37
4th	Oksana Mernikova	Belarus	2: 01.65
5	Anna Brzezińska	Poland	2: 01.67 actually qualified for the semi-finals
6th	Laurence Niyonsaba	Rwanda	2: 12.52
DOP	Lilia Nurutdinova	Russia	admitted to the finals

Forward 4

August 14, 1993, 9:39 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ella Kovacs	Romania	2: 01.36
2	Maria Magnólia Souza Figueiredo	Brazil	2: 01.91
3	Joetta Clark	United States	2: 02.15
4th	Fabia Trabaldo	Italy	2: 02.36
5	Olena Stortschowa	Ukraine	2: 03.50
6th	Edith Nakiyingi	Uganda	2: 07.81
7th	Karolina Tanona	Fiji	2: 15.12

Forward 5

August 14, 1993, 9:47 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Maria de Lurdes Mutola	Mozambique	1: 59.81
2	Meredith Rainey	United States	1: 59.87
3	Birthe Bruhns	Germany	2: 00.29
4th	Gladys Wamuyu	Kenya	2: 01.59
5	Jelena Afanassjewa	Russia	2: 01.94
6th	Lorie Ann Adams	Guyana	2: 09.77
7th	Tamador Ismail	Sudan	2: 41.51

Christine Wachtel, a former medalist
, was eliminated in the semifinals, but would have been entitled to take part in the final after Nurutdinowa's disqualification

Semifinals

In each of the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - as well as the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Semi-final run 1

August 15, 1993, 8:15 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Maria de Lurdes Mutola	Mozambique	1: 58.69
2	Liu Li	People's Republic of China	1: 58.96
3	Diane Modahl	Great Britain	1: 59.12
4th	Christine Wachtel	Germany	1: 59.86 actually qualified for the final
5	Amy Wickus	United States	2: 00.55
6th	Oksana Mernikova	Belarus	2: 01.20
7th	Gladys Wamuyu	Kenya	2: 02.13
DOP	Lilia Nurutdinova	Russia	admitted to the finals

Kelly Holmes (here in 2008) missed the final by one place - later she became one of the most successful
middle-
distance athletes of her time

Semi-final run 2

August 15, 1993, 8:21 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tina Paulino	Mozambique	1: 57.31
2	Ella Kovacs	Romania	1: 57.46
3	Meredith Rainey	United States	1: 57.63
4th	Lyubov Gurina	Russia	1: 57.82
5	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	1: 58.64
6th	Birthe Bruhns	Germany	1: 59.66
7th	Sabine Zwiener	Germany	2: 00.77
8th	Maria Magnólia Souza Figueiredo	Brazil	2: 01.01

final

As world champion, Maria Mutola achieved her first big win at world level - there were to be many more

August 17, 1993, 8:05 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Maria de Lurdes Mutola	Mozambique	1: 55.43 AR
2	Lyubov Gurina	Russia	1: 57.10
3	Ella Kovacs	Romania	1: 57.92
4th	Diane Modahl	Great Britain	1: 59.42
5	Meredith Rainey	United States	1: 59.57
6th	Liu Li	People's Republic of China	2: 04.45
7th	Tina Paulino	Mozambique	3: 19.89
DOP	Lilia Nurutdinova	Russia

• 

  Like two years before , Ella Kovacs won bronze

• 

  Diane Modahl took fourth place

Video

• Maria Mutola: 800m Final, World Championships, Stuttgart, 1993 , video published on November 17, 2014 on youtube.com, accessed on May 17, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 17, 2020
• Women 800m Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 17, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 800 m, Stuttgart 1993, p. 268 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 17, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 17, 2020
2. ↑ Liliya Nurutdinova, Biography at sports-reference.com (English), accessed on May 17, 2020