World Athletics Championships 1995/800 m women

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	36 athletes from 29 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 10th (preliminary) August 11th (semi-finals) August 13th (final)
Medalists Ana Fidelia Quirot ( CUB )   Letitia Vriesde ( SUR )   Kelly Holmes ( GBR )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The women's 800-meter run at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held from August 10th to 13th, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

World champion was the Cuban Olympic third from 1992 and vice world champion from 1991 Ana Fidelia Quirot , who was the double winner of the Pan American Games in 1987 and 1991 in the 400 and 800 meters . Second place went to Letitia Vriesde from Surinam , who set a new South American record in the final with 1: 56.68 min. Bronze went to the British Vice European Champion over 1500 meters from 1994, Kelly Holmes , who had already won silver over 1500 meters four days earlier .

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.

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

Malin Ewerlöf (here in 2014) , her fifth place in the first run was not enough to advance

August 10, 1995, 4:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Patricia Djaté	France	1: 59.07
2	Ellen van Langen	Netherlands	1: 59.61
3	Natallja Duchnowa	Belarus	2: 00.13
4th	Amy Wickus	United States	2: 01.38
5	Malin Ewerlöf	Sweden	2: 02.28
6th	Julia Sakara	Zimbabwe	2: 03.68
7th	Yaznee Nasheeda	Maldives	2: 34.18

Forward 2

August 10, 1995, 4:31 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Letitia Vriesde	Suriname	1: 59.73
2	Tatiana Grigorieva	Russia	2: 00.03
3	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	2: 00.23
4th	Tina Paulino	Mozambique	2: 00.75
5	Stella Jongmans	Netherlands	2: 01.13
6th	Kutre Dulecha	Ethiopia	2: 01.74
7th	Lorie Ann Adams	Guyana	2: 07.57
8th	Fanta Camara	Guinea	2: 20.78

Forward 3

August 10, 1995, 4:37 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ana Fidelia Quirot	Cuba	2: 00.84
2	Jelena Afanassjewa	Russia	2: 01.04
3	Petya Strashilova	Bulgaria	2: 01.54
4th	Joetta Clark	United States	2: 01.70
5	Karen Gydesen	Denmark	2: 04.41
6th	Regula Zürcher	Switzerland	2: 05.87
7th	Cheong Tsui Fong	Singapore	2: 19.35

Forward 4

August 10, 1995, 4:43 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Maria de Lurdes Mutola	Mozambique	1: 59.93
2	Meredith Rainey	United States	2: 00.13
3	Ella Kovacs	Romania	2: 00.95
4th	Svetlana Miroshnik	Ukraine	2: 01.24
5	Anne Bruns	Germany	2: 03.16
6th	Aisling Molloy	Ireland	2: 04.15
DSQ	Inez Turner	Jamaica	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

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  Charmaine Crooks (Photo: 2013) was eliminated from fourth in their preliminary run

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  Ludmila Formanová failed to finish fifth in her race in the preliminary round

Forward 5

August 10, 1995, 4:49 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Inna Yevseeva	Ukraine	2: 01.74
2	Lyubov Gurina	Russia	2: 01.76
3	Luciana Mendes	Brazil	2: 01.82
4th	Charmaine Crooks	Canada	2: 02.04
5	Ludmila Formanová	Czech Republic	2: 02.39
6th	Jyotirmoy Sikdhar	India	2: 03.68
7th	Rita Martin	Sudan	2: 43.22

Semifinals

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Semi-final run 1

August 11, 1995, 6:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ana Fidelia Quirot	Cuba	2: 01.37
2	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	2: 01.52
3	Patricia Djaté	France	2: 01.73
4th	Letitia Vriesde	Suriname	2: 02.75
5	Jelena Afanassjewa	Russia	2: 03.66
6th	Svetlana Miroshnik	Ukraine	2: 03.72
7th	Tina Paulino	Mozambique	2: 04.51
8th	Stella Jongmans	Netherlands	2: 05.11

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  Ella Kovacs, who finished third in the World Championships in 1991 and 1993 , was eliminated as seventh of her race in the semifinals

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  The defending champion Maria Mutola was disqualified in her semifinals for violating the lane limit

Semi-final run 2

August 11, 1995, 6:32 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Meredith Rainey	United States	1: 58.49
2	Tatiana Grigorieva	Russia	1: 58.61
3	Lyubov Gurina	Russia	1: 58.70
4th	Ellen van Langen	Netherlands	1: 58.86
5	Natallja Duchnowa	Belarus	1: 59.45
6th	Inna Yevseeva	Ukraine	2: 00.93
7th	Ella Kovacs	Romania	2: 03.31
DSQ	Maria de Lurdes Mutola	Mozambique	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

After silver in the 1500 meters , Kelly Holmes (photo: 2009) won the bronze medal here - further great successes lay ahead of her

final

August 13, 1995, 4:55 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Ana Fidelia Quirot	Cuba	1: 56.11
2	Letitia Vriesde	Suriname	1: 56.68 SR
3	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	1: 56.96
4th	Patricia Djaté	France	1: 57.04
5	Meredith Rainey	United States	1: 58.20
6th	Ellen van Langen	Netherlands	1: 58.98
7th	Lyubov Gurina	Russia	1: 59.16
8th	Tatiana Grigorieva	Russia	2: 05.55

Video

• World Championships in Athletics 1995 - 800m Women , video posted October 29, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed June 7, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed June 7, 2020
• Women 800m Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com, accessed June 7, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 800 m, Gothenborg 1995, p. 268f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on June 7, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on June 7, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on June 7, 2020