World Athletics Championships 2001/800 m for women
8th World Athletics Championships | |||||||||
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discipline | 800 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 32 athletes from 28 countries | ||||||||
venue | Edmonton | ||||||||
Competition location | Commonwealth Stadium | ||||||||
Competition phase | August 9th (preliminary) August 10th (semi-finals) August 12th (final) |
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The 800-meter race of women in the 2001 World Championships in Athletics was from 9 to 12 August 2001 Commonwealth Stadium the Canadian city of Edmonton held.
Maria de Lurdes Mutola from Mozambique won her second World Cup title after 1993 , the 2000 Olympic champion and the 1996 Olympic champion . She also won silver at World Championships in 1999 and bronze in 1997 . In addition, it was four times African champion ( 800m : 1990 , 1993 , 1998 / 1500 meters : 1990).
As at the Olympic Games last year, Austrian Stephanie Graf won the silver medal. At the finish she was only three hundredths of a second behind Maria Mutola.
Third place went to the vice world champion in 1995 and third in the 1999 World Cup, Letitia Vriesde from Suriname , who also won the 800-meter run at the 1999 Pan-American Games .
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
August 15, 2001, 5:35 pm
The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the quarter-finals.
The first heat was the fastest of all heats with a tightly packed field at the front, so that all participants who qualified for the semi-finals via the time rule came out of this race.
Forward 1
August 9, 2001, 7:55 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Maria de Lurdes Mutola | Mozambique | 1: 59.96 |
2 | Kelly Holmes | Great Britain | 2: 00.08 |
3 | Diane Cummins | Canada | 2: 00.46 |
4th | Jolanda Čeplak | Slovenia | 2: 00.46 |
5 | Hazel Clark | United States | 2: 00.56 |
6th | Anita Brägger | Switzerland | 2: 00.65 |
7th | Tamsyn Manou | Australia | 2: 00.86 |
8th | Hind Musa | Sudan | 2: 27.96 |
DNS | Kazadi Songa | Democratic Republic of Congo |
Forward 2
August 9, 2001, 8:03 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Faith Macharia | Kenya | 2: 03.83 |
2 | Ivonne Teichmann | Germany | 2: 04.03 |
3 | Luciana Mendes | Brazil | 2: 04.16 |
4th | Lwiza Msyani John | Tanzania | 2: 04.31 |
5 | Natalia Zyganova | Russia | 2: 04.55 |
6th | Natallja Duchnowa | Belarus | 2: 05.47 |
7th | Tatiana Borisova | Kyrgyzstan | 2: 05.63 |
8th | Adama Njie | Gambia | 2: 07.80 |
Forward 3
August 9, 2001, 8:11 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Letitia Vriesde | Suriname | 1: 59.51 |
2 | Zulia Calatayud | Cuba | 2: 00.96 |
3 | Svetlana Cherkassova | Russia | 2: 00.97 |
4th | Brigita Langerholc | Slovenia | 2: 01.05 |
5 | Peggy Babin | France | 2: 02.48 |
6th | Agnes Samaria | Namibia | 2: 03.11 |
7th | Charmaine Howell | Jamaica | 2: 05.06 |
8th | Mariela Álvarez | Peru | 2: 09.43 |
9 | Janill Williams | Antigua and Barbuda | 2: 15.04 |
Forward 4
August 9, 2001, 8:19 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Stephanie Graf | Austria | 2: 01.78 |
2 | Mayte Martínez | Spain | 2: 01.98 |
3 | Svetlana Badrankova | Kazakhstan | 2: 02.19 |
4th | Irina Mistyukevich | Russia | 2: 02.50 |
5 | Grace Birungi | Uganda | 2: 04.26 |
6th | Tina Paulino | Mozambique | 2: 06.36 |
DSQ | Tsvetelina Kirilova | Bulgaria | IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track |
DNS | Süreyya Ayhan | Turkey |
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 10, 2001, 8:05 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Stephanie Graf | Austria | 2: 01.24 |
2 | Kelly Holmes | Great Britain | 2: 01.90 |
3 | Diane Cummins | Canada | 2: 02.07 |
4th | Ivonne Teichmann | Germany | 2: 02.16 |
5 | Jolanda Čeplak | Slovenia | 2: 02.65 |
6th | Svetlana Cherkassova | Russia | 2: 02.85 |
7th | Tamsyn Manou | Australia | 2: 03.16 |
DNF | Hazel Clark | United States |
Semi-final run 2
August 10, 2001, 8:13 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Maria de Lurdes Mutola | Mozambique | 1: 59.47 |
2 | Letitia Vriesde | Suriname | 1: 59.58 |
3 | Mayte Martínez | Spain | 2: 00.09 |
4th | Faith Macharia | Kenya | 2: 00.24 |
5 | Zulia Calatayud | Cuba | 2: 01.04 |
6th | Luciana Mendes | Brazil | 2: 01.94 |
7th | Anita Brägger | Switzerland | 2: 02.22 |
8th | Svetlana Badrankova | Kazakhstan | 2: 02.24 |
final
The current Olympic champion Maria Mutola became world champion for the second time after 1993 , and she had also collected many other medals
August 12, 2001, 3:45 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) |
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1 | Maria de Lurdes Mutola | Mozambique | 1: 57.17 |
2 | Stephanie Graf | Austria | 1: 57.20 |
3 | Letitia Vriesde | Suriname | 1: 57.35 |
4th | Faith Macharia | Kenya | 1: 58.98 |
5 | Diane Cummins | Canada | 1: 59.49 |
6th | Kelly Holmes | Great Britain | 1: 59.76 |
7th | Mayte Martínez | Spain | 2: 00.09 |
8th | Ivonne Teichmann | Germany | 2: 04.33 |
Kelly Holmes (here in 2009) , 2000 Olympic bronze medalist and 1995 World Cup -Medaillengewinnerin over 800 and 1500 meters , came to sixth place - she had her greatest successes still to come
Video
- IAAF World Championships 800m Women's final on youtube.com, accessed August 18, 2020
Web links
- 8th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed August 18, 2020
- Women 800m Athletics VIII World Championship 2001 Edmonton (CAN) on todor66.com, accessed August 18, 2020
- Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Women 800 m, Edmonton 2001, p. 269f (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on August 18, 2020
References and comments
- ↑ IAAF world records. 800 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 18, 2020
- ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on August 18, 2020