World Athletics Championships 2001/800 m for women

8th World Athletics Championships
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)
Medalists Maria de Lurdes Mutola ( MOZ )   Stephanie Graf ( AUT )   Letitia Vriesde ( SUR )

The Commonwealth Stadium by Edmonton in 2005

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)
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)
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

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  Brigita Langerholc (Photo: 2012) missed the semifinals by one rank

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  Agnes Samaria (right) was eliminated in sixth place in her run

August 9, 2001, 8:11 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
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)
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

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  Tamsyn Manou, formerly Tamsyn Lewis, did not make it into the finals as seventh in her semifinals

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  Hazel Clark (here in 2014) did not finish in the first semifinals

August 10, 2001, 8:05 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
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)
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

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  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)
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

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  Stephanie Graf (Photo: 2008) - after winning Olympic silver in the previous year, she was also rewarded with silver here

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  Diane Cummins reached number five

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  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

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  Seventh-placed Mayte Martínez

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

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800 m women on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on August 18, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on August 18, 2020