1964 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (women)

sport	athletics
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Women
Attendees	23 athletes from 15 countries
Competition location	Tokyo Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	October 18, 1964 (preliminary) October 19, 1964 (semi-finals) October 20, 1964 (final)
Medalists Ann Packer ( GBR )   Maryvonne Dupureur ( FRA )   Marise Chamberlain ( NZL )

Olympic Champion Ann Packer, Great Britain

The women's 800-meter run at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo was held from October 18-20, 1964 in the Tokyo Olympic Stadium. 23 athletes took part.

The British Ann Packer became Olympic champion . She won in a new world record time in front of the French Maryvonne Dupureur and the New Zealander Marise Chamberlain .

Three Germans started, runners from Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part. While Waltraud Kaufmann did not survive the preliminary round, Anita Wörner qualified for the semi-finals. Here she was eliminated as the fifth of her run. Antje Gleichfeld reached the finals and finished fifth there.

Existing records

World record	2: 01.2 min	Dixie Willis ( Australia )	Perth , Australia	March 3, 1962
Olympic record	2: 04.3 min	Lyudmila Shevtsova ( Soviet Union )	Final of Rome , Italy	September 7, 1960

Conducting the competition

The athletes competed in a total of three preliminary runs on October 18. The five best starters and the fastest fastest qualified for the next round. From the semi-finals on October 19th, the four best participants reached the final on October 20th.

Time schedule

October 18, 10.30
a.m .: Preliminaries October 19, 2.20 p.m .: Semi-finals
October 20, 3.30 p.m .: Final

Note: All times are Tokyo local time (UTC + 9)

The athletes directly qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue, those athletes who have qualified over time are highlighted in light green.

Prelims

Date: October 18, 1964, from 10.30 a.m.

Weather conditions: rainy, approx. 14 ° C, humidity approx. 95%

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Maryvonne Dupureur	France	2: 04.5 min
2	Marise Chamberlain	New Zealand	2: 06.8 min
3	Zsuzsa Szabó	Hungary	2: 07.7 min
4th	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2: 08.8 min
5	Ann Packer	Great Britain	2: 12.6 min
6th	Waltraud Kaufmann	Germany	2: 14.6 min
7th	Jette Andersen	Denmark	2: 15.2 min
8th	Abby Hoffman	Canada	2: 17.4 min

Forward 2

Seventh place in the final: Gerda Kraan, Netherlands

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Mary Hodson	Great Britain	2: 08.5 min
2	Anita Woerner	Germany	2: 08.6 min
3	Soy Skobzowa	Soviet Union	2: 08.6 min
4th	Gerda Kraan	Ireland	2: 09.8 min
5	Maeve Kyle	Jamaica	2: 11.3 min
6th	Sandy Knott	United States	2: 12.2 min
7th	Ramazangiin Aldaa-nysh	Mongolia	2: 21.1 min

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Anne Smith	Great Britain	2: 08.0 min
2	Antje Gleichfeld	Germany	2: 08.2 min
3	Laine Erik	Soviet Union	2: 08.3 min
4th	Gizela Farkaš	Yugoslavia	2: 08.7 min
5	Jannie van Eyck-Vos	Netherlands	2: 09.1 min
6th	Olga Kazi	Hungary	2: 12.1 min
7th	Masako Kisaki	Japan	2: 18.6 min
8th	Han Myung-hee	South Korea	2: 22.7 min

Semifinals

Jannie van Eyck-Vos from the Netherlands failed in the semifinals

Date: October 19, 1964, from 2:20 p.m.

Weather conditions: sunny, approx. 19-20 ° C, humidity approx. 40%

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Maryvonne Dupureur	France	2: 04.1 min	OR
2	Antje Gleichfeld	Germany	2: 04.6 min
3	Laine Erik	Soviet Union	2: 04.7 min
4th	Anne Smith	Great Britain	2: 04.8 min
5	Vera Mukhanova	Soviet Union	2: 04.8 min
6th	Jannie van Eyck-Vos	Netherlands	2: 05.7 min
7th	Mary Hodson	Great Britain	2: 07.1 min
8th	Olga Kazi	Hungary	2: 10.2 min

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Marise Chamberlain	New Zealand	2: 04.6 min
2	Zsuzsa Szabó	Hungary	2: 05.1 min
3	Ann Packer	Great Britain	2: 06.0 min
4th	Gerda Kraan	Netherlands	2: 06.2 min
5	Anita Woerner	Germany	2: 07.1 min
6th	Soy Skovzowa	Soviet Union	2: 07.4 min
7th	Gizela Farkaš	Yugoslavia	2: 09.9 min
8th	Maeve Kyle	Ireland	2: 12.9 min

final

Scene from the finale (from left to right): Anne Smith, Laine Erik, Marise Chamberlain, Ann Packer, Antje Gleichfeld, Gerda Kraan, Maryvonne Dupureur, Zsuzsa Szabó

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ann Packer	Great Britain	2: 01.1 min	WR
2	Maryvonne Dupureur	France	2: 01.9 min
3	Marise Chamberlain	New Zealand	2: 02.8 min
4th	Zsuzsa Szabó	Hungary	2: 03.5 min
5	Antje Gleichfeld	Germany	2: 03.9 min
6th	Laine Erik	Soviet Union	2: 05.1 min
7th	Gerda Kraan	Netherlands	2: 05.8 min
8th	Anne Smith	Great Britain	2: 05.8 min

Date: October 20, 1964, 3:30 p.m.

Weather conditions: cloudy, approx. 16 ° C, humidity approx. 85%

For the third time this competition was on the Olympic program after 1928 and 1960 . The development had continued rapidly, since the games in Rome the world record had been improved by more than three seconds. The French Maryvonne Dupureur already ran a new Olympic record in the semifinals and was of course a medal candidate . The British 400 meter silver medalist Ann Packer was also highly rated. The current world record holder Dixie Willis could not take part due to an injury.
As expected, Dupureur took the lead right from the start. The pace was extremely high, the 400 m was passed in 58.6 s. Packer designed the race wisely and always stayed in the slipstream of the field. At the start of the home straight, the British accelerated and passed the French woman, who was still leading, almost effortlessly. Ann Packer became Olympic champion in a new world record time, Maryvonne Dupureur was rewarded with the silver medal, and bronze went to Marise Chamberlain from New Zealand. Fourth was the Hungarian Zsuzsa Szabó, followed by the German Antje Gleichfeld, who had set two German records here and repeated her placement from Rome . These five runners were faster than Dupureur on their Olympic record from the semifinals.

Ann Packer, Maryvonne Dupureur and Marise Chamberlain achieve the first medal wins in their countries in this discipline.

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 2: 1948–1968, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 1st edition 1969, p. 299f

Video

• Ann Packer Wins 800m Gold For Great Britain - Tokyo 1964 Olympics , published May 4, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed October 30, 2017

Web links

• SportsReference 800m , accessed October 30, 2017
• Official report of the Olympic Games 1964 p. 93f engl. (PDF), accessed October 30, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Berlin 2009 Page 641 (Engl.) ( Memento of 29 June 2011 at the Internet Archive ). accessed on October 30, 2017
2. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 17 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed on October 30, 2017 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Official Report of the Olympic Games 1964 ( Memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 93 (English) at library.la84.org (PDF), accessed October 30, 2017 
4. ↑ Official report of the 1964 Olympic Games ( memento of the original from June 30, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P. 94 (English) from library.la84.org (PDF), accessed October 30, 2017 
5. ↑ SportsReference , accessed October 30, 2017