2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (women)
sport | athletics | ||||||||
discipline | 800 meter run | ||||||||
gender | Women | ||||||||
Attendees | 38 athletes from 30 countries | ||||||||
Competition location | Stadium Australia | ||||||||
Competition phase | September 22, 2000 (preliminary round) September 23, 2000 (semi-finals) September 25, 2000 (final) |
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The women's 800-meter run at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 22, 23 and 25, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 38 athletes took part.
The Olympic champion was the Mozambican Maria Mutola . She won ahead of the Austrian Stephanie Graf and Kelly Holmes from Great Britain.
Claudia Gesell started for Germany and was eliminated in the semifinals.
Athletes from Switzerland and Liechtenstein did not take part.
Current titleholders
Olympic champion 1996 | Swetlana Masterkowa ( Russia ) | 1: 57.73 min | Atlanta 1996 |
World Champion 1999 | Ludmila Formanová ( Czech Republic ) | 1: 56.68 min | Seville 1999 |
European Champion 1998 | Jelena Afanassjewa ( Russia ) | 1: 58.50 min | Budapest 1998 |
Pan American Champion 1999 | Letitia Vriesde ( Suriname ) | 1: 59.95 min | Winnipeg 1999 |
Central America and Caribbean champion 1999 | Charmaine Howell ( Jamaica ) | 2: 03.85 min | Bridgetown 1999 |
South America Champion 1999 | Luciana Mendes ( Brazil ) | 2: 05.62 min | Bogotá 1999 |
Asian Champion 2000 | Lin Na ( People's Republic of China ) | 2: 03.46 min | Jakarta 2000 |
African champion 2000 | Hasna Benhassi ( Morocco ) | 1: 59.01 min | Algiers 2000 |
Oceania Champion 2000 | Rochelle Heron ( New Zealand ) | 2: 14.26 min | Adelaide 2000 |
Existing records
World record | 1: 53.28 min | Jarmila Kratochvilová ( Czechoslovakia ) | Munich , Federal Republic of Germany (now Germany ) | July 26, 1983 |
Olympic record | 1: 53.43 min | Nadija Olisarenko ( Soviet Union ) | Final of Moscow , Soviet Union (today Russia ) | July 27, 1980 |
Note: All times are based on Sydney local time ( UTC + 10 ).
Preliminary round
A total of five preliminary runs were completed. The first two athletes of each run qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, the six fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Forward 1
September 22, 2000, 10:00 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Maria Mutola | Mozambique | 1: 59.88 | |
2 | Tamsyn Lewis | Australia | 2: 00.33 | |
3 | Hasna Benhassi | Morocco | 2: 00.50 | |
4th | Natallja Duchnowa | Belarus | 2: 03.20 | |
5 | Grace Birungi | Uganda | 2: 03.32 | |
6th | Olena Buschenko | Ukraine | 2: 03.48 | |
7th | Florencia Hunt | Netherlands Antilles | 2: 03.78 | NO |
8th | Direma Banasso | Togo | 2: 13.67 |
Forward 2
September 22, 2000, 10:07 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Jearl Miles Clark | United States | 2: 01.79 | |
2 | Brigita Langerholc | Slovenia | 2: 01.89 | |
3 | Olga Raspopova | Russia | 2: 01.95 | |
4th | Letitia Vriesde | Suriname | 2: 02.09 | |
5 | Amina Ait Hammou | Morocco | 2: 03.25 | |
6th | Leontine Tsiba | Republic of the Congo | 2: 04.08 | NO |
7th | Elena Iagăr | Romania | 2: 07.56 | |
8th | Roda Ali Wais | Djibouti | 2: 31.71 |
Forward 3
September 22, 2000, 10:14 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Mayte Martínez | Spain | 1: 59.60 | |
2 | Irina Mistyukevich | Russia | 1: 59.73 | |
3 | Zulia Calatayud | Cuba | 2: 00.18 | |
4th | Joetta Clark | United States | 2: 00.19 | |
5 | Charmaine Howell | Jamaica | 2: 01.14 | |
6th | Christine Mukamutesi | Rwanda | 2: 14.15 | |
7th | Anhel Cape | Guinea-Bissau | 2: 17.05 | |
DNF | Ludmila Formanová | Czech Republic |
Forward 4
September 22, 2000, 10:21 am
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Kelly Holmes | Great Britain | 2: 01.76 | |
2 | Hazel Clark | United States | 2: 01.99 | |
3 | Natalia Zyganova | Russia | 2: 02.26 | |
4th | Sandra Stals | Belgium | 2: 02.33 | |
5 | Susan Andrews | Australia | 2: 03.31 | |
6th | Irina Latve | Latvia | 2: 06.05 | |
7th | Delfina Cassinda | Angola | 2: 15.02 |
Forward 5
September 22, 2000, 10:28 a.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Stephanie Graf | Austria | 1: 58.39 | |
2 | Claudia Gesell | Germany | 1: 58.56 | |
3 | Helena Fuchsová | Czech Republic | 1: 58.97 | |
4th | Toni Hodgkinson | New Zealand | 1: 59.37 | |
5 | Diane Modahl | Great Britain | 2: 02.41 | |
6th | Adama Njie | Gambia | 2: 07.90 | |
7th | Anna Nassiljan | Armenia | 2: 14.86 | |
DNS | Tina Paulino | Mozambique |
Semifinals
The first three athletes of each run qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.
Run 1
September 23, 2000, 7:10 p.m.
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Maria Mutola | Mozambique | 1: 58.86 | |
2 | Hasna Benhassi | Morocco | 1: 59.19 | |
3 | Zulia Calatayud | Cuba | 1: 59.30 | |
4th | Tamsyn Lewis | Australia | 1: 59.33 | |
5 | Jearl Miles Clark | United States | 1: 59.44 | |
6th | Claudia Gesell | Germany | 1: 59.69 | |
7th | Charmaine Howell | Jamaica | 2: 00.63 | |
8th | Mayte Martínez | Spain | 2: 03.27 |
Run 2
September 23, 2000, 7:17 pm
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
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1 | Stephanie Graf | Austria | 1: 57.56 | |
2 | Kelly Holmes | Great Britain | 1: 58.45 | |
3 | Helena Fuchsová | Czech Republic | 1: 58.82 | |
4th | Brigita Langerholc | Slovenia | 1: 59.09 | NO |
5 | Hazel Clark | United States | 1: 59.12 | |
6th | Toni Hodgkinson | New Zealand | 1: 59.84 | |
7th | Irina Mistyukevich | Russia | 2: 02.95 | |
8th | Joetta Clark | United States | 2: 04.12 |
final
space | Surname | nation | Time (min) | annotation |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Maria Mutola | Mozambique | 1: 56.15 | |
2 | Stephanie Graf | Austria | 1: 56.64 | NO |
3 | Kelly Holmes | Great Britain | 1: 56.80 | |
4th | Brigita Langerholc | Slovenia | 1: 58.51 | NO |
5 | Helena Fuchsová | Czech Republic | 1: 58.56 | |
6th | Zulia Calatayud | Cuba | 1: 58.66 | |
7th | Hazel Clark | United States | 1: 58.75 | |
8th | Hasna Benhassi | Morocco | 1: 59.17 |
September 25, 2000, 9:35 p.m.
Eight athletes from eight different nations qualified for the final.
After the reigning world champion , the Czech Ludmila Formanová, was eliminated in the preliminary round due to injury, the favorite role fell to the vice world champion Maria Mutola from Mozambique. Her main competitors were the US World Cup fourth Jearl Miles Clark and the Austrian Stephanie Graf, who had only finished seventh at the previous World Championships, but had improved a lot in the Olympic season. Mutola's training colleague Kelly Holmes from Great Britain was also eligible for the medals. Miles Clark, however, was eliminated in the semi-finals.
The first lap of the final race was determined by the Czech Helena Fuchsová. She set a high pace, the 400-meter split was 55.04 seconds. That was an excellent basis for a very good end time. The field was expanded accordingly and there were already gaps. Fuchsová now even pulled away from her opponents a little, but on the back straight the Slovenian Brigita Langerholc and the American Hazel Clark came up again. After 600 meters the situation changed completely. Holmes now took over the lead, followed by Mutola and Graf, who fought for a good starting position with very close gaps in the target curve. The Moroccan Hasna Benhassi ran there on the very outside. At the beginning of the home straight, Holmes was leading, Mutola was behind her. But in the last fifty meters, Maria Mutola was the fastest and sprinted four meters ahead of Stephanie Graf, who was also able to overtake Kelly Holmes. The three medal winners had a clear lead over the next runners. Brigita Langerholc took fourth place ahead of Helena Fuchsová and the Cuban Zulia Calatayud.
Maria Mutola won the first ever Olympic gold medal for Mozambique.
Stephanie Graf was the first Austrian medalist in this discipline.
Web links
- SportsReference 800m , accessed April 5, 2018
- Results on the IAAF website , accessed April 5, 2018
- Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on April 5, 2018
Video
- 2000, Olympic Games, 800m, Women, Final, Sydney , published June 17, 2013 on youtube.com, accessed April 4, 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 795 , accessed on April 5, 2018