Summer Olympics 2020 / Athletics - 800 m (women)

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Olympic rings
sport athletics
discipline 800 meter run
gender Women
Attendees ?? Athletes from ?? Countries
Competition location Olympic Stadium
Competition phase July 31, 2020 (preliminary)
August 1, 2020 (semi-finals)
August 4, 2020 (final)

The women in the 800-meter race 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo is from July to August 2021 in the Olympic Stadium held.

Current titleholders

Olympic Champion Caster Semenya ( South Africa ) South AfricaSouth Africa  1: 55.28 min Rio de Janeiro 2016
world champion Halimah Nakaayi ( Uganda ) UgandaUganda  1: 58.04 min Doha 2019
European champion Natalija Pryshchepa ( Ukraine ) UkraineUkraine  2: 00.38 min Berlin 2018
North / Central America / Caribbean Champion Ajeé Wilson ( United States ) United StatesUnited States  1: 57.52 min Toronto 2018
South American Champion Déborah Rodríguez ( Uruguay ) UruguayUruguay  2: 02.68 min Lima 2019
Asian champion Marimuthu Gomathy ( India ) IndiaIndia  2: 02.70 min Doha 2019
African champion
Oceania champion Catriona Bisset ( Australia ) AustraliaAustralia  2: 02.16 min Townsville 2019

Existing records

World record Jarmila Kratochvílová ( Czechoslovakia ) CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia  1: 53.28 min Munich , Germany July 26, 1983
Olympic record Nadija Olisarenko ( Soviet Union ) Soviet UnionSoviet Union  1: 53.43 min Final of Moscow , Soviet Union July 27, 1980

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