2017 World Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres explained

Event:	Women's 800 metres
Competition:	2017 World Championships
Venue:	Olympic Stadium
Dates:	10 August (heats) 11 August (semifinal) 13 August (final)
Competitors:	45
Nations:	29
Win Value:	1:55.16
Gold:	Caster Semenya
Goldnoc:	RSA
Silver:	Francine Niyonsaba
Silvernoc:	BDI
Bronze:	Ajeé Wilson
Bronzenoc:	USA
Prev:	2015
Next:	2019

The women's 800 metres at the 2017 World Championships in Athletics was held at the London Olympic Stadium on and 13 August.^[1]

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:^[2]

Record		Athlete		Date	Location
World	1:53.28	Jarmila Kratochvílová		26 Jul 1983	Munich, West Germany
Championship	1:54.68	Jarmila Kratochvílová		9 Aug 1983	Helsinki, Finland
World leading	1:55.27	Caster Semenya		21 Jul 2017	Monaco
African	1:54.01	Pamela Jelimo	Kenya		Zürich, Switzerland
Asian	1:55.54	Liu Dong		9 Sep 1993	Beijing, China
NACAC	1:54.44	Ana Fidelia Quirot	Cuba	9 Sep 1989	Barcelona, Spain
South American	1:56.68	Letitia Vriesde	Suriname	13 Aug 1995	Gothenburg, Sweden
European	1:53.28	Jarmila Kratochvílová		26 Jul 1983	Munich, West Germany
Oceanian	1:58.25	Toni Hodgkinson	New Zealand	7 Jul 1996	Atlanta, United States

The following records were set at the competition:^[3]

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 2:01.00.^[4]

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+1), is as follows:^[5]

The first round took place on 10 August in six heats as follows:^[6]

Heat	1	2	3	4	5	6
Start time	19:24	19:33	19:42	19:51	20:01	20:10
Photo finish	link	link	link	link	link	link

The first three in each heat (

Q ) and the next six fastest ( q ) qualified for the semifinals. The overall results were as follows:^[7]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	6	5	1:59.86
2	6	7	2:00.07
3	6	9	2:00.23
4	6	3	2:00.28	,
5	1	6	2:00.52
6	4	4	2:00.75
7	2	3	2:00.86	,
8	1	4	2:00.99	,
9	4	6	2:01.04
10	2	5	2:01.11
11	6	4	2:01.13
12	1	7	2:01.21	,
13	6	2	2:01.25
14	2	9	2:01.30
15	3	7	2:01.33
16	3	2	2:01.43
17	1	2	2:01.50
18	3	8	2:01.51
19	2	6	2:01.53
20	6	6	2:01.73
21	3	3	2:01.76
22	3	6	2:01.77
23	4	7	2:01.80
24	4	9	2:01.92
25	4	2	2:02.04
26	4	8	2:02.07
27	2	4	2:02.22
28	3	4	2:02.25
29	1	8	2:02.65
30	2	2	2:02.70
31	5	6	2:02.74
32	4	3	2:02.75
33	5	2	2:02.85
34	5	7	2:02.98
35	1	3	2:03.01
36	4	5	2:03.19
37	5	9	2:03.45
38	5	5	2:03.54
39	3	5	2:04.06
40	5	3	2:06.54
41	2	8	2:07.17
42	1	5	2:07.36
43	2	7	2:08.49
44	5	4	2:09.19
45	6	8	2:20.06
	1	9
	5	8

The semifinals took place on 11 August in three heats as follows:^[8]

Heat	1	2	3
Start time	19:35	19:45	19:55
Photo finish	link	link	link

The first two in each heat (

Q ) and the next two fastest ( q ) qualified for the final. The overall results were as follows:^[9]

Rank	Heat	Lane	Time	Notes
1	2	6	1:58.90
2	1	4	1:59.21
3	2	3	1:59.32	,
4	2	7	1:59.35
5	2	5	1:59.47
6	1	7	1:59.56
7	1	3	1:59.74
8	1	6	1:59.79
9	2	4	1:59.85
10	1	8	1:59.88
11	1	9	2:00.26
12	1	2	2:00.43
13	2	2	2:00.48
14	1	5	2:00.69
15	2	9	2:00.92
16	3	5	2:01.11
17	3	7	2:01.19
18	3	4	2:01.31
19	3	2	2:01.74
20	3	6	2:01.91
21	2	8	2:02.00
22	3	8	2:02.26
23	3	9	2:02.69
24	3	3	2:03.67

The final took place on 13 August at 20:10. The results were as follows: (photo finish)^[10]

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	Split Time
Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes	1st 400m	2nd 400m
	4			1:55.16		0:58:53	0:56:63
	7			1:55.92		0:57:98	0:57:94
	5			1:56.65		0:58:21	0:58:44
4	9			1:57.54		0:58.36	0:59:18
5	6			1:57.68		0:58:51	0:59:17
6	3			1:58.41		0:58:82	0:59:59
7	8			1:58.73		0:58:77	0:59:96
8	2			1:58.98		0:58:42	1:00:56