Event: | Women's 800 metres |
Games: | 1996 Summer |
Venue: | Centennial Olympic Stadium |
Dates: | 26 July 1996 (heats) 27 July 1996 (semi-finals) 29 July 1996 (final) |
Competitors: | 36 |
Nations: | 31 |
Win Value: | 1:57.73 |
Longnames: | yes |
Gold: | Svetlana Masterkova |
Goldnoc: | RUS |
Silver: | Ana Fidelia Quirot |
Silvernoc: | CUB |
Bronze: | Maria de Lurdes Mutola |
Bronzenoc: | MOZ |
Prev: | 1992 |
Next: | 2000 |
These are the official results of the women's 800 metres event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. There were a total of 37 competitors from 31 countries.[1]
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1996 Summer Olympics.
World Record | 1:53.28 | Jarmila Kratochvílová | Munich (FRG) | July 26, 1983 | |
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Olympic Record | 1:53.43 | Nadiya Olizarenko | Moscow (URS) | July 27, 1980 |
Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified to the semifinals.
Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
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1 | 5 | 1:58.80 | Q | |||
2 | 2 | 1:58.98 | Q | |||
2 | 5 | 1:58.98 | Q | |||
4 | 2 | 1:59.18 | Q | |||
5 | 3 | 1:59.23 | Q | |||
6 | 3 | 1:59.35 | Q | |||
7 | 5 | 1:59.37 | q | |||
8 | 2 | 1:59.56 | q | |||
8 | 3 | 1:59.56 | q | |||
10 | 1 | 1:59.67 | Q | |||
11 | 1 | 1:59.71 | Q | |||
12 | 3 | 1:59.96 | q | |||
13 | 4 | 1:59.98 | Q | |||
14 | 2 | 2:00.02 | q | |||
15 | 3 | 2:00.18 | q | |||
16 | 1 | 2:00.25 | ||||
17 | 4 | 2:00.26 | Q | |||
18 | 3 | 2:00.27 | ||||
19 | 4 | 2:00.38 | ||||
20 | 5 | 2:00.47 | ||||
21 | 5 | 2:01.48 | ||||
22 | 4 | 2:01.61 | ||||
23 | 4 | 2:02.13 | ||||
24 | 1 | 2:02.44 | ||||
25 | 4 | 2:02.88 | ||||
26 | 2 | 2:03.22 | ||||
27 | 1 | 2:04.17 | ||||
28 | 5 | 2:04.80 | ||||
29 | 2 | 2:04.99 | ||||
30 | 4 | 2:08.31 | ||||
31 | 1 | 2:08.58 | ||||
32 | 1 | 2:13.52 | ||||
33 | 3 | 2:36.85 | ||||
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Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) qualified directly to the final.
Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
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1 | 2 | 1:57.62 | Q | |||
2 | 2 | 1:57.77 | Q | |||
3 | 2 | 1:57.93 | Q | |||
4 | 1 | 1:57.95 | Q | |||
5 | 1 | 1:57.99 | Q | |||
6 | 2 | 1:58.25 | Q | |||
7 | 2 | 1:58.29 | ||||
8 | 1 | 1:58.49 | Q | |||
9 | 1 | 1:58.67 | Q | |||
10 | 1 | 1:59.06 | ||||
11 | 1 | 1:59.23 | ||||
12 | 2 | 1:59.28 | ||||
13 | 2 | 1:59.36 | ||||
14 | 1 | 2:00.68 | ||||
15 | 2 | 2:02.50 | ||||
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Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes | |
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1:57.73 | |||||
1:58.11 | |||||
1:58.71 | |||||
4 | 1:58.81 | ||||
5 | 1:59.57 | ||||
6 | 1:59.61 | ||||
7 | 2:00.32 | ||||
8 | 2:00.54 |