800 metres
Athletics 800 metres | |
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World records | |
Men | David Rudisha(KEN)1:40.91 (2012) |
Women | Jarmila Kratochvílová(TCH)1:53.28 (1983) |
Short track world records | |
Men | Wilson Kipketer(DEN)1:42.67 (1997) |
Women | Jolanda Čeplak(SLO)1:55.82 (2002) |
Olympic records | |
Men | David Rudisha(KEN)1:40.91 (2012) |
Women | Nadezhda Olizarenko(URS)1:53.43 (1980) |
World Championship records | |
Men | Donavan Brazier(USA)1:42.34 (2019) |
Women | Jarmila Kratochvílová(TCH)1:54.68 (1983) |
World junior (U20) records | |
Men | Nijel Amos(BOT)1:41.73 (2012) |
Women | Pamela Jelimo(KEN)1:54.01 (2008) |
The800 metres,ormeters(US spelling), is a commontrack runningevent. It is the shortest commonly runmiddle-distance runningevent. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the first modern games in 1896. During the winter track season the event is usually run by completing four laps of an indoor 200-metre track.
The event was derived from the imperial measurement of a half mile (880 yards), a traditional British racing distance. 800 m is 4.67 m less than a halfmile.
The event combinesaerobicendurance withanaerobicconditioning and sprint speed, so the 800m athlete has to combine training for both.
Runners in this event are occasionally fast enough to also compete in the400 metresbut more commonly have enough endurance to 'double up' in the1500m.OnlyAlberto JuantorenaandJarmila Kratochvílováhave won major international titles at 400m and 800m.
Race tactics
[edit]The 800m is also known for its tactical racing. Because it is the shortest middle-distance event that has all the runners converge into one lane (after the first bend), positioning on the cut-in and the position of the pack is critical to the outcome of the race. Gaining a front position early in the race is often advantageous as there are occasionally trips when running in a pack. Olympic championsDave Wottle,Kelly Holmesand others have defied that logic by running a more evenly paced race, lagging behind the pack and accelerating past the slowing early leaders. Often the winner of elite 800m races is not the fastest runner, but the athlete best positioned near the end of the race: an athlete directly behind another runner, has to switch to an outer lane to overtake, so has to run further—and might be blocked by a third runner alongside.[1]
800 metre participants usually run a positive split, where the first lap is faster, but anegative splitis occasionally run as a tactic. The current world record (byDavid Rudisha) was run with a positive split in the 2012Olympics.Rudisha ran the first lap in 49.28 seconds and the second in 51.63 seconds. Theoretically, an even split is the most efficient running mode,[citation needed]but it is difficult to pace correctly.
Continental records
[edit]Area | Men | Women | ||||
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Time | Athlete | Nation | Time | Athlete | Nation | |
Africa(records) | 1:40.91WR | David Rudisha | Kenya | 1:54.01 | Pamela Jelimo | Kenya |
Asia(records) | 1:42.79 | Yusuf Saad Kamel | Bahrain | 1:55.54 | Liu Dong | China |
Europe(records) | 1:41.11 | Wilson Kipketer | Denmark | 1:53.28WR | Jarmila Kratochvílová | Czechoslovakia |
North, Central America and Caribbean(records) |
1:42.34 | Donavan Brazier | United States | 1:54.44 | Ana Fidelia Quirot | Cuba |
Oceania(records) | 1:43.99 | Joseph Deng | Australia | 1:57.78 | Catriona Bisset | Australia |
South America(records) | 1:41.77 | Joaquim Cruz | Brazil | 1:56.58 | Letitia Vriesde | Suriname |
All-time top 25
[edit]Men (outdoor)
[edit]- Updated 12 July 2024.[4]
Ath.# | Perf.# | Time | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place | Ref. |
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1 | 1 | 1:40.91 | David Rudisha | Kenya | 9 August 2012 | London | [5] |
2 | 1:41.01 | Rudisha #2 | 29 August 2010 | Rieti | |||
3 | 1:41.09 | Rudisha #3 | 22 August 2010 | Berlin | |||
2 | 4 | 1:41.11 | Wilson Kipketer | Denmark | 24 August 1997 | Cologne | |
5 | 1:41.24 | Kipketer #2 | 13 August 1997 | Zürich | |||
6 | 1:41.33 | Rudisha #4 | 10 September 2011 | Rieti | |||
3 | 7 | 1:41.46 | Djamel Sedjati | Algeria | 12 July 2024 | Monaco | [6] |
8 | 1:41.51 | Rudisha #5 | 10 July 2010 | Heusden-Zolder | |||
9 | 1:41.54 | Rudisha #6 | 6 July 2012 | Paris | |||
10 | 1:41.56 | Sedjati #2 | 7 July 2024 | Paris | [7] | ||
4 | 11 | 1:41.58 | Emmanuel Wanyonyi | Kenya | 7 July 2024 | Paris | [7] |
5 | 12 | 1:41.61 | Gabriel Tual | France | 7 July 2024 | Paris | [7] |
13 | 1:41.70 | Wanyonyi #2 | 15 June 2024 | Nairobi | [8] | ||
6 | 14 | 1:41.73 | Sebastian Coe | Great Britain | 10 June 1981 | Florence | |
15 | 1:41.73 | Kipketer #3 | 7 July 1997 | Stockholm | |||
7 | 16 | 1:41.73 | Nijel Amos | Botswana | 9 August 2012 | London | |
17 | 1:41.74 | Rudisha #7 | 9 June 2012 | New York City | |||
8 | 18 | 1:41.77 | Joaquim Cruz | Brazil | 26 August 1984 | Cologne | |
19 | 1:41.83 | Kipketer #4 | 1 September 1996 | Rieti | |||
20 | 1:41.89 | Amos #2 | 12 July 2019 | Monaco | |||
21 | 1:42.01 | Rudisha #8 | 6 September 2009 | Rieti | |||
9 | 22 | 1:42.04 | Mohamed Attaoui | Spain | 12 July 2024 | Monaco | [6] |
1:42.04 | Rudisha #9 | 4 June 2010 | Oslo | ||||
10 | 24 | 1:42.05 | Emmanuel Korir | Kenya | 22 July 2018 | London | [9] |
11 | 25 | 1:42.08 | Aaron Kemei Cheminingwa | Kenya | 7 July 2024 | Paris | [7] |
Wyclife Kinyamal | Kenya | 7 July 2024 | Paris | [7] | |||
13 | 1:42.23 | Abubaker Kaki | Sudan | 4 June 2010 | Oslo | [10] | |
14 | 1:42.27 | Ben Pattison | United Kingdom | 12 July 2024 | Monaco | [6] | |
15 | 1:42.28 | Sammy Koskei | Kenya | 26 August 1984 | Cologne | ||
16 | 1:42.34 | Wilfred Bungei | Kenya | 8 September 2002 | Rieti | ||
Donavan Brazier | United States | 1 October 2019 | Doha | [11] | |||
18 | 1:42.37 | Mohammed Aman | Ethiopia | 6 September 2013 | Brussels | [12] | |
19 | 1:42.43 | Eliott Crestan | Belgium | 7 July 2024 | Paris | [7] | |
20 | 1:42.47 | Yuriy Borzakovskiy | Russia | 24 August 2001 | Brussels | ||
21 | 1:42.51 | Amel Tuka | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 17 July 2015 | Monaco | [13] | |
22 | 1:42.53 | Timothy Kitum | Kenya | 9 August 2012 | London | ||
Pierre-Ambroise Bosse | France | 18 July 2014 | Monaco | ||||
24 | 1:42.54 | Ferguson Rotich | Kenya | 12 July 2019 | Monaco | [14] | |
25 | 1:42.55 | André Bucher | Switzerland | 17 August 2001 | Zürich |
Women (outdoor)
[edit]- Updated 17 September 2023.[15]
Ath.# | Perf.# | Time | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place | Ref. |
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1 | 1 | 1:53.28 | Jarmila Kratochvílová | Czechoslovakia | 26 July 1983 | Munich | |
2 | 2 | 1:53.43 | Nadezhda Olizarenko | Soviet Union | 27 July 1980 | Moscow | |
3 | 3 | 1:54.01 | Pamela Jelimo | Kenya | 29 August 2008 | Zürich | |
4 | 4 | 1:54.25 | Caster Semenya | South Africa | 30 June 2018 | Paris | [16] |
5 | 5 | 1:54.44 | Ana Fidelia Quirot | Cuba | 9 September 1989 | Barcelona | |
6 | 1:54.60 | Semenya #2 | 20 July 2018 | Monaco | |||
7 | 1:54.68 | Kratochvílová #2 | 9 August 1983 | Helsinki | |||
8 | 1:54.77 | Semenya #3 | 9 September 2018 | Ostrava | |||
6 | 9 | 1:54.81 | Olga Mineyeva | Soviet Union | 27 July 1980 | Moscow | |
10 | 1:54.82 | Quirot #2 | 24 August 1997 | Cologne | |||
11 | 1:54.85 | Olizarenko #2 | 12 June 1980 | Moscow | |||
12 | 1:54.87 | Jelimo #2 | 18 August 2008 | Beijing | |||
7 | 13 | 1:54.94 | Tatyana Kazankina | Soviet Union | 26 July 1976 | Montreal | |
14 | 1:54.97 | Jelimo #3 | 18 July 2008 | Paris | |||
8 | 14 | 1:54.97 | Athing Mu | United States | 17 September 2023 | Eugene | [17] |
16 | 1:54.98 | Semenya #4 | 3 May 2019 | Doha | |||
17 | 1:54.99 | Jelimo #4 | 1 June 2008 | Berlin | |||
18 | 1:55.04 | Kratochvílová #3 | 23 August 1983 | Oslo | |||
19 | 1:55.04 | Mu #2 | 21 August 2021 | Eugene | [18] | ||
9 | 20 | 1:55.05 | Doina Melinte | Romania | 1 August 1982 | Bucharest | |
21 | 1:55.16 | Jelimo #5 | 5 September 2008 | Brussels | |||
Semenya #5 | 13 August 2017 | London | |||||
10 | 23 | 1:55.19 | Maria Mutola | Mozambique | 17 August 1994 | Zürich | |
Jolanda Čeplak | Slovenia | 20 July 2002 | Heusden-Zolder | ||||
Keely Hodgkinson | Great Britain | 17 September 2023 | Eugene | [17] | |||
13 | 1:55.26 | Sigrun Wodars | East Germany | 31 August 1987 | Rome | ||
14 | 1:55.32 | Christine Wachtel | East Germany | 31 August 1987 | Rome | ||
15 | 1:55.42 | Nikolina Shtereva | Bulgaria | 26 July 1976 | Montreal | ||
16 | 1:55.46 | Tatyana Providokhina | Soviet Union | 27 July 1980 | Moscow | ||
17 | 1:55.47 | Francine Niyonsaba | Burundi | 21 July 2017 | Monaco | [19] | |
18 | 1:55.54 | Ellen van Langen | Netherlands | 3 August 1992 | Barcelona | ||
Liu Dong | China | 9 September 1993 | Beijing | ||||
20 | 1:55.56 | Lyubov Gurina | Soviet Union | 31 August 1987 | Rome | ||
21 | 1:55.60 | Elfi Zinn | East Germany | 26 July 1976 | Montreal | ||
22 | 1:55.61 | Ajeé Wilson | United States | 21 July 2017 | Monaco | [19] | |
23 | 1:55.68 | Ella Kovacs | Romania | 2 June 1985 | Bucharest | ||
24 | 1:55.69 | Irina Podyalovskaya | Soviet Union | 22 June 1984 | Kyiv | ||
25 | 1:55.74 | Anita Weiss | East Germany | 26 July 1976 | Montreal |
Annulled marks
[edit]- Yelena Soboleva(Russia) ran 1:54.85 inKazanon 18 July 2007, but her performance was annulled due to doping offences.
Men (indoor)
[edit]- Updated 23 February 2024.[20]
Notes
[edit]Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 1:44.88 (top 25 performances)
- Wilson Kipketeralso ran 1:43.96 (1997) and 1:44.68 (2003).
- Donavan Brazieralso ran 1:44.22 (2020) and 1:44.41 (2019).
- Yuriy Borzakovskiyalso ran 1:44.34 (2003), 1:44.35 (2000), 1:44.49 (2001) and 1:44.58 (2004).
Women (indoor)
[edit]- Updated March 2024.[23]
Rank | Time | Athlete | Nation | Date | Place | Ref |
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1 | 1:55.82 | Jolanda Čeplak | Slovenia | 3 March 2002 | Vienna | |
2 | 1:55.85 | Stephanie Graf | Austria | 3 March 2002 | Vienna | |
3 | 1:56.40 | Christine Wachtel | East Germany | 13 February 1988 | Vienna | |
4 | 1:56.90 | Ludmila Formanová | Czech Republic | 7 March 1999 | Maebashi | |
5 | 1:57.06 | Maria Mutola | Mozambique | 21 February 1999 | Liévin | |
6 | 1:57.18 | Keely Hodgkinson | Great Britain | 25 February 2023 | Birmingham | [24] |
7 | 1:57.23 | Inna Yevseyeva | Ukraine | 1 February 1992 | Moscow | |
8 | 1:57.47 | Natalya Tsyganova | Russia | 7 March 1999 | Maebashi | |
9 | 1:57.51 | Olga Kotlyarova | Russia | 18 February 2006 | Moscow | |
10 | 1:57.52 | Gudaf Tsegay | Ethiopia | 14 February 2021 | Val-de-Reuil | |
11 | 1:57.53 | Larisa Chzhao | Russia | 23 January 2005 | Moscow | |
12 | 1:57.67 | Sigrun Wodars | East Germany | 13 February 1988 | Vienna | |
13 | 1:57.86 | Habitam Alemu | Ethiopia | 6 February 2024 | Toruń | [25] |
14 | 1:57.91 | Jemma Reekie | Great Britain | 1 February 2020 | Glasgow | |
15 | 1:58.10 | Mariya Savinova | Russia | 8 March 2009 | Turin | |
16 | 1:58.14 | Yuliya Stepanova | Russia | 17 February 2011 | Moscow | |
17 | 1:58.29 | Ajeé Wilson | United States | 8 February 2020 | New York City | |
18 | 1:58.31 | Francine Niyonsaba | Burundi | 4 March 2018 | Birmingham | |
19 | 1:58.34 | Svetlana Cherkasova | Russia | 4 February 2006 | Moscow | |
20 | 1:58.35 | Tsige Duguma | Ethiopia | 2 March 2024 | Glasgow | [26] |
21 | 1:58.37 | Helena Fuchsova | Czech Republic | 25 February 2001 | Liévin | |
22 | 1:58.40 | Athing Mu | United States | 27 February 2021 | Fayetteville | |
23 | 1:58.43 | Jennifer Meadows | Great Britain | 14 March 2010 | Doha | |
24 | 1:58.44 | Laura Muir | Great Britain | 1 February 2020 | Glasgow | |
25 | 1:58.46 | Natoya Goule | Jamaica | 17 February 2022 | Liévin | [27] |
Notes
[edit]Below is a list of other times equal or superior to 1:57.68 (top 25 performances)
- Stephanie Grafalso ran 1:56.85 (2002), 1:57.53 (2001), 1:57.61 (2002) and 1:57.68 (2001).
- Maria Mutolaalso ran 1:57.13 (1996), 1:57.17 (1999), 1:57.48 (2002, 2004), 1:57.55 (1993) and 1:57.62 (1995).
- Jolanda Čeplakalso ran 1:57.18 (2002).
- Keely Hodgkinsonalso ran 1:57.20 (2022).
- Christine Wachtelalso ran 1:57.64 (1988).
U20 records and U18 world bests
[edit]Age group | Men | Women | ||||
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Time | Athlete | Nation | Time | Athlete | Nation | |
U20(records) | 1:41.73 | Nijel Amos | Botswana | 1:54.01 | Pamela Jelimo | Kenya |
U18(world bests) | 1:43.37 | Mohammed Aman | Ethiopia | 1:57.18 | Wang Yuan | China |
Olympic medalists
[edit]Men
[edit]Women
[edit]World Championships medalists
[edit]Men
[edit]Medalists by country
[edit]Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Kenya(KEN) | 7 | 3 | 4 | 14 |
2 | Denmark(DEN) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
3 | United States(USA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
4 | Algeria(ALG) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
South Africa(RSA) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
Canada(CAN) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |
7 | Bahrain(BHR) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
8 | Ethiopia(ETH) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Switzerland(SUI) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
West Germany(FRG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
France(FRA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
12 | Russia(RUS) | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
13 | Poland(POL) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
14 | Brazil(BRA) | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
15 | Bosnia and Herzegovina(BIH) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Great Britain(GBR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
17 | Italy(ITA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Netherlands(NED) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Sudan(SUD) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Burundi(BDI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Cuba(CUB) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
22 | Djibouti(DJI) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Norway(NOR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Women
[edit]Medalists by country
[edit]Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kenya(KEN) | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
2 | Mozambique(MOZ) | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
3 | Cuba(CUB) | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
4 | South Africa(RSA) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
5 | United States(USA) | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
6 | Soviet Union(URS) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
7 | East Germany(GDR) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
8 | Belarus(BLR) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Czech Republic(CZE) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Czechoslovakia(TCH) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
Uganda(UGA) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
12 | Russia(RUS) | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
13 | Morocco(MAR) | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
14 | Great Britain(GBR) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
15 | Suriname(SUR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
16 | Austria(AUT) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
17 | Romania(ROM) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
18 | Spain(ESP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
19 | Burundi(BDI) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Canada(CAN) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
World Indoor Championships medalists
[edit]Men
[edit]Women
[edit]- AKnown as theWorld Indoor Games
Season's bests
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