Almost all 800m athletes' training will be on the track during the outdoor season (Summer), and will mostly consist of repetitions of distances between 200m and 1000m. Back to main page: Jump to: main list indoors indoors - oversized track manual timing: All-time women's best 400m 1364 Raevyn ROGERS USA 3. African and Russian athletes have predominated in the women’s 800m. A men’s 800m has been held at every Olympic Games since 1896. 05 MAR 2020 Training. Feature 1318 1364
updated and maintained by Peter Larsson. 1323 1410 World Athletics Championships 1294 1339 1339 Halimah NAKAAYI UGA 4. 1500m, 1500 meters, 1500 metres, statistics. The 800 metres at the Summer Olympics has been contested since the first edition of the multi-sport event.The men's 800 m has been present on the Olympic athletics programme since 1896.The women's event was first held in 1928, making it the first distance running event for women.However it was not held again until 1960, since when it has been a permanent fixture. Lewandowski and Tuka take on Kszczot in Torun Back to main page: Jump to: main list indoors: All-time Women's best 1500 m The following table shows the world record progression in the men's and women's 800 metres, officially ratified by the IAAF.. Men. 800m, 800 meters, 800 metres, statistics. Jimmy Watkins: running, rock 'n roll and The Ritz Later that year, in Cologne, he lowered the mark to 1:41.11.In an international career that spanned 20 years, the Mozambican athlete won three world titles and took Olympic gold (Mozambique’s first) in 2000. Women's 800m (600m-1000m) Remembering Albert Hill’s Olympic double, on its 100th anniversary Home of World Athletics 1294 Auto times to the hundredth of a second were accepted by the IAAF for events up to and including 10,000 m from 1981.As of June 21, 2009, the IAAF (and the FSFI before it) have ratified 29 world records in the event.The "Time" column indicates the ratified mark; the "Auto" column indicates a fully automatic time that was also recorded in the event when hand-timed marks were used for official records, or which was the basis for the official mark, rounded to the 10th of a second, depending on the rules then in place.
UNITED KINGDOM ALL-TIME LISTS - WOMEN as at 31st December 2006 Compiled by Athletics Weekly: 800 METRES 1:56.21 Kelly Holmes (ENG) 19.04.70 2 Monte Carlo, MON 9 Sep 1995 1:56.38 1 Athens, GRE 23 Aug 2004 1:56.80 3 Sydney, AUS 25 Sep 2000 1:56.95 3 Gothenburg, SWE 13 Aug 1995 1:57.14 1 Stockholm, SWE 7 Jul 1997 1:57.56 1 Birmingham 16 Jul 1995 1:57.84 1 Birmingham …
Sharing their successes, Nakaayi and Nanyondo help put Uganda on the athletics map Women first contested it at the 1928 Games, but it was dropped from the roster and reinstated in 1960.Cuba's Alberto Juantorena, aka White Lightning, is the only man to win the Olympic 400m and 800m titles at the same Games, doing so at Montreal in 1976.European and African male athletes have shared success at the major championships of the past 20 years, although Kenyan athletes have won gold at the past two Olympics. 1376 General News As of June 21, 2011, 23 world records have been ratified by the IAAF in the event.The "Time" column indicates the ratified mark; the "Auto" column indicates a fully automatic time that was also recorded in the event when hand-timed marks were used for official records, or which was the basis for the official mark, rounded to the 10th of a second, depending on the rules then in place. Vetter beyond 90 metres again in Chorzow