Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metres

Women's 800 metres

at the Games of the XXII Olympiad

Venue

Date

24 July 1980 (heats)
25 July 1980 (semi-final)
27 July 1980 (final)

Competitors

29 from 16 nations

Winning time

1:53.5 WR

Medalists

		Nadezhda Olizarenko Soviet Union
		Olga Mineyeva Soviet Union
		Tatyana Providokhina Soviet Union

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Athletics at the 1980 Summer Olympics

Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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These are the official results of the women's 800 metres event at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, Russia. The competition was held on July 24, 1980, and on July 27, 1980.^[1]

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
	Nadezhda Olizarenko	Soviet Union	1:53.5 WR
	Olga Mineyeva	Soviet Union	1:54.9
	Tatyana Providokhina	Soviet Union	1:55.5
4	Martina Kämpfert	East Germany	1:56.3
5	Hildegard Ullrich	East Germany	1:57.2
6	Jolanta Januchta	Poland	1:58.3
7	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	1:58.8
8	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	1:59.2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Olga Mineyeva	Soviet Union	1:57.5
2	Martina Kämpfert	East Germany	1:58.1
3	Tatyana Providokhina	Soviet Union	1:58.3
4	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	1:58.9
5	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	1:59.0
6	Doina Melinte	Romania	2:00.8
7	Elżbieta Skowrońska-Katolik	Poland	2:01.1
8	Anne-Marie Van Nuffel	Belgium	2:02.0

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Nadezhda Olizarenko	Soviet Union	1:57.7
2	Hildegard Ullrich	East Germany	1:58.7
3	Jolanta Januchta	Poland	1:58.9
4	Fiţa Lovin	Romania	1:59.2
5	Vesela Yatsinska	Bulgaria	1:59.9
6	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	2:00.0
7	Anna Bukis	Poland	2:00.3
8	Christina Boxer	Great Britain	2:00.9

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	2:01.4
2	Olga Mineyeva	Soviet Union	2:01.5
3	Doina Melinte	Romania	2:01.9
4	Christina Boxer	Great Britain	2:02.1
5	Mwinga Mwanjala	Tanzania	2:05.2
6	Geeta Zutshi	India	2:06.6
7	Fantaye Sirak	Ethiopia	2:08.7

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Nadezhda Olizarenko	Soviet Union	1:59.3
2	Jolanta Januchta	Poland	1:59.7
3	Vesela Yatsinska	Bulgaria	1:59.9
4	Anne-Marie Van Nuffel	Belgium	2:00.1
5	Daniela Porcelli	Italy	2:10.7
6	Albertine Rahéliarisoa	Madagascar	2:11.7
7	Margaret Morel	Seychelles	2:17.0

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Tatyana Providokhina	Soviet Union	1:58.5
2	Martina Kämpfert	East Germany	1:58.8
3	Nikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	1:58.9
4	Anna Bukis	Poland	1:58.9
5	Agnese Possamai	Italy	2:04.1
6	Fatalmoudou Touré	Mali	2:19.8

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time
1	Hildegard Ullrich	East Germany	2:00.1
2	Fiţa Lovin	Romania	2:00.2
3	Totka Petrova	Bulgaria	2:00.6
4	Elżbieta Skowrońska-Katolik	Poland	2:01.2
5	Lilian Nyiti	Tanzania	2:11.1
6	Hala El-Moughrabi	Syria	2:17.6
7	Acacia Mate	Mozambique	2:19.7
8	Eugenia Osho-Williams	Sierra Leone	2:33.4

^ "Athletics at the 1980 Moscow Summer Games: Women's 800 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2017.

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