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Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metres

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Women's 800 metres
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
Date23–26 July
Competitors35 from 20 nations
Winning time1:54.94 WR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tatyana Kazankina
 Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Nikolina Shtereva
 Bulgaria
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Elfi Zinn
 East Germany
← 1972
1980 →

The women's 800 metres competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada was held at the Olympic Stadium from 23 to 26 July.[1]

Competition format

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The competition consisted of heats (Round 1), Semifinals and a Final. The three fastest competitors from each race in the heats plus the next fastest overall qualified for the Semifinals. The four fastest competitors from each of the Semifinal races advanced to the Final.

Records

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Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record  Valentina Gerasimova (URS) 1:56.0 Kiev, USSR 12 June 1976
Olympic record  Hildegard Falck (FRG) 1:58.55 Munich, West Germany 3 September 1972

The top four finishers in the final all went under the existing world record.

Results

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Round 1

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Qual. rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the next fastest time (q) qualified.

Heat 1

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Svetlana Styrkina  Soviet Union 2:00.12 Q
2 Judy Amoore  Australia 2:00.66 Q
3 Doris Gluth  East Germany 2:00.70 Q
4 Rita Thijs  Belgium 2:04.39
5 Abby Hoffman  Canada 2:05.32
6 Carmen Valero  Spain 2:06.14
7 Lilja Guðmundsdóttir  Iceland 2:07.26

Heat 2

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Anita Weiß  East Germany 2:00.48 Q
2 Nikolina Shtereva  Bulgaria 2:01.02 Q
3 Gabriella Dorio  Italy 2:01.63 Q
4 Jozefína Čerchlanová  Czechoslovakia 2:02.36
5 Kathy Weston  United States 2:03.31
6 Joan Wenzel  Canada 2:03.62
Chee Swee Lee  Singapore DNF

Heat 3

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Svetla Zlateva  Bulgaria 1:59.24 Q
2 Valentina Gerasimova  Soviet Union 1:59.68 Q
3 Wendy Koenig  United States 1:59.91 Q
4 Mariana Suman  Romania 2:00.00 q
5 Liz Barnes  Great Britain 2:01.70
6 Célestine N'Drin  Ivory Coast 2:04.54
7 Maria Ritter  Liechtenstein 2:14.39

Heat 4

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Elfi Zinn  East Germany 2:01.54 Q
2 Charlene Rendina  Australia 2:01.76 Q
3 Ileana Silai  Romania 2:02.82 Q
4 Angela Creamer  Great Britain 2:03.48
5 Magdolna Lázár  Hungary 2:04.05
6 Ileana Hocking  Puerto Rico 2:08.46
7 Ndew Niang  Senegal 2:09.32

Heat 5

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union 2:00.15 Q
2 Lilyana Tomova  Bulgaria 2:00.54 Q
3 Madeline Manning  United States 2:00.62 Q
4 Yvonne Saunders  Canada 2:03.54
5 Anne-Marie Van Nuffel  Belgium 2:04.09
6 Chris McMeekin  Great Britain 2:04.54
7 Anne Audain  New Zealand 2:05.78

Semifinals

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Heat 1

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Anita Weiß  East Germany 1:56.53 Q OR
2 Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union 1:57.49 Q
3 Svetla Zlateva  Bulgaria 1:57.93 Q
4 Doris Gluth  East Germany 1:59.32 Q
5 Judy Amoore  Australia 1:59.93
6 Ileana Silai  Romania 2:02.22
7 Wendy Koenig  United States 2:02.31
8 Gabriella Dorio  Italy 2:02.46

Heat 2

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Svetlana Styrkina  Soviet Union 1:57.28 Q
2 Nikolina Shtereva  Bulgaria 1:57.35 Q
3 Elfi Zinn  East Germany 1:57.56 Q
4 Mariana Suman  Romania 2:00.01 Q
5 Charlene Rendina  Australia 2:00.29
6 Valentina Gerasimova  Soviet Union 2:01.00
7 Lilyana Tomova  Bulgaria 2:01.97
8 Madeline Manning  United States 2:07.25

Final

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tatyana Kazankina  Soviet Union 1:54.94 WR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Nikolina Shtereva  Bulgaria 1:55.42
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Elfi Zinn  East Germany 1:55.60
4 Anita Weiß  East Germany 1:55.74
5 Svetlana Styrkina  Soviet Union 1:56.44
6 Svetla Zlateva  Bulgaria 1:57.21
7 Doris Gluth  East Germany 1:58.99
8 Mariana Suman  Romania 2:02.21

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1976 Montreal 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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