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4 unusual facts about 800 metres


Betty Judge

Betty Judge-Beazley is a former Australian athletics champion at 880 yards.

Claudia Gesell

Claudia Andrea Barbara Gesell (born 18 December 1977 in Tirschenreuth) is a former German middle distance runner who specialised in the 800 metres.

Kilgoris

Billy Konchellah, winner of two consecutive 800m World Championships, and David Rudisha, current world record holder in 800 metres, are from Kilgoris.

Michael Varah

At one point, he held the British Indoor Athletics record at 800 metres.


Alfred Kirwa Yego

Alfred Kirwa Yego (born 28 November 1986 in Eldoret) is a Kenyan middle distance runner who specializes in the 800 metres.

Andrey Loginov

Andrey Loginov (born 3 March 1972 in Tiraspol, Moldovan SSR) is a retired Russian middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 and 1500 metres.

Anita Weiß

Anita Weiß (née Barkusky, later married Kehl and Marg; born 16 July 1955 in Burow) is a retired East German athlete who specialized in the 800 metres and later also 400 metres hurdles.

Aunese Curreen

Aunese Curreen (born December 23, 1981 in Motootua) is a Samoan middle distance runner, who specialized in the 800 metres.

Benedict Cayenne

Benedict Cayenne (born 22 March 1944 in Barrackpore) is a retired athlete from Trinidad and Tobago who specialized in the 800 metres and 4 x 400 metres relay.

Dieter Fromm

Dieter Fromm (born 21 April 1948 in Bad Langensalza, Thuringia) is a retired East German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.

Elfi Zinn

Elfi Zinn, née Rost (born 24 August 1953 in Rathebur) is a German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.

Élodie Guégan

Élodie Guégan (born December 19, 1985 in Ploemeur, Morbihan) is a French middle distance runner, who specialized in the 800 metres.

Frederick Onyancha

Frederick ("Fred") Onyancha (born 25 December 1969 in Nyamira) is a Kenyan 800 metres runner who won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta in a personal best time of 1:42.79 minutes.

Goran Nava

At the 2009 Summer Universiade, he finished second overall in the 800 metres with a time of 1:48.06, only 0.04 seconds behind the first-place Sajjad Moradi.

Hamada Mohamed

Later that same year, at the 2011 Pan Arab Games, Mohamed ran the 800 metres, finishing the finals round in fifth place of six finishers, in a time of 1:48.08.

Hildegard Körner

Hildegard Körner, née Ullrich (born 20 December 1959 in Urnshausen) is a retired East German middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.

Jasmin Salihović

Jasmin Salihović (born 18 February 1980) is a Bosnian retired middle-distance track runner who specialized in the 800 metres.

Khadevis Robinson

Khadevis Robinson (born 19 July 1976 in Fort Worth, Texas) is an American retired middle distance runner who specialized in the 800 metres.

Nicole Teter

In 2008, Teter returned to the international scene by winning again the U.S. indoor championship title, and qualified for the 800 metres at the 2008 IAAF World Indoor Championships in Valencia, Spain, where she made only into the semi-final round.

René Kalmer

René Kalmer (born 3 November 1980 in Roodepoort, Gauteng) is a female South African runner who has competed over distances ranging from 800 metres to the marathon.


see also

A D Hollindale Stakes

D. Hollindale Stakes is a Gold Coast Turf Club Group 2 Australian Thoroughbred horse race for horses aged three years old and upwards, under Weight for Age conditions, over a distance of 1,800 metres.

Anjana Thamke

Anjana Thamke bagged a gold medal in the 800 metres event at the 2013 Asian Youth Games held in Nanjing.

Auhah Island

It is 800 metres long by 540 metres wide, which corresponds to an area of about 34 ha, and is located 16 km south-east of Failaka Island, and 41 km from Salmiya on the mainland.

Costa Ártabra

It is comprised between the costa da Morte and the Rías Altas; it has a maximum width of 5,800 metres, and a depth of 5,600 metres corresponding to the mouth of the Río Mero at Santa Cristina.

Dimitrios Tomprof

Tomprof, of Smyrna in the Ottoman Empire, placed either fourth or fifth in his preliminary heat of the 800 metres, though records do not indicate whether he was ahead or behind countryman Angelos Fetsis.

Dixie Willis

On 3 March 1962 she set world records for 800 metres (2:01.2) and 880 yards (2:02.0) in narrowly beating Marise Chamberlain (2:01.4 and 2:02.3) who also beat the previous world records.

Dockrillia teretifolia

Dockrillia teretifolia is a synonym of Dendrobium teretifolium, the Thin Pencil Orchid, Rat's Tail Orchid or Bridal Veil Orchid is found in Queensland and NSW (Calliope Range to Tuross Heads); 500-800 metres altitude.

Glenda Reiser

She also took a silver medal in the 1,500 metres, and a bronze medal in the 800 metres at 1973 Pacific Conference Games in Toronto; where she had a tight finish with Mary Decker (USA) and Charlene Rendina (Aus), in which all 3 medalist finished within 1/10 of a second of one other.

Grotte du Vallonnet

The cave of Vallonnet is located on the western slope of Cap Martin, about 800 metres above the Bay of Menton, at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in the Alpes-Maritimes Department in France.

Ida Marcussen

She competed at the international combined event meets in Götzis and Ratingen, setting new personal bests in the shot put, javelin and 800 metres.

Inga Gentzel

Inga Kristina Gentzel-Dahlgren (April 24, 1908 in Matteus – January 1, 1991 in Nyköping) was a Swedish athlete, who competed mainly in the 800 metres.

Jazmin Carlin

At the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia, competing for Wales, she finished eighth in the 800 metres freestyle and finished third in the heats of the 400 meters freestyle.

Ken Swenson

Swenson is best known for winning the gold medal in the men's 800 metres event at the 1971 Pan American Games in Cali.

Laine Kallas

She set her personal best in the women's 800 metres (2:03.6) on 4 September 1967 at a meeting in Kiev.

Lilydale to Warburton Rail Trail

Heading from Lilydale station along the original route, the trail begins to take shape at the northern end of the station’s eastern car park and continues for about 800 metres to an historical bridge where the original alignment of Anderson Street passed over the railway.

Michał Skowronek

At the 1971 European Indoor Championships he won a silver medal in 4 x 800 metres relay together with Krzysztof Linkowski, Zenon Szordykowski and Kazimierz Wardak.

Ruth Christmas

In her favoured distance of 880-yards or 800-metres, Christmas had a longstanding rivalry with Gladys Lunn, and finally beat her in the 1933 British Championships.

Saint Vincent and the Grenadines at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Natasha Mayers was the slowest qualifier in the 100 metres, before being forced to abandon the competition at the second round, while Andy Grant avoided the infamy of placing last in the men's 800 metres by only 3 seconds.

Shireen Bailey

She competed at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in Brisbane, finishing fifth in the final of the 800 metres in 2:02.41.

World record progression 800 metres freestyle

The first world record in the men's 800 metres freestyle in long course (50 metres) swimming was recognised by the International Swimming Federation (FINA) in 1908.

Yusuf Saad Kamel

He is the son of former two-time 800 metres World Champion Billy Konchellah.

Zenon Szordykowski

At the 1971 European Indoor Championships he won a silver medal in 4 x 800 metres relay together with Krzysztof Linkowski, Michał Skowronek and Kazimierz Wardak.