800 metres
Sign in to saveAlso known as 800 meters, 800 metres run, 800 m, 800 metre, 800-metre run, 800 meter
middle-distance running event
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It sits within the topics 800 metres, Events in track and field and Middle-distance running disciplines.
Its subject is documented across 37 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Men
- David Rudisha ( KEN ) 1:40.91 (2012)
- Women
- Jarmila Kratochvílová ( TCH ) 1:53.28 (1983)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- sports discipline
- Subclass of
- middle-distance running
- Sport
- athletics
- Image
- 800 m final Daegu 2011.jpg
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- Category:800 metres
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- 800 metres world record progression
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Encyclopedic overview
Women's 800 m final at the 2023 World Athletics Championships
The 800 metres is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event, 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “800 metres” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.