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

Women's 800 metres at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Venue	Olympic Stadium
Date	23–26 July
Competitors	35 from 20 nations
Winning time	1:54.94 WR
Medalists
Tatyana Kazankina   Soviet Union   Nikolina Shtereva   Bulgaria   Elfi Zinn   East Germany

Athletics at the 1976 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
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

The Women's 800 metres competition at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada was held at the Olympic Stadium on 23–26 July.

Competition format

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

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

Results

Round 1

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

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Styrkina, SvetlanaSvetlana Styrkina	Soviet Union	2:00.12	Q
2	Amoore, JudyJudy Amoore	Australia	2:00.66	Q
3	Gluth, DorisDoris Gluth	East Germany	2:00.70	Q
4	Thijs, RitaRita Thijs	Belgium	2:04.39
5	Hoffman, AbbyAbby Hoffman	Canada	2:05.32
6	Valero, CarmenCarmen Valero	Spain	2:06.14
7	Guðmundsdóttir, LiljaLilja Guðmundsdóttir	Iceland	2:07.26

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Weiß, AnitaAnita Weiß	East Germany	2:00.48	Q
2	Shtereva, NikolinaNikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	2:01.02	Q
3	Dorio, GabriellaGabriella Dorio	Italy	2:01.63	Q
4	Čerchlanová, JozefínaJozefína Čerchlanová	Czechoslovakia	2:02.36
5	Weston, KathyKathy Weston	United States	2:03.31
6	Wenzel, JoanJoan Wenzel	Canada	2:03.62
N/A	Chee Swee Lee	Singapore	DNF

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Zlateva, SvetlaSvetla Zlateva	Bulgaria	1:59.24	Q
2	Gerasimova, ValentinaValentina Gerasimova	Soviet Union	1:59.68	Q
3	Koenig, WendyWendy Koenig	United States	1:59.91	Q
4	Suman, MarianaMariana Suman	Romania	2:00.00	q
5	Barnes, LizLiz Barnes	Great Britain	2:01.70
6	N'Drin, CélestineCélestine N'Drin	Ivory Coast	2:04.54
7	Ritter, MariaMaria Ritter	Liechtenstein	2:14.39

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Zinn, ElfiElfi Zinn	East Germany	2:01.54	Q
2	Rendina, CharleneCharlene Rendina	Australia	2:01.76	Q
3	Silai, IleanaIleana Silai	Romania	2:02.82	Q
4	Creamer, AngelaAngela Creamer	Great Britain	2:03.48
5	Lázár, MagdolnaMagdolna Lázár	Hungary	2:04.05
6	Hocking, IleanaIleana Hocking	Puerto Rico	2:08.46
7	Niang, NdewNdew Niang	Senegal	2:09.32

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Kazankina, TatyanaTatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	2:00.15	Q
2	Tomova, LilyanaLilyana Tomova	Bulgaria	2:00.54	Q
3	Manning, MadelineMadeline Manning	United States	2:00.62	Q
4	Saunders, YvonneYvonne Saunders	Canada	2:03.54
5	Van Nuffel, Anne-MarieAnne-Marie Van Nuffel	Belgium	2:04.09
6	McMeekin, ChrisChris McMeekin	Great Britain	2:04.54
7	Audain, AnneAnne Audain	New Zealand	2:05.78

Semifinals

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Weiß, AnitaAnita Weiß	East Germany	1:56.53	Q OR
2	Kazankina, TatyanaTatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	1:57.49	Q
3	Zlateva, SvetlaSvetla Zlateva	Bulgaria	1:57.93	Q
4	Gluth, DorisDoris Gluth	East Germany	1:59.32	Q
5	Amoore, JudyJudy Amoore	Australia	1:59.93
6	Silai, IleanaIleana Silai	Romania	2:02.22
7	Koenig, WendyWendy Koenig	United States	2:02.31
8	Dorio, GabriellaGabriella Dorio	Italy	2:02.46

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
1	Styrkina, SvetlanaSvetlana Styrkina	Soviet Union	1:57.28	Q
2	Shtereva, NikolinaNikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	1:57.35	Q
3	Zinn, ElfiElfi Zinn	East Germany	1:57.56	Q
4	Suman, MarianaMariana Suman	Romania	2:00.01	Q
5	Rendina, CharleneCharlene Rendina	Australia	2:00.29
6	Gerasimova, ValentinaValentina Gerasimova	Soviet Union	2:01.00
7	Tomova, LilyanaLilyana Tomova	Bulgaria	2:01.97
8	Manning, MadelineMadeline Manning	United States	2:07.25

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nation	Time	Notes
	Kazankina, TatyanaTatyana Kazankina	Soviet Union	1:54.94	WR
	Shtereva, NikolinaNikolina Shtereva	Bulgaria	1:55.42
	Zinn, ElfiElfi Zinn	East Germany	1:55.60
4	Weiß, AnitaAnita Weiß	East Germany	1:55.74
5	Styrkina, SvetlanaSvetlana Styrkina	Soviet Union	1:56.44
6	Zlateva, SvetlaSvetla Zlateva	Bulgaria	1:57.21
7	Gluth, DorisDoris Gluth	East Germany	1:58.99
8	Suman, MarianaMariana Suman	Romania	2:02.21

References

• Official Olympic Report, la84foundation.org. Retrieved August 20, 2012.