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The women's 800m competition consisted of heats (Round 1), semifinals and a final. Twenty-four athletes advanced from the heats to the semifinal round. The top two competitors from each of the eight heats qualified for the semifinals along with the eight fastest losers.
Holmes was the last athlete to win both events at the same Olympics in 2004. 2012 1500m gold medalist Taoufik Makhloufi made both podiums without winning gold in 2016. Alberto Juantorena in 1976 also won the 400 metres gold medal in the same Olympics, only three other men and one woman have been able to win a medal in both events.
She competed at the 2012, 2016 Olympics and 2020 Olympics. She won a silver medal at the 2015 World Athletics Championships. Her World Championship medal was a Canadian woman's first-ever medal in the 800 m. Bishop-Nriagu graduated from University of Windsor and was only the third Canadian woman to achieve a time under 2:00 minutes in the 800 m.
Women's 800m freestyle New world record: Katie Ledecky, USA, 8:04:79 ... Women's weightlifting 63 kg: New world record: Deng Wei, China, 262 kg ... World record tie at the Olympics. Show comments ...
U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky set a new world record to defend her Olympic title in this event and to successfully complete a distance freestyle treble at a single edition for the first time, since Debbie Meyer did so in 1968. [2]
Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics were held during the last 10 days of the games, from 12 to 21 August 2016, at the Olympic Stadium. The sport of athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics was made into three distinct sets of events: track and field events, road running events, and racewalking events.
2016 Rio de Janeiro details: Pernille Blume Denmark: Simone Manuel United States: Aliaksandra Herasimenia Belarus: 2020 Tokyo details: Emma McKeon Australia: Sarah Sjöström Sweden: Pernille Blume Denmark: 2024 Paris details: Sarah Sjöström Sweden: Meg Harris Australia: Zhang Yufei China
On Saturday, 20,000 amateur athletes like Doherty will, also for the first time at an Olympics, be able to follow in the footsteps of their elite running cousins by taking the same route − at ...