Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metres
| Women's 800 metres at the Games of the IX Olympiad | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Olympic Stadium | ||||||||||||
| Date | August 1 (heats) August 2 (final) | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 2:16.8 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics | ||
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| Track events | ||
| 100 m | men | women |
| 200 m | men | |
| 400 m | men | |
| 800 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | |
| 5000 m | men | |
| 10,000 m | men | |
| 110 m hurdles | men | |
| 400 m hurdles | men | |
| 3000 m steeplechase | men | |
| 4 × 100 m relay | men | women |
| 4 × 400 m relay | men | |
| Road events | ||
| Marathon | men | |
| Field events | ||
| Long jump | men | |
| Triple jump | men | |
| High jump | men | women |
| Pole vault | men | |
| Shot put | men | |
| Discus throw | men | women |
| Javelin throw | men | |
| Hammer throw | men | |
| Combined events | ||
| Decathlon | men | |
The women's 800 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics took place between August 1 and August 2.[1] Some press reports of the event claimed that many of the competitors were exhausted or failed to finish the race.[2][3] According to Lynne Emery, these reports were inaccurate and the athletes were winded as normal after a race.[2] In any case, the idea that the distance was too great for women prompted the IOC to drop it from the Olympic programme.[3] It was reintroduced in 1960.[3]
Results
Heats
Heat 1
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marie Dollinger |  Germany |
2:22.4 | OR, Q |
| 2 | Inga Gentzel |  Sweden |
Q | |
| 3 | Bobbie Rosenfeld |  Canada |
Q | |
| 4 | Jo Mallon |  Netherlands |
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| 5 | Elisabeth Oestreich | Germany |
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| 6 | Dee Boeckmann |  United States |
Key: OR = Olympic record, Q = Qualified
Heat 2
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lina Radke | Germany |
2:26.0 | Q |
| 2 | Kinue Hitomi |  Japan |
2:26.4 | Q |
| 3 | Gertruda Kilosówna |  Poland |
2:28.0 | Q |
| 4 | Aat van Noort | Netherlands |
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| 5 | Edie Robinson |  Australia |
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| 6 | Juliette Segers |  Belgium |
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| 7 | Sébastienne Guyot |  France |
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| 8 | Emy Pettersson | Sweden |
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| 9 | Giannina Marchini |  Italy |
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| 10 | Rayma Wilson | United States |
Key: Q = Qualified
Heat 3
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jean Thompson | Canada |
2:23.2 | Q |
| 2 | Florence MacDonald | United States |
Q | |
| 3 | Elfriede Wever | Germany |
Q | |
| 4 | Mien Duchateau | Netherlands |
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| 5 | Ida Degrande | Belgium |
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| 6 | Marcelle Neveu | France |
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| 7 | Otylia Tabacka | Poland |
2:33.0 | |
| 8 | Josefine Lauterbach |  Austria |
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| 9 | Paula Radziulytė |  Lithuania |
Key: Q = Qualified
Finals
| Rank | Athlete | Nation | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Lina Radke | Germany |
2:16.8 | WR |
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Kinue Hitomi | Japan |
2:17.6 | |
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Inga Gentzel | Sweden |
2:17.8 | |
| 4 | Jean Thompson | Canada |
2:21.6 | |
| 5 | Bobbie Rosenfeld | Canada |
2:22.4 | |
| 6 | Florence MacDonald | United States |
2:22.6 | |
| 7 | Marie Dollinger | Germany |
2:23.0 | |
| 8 | Gertruda Kilosówna | Poland |
2:28.0 | |
| 9 | Elfriede Wever | Germany |
Key: WR = World record
References
- ^ "Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Women's 800 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
- ^ a b Emery, Lynne. "An examination of the 1928 Olympic 800 meter race for women" (PDF). Proceedings of the North American Society for Sport History (1985): 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2018.
- ^ a b c Welch, Paula; Costa, D. Margaret (1994). "A Century of Olympic Competition". In Sharon Ruth Guthrie & D. Margaret Costa (ed.). Women and Sport: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Human Kinetics. pp. 127–128. ISBN 9780873226868. Retrieved 12 August 2012.