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The 800 metres, or meters, is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is 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.
Carmen Valero Omedes was a Spanish middle-distance runner, who was best known for representing her native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. Although eliminated in the heats of the 800 and the 1500 metres, Valero was the only woman in the Spanish track and field squad for the Montreal Games, and became the first female athlete to ever represent the country in those sports at the Summer Olympic Games.
Nuria Fernández Domínguez is a Spanish middle distance runner. She specialises in the 1500 metres and is the Spanish record holder in the mile run and the 1500 m indoors.
Jennifer Brenda "Jenny" Meadows is a retired British athlete. Her main event was the 800 metres, although she previously competed also over the 400 metres. She won the bronze medal at the 2009 World Championships, and a silver at the 2010 World Indoor Championships. At the European Athletics Championships, Meadows took silver outdoors in 2010 and gold indoors in 2011. She also had some international success as part of the Great Britain women's 4 x 400 metres relay squad.
Laura Muir is a Scottish middle- and long-distance runner. She is the 2020 Tokyo Olympic silver medallist in the 1500 metres, having previously finished seventh in the event at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Muir won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Championships, and has three other top five placings in 1500 m finals at the World Athletics Championships, finishing fifth in 2015, fourth in 2017 and fifth in 2019. She is a two-time European 1500 m champion from 2018 and 2022 as well as the 2022 Commonwealth Games 1500 m champion and 800 metres bronze medallist.
Chanelle Price is an American middle-distance runner who specializes in the 800-meter run. She has a personal record of 1:59.10 for the distance. She was the gold medalist at the IAAF World Indoor Championships in 2014.
Selina Rutz-Büchel is a Swiss middle-distance runner who competes in the 800 metres. She holds a personal best of 1:57.95 minutes for the event, which she set in 2015 in Paris.
Līga Velvere is a Latvian athlete competing in the 800 metres and 400 metres hurdles. She competed at the 2016 IAAF World Indoor Championships without qualifying for the final.
Halimah Nakaayi is a Ugandan middle-distance runner who specialises in the 800 metres. She is the 2019 World Champion at the event and won the bronze medal at the 2022 World Indoor Championships. Nakaayi is the current Ugandan record holder for the 800 m both outdoors and indoors, and also for the 1000 metres.
Anita Horvat is a Slovenian sprinter and middle-distance runner. She placed seventh in the 800 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. Horvat won the silver medal in the event at the 2023 European Indoor Championships.
Jemma Reekie is a Scottish middle-distance runner who competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Marileidy Paulino is a Dominican athlete sprinter specializing in the 400 meters. She won the silver medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, becoming the first woman from the Dominican Republic to earn an individual Olympic medal in athletics. Paulino took silver at the 2022 World Athletics Championships. At these competitions, she earned also silver and gold in the mixed 4×400 m relay respectively, running legs of 48.7 s in 2021 and 48.47 s in 2022. Since May 2023, Paulino is the 400 m ranked world No. 1.
Freweyni Hailu is an Ethiopian middle-distance runner. She placed fourth in the 1500 metres at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. In 2022, Hailu became the World Indoor silver medallist at the 800 metres in Belgrade.
Audrey Werro is a Swiss track and field athlete. She won the silver medal in the 800 metres at the 2022 World Under-20 Championships and gold medals at the 2021 European U20 Championships as well as the 2023 European U20 Championships.
Tigist Girma is an Ethiopian athlete who competes as a middle distance runner.
Vivian Chebet Kiprotich is Kenyan track and field athlete who competes as a middle-distance runner.
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- ↑ Hidalgo, Santiago (26 February 2023). "Una relación idílica de 800 metros con Valladolid" . El Norte de Castilla (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 March 2023.
- ↑ "Adrián Ben y Lorea Ibarzabal son finalistas del 800". Diario AS (in Spanish). 4 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ↑ "Adrián Ben, oro europeo indoor en los 800 metros por tres milésimas!". Marca (in Spanish). 5 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ↑ Smythe, Steve (25 July 2023). "World qualifiers in Europe for Isabelle Boffey and Ami Pipi". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 26 July 2023.
- ↑ "Women's 800m Results - World Athletics Indoor Championships 2024". Watch Athletics. Retrieved 1 March 2024.
- ↑ "Mechaal se apunta al desafío ante Ingebrigtsen en la esperada final de 3.000". La Provincia (in Spanish). 4 March 2023. Retrieved 5 March 2023.
- ↑ López, Karel (17 March 2021). "Atletismo: Lorea Ibarzabal: una artista sobre la pista que lleva el arte en la sangre" . El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 March 2023.
