Tamsyn Carolyn Lewis is an Australian media personality and former track and field athlete who won a total of eighteen Australian Championships across the 400 metres,800 metres and 400m hurdles. She first represented Australia in 1994,and won the 800 metres in the 2008 World Indoor Championships.
The Gambia sent a delegation to compete at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney,Australia from 15 September to 1 October 2000. This was the African nation's fifth time competing at a Summer Olympic Games. The Gambian delegation consisted of two track and field athletes,Pa Mamadou Gai and Adama Njie. Neither advanced beyond the first round heats of their events.
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.
Edith (Edie) Frances Robinson was the first Australian female track and field athlete to compete at an Olympic Games.
Yuliya Krevsun is a Ukrainian middle-distance running athlete who specialises in the 800 metres. She is a member of Fenerbahçe Athletics club in Turkey.
Mokgadi Caster Semenya OIB is a South African middle-distance runner and winner of two Olympic gold medals and three World Championships in the women's 800 metres. She first won gold at the World Championships in 2009 and went on to win at the 2016 Olympics and the 2017 World Championships,where she also won a bronze medal in the 1500 metres. After the doping disqualification of Mariya Savinova,she was also awarded gold medals for the 2011 World Championships and the 2012 Olympics.
Angela Ballard is an Australian Paralympic athlete who competes in T53 wheelchair sprint events. She became a paraplegic at age 7 due to a car accident.
Lynsey Sharp is a former Scottish track and field athlete who competed in the 800 metres. She is the 2012 European champion and represented Great Britain at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. She won a silver medal at the 2014 Commonwealth Games. Her personal best is 1:57.69,the seventh fastest time over 800m by a British woman,set in the final of the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
Baraah Awadallah Marouane is a Jordanian middle distance runner. Awadallah represented Jordan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing,where she competed for the women's 800 metres. She ran in the first heat of the event,against six other athletes,including Russia's Svetlana Klyuka,who nearly missed out of the medal podium in the final. She finished the race in last place by fifteen seconds behind Australia's Madeleine Pape,with her personal and seasonal best time of 2:18.41. Awadallah,however,failed to advance into the semi-finals,as she placed thirty-seventh overall,and was ranked further below three mandatory slots for the next round. She was eventually upgraded to a higher overall position,when Croatia's Vanja Perišićhad been disqualified for failing the doping test.
Élodie Guégan is a French middle distance runner,who specialized in the 800 metres. She won two medals,silver and bronze,for the 800 metres at the 2005 European Athletics U23 Championships in Erfurt,Germany,and at the 2007 European Athletics U23 Championships in Debrecen,Hungary. She also set a personal best time of 1:58.93 by finishing fifth at the 2008 ÅF Golden League in Saint-Denis,Paris.
Anna Rostkowska is a Polish middle-distance runner,who specialized in the 800 metres. She won a gold medal for the 800 metres at the 2001 European Athletics U23 Championships in Amsterdam,Netherlands,and silver at the 2003 Summer Universiade in Jeju City,South Korea. She also set a personal best time of 1:58.72 by finishing fourth at the 2008 ÅF Golden League in Saint-Denis,Paris.
Nicole Teter is an American middle distance runner,who specialized in the 800 metres. She is a three-time U.S. indoor champion,and a two-time Olympian. She also won a gold medal in the same category at the 2002 U.S. Outdoor Championships.
Lisa Corrigan is an Australian middle-distance runner and the current Australian record holder over the one mile where she set a time of 4.22.6 in 2007. She set her personal best time of 4:05.25,by winning the women's 1500 metres at the Telstra Athletics Series in Sydney. She ran a personal best to beat Tamsyn Lewis over the 800m in 2007 in 2.01.5. She has represented Australia at the Oceania championships 1999,youth commonwealth games 2000,World youth championships 2001,Ekiden relays,Melbourne commonwealth Games 2006,world championships 2007 and Olympic Games 2008.
Brenda Martinez is an American middle-distance runner and Olympian. Born in Upland,California,she won a silver medal in the 800 meters at the 2013 IAAF World Championships in Moscow and finished first in the 800 meters at the 2014 Diamond League Final. She represented the US at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships in the 1500 meters. Martinez twice set the world record in the Distance Medley Relay at the New Balance Indoor Grand Prix in Boston;first on February 7,2015,and then breaking her own record on January 28,2017. In 2016,Martinez qualified for the U.S. Olympic team competing in the 1500 meters after beating Amanda Eccleston by 0.03 seconds.
Natoya Goule-Toppin is a Jamaican middle-distance runner. In the 800 metres she is the 2019 Pan American Games champion,2018 NACAC Championship silver medallist,and 2018 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist. Goule is the current Jamaican record holder at the event both out- and indoors,and also for the indoor 1000 metres.
Morgan Mitchell is an Australian athlete who specialized in the 400 metres and now competes in the 800 metres.
Nimali Waliwarsha Konda Liyanarachchi is a Sri Lankan 800 m runner and current national record holder in women's 1500m event. She is also believed to be the first Sri Lankan woman to have competed in steeplechase events. She became the first Sri Lankan woman to complete the distance of 3000 metres in steeplechase event under 11 minutes. She won the best athlete award twice at the Presidential award ceremonies by the Sports Ministry including the Most Outstanding Sportswoman of the Year in 2015. She is currently attached to Sri Lanka Air Force.
Athing Mu is an American middle-distance runner. She is the youngest woman in history to hold Olympic and world titles in an individual track and field event. At the age of 19,Mu won the gold medal in the 800 meters at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics,breaking a national record set by AjeéWilson in 2017,and a continental under-20 record. She took a second gold as part of the women's 4 ×400 m relay. She was the 800 m 2022 World champion,becoming the first American woman to win the world championship title over the distance.
Catriona Li Bisset is an Australian middle-distance runner who specialises in the 800 metres. She holds the Oceanian record for both indoors and outdoors in the event,and won the gold medal at the 2019 Universiade. Bisset has four individual Australian national titles.
Madeleine Kelly is a Canadian track and field athlete specializing in the middle-distance events.
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