Athletics at the 2006 Asian Games – Women's 800 metres

Women's 800 metres
at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue Khalifa International Stadium
Dates December 8, 2006 (2006-12-08)–December 9, 2006 (2006-12-09)
Competitors 17 from 13 nations
Medalists
 Maryam Yusuf Jamal   Bahrain
 Viktoriya Yalovtseva   Kazakhstan
 Zamira Amirova   Uzbekistan

The women's 800 metres competition at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar was held on 8 and 9 December 2006 at the Khalifa International Stadium.

Schedule

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Date Time Event
Friday, 8 December 200616:051st round
Saturday, 9 December 200616:30Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)1:53.28Munich, West Germany26 July 1983
Asian Record Liu Dong (CHN)1:55.54Beijing, China9 September 1993
Games Record Qu Yunxia (CHN)1:59.85Hiroshima, Japan12 October 1994

Results

Legend
  • DNF — Did not finish

1st round

  • Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Heat 1

Rank Athlete Time Notes
1  Santhi Soundarajan (IND) 2:08.62Q
2  Đỗ Thị Bông (VIE) 2:08.64Q
3  Miho Sugimori (JPN) 2:08.69q
4  Anna Kliushkina (KGZ) 2:09.31
5  Sana Abu-Bakheet (PLE) 2:31.50
6  Danah Al-Nasrallah (KUW) 2:40.60

Heat 2

Rank Athlete Time Notes
1  Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BRN) 2:08.87Q
2  Sinimole Paulose (IND) 2:10.16Q
3  Trương Thanh Hằng (VIE) 2:10.95
4  Leila Ebrahimi (IRI) 2:17.16
—  Tatyana Borisova (KGZ) DNF

Heat 3

Rank Athlete Time Notes
1  Viktoriya Yalovtseva (KAZ) 2:04.70Q
2  Zamira Amirova (UZB) 2:06.57Q
3  Liu Qing (CHN) 2:07.34q
4  Bushra Parveen (PAK) 2:15.17
5  Mina Pourseifi (IRI) 2:18.35
6  Leong Ka Man (MAC) 2:26.51

Final

Rank Athlete Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s)  Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BRN) 2:01.79
2nd, silver medalist(s)  Viktoriya Yalovtseva (KAZ) 2:03.19
3rd, bronze medalist(s)  Zamira Amirova (UZB) 2:03.56
4  Sinimole Paulose (IND) 2:03.76
5  Miho Sugimori (JPN) 2:05.28
6  Đỗ Thị Bông (VIE) 2:07.75
7  Liu Qing (CHN) 2:09.39
DQ  Santhi Soundarajan (IND) 2:03.16
  • Santhi Soundarajan of India originally won the silver medal, However, she underwent a sex test shortly afterwards, and the results indicated that she "does not possess the sexual characteristics of a woman".[1] Soon after the results of the sex test came out, she was stripped of her silver medal.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Indian athlete fails gender test". BBC News. 18 December 2006. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
  2. ↑ "Indian silver medalist female runner at Asian Games fails gender test". International Herald Tribune. 18 December 2006.
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