Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games – Women's 800 metres

Women's 800 metres at the 2010 Asian Games
Venue	Aoti Main Stadium
Dates	November 24, 2010 (2010-11-24)–November 25, 2010 (2010-11-25)
Competitors	17 from 13 nations
Medalists
Margarita Matsko    Kazakhstan   Trương Thanh Hằng    Vietnam   Tintu Luka    India

Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 800 metres event at the 2010 Asian Games was held at the Aoti Main Stadium, Guangzhou, China on 24–25 November.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Records

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

World Record	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	1:53.28	Munich, West Germany	26 July 1983
Asian Record	Liu Dong (CHN)	1:55.54	Beijing, China	9 September 1993
Games Record	Qu Yunxia (CHN)	1:59.85	Hiroshima, Japan	12 October 1994

Results

Legend

• DNS — Did not start

Round 1

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

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Margarita Matsko (KAZ)	2:03.23	Q
2	Trương Thanh Hằng (VIE)	2:03.28	Q
3	Sinimole Paulose (IND)	2:03.83	q
4	Akari Kishikawa (JPN)	2:04.20	q
5	Leila Ebrahimi (IRI)	2:13.34
—	Suzana Zukhairi (YEM)	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Tintu Luka (IND)	2:03.85	Q
2	Genzeb Shumi (BRN)	2:04.09	Q
3	Viktoriya Yalovtseva (KAZ)	2:04.27
4	Huh Yeon-jung (KOR)	2:07.99
5	Aye Aye Than (MYA)	2:12.82
6	Luiza Kutueva (KGZ)	2:13.07

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BRN)	2:04.54	Q
2	Ruriko Kubo (JPN)	2:05.09	Q
3	Zhang Liqiu (CHN)	2:07.04
4	Inam Khazaal (IRQ)	2:09.62
5	Betlhem Desalegn (UAE)	2:10.80

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Margarita Matsko (KAZ)	2:00.29
	Trương Thanh Hằng (VIE)	2:00.91
	Tintu Luka (IND)	2:01.36
4	Akari Kishikawa (JPN)	2:03.73
5	Ruriko Kubo (JPN)	2:04.52
6	Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BRN)	2:06.07
7	Sinimole Paulose (IND)	2:06.95
8	Genzeb Shumi (BRN)	2:08.38

References

• Results