2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres

The women's 800 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics will be held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 10, 11, and 12 July.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Medalists

Gold	Ajeé Wilson United States
Silver	Jessica Judd Great Britain
Bronze	Manal El Bahraoui Morocco

Records

Prior to the competition^[update], the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record	Pamela Jelimo (KEN)	1:54.01	Zürich, Switzerland	29 August 2008
Championship Record	Elena Mirela Lavric (ROM)	2:00.06	Bydgoszcz, Poland	11 July 2008
World Junior Leading	Anastasiya Tkachuk (UKR)	2:00.78	Yalta, Ukraine	28 May 2012

Results

Heats

Qualification: The first 3 of each heat (Q) and the 6 fastest times (q) qualified

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	1	4	Jessica Judd	Great Britain	2:02.71	Q
2	1	7	Winnie Nanyondo	Uganda	2:03.00	Q, PB
3	1	5	Agatha Jeruto Kimaswai	Kenya	2:03.22	Q, PB
4	1	9	Sonja Mosler	Germany	2:03.36	q, PB
5	5	5	Anastasiya Tkachuk	Ukraine	2:04.19	Q
6	5	6	Aníta Hinriksdóttir	Iceland	2:04.74	Q, New Jersey
7	1	6	Khadija El Moussaoui	Morocco	2:05.63	q, PB
8	3	4	Emily Dudgeon	Great Britain	2:05.73	Q
9	5	3	Síofra Cléirigh Büttner	Ireland	2:05.87	Q
10	3	3	Dureti Edao	Ethiopia	2:05.91	Q
11	6	5	Manal El Bahraoui	Morocco	2:06.07	Q
12	3	8	Simoya Campbell	Jamaica	2:06.18	Q
13	5	7	Maruša Mišmaš	Slovenia	2:06.25	q
14	2	7	Halimah Nakaayi	Uganda	2:06.38	Q
15	2	4	Julia Zrinyi	Canada	2:06.64	Q
16	3	2	Marta Pen	Portugal	2:06.75	q, PB
17	3	7	Rénelle Lamote	France	2:06.89	q
18	4	5	Ajeé Wilson	United States	2:07.04	Q
18	4	9	Devan Wiebe	Canada	2:07.04	Q
20	1	3	Camille Laplace	France	2:07.07	q
21	2	8	Monique Stander	South Africa	2:07.08	Q
22	4	4	Christine Gees	Germany	2:07.11	Q
23	3	6	Teshon Adderley	Bahamas	2:07.18
24	4	6	Akiho Fukuzato	Japan	2:07.25
25	2	9	Syntia Ellward	Poland	2:07.32
26	4	7	Olena Sidorska	Ukraine	2:07.52
27	2	6	Mizuki Yamamoto	Japan	2:07.59
28	6	4	Flávia de Lima	Brazil	2:07.78	Q
29	6	2	Danielle Aragon	United States	2:07.84	Q
30	2	3	Aleksandra Astakhova	Belarus	2:08.03
31	6	7	Asli Arik	Turkey	2:08.68
32	1	8	Johanna Matintalo	Finland	2:09.05
33	4	3	Sanda Kociš	Croatia	2:09.51
34	5	8	Iuliana Madalina Leonte	Romania	2:09.61
35	6	3	Desreen Montague	Jamaica	2:10.22
36	3	5	Marta Frechilla	Spain	2:11.97
37	5	9	Irene Baldessari	Italy	2:12.15
38	6	6	Zeyetuna Mohammed	Ethiopia	2:12.47
39	5	4	Thato Makhafola	South Africa	2:16.82
40	2	5	Tatyana Yurchenko	Kazakhstan	2:20.02
41	6	8	Marija Stambolic	Serbia	2:29.85
42	3	9	Domingas Tchiaca	Angola	2:35.97
	4	8	Shimenege Agber	Nigeria	DNS
	6	9	Aicha Bilal Fall	Mauritania	DNS

Semi-final

Qualification: The first 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	3	4	Jessica Judd	Great Britain	2:02.30	Q
2	2	5	Emily Dudgeon	Great Britain	2:02.32	Q, PB
3	3	7	Winnie Nanyondo	Uganda	2:02.38	Q, PB
4	2	7	Ajeé Wilson	United States	2:02.43	Q, PB
5	1	5	Anastasiya Tkachuk	Ukraine	2:02.50	Q
6	2	6	Sonja Mosler	Germany	2:02.82	q, PB
7	1	6	Aníta Hinriksdóttir	Iceland	2:03.15	Q, NR
8	1	7	Manal El Bahraoui	Morocco	2:03.18	q
9	3	5	Agatha Jeruto Kimaswai	Kenya	2:03.98
10	3	6	Khadija El Moussaoui	Morocco	2:04.17	PB
11	3	2	Danielle Aragon	United States	2:04.19	PB
12	3	4	Christine Gees	Germany	2:04.58	PB
13	2	4	Monique Stander	South Africa	2:05.29
14	2	3	Devan Wiebe	Canada	2:05.40	PB
15	1	2	Marta Pen	Portugal	2:05.45	PB
16	2	8	Rénelle Lamote	France	2:05.83
17	1	9	Síofra Cléirigh Büttner	Ireland	2:06.70
18	2	2	Flávia de Lima	Brazil	2:07.03
19	1	3	Maruša Mišmaš	Slovenia	2:07.23
20	1	8	Dureti Edao	Ethiopia	2:07.91
21	3	3	Camille Laplace	France	2:08.04
22	3	4	Julia Zrinyi	Canada	2:09.63
-	2	9	Halimah Nakaayi	Uganda	DQ
-	1	4	Simoya Campbell	Jamaica	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	9	Ajeé Wilson	United States	2:00.91	PB
	6	Jessica Judd	Great Britain	2:00.96	PB
	3	Manal El Bahraoui	Morocco	2:03.09
4	2	Aníta Hinriksdóttir	Iceland	2:03.23
5	8	Sonja Mosler	Germany	2:04.07
6	7	Emily Dudgeon	Great Britain	2:04.68
7	4	Anastasiia Tkachuk	Ukraine	2:04.92
8	5	Winnie Nanyondo	Uganda	2:07.23

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 42 athletes from 30 countries participated in the event.

Angola (1)
Bahamas (1)
Belarus (1)
Brazil (1)
Canada (2)
Croatia (1)
Ethiopia (2)
Finland (1)
France (2)
Germany (2)
Iceland (1)
Ireland (1)
Italy (1)
Jamaica (2)
Japan (2)
Kazakhstan (1)
Kenya (1)
Morocco (2)
Poland (1)
Portugal (1)
Romania (1)
Serbia (1)
Slovenia (1)
South Africa (2)
Spain (1)
Turkey (1)
Uganda (2)
Ukraine (2)
United Kingdom (2)
United States (2)

References

^ http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/WJC12/Results/ResultsByEvent.aspx?/disctype=4/sex=W/discCode=800/combCode=hash/timetable.html ^{[dead link]}
^ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC – 2012 Barcelona ESP Jul 10-15, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 22 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
^ IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Eugene 2014 – FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

WJC12 800 metres schedule

[1] ttp://www.iaaf.org/Mini/WJC12/Results/ResultsByEvent.aspx?/disctype=4/sex=W/discCode=800/combCode=hash/timetable.html ^{[dead link]}

[wjah-2] Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC – 2012 Barcelona ESP Jul 10-15, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 22 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015

[iaaf_00-3] IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS – Eugene 2014 – FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015

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