Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Women's 800 metres

The women's 800 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics took place between August 1 and August 2.[1] Some press reports of the event claimed that many of the competitors were exhausted or failed to finish the race.[2][3] According to Lynne Emery, these reports were inaccurate and the athletes were winded as normal after a race.[2] In any case, the idea that the distance was too great for women prompted the IOC to drop it from the Olympic programme.[3] It was reintroduced in 1960.[3]

Women's 800 metres
at the Games of the IX Olympiad
VenueOlympic Stadium
DateAugust 1 (heats)
August 2 (final)
Winning time2:16.8
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Lina Radke  Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kinue Hitomi  Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Inga Gentzel  Sweden
1960 →

Results

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Heats

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Heat 1

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Marie Dollinger   Germany 2:22.4 OR, Q
2 Inga Gentzel   Sweden Q
3 Bobbie Rosenfeld   Canada Q
4 Jo Mallon   Netherlands
5 Elisabeth Oestreich   Germany
6 Dee Boeckmann   United States

Key: OR = Olympic record, Q = Qualified

Heat 2

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Lina Radke   Germany 2:26.0 Q
2 Kinue Hitomi   Japan 2:26.4 Q
3 Gertruda Kilosówna   Poland 2:28.0 Q
4 Aat van Noort   Netherlands
5 Edie Robinson   Australia
6 Juliette Segers   Belgium
7 Sébastienne Guyot   France
8 Emy Pettersson   Sweden
9 Giannina Marchini   Italy
10 Rayma Wilson   United States

Key: Q = Qualified

Heat 3

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
1 Jean Thompson   Canada 2:23.2 Q
2 Florence MacDonald   United States Q
3 Elfriede Wever   Germany Q
4 Mien Duchateau   Netherlands
5 Ida Degrande   Belgium
6 Marcelle Neveu   France
7 Otylia Tabacka   Poland 2:33.0
8 Josefine Lauterbach   Austria
9 Paula Radziulytė   Lithuania

Key: Q = Qualified

Finals

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Rank Athlete Nation Time Notes
  Lina Radke   Germany 2:16.8 WR
  Kinue Hitomi   Japan 2:17.6
  Inga Gentzel   Sweden 2:17.8
4 Jean Thompson   Canada 2:21.6
5 Bobbie Rosenfeld   Canada 2:22.4
6 Florence MacDonald   United States 2:22.6
7 Marie Dollinger   Germany 2:23.0
8 Gertruda Kilosówna   Poland 2:28.0
9 Elfriede Wever   Germany

Key: WR = World record

References

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  1. ^ "Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Women's 800 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 11 October 2017.
  2. ^ a b Emery, Lynne. "An examination of the 1928 Olympic 800 meter race for women" (PDF). Proceedings of the North American Society for Sport History (1985): 30. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 February 2018.
  3. ^ a b c Welch, Paula; Costa, D. Margaret (1994). "A Century of Olympic Competition". In Sharon Ruth Guthrie & D. Margaret Costa (ed.). Women and Sport: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Human Kinetics. pp. 127–128. ISBN 9780873226868. Retrieved 12 August 2012.