Athletics at the 2015 Pan American Games – Women's 800 metres

Women's 800 metres at the XVII Pan American Games
Venue	CIBC Pan Am and Parapan Am Athletics Stadium
Dates	July 21 – July 22
Competitors	14 from 9 nations
Winning time	1:59.62
Medalists
Melissa Bishop   Canada   Alysia Montaño   United States   Flavia de Lima   Brazil
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Athletics at the 2015 Pan American 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
10,000 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
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		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 sprint competition of the athletics events at the 2015 Pan American Games will take place between the 21 and 22 of July at the CIBC Pan Am and Parapan Am Athletics Stadium.^[1] The defending Pan American Games champion is Adriana Muñoz of Cuba.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Pan American Games records were as follows:

World record	Jarmila Kratochvilova (CZE)	1:53.28	Munich, Germany	July 26, 1983
Pan American Games record	Ana Quirot (CUB)	1:58.71	Havana, Cuba	August 8, 1991

Qualification

Each National Olympic Committee (NOC) was able to enter up to two entrants providing they had met the minimum standard (2.06.00) in the qualifying period (January 1, 2014 to June 28, 2015).^[2]

Schedule

Results

All times shown are in seconds.

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Flavia de Lima	Brazil	2:02.39	Q
2	1	Alysia Montaño	United States	2:02.95	Q
3	1	Jessica Smith	Canada	2:03.34	Q
4	1	Gabriela Medina	Mexico	2:03.94	q
5	2	Rose Mary Almanza	Cuba	2:04.39	Q
6	2	Melissa Bishop	Canada	2:04.51	Q
7	2	Phoebe Wright	United States	2:04.88	Q
8	2	Kimarra McDonald	Jamaica	2:05.72	q
9	2	Erika Lima	Brazil	2:06.44
10	1	Alena Brooks	Trinidad and Tobago	2:07.82
11	2	Cristina Guevara	Mexico	2:08.11	SB
12	2	Sonia Gaskin	Barbados	2:09.01
13	1	Alethia Marrero	Puerto Rico	2:11.39
14	1	Sahily Diago	Cuba	2:13.72

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	4	Melissa Bishop	Canada	1:59.52
02 !	3	Alysia Montaño	United States	1:59.76
03 !	7	Flavia de Lima	Brazil	2:00.40	PB
4	5	Rose Mary Almanza	Cuba	2:01.82
5	8	Jessica Smith	Canada	2:03.02
6	1	Gabriela Medina	Mexico	2:03.91
7	6	Phoebe Wright	United States	2:04.17
8	2	Kimarra McDonald	Jamaica	2:04.37

References