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800 metres world record progression#Men

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The following table shows the world record progression in the men's and women's 800 metres, officially ratified by the IAAF.

Men

{{Annotated image | image = Sir Peter Snell KNZM OBE (15948021602).jpg | image-width = 480 | image-left = -40 | image-top = -40 | width = 240 | height = 160 | float = right | annotations = | caption = Peter Snell in 1962, about to set an {{nowrap|880 yd}} world record; the hand timers and photo finish equipment in the background have registered his {{nowrap|800 m}} world record en route. }}

The first world record in the men's 800 metres was recognized by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1912.

{{cite web

|title = 12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009.

|url = http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf

|publisher = IAAF Media & Public Relations Department

|location = Monte Carlo

|pages = Pages 546, 548

|year = 2009

|access-date = August 9, 2009

|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110629134819/http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf

|archive-date=June 29, 2011

}}

As of June 21, 2011, 23 world records have been ratified by the IAAF in the event.

{{cite web

|title=IAAF World Championships: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Daegu 2011.

|url=http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Document/06/10/33/61033_PDF_English.pdf

|publisher=IAAF Media & Public Relations Department

|location=Monte Carlo

|pages=Pages 595, 597

|year=2011

|access-date=August 3, 2011

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120818100742/http://www.iaaf.org/mm/Document/06/10/33/61033_PDF_English.pdf

|archive-date=August 18, 2012

|url-status=dead

}}

"y" denotes time for 880 yards (804.68 m) ratified as a record for the 800 m.

class=wikitable

|+Pre-IAAF records

MarkAthleteNationalityLocationDate
2.06.0y

|A. Wood

|{{flagg|cncie|GBR}}

|Unknown

|1830{{cite web|url=http://trackfield.brinkster.net/RecProgression.asp?RecCode=WR&EventCode=MA4&P=R|url-access=registration|title=Main > Men, 800 m > World Records Progression|website={{ill|Track and Field Statistics|qid=Q29384941|s=1}}}}

2.05.0y

|J. Blackwood

|{{flagg|cncie|GBR}}

|Addiscombe

|April 25, 1857

2.04.0y

|Wiliam Way

|{{flagg|cncie|GBR}}

|Oxford

|November 25, 1859

2.03.0y

|Charlie Grey

|{{flagg|cncie|IRL}}

|Dublin

|June 27, 1861

2.03.0y

|Percy Thornton

|{{flagg|cncie|GBR}}

|London

|December 16, 1865

2.02.5y

|Percy Thornton

|{{flagg|cncie|GBR}}

|London

|December 16, 1865

2.02.4y

|Francis Pelham

|{{flagg|cncie|GBR}}

|Cambridge

|March 23, 1867

2.01.0y

|Kinross Gair

|{{flagg|cncie|GBR}}

|Edinburgh

|June 26, 1867

2.01.0y

|George Templer

|{{flagg|cncie|USA}}

|London

|March 27, 1872

2.01.0y

|Thomas Christie

|{{flagg|cncie|USA}}

|London

|March 27, 1872

1.59.8y

|Arthur Pelham

|{{flagg|cncie|GBR}}

|Cambridge

|March 26, 1873

1.59.5y

|Walter Slade

|{{flagg|cncie|GBR}}

|Dublin

|June 5, 1876

1.58.8y

|Walter Slade

|{{flagg|cncie|GBR}}

|Dublin

|June 6, 1876

1.58.2y

|Walter Slade

|{{flagg|cncie|GBR}}

|Belfast

|June 10, 1876

1.57.5y

|Frederic Elborough

|{{flagg|cncie|GBR}}

|London

|October 7, 1876

1.56.2y

|Lawrence Myers

|{{flagg|cncie|USA}}

|New York City

|July 17, 1880

1.55.8y

|Lawrence Myers

|{{flagg|cncie|USA}}

|London

|July 2, 1881

1.55.6y

|Lawrence Myers

|{{flagg|cncie|USA}}

|New York City

|October 8, 1881

1.55.6y

|Lawrence Myers

|{{flagg|cncie|USA}}

|New York City

|September 16, 1882

1.55.4y

|Lawrence Myers

|{{flagg|cncie|USA}}

|Birmingham

|July 7, 1884

1.55.4y

|Lawrence Myers

|{{flagg|cncie|USA}}

|New York City

|October 3, 1885

1.54.6y

|Francis Cross

|{{flagg|cncie|GBR}}

|Oxford

|March 9, 1888

1.54.5y

|Walter Dohm

|{{flagg|cncie|USA}}

|New York City

|September 19, 1891

1.53.4y

|Charles Kilpatrick

|{{flagg|cncie|USA}}

|New York City

|September 21, 1895

1.52.8

|Melvin Sheppard

|{{flagg|cncie|USA}}

|London

|July 21, 1908

1.52.1y

|Emilio Lunghi

|{{flagg|cncie|ITA}}

|Montreal

|September 15, 1909

class=wikitable
TimeAutoAthleteDateLocation
valign="top"
1:51.9+align=left| {{flagathlete|Ted Meredith|USA|1912}}1912-07-08Stockholm, Sweden
1:51.6yalign=left| {{flagathlete|Otto Peltzer|GER|Weimar}}1926-07-03London, United Kingdom
1:50.6align=left| {{flagathlete|Sera Martin|FRA}}1928-07-14Paris, France
1:49.81:49.70align="left" | {{flagathlete|Tommy Hampson|GBR}}1932-08-02Los Angeles, United States
1:49.8yalign=left| {{flagathlete|Ben Eastman|USA|1912}}1934-06-16Princeton, United States
1:49.7align=left| {{flagathlete|Glenn Cunningham|USA|1912}}1936-08-20Stockholm, Sweden
1:49.6yalign=left| {{flagathlete|Elroy Robinson|USA|1912}}1937-07-11New York, United States
1:48.4+align=left| {{flagathlete|Sydney Wooderson|GBR}}1938-08-20London, United Kingdom
1:46.6align=left| {{flagathlete|Rudolf Harbig|GER|Nazi}}1939-07-15Milan, Italy
1:45.7align=left| {{flagathlete|Roger Moens|BEL}}1955-08-03Oslo, Norway
1:44.3+align=left| {{flagathlete|Peter Snell|NZL}}1962-02-03Christchurch, New Zealand
1:44.31:44.40align=left| {{flagathlete|Ralph Doubell|AUS}}1968-10-15Mexico City, Mexico
1:44.3align=left| {{flagathlete|Dave Wottle|USA}}1972-07-01Eugene, United States
1:43.7align=left| {{flagathlete|Marcello Fiasconaro|ITA}}1973-06-27Milan, Italy
1:43.51:43.50align=left| {{flagathlete|Alberto Juantorena|CUB}}1976-07-25Montreal, Canada
1:43.41:43.44align=left| {{flagathlete|Alberto Juantorena|CUB}}1977-08-21Sofia, Bulgaria
1:42.41:42.33align=left| {{flagathlete|Sebastian Coe|GBR}}1979-07-05Oslo, Norway
1:41.73align=left| {{flagathlete|Sebastian Coe|GBR}}1981-06-10Florence, Italy
1:41.73align=left| {{flagathlete|Wilson Kipketer|DEN}}1997-07-07Stockholm, Sweden
1:41.24align=left| {{flagathlete|Wilson Kipketer|DEN}}1997-08-13Zürich, Switzerland
1:41.11align=left| {{flagathlete|Wilson Kipketer|DEN}}1997-08-24Cologne, Germany
1:41.09align=left| {{flagathlete|David Rudisha|KEN}}2010-08-22Berlin, Germany
1:41.01align=left| {{flagathlete|David Rudisha|KEN}}2010-08-29Rieti, Italy
1:40.91align=left| {{flagathlete|David Rudisha|KEN}}2012-08-09London, United Kingdom{{cite web | url=http://www.iaaf.org/records/toplists/middlelong/800-metres/outdoor/men/senior/#senior-outdoor-middlelong | title=IAAF 800 Metres Records | publisher=IAAF | access-date=3 January 2013}}

(+) - indicates en route time from longer race.

The "Time" column indicates the ratified mark; the "Auto" column indicates a fully automatic time that was also recorded in the event when hand-timed marks were used for official records, or which was the basis for the official mark, rounded to the 10th of a second, depending on the rules then in place.

Auto times to the hundredth of a second were accepted by the IAAF for events up to and including 10,000 m from 1981. Hence, Sebastian Coe's record at 1:42.4 was rendered as 1:42.33 from that year.

Women

The first world record in the women's 800 metres was recognized by the {{lang|fr|Fédération Sportive Féminine Internationale}} (FSFI) in 1922,

{{cite web

|title=12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook. Berlin 2009.

|url=http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf

|publisher=IAAF Media & Public Relations Department

|location=Monte Carlo

|pages=Pages 546, 641–2

|year=2009

|access-date=August 9, 2009

|url-status=dead

|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629134819/http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf

|archive-date=June 29, 2011

}}

which was absorbed by the International Association of Athletics Federations in 1936.

As of June 21, 2009, the IAAF (and the FSFI before it) have ratified 29 world records in the event. "y" denotes time for 880 yards (804.672 m) ratified as a record for the 800 m.

class=wikitable
TimeAutoAthleteDateLocation
valign="top"
2:30.4+align=left| {{flagathlete|Georgette Lenoir|FRA}}1922-08-20Paris, France
2:26.6yalign=left| {{flagathlete|Mary Lines|GBR}}1922-08-30London, United Kingdom
2:23.8align=left| {{flagathlete|Lina Radke|GER|Weimar}}1927-08-07Breslau, Germany
2:20.4align=left| {{flagathlete|Inga Gentzel|SWE}}1928-06-16Stockholm, Sweden
2:19.6align=left| {{flagathlete|Lina Radke|GER|Weimar}}1928-07-01Brieg, Germany
2:16.8align=left| {{flagathlete|Lina Radke|GER|Weimar}}1928-08-02Amsterdam, Netherlands
style="font-style: italic;"

| 2:16.4*

align=left | {{flagathlete|Zdeněk Koubek|CSK}}1934-06-14Prague, Czechoslovakia{{cite web |url=http://www.translide.cz/zdenek-koubek |title=Zdeněk Koubek |work=Translide.cz |access-date=2020-08-08 |language=cs }}{{cite web |url=https://encyklopedie.brna.cz/home-mmb/?acc=profil_osobnosti&load=11754 |title=Zdena / Zdeněk Koubková / Koubek |work=Internetová Encyklopedie Dějin Brna |access-date=2020-08-08 |language=cs }}
style="font-style: italic;"

| 2:12.4*

align=left | {{flagathlete|Zdeněk Koubek|CSK}}1934-08-??London, United Kingdom
2:15.9align=left| {{flagathlete|Anna Larsson|SWE}}1944-08-28Stockholm, Sweden
2:14.8align=left| {{flagathlete|Anna Larsson|SWE}}1945-08-19Hälsingborg, Sweden
2:13.8align=left| {{flagathlete|Anna Larsson|SWE}}1945-08-30Stockholm, Sweden
2:13.0align=left| {{flagathlete|Yevdokia Vasilyeva|URS|1936}}1950-07-17Moscow, Soviet Union
2:12.2align=left| {{flagathlete|Valentina Pomogayeva|URS|1936}}1951-07-26Moscow, Soviet Union
2:12.0align=left| {{flagathlete|Nina Otkalenko|URS|1936}}1951-08-26Minsk, Soviet Union
2:08.5align=left| {{flagathlete|Nina Otkalenko|URS|1936}}1952-06-15Kiev, Soviet Union
2:07.3align=left| {{flagathlete|Nina Otkalenko|URS|1936}}1953-08-27Moscow, Soviet Union
2:06.6align=left| {{flagathlete|Nina Otkalenko|URS|1936}}1954-09-16Kiev, Soviet Union
2:05.0align=left| {{flagathlete|Nina Otkalenko|URS}}1955-09-24Zagreb, Yugoslavia
2:04.3align=left| {{flagathlete|Lyudmila Shevtsova|URS}}1960-07-03Moscow, Soviet Union
2:04.32:04.50align=left| {{flagathlete|Lyudmila Shevtsova|URS}}1960-09-07Rome, Italy
2:01.2+align=left| {{flagathlete|Dixie Willis|AUS}}1962-03-03Perth, Australia
2:01.1align=left| {{flagathlete|Ann Packer|GBR}}1964-10-20Tokyo, Japan
2:01.0align=left| {{flagathlete|Judy Pollock|AUS}}1967-06-28Helsinki, Finland
2:00.5align=left| {{flagathlete|Vera Nikolic|YUG}}1968-07-20London, United Kingdom
1:58.51:58.45align=left| {{flagathlete|Hildegard Falck|FRG}}1971-07-11Stuttgart, Germany
1:57.51:57.48align=left| {{flagathlete|Svetla Zlateva|BUL|1971}}1973-08-24Athens, Greece
1:56.0align=left| {{flagathlete|Valentina Gerasimova|URS}}1976-06-12Kiev, Soviet Union
1:54.91:54.94align=left| {{flagathlete|Tatyana Kazankina|URS}}1976-07-26Montreal, Canada
1:54.91:54.85align=left| {{flagathlete|Nadezhda Olizarenko|URS}}1980-06-12Moscow, Soviet Union
1:53.51:53.43align=left| {{flagathlete|Nadezhda Olizarenko|URS}}1980-07-27Moscow, Soviet Union
1:53.28align=left| {{flagathlete|Jarmila Kratochvílová|TCH}}1983-07-26Munich, West Germany

(+) - indicates en route time from longer race.

(*) - Zdeněk Koubek's world records were rescinded by the IAAF after he transitioned to become male.

The "Time" column indicates the ratified mark; the "Auto" column indicates a fully automatic time that was also recorded in the event when hand-timed marks were used for official records, or which was the basis for the official mark, rounded to the 10th of a second, depending on the rules then in place.

Auto times to the hundredth of a second were accepted by the IAAF for events up to and including 10,000 m from 1981. Hence, Nadezhda Olizarenko's record at 1:53.5 was rendered as 1:53.43 from that year.

References

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