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–November 25, 2010
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 s'chase		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 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)

Date	Time	Event
Wednesday, 24 November 2010	18:25	Round 1
Thursday, 25 November 2010	17:25	Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Asian 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