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
Lina Radke  Germany
Kinue Hitomi  Japan
Inga Gentzel  Sweden

Results

Heat 1

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Marie Dollinger Germany2:22.4OR, Q
2Inga Gentzel Sweden Q
3Bobbie Rosenfeld Canada Q
4Jo Mallon Netherlands
5Elisabeth Oestreich Germany
6Dee Boeckmann United States

Key: OR = Olympic record, Q = Qualified

Heat 2

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Lina Radke Germany2:26.0Q
2Kinue Hitomi Japan2:26.4 Q
3Gertruda Kilosówna Poland2:28.0Q
4Aat van Noort Netherlands
5Edie Robinson Australia
6Juliette Segers Belgium
7Sébastienne Guyot France
8Emy Pettersson Sweden
9Giannina Marchini Italy
10Rayma Wilson United States

Key: Q = Qualified

Heat 3

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
1Jean Thompson Canada2:23.2Q
2Florence MacDonald United States Q
3Elfriede Wever GermanyQ
4Mien Duchateau Netherlands
5Ida Degrande Belgium
6Marcelle Neveu France
7Otylia Tabacka Poland2:33.0
8Josefine Lauterbach Austria
9Paula Radziulytė Lithuania

Key: Q = Qualified

Finals

RankAthleteNationTimeNotes
Lina Radke Germany2:16.8WR
Kinue Hitomi Japan2:17.6
Inga Gentzel Sweden2:17.8
4Jean Thompson Canada2:21.6
5Bobbie Rosenfeld Canada2:22.4
6Florence MacDonald United States2:22.6
7Marie Dollinger Germany2:23.0
8Gertruda Kilosówna Poland2:28.0
9Elfriede Wever Germany

Key: WR = World record

References

  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. 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. 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.
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