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2003 World Championships In Athletics – Women's 800 Metres
These are the official results of the Women's 800 metres event at the 2003 IAAF World Championships in Paris, France. There were a total number of 41 participating athletes, with five qualifying heats, three semi-finals and the final held on Tuesday 26 August 2003 at 20:50h. Final Semi-final *Held on Sunday 24 August 2003 Heats Held on Sunday 24 August 2003 See also * Athletics at the 2003 Pan American Games – Women's 800 metres References {{DEFAULTSORT:2003 World Championships In Athletics - Women's 800 Metres Events at the 2003 World Championships in Athletics, H 800 metres at the World Athletics Championships 2003 in women's athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stade De France
The Stade de France (, ) is the national stadium of France, located just north of Paris in the commune of Saint-Denis. Its seating capacity of 80,698 makes it the sixth-largest stadium in Europe. The stadium is used by the France national football team and France rugby union team for international competition. It is the largest in Europe for track and field events, seating 78,338 in that configuration. Despite that, the stadium's running track is mostly hidden under the football pitch. Originally built for the 1998 FIFA World Cup, the stadium's name was recommended by Michel Platini, head of the organising committee. On 12 July 1998, France defeated Brazil 3–0 in the 1998 FIFA World Cup Final contested at the stadium. It will host the athletics events at the 2024 Summer Olympics. It will also host matches for the 2023 Rugby World Cup. After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, it was announced that the 2022 UEFA Champions League Final would be moved from the Gazprom Arena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letitia Vriesde
Letitia Alma Vriesde (born 5 October 1964) is a female former track and field athlete from Suriname, who specialised in the 800 metres but was also successful over 1500 metres. She is the first (and to date, only) sportsperson from Suriname to compete at five Olympic Games. She won a silver medal at the 1995 World Championships and a bronze medal at the 2001 World Championships. Vriesde holds the South American records for the 800 metres, 1000 metres and 1500 metres (indoors and outdoors) and also for the 3000 metres (indoors). Career Vriesde started running in Suriname, coached by Luiz de Oliveira. She left Suriname after failing to be selected for the 1984 Olympics to train in the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, Vriesde competed for Atletiekvereniging Rotterdam. She competed in the 800 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics, and broke into the highest echelons of the sport in 1991, when she reached the finals of both the 800 and 1500 metres at the IAAF World Championships in Athle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Brägger
Anita Brägger (born 6 October 1972 in Altdorf) is a retired Swiss middle-distance runner who competed mostly in the 800 metres. She represented her country at the 2004 Summer Olympics failing to qualify for the semifinals. In addition, she competed at three World Championships, in 1999, 2001 and 2003, reaching semifinals twice. Her husband is another Olympic athlete, Christian Belz. Competition record Personal bests Outdoor *400 metres – 53.26 (Genève 2001) * 600 metres – 1:27.63 (Langenthal 1999) * 800 metres – 1:59.66 (Lausanne 2001) *1000 metres – 2:40.00 (Rovereto 2002) *1500 metres – 4:19.52 (Bern 2001) Indoor * 800 metres – 2:04.15 (Karlsruhe 2000) *1000 metres The 1000 metres is an uncommon middle-distance running event in track and field competitions. The 1000 yards, an imperial alternative, was sometimes also contested. All-time top 25 *h = hand timed *i = indoor performance *A = affected by ... – 2:45.90 (Liévin 2005) References 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judit Varga (athlete)
Judit Varga (born 16 April 1976) is a Hungarian middle-distance runner who specialized in the 1500 metres, since 2009 has been naturalized Italian. Personal bests ;For Hungary *800 metres - 1:59.46 (2003) *1500 metres - 4:01.26 (2002) ;For Italy *800 metres - 2:00.91 (2009) *1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ... - 4:05.60 (2009) Achievements See also * Italian all-time top lists - 800 m * Italian all-time top lists - 1500 m References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Varga, Judit 1976 births Living people Hungarian female middle-distance runners Italian female middle-distance runners Olympic athletes of Hungary Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for Hungary Naturalised citizens of I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tina Paulino
Argentina da Glória “Tina” Paulino (born 7 July 1973) is an 800 metres runner from Mozambique. Early life Born in Inhambane, Tina Paulino is a distant cousin of Maria de Lurdes Mutola. She started competing in 1992 at the age of 18, having already played basketball for the national team. Stelio Craveirinha, son of the poet Jose Craveirinha and himself a former national long jump record holder, was the man responsible for introducing her to athletics. She competed in a number of road races, but there was no track competition for her in Mozambique. Craveirinha, however, managed to convince the National Olympic Committee to send her to Portugal on a training camp. Her results were impressive given the short time that she had been running seriously: she won the Portuguese national 800 m title in a time of 2:03.84, faster than Mutola ran in her first race outside of Mozambique. Career In 1993, after a string of victories on the South African circuit, Tina stunned athletics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Svetlana Klyuka
Svetlana Vasiliyevna Klyuka (russian: Светлана Васильевна Клюка; born 27 December 1978 in Belogorsk, Amur Oblast) is a Russian middle distance runner. Klyuka ran the sixth fastest women's 800m time in the world in 2006 (1:57:21 minutes). Career She was the winner of the 2005 Universiade and the 2006 European Cup. She was a silver medallist at the 2006 European Athletics Championships and placed fourth at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. She is a three-time participant at the World Championships in Athletics, having reached the final in 2007 and the semi-finals in both 2003 and 2009. Klyuka received a two-year ban from the sport for doping after her biological passport An athlete biological passport is an individual electronic record for professional athletes, in which profiles of biological markers of doping and results of doping tests are collated over a period of time. Doping violations can be detected by n ... showed abnormalities. The ban was set for t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seltana Aït Hammou
Seltana Aït Hammou (Arabic: سلطانة آيت حمو; born 21 May 1980) is a Moroccan middle-distance runner who specialises in the 800 metres. She represented her country at the 2004 Summer Olympics and has also competed at the World Championships in Athletics and the IAAF World Indoor Championships. She has also been the gold medallist at number of major events including the 2001 Mediterranean Games, the 2003 Military World Games, the 2007 Pan Arab Games and the 2009 Jeux de la Francophonie. She received a one-year ban from the sport of athletics in 2008 for missing three doping tests. She is the sister of Mina Aït Hammou, another successful Moroccan middle-distance athlete. Career Born in Kenitra, she made her first international appearance for Morocco at the 1998 IAAF World Cross Country Championships, where she was sixtieth in the long race. She was twelfth in the 10,000 metres at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics and competed in the junior race at the 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi Jensen
Heidi Kofod Jensen (born 14 August 1966) is a retired Danish athlete who specialised in the middle-distance events. She represented her country at three consecutive World Championships, starting in 1999, her best outing being the 2003 edition where she reached the semifinals. She currently holds two national records, in the outdoor 1500 metres and the indoor 800 metres. Competition record Personal bests Outdoor * 800 metres – 2:01.11 (Stockholm 2002) *1500 metres – 4:07.17 (Kassel 2002) NR *One mile – 4:30.94 (Heusden-Zolder 2002) Indoor * 800 metres – 2:03.33 (Stockholm 2000) NR *1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athletic ... – 4:13.59 (Stockholm 2003) References 1966 births Living people Danish female middle-distance runners World Athleti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Natalya Yevdokimova (runner)
Natalya Yevdokimova (russian: Наталья Евдокимова, born 17 March 1978) is a Russian middle-distance runner who specializes in the 1500 metres. Having run her first sub-four-minute 1500 m, she was selected for the 2004 Olympic Games where she finished fourth in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Women's 1500 metres, women's 1500 metres. She was eighth at the 2004 IAAF World Athletics Final, but improved to win a bronze medal at the competition the following year. After a long period away from top-level competition, she returned for the 2009 European Athletics Indoor Championships, where she finished in sixth place. Although she went on to compete at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics finishing in eighth in the women's 1500 m final, that result was subsequently disqualified due to a doping ruling On 22 June 2017, the Court of Arbitration for Sport decided that Yevdokimova had engaged in blood doping practices and issued her with a four ban fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucia Klocová
Lucia may refer to: Arts and culture * '' Lucía'', a 1968 Cuban film by Humberto Solás * ''Lucia'' (film), a 2013 Kannada-language film * ''Lucia & The Best Boys'', a Scottish indie rock band formerly known as ''LUCIA'' * "Lucia", a Swedish children's song published in '' Barnens svenska sångbok'' * Lucia Ashton, the title character of '' Lucia di Lammermoor'', a 1836 opera by Gaetano Donizetti * one of the title characters of ''Mapp and Lucia'', a series of novels by E. F. Benson * Saint Lucy's Day, a Christian feast day observed on 13 December Places * Lucia, California, a hamlet in Big Sur, California * La Lucia, a suburb in Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa Other uses * ''Lucia'' (butterfly), a butterfly genus from the tribe Luciini * ''Lucia'' (moth), a synonym of the moth genus ''Adrapsa'' * Lucia (name), a feminine given name and a surname, including a list of people and fictional characters with the name Lucia or Lucía * 222 Lucia, an asteroid See also * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Cioncan
Maria Cioncan (19 June 1977 - 21 January 2007) was a middle distance runner from Romania, best known for winning a bronze medal in the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Women's 1,500 metres, 1500 metres event at the Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics, 2004 Summer Olympics. Life Born in Maieru, she set personal bests in both 800 and 1500 metres during the games. Her 2005 season was cut short, and her only notable competition appearance was at the SPAR European Cup in Firenze, Italy where she won the 800 (2:00.88) and placed second in the 1500 (4:07.39). Cioncan's last competition on the top international level was the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships, 2006 World Indoor Championships, where she failed to progress past the first heat of the 800m. Earlier that indoor season she ran an indoor personal best of 2:01.70. On 21 January 2007 Cioncan died in a car accident near Pleven, Bulgaria. She was returning from a training camp in Greece when her vehicle flipped over and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamsyn Lewis
Tamsyn Carolyn Lewis (born 20 July 1978) is an Australian media personality and former track and field athlete who won a total of eighteen Australian Championships across the 400 metres, 800 metres and 400m hurdles. She first represented Australia in 1994, and won the 800 metres in the 2008 World Indoor Championships. Personal life Lewis was born and raised in Melbourne, Victoria and attended Methodist Ladies' College and Caulfield Grammar School. Her mother Carolyn Wright was a six-time national high jump champion, while her father, Greg Lewis, was a semi-finalist in the 200 metres at the Summer 1968 Olympics. She married Australian cricketer Graham Manou in 2011. Athletics career Lewis emerged onto the national athletics scene in 1994, winning several events at the Australian Championships: the Under-16 100 m/200 m double and the Under-20 400 m. After these performances she was chosen, aged 15, for the 1994 Commonwealth Games as a 4 x 400 metres relay runn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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