800 metres
The 800 meter race is a discipline in athletics. Along with the 1500 -meter run and the mile race he belongs to the middle-distance.
In competition, two stadium rounds to run. To avoid jostling, the first 100 meters, so the route were run until after the first turn in sheets since the 1960 Olympics. After that is called by a curved transition line marks the spot where the runner is allowed to leave its orbit.
The runners start in a standing position, ie in the high start. Occasionally, when the number of paths is not sufficient to run two runners per lane.
The fastest men reach times of approximately 1:42 minutes (world record: 1:40,91 min), corresponding to 7.84 m / s or 28.23 km / h
The fastest women reach times of about 1:54 minutes (world record: 1:53,28 min), corresponding to 7.01 m / s or 25.26 km / h
The 800 - meter race is one of the oldest race course and is available for men since the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 in the program. For women, it was also once one of the first games played with women's participation (1928 ), then again until 1960.
- 4.2.1 Men
- 4.2.2 Women
- 4.4.1 Men
- 4.4.2 Women
- 4.6.1 Men
- 4.6.2 Women
- 5.1 Intense interval training (after Woldemar Gerschler )
- 5.2 Continuous Performance Training ( Arthur Lydiard )
- 5.3 Multi -stage training (after Peter Coe )
History
The 800 - meter race derived from the distance of half a mile in (880 yards or 804.67 meters), which was first run in the UK in 1830 in competition.
For a long time it was customary for the first round to run very fast, until it was realized that can be achieved better times, when both rounds are run as possible at the same time. The British Tommy Hampson succeeded in this way to stay the first time under 1:50 minutes: He ran on 2 August 1932, the 800 meters in 1:49,7 min with lap times of 54.8 seconds, and 54.9 seconds.
Since the late 1930s, interval runs were the preferred training tool. Here are routes that are shorter than the competition course, repeated frequently and with only short rest breaks, eg 50 times 100 meters or 20 times 200 meters. The German Rudolf Harbig succeeded with the interval method under his coach Woldemar Gerschler on July 15, 1939, a world record time of 1:46,6 min.
Since the early 1960s, the interval training was supplanted by endurance training. At the Olympic Games in 1960, the New Zealander Peter Snell won as hitherto little-known runner the gold medal in the 800 meters after he had trained after the endurance of Arthur Lydiard method. Four years later he was able to win in 1964 both 800 and 1500 meters gold medal at the Olympic Games.
Sebastian Coe was one of the first who turned away from the more endurance oriented method Lydiards and a more complex training with smaller scale (multi -stage training) struck. Coe, improving on the 800 m world record up to 1:41,73 min.
The 800 - meter race of women was first recorded in the 1928 Olympics in the competition program, but then immediately deleted again because the officials and journalists present, the participants seemed to be exhausted. After that the line was not raced in the women's world games - the last time in 1934, making it then was no high-level middle distance competitions more for women. Since 1954, the 800 -meter run again belongs to the program of the European Athletics Championships, since 1960 the women's distance running again at the Olympics.
In the record lists and times are recorded, the 880 - yard race ( 804.68 m) were obtained.
Milestones
- First officially recognized by the IAAF World Record: 1:51,9 min, United States 48 Ted Meredith, on July 8, 1912
- First man under 2 minutes: 1:59,8 min, United Kingdom Arthur Pelham, on March 26, 1873
- The first official women's world record: 2:30,4 min, France Georgette Lenoir, on August 20, 1922
- First woman under 2 minutes: 1:59,1 min, North Korea Shin Kim Dan, November 12, 1963 ( not an official world record)
- Men's world record with the longest stock: 1:41,73 min, United Kingdom Sebastian Coe on June 10, 1981 improved by Denmark Wilson Kipketer on 13 August 1997
- Women's world record with the longest stock: 1:53,28 min, Czechoslovakia Jarmila Kratochvílová, since July 26, 1983
Successful athletes
- United States 48 times Whitfield, 1948 and 1952
- New Zealand Peter Snell, 1960 and 1964
- Maria de Lurdes Mutola Mozambique, 1993, 2001 and 2003
- German Empire Lina Radke, 1928
- Germany BR Hildegard Falck, 1972
- Germany Democratic Republic in 1949 Sigrun Wodars, 1988
- Germany Nils Schumann, 2000