Women 800m Freestyle Swimming Olympic Games 1980 Moskva, Soviet Union - Saturday, 26th July - Gold Medal: Michelle Ford, Australia |
Final | | time | gap | L | Y | 1. Michelle Ford | Australia | 8:28.90 | OR | - | 18 | 2. Ines Diers | East Germany | 8:32.55 | +3.65s | - | 16 | 3. Heike Dahne | East Germany | 8:33.48 | +4.58s | - | 18 | 4. Irina Aksyonova | Soviet Union | 8:38.05 | +9.15s | - | 17 | 5. Oksana Komissarova | Soviet Union | 8:42.04 | +13.14s | - | 15 | 6. Pascale Verbauwen | Belgium | 8:44.84 | +15.94s | - | 17 | 7. Ines Geißler | East Germany | 8:45.28 | +16.38s | - | 17 | 8. Yelena Ivanova | Soviet Union | 8:46.45 | +17.55s | - | 17 |
Standarts: 8:55.01, 8:44.72 |
World Record: Tracey Wicham, Australia 8:24.62 Edmonton, Canada 5th August 1978 | Olympic Record: Petra Thumer, East Germany 8:37.14 Montreal, Canada 25th July 1976 |
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Heats - Saturday, 26th July |
Best 8 times advanced to Final. |
Heat 2 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Ines Diers | East Germany | 8:40.29 | +4.20s | - | 16 | 2. | 2. Michelle Ford | Australia | 8:42.36 | +6.27s | - | 18 | 3. | 3. Ines Geißler | East Germany | 8:46.96 | +10.87s | - | 17 | 7. | 4. Rosemary Brown | Australia | 8:49.47 | +13.38s | - | 19 | 9. | 5. Jackie Willmott | Great Britain | 8:50.51 | +14.42s | - | 15 | 10. | 6. Reggie De Jong | Netherlands | 8:54.49 | +18.40s | - | 16 | 11. | 7. Sofia Dara | Greece | 9:02.37 | +26.28s | - | 17 | 13. | 8. Nikole Schrepfer | Switzerland | 9:15.11 | +39.02s | - | 15 | 14. |
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Heat 1 | | time | gap | L | Y | Rk | 1. Heike Dahne | East Germany | 8:36.09 | OR | - | 18 | 1. | 2. Irina Aksyonova | Soviet Union | 8:44.42 | +8.33s | - | 17 | 4. | 3. Pascale Verbauwen | Belgium | 8:45.12 | +9.03s | - | 17 | 5. | 4. Oksana Komissarova | Soviet Union | 8:45.80 | +9.71s | - | 15 | 6. | 5. Yelena Ivanova | Soviet Union | 8:47.33 | +11.24s | - | 17 | 8. | 6. Roberta Felotti | Italy | 8:58.54 | +22.45s | - | 15 | 12. | -. Maria Pia Ayora | Peru | DNS | | - | 18 | -. | -. Klara Gulyas | Hungary | DNS | | - | 15 | -. |
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