The Women's 800m was introduced as an Olympic Event in 1928, but then disappeared until it became a permanent fixture since 1960. Athletes from the Soviet Union saw the most success in this event, winning three golds and seven total medals between 1960 and 1992, sweeping the podium in the Moscow Games in 1980. Since then, athletes from a relatively wide variety of nations have won medals in the Women's 800m. South Africa's Caster Semenya is the only woman to have won two gold medals in this event, in 2012 and 2016 respectively; although her gold medal for the 2012 Olympics was not given to her until 2017, when Russian athlete Mariya Savinova was stripped of her gold for doping violations. Semenya was unable to defend her title in the 2020 Games, due to rules that prohibited her from competing due to her naturally high testosterone levels.
Medal count by country in the Women's 800m at the Summer Olympics from 1928 to 2020
*No longer exists/competes at the Olympics.
**Includes medals won by the Unified Team of 1992 (which was made up of athletes from all former Soviet States, except the three Baltic states).
***Includes medals won by the United Team of Germany (1956-1964), but does not include East or West Germany.
This data was collected using the official Olympic.org site, as well as a spreadsheet from the Guardian that includes data from 1896-2008 (available here), 2012 and 2016 data was compared with that from Encyclopaedia Britannica, and several news outlets were used to update the table when medals were reassigned (i.e. for doping offenses).
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olympic.org, & The Guardian. (August 5, 2021). Medal count by country in the Women's 800m at the Summer Olympics from 1928 to 2020 [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 21, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117671/olympics-womens-800m-medal-table-since-1928/
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olympic.org, The Guardian. (2021). Medal count by country in the Women's 800m at the Summer Olympics from 1928 to 2020. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 21, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117671/olympics-womens-800m-medal-table-since-1928/
olympic.org, and The Guardian. "Medal Count by Country in The Women's 800m at The Summer Olympics from 1928 to 2020." Statista, Statista Inc., 5 Aug 2021, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117671/olympics-womens-800m-medal-table-since-1928/
olympic.org & The Guardian, Medal count by country in the Women's 800m at the Summer Olympics from 1928 to 2020 Statista, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117671/olympics-womens-800m-medal-table-since-1928/ (last visited December 21, 2024)
Medal count by country in the Women's 800m at the Summer Olympics from 1928 to 2020 [Graph], olympic.org, & The Guardian, August 5, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1117671/olympics-womens-800m-medal-table-since-1928/
