1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres

1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 800 metres event at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 21, 22 and 23 August.^[1][2]

Gold	Claudia Gesell  Germany
Silver	Kathleen Friedrich  Germany
Bronze	Nancy Jebet Langat  Kenya

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Claudia Gesell	Germany	2:02.67
	Kathleen Friedrich	Germany	2:02.70
	Nancy Jebet Langat	Kenya	2:03.21
4	Mairelín Fuentes	Cuba	2:03.49
5	Anca Safta	Romania	2:03.64
6	Rhode Senekal-Snyman	South Africa	2:04.59
7	Marilena Zevedeanu	Romania	2:08.19
8	Natalya Yevdokimova	Ukraine	2:10.77

22 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anca Safta	Romania	2:05.99	Q
2	Kathleen Friedrich	Germany	2:06.08	Q
3	Mairelín Fuentes	Cuba	2:06.73	Q
4	Natalya Yevdokimova	Ukraine	2:07.54	Q
5	Tytti Reho	Finland	2:07.67
6	Laetitia Valdonado	France	2:09.34
7	Oksana Zbrozhek	Russia	2:12.58
	Shura Hotesa	Ethiopia	DQ	IAAF rule 141.2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Claudia Gesell	Germany	2:06.23	Q
2	Nancy Jebet Langat	Kenya	2:06.79	Q
3	Marilena Zevedeanu	Romania	2:07.22	Q
4	Rhode Senekal-Snyman	South Africa	2:07.40	Q
5	Miriam Maseková	Slovakia	2:07.65
6	Tara Mendoza	United States	2:08.95
7	Hasna Benhassi	Morocco	2:25.00
	Sintayahu Fikre	Ethiopia	DNS

21 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Nancy Jebet Langat	Kenya	2:08.02	Q
2	Tytti Reho	Finland	2:08.48	Q
3	Rhode Senekal-Snyman	South Africa	2:08.50	Q
4	Bi Tanna	China	2:08.82
5	Natalia Rodríguez	Spain	2:09.09
6	Lena Nilsson	Sweden	2:09.12
7	Cherryl Escat	Philippines	2:14.63
8	Zolveik Ruíz	Panama	2:19.11

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anca Safta	Romania	2:06.24	Q
2	Mairelín Fuentes	Cuba	2:06.25	Q
3	Laetitia Valdonado	France	2:07.46	Q
4	Oksana Zbrozhek	Russia	2:08.42	q
5	Natalya Yevdokimova	Ukraine	2:08.80	q
6	Tamieka Grizzle	United States	2:11.48
7	Alli Li Yin Yee	Hong Kong	2:15.49

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Miriam Maseková	Slovakia	2:08.75	Q
2	Kathleen Friedrich	Germany	2:09.17	Q
3	Sintayahu Fikre	Ethiopia	2:10.27	Q
4	Margaret Chirchir	Kenya	2:10.34
5	Marie-Louise Henning	South Africa	2:10.90
6	Melanie Bradley	Australia	2:11.12
7	Zhang Jinqing	China	2:14.04

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Claudia Gesell	Germany	2:05.66	Q
2	Shura Hotesa	Ethiopia	2:06.57	Q
3	Hasna Benhassi	Morocco	2:07.12	Q
4	Tara Mendoza	United States	2:07.56	q
5	Marilena Zevedeanu	Romania	2:08.43	q
6	Jelena Stanisavljevic	Yugoslavia	2:09.88
7	Sonja Roman	Slovenia	2:10.63

According to an unofficial count, 29 athletes from 22 countries participated in the event.