1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres

Events at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
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
Road events
20 km road run		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 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Deveti Septemvri Stadium on 8, 9 and 10 August.

Medalists

Gold	Liu Li China
Silver	Maria Magdalena Nedelcu Romania
Bronze	Aurica Rautu Romania

Results

Final

10 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Liu Li	China	2:03.95
	Maria Magdalena Nedelcu	Romania	2:04.52
	Aurica Rautu	Romania	2:04.78
4	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	2:04.83
5	Larisa Popova	Soviet Union	2:05.65
6	Qu Yunxia	China	2:06.60
7	Fabia Trabaldo	Italy	2:06.95
8	Patricia Djaté	France	2:09.26

Semifinals

9 August

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Liu Li	China	2:05.98	Q
2	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	2:06.85	Q
3	Maria Magdalena Nedelcu	Romania	2:06.95	Q
4	Fabia Trabaldo	Italy	2:07.09	Q
5	Toni Hodgkinson	New Zealand	2:08.38
6	Anne Bruns	West Germany	2:08.84
7	Stella Jongmans	Netherlands	2:09.89
8	Evelyn Musonda	Zambia	2:13.84

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Qu Yunxia	China	2:04.09	Q
2	Aurica Rautu	Romania	2:04.57	Q
3	Patricia Djaté	France	2:05.05	Q
4	Larisa Popova	Soviet Union	2:06.77	Q
5	Natalie Tait	United Kingdom	2:08.55
6	Irma Betancourt	Mexico	2:09.15
7	Maria Taneva	Bulgaria	2:14.07
	Inez Turner	Jamaica	DQ

Heats

8 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Liu Li	China	2:07.41	Q
2	Natalie Tait	United Kingdom	2:08.18	Q
3	Patricia Djaté	France	2:08.33	Q
4	Maria Taneva	Bulgaria	2:09.63	q
5	Evelyn Musonda	Zambia	2:10.64	q
6	Emebet Shiferaw	Ethiopia	2:16.02
7	Elizabeth Tungaraza	Tanzania	2:18.25

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Maria Magdalena Nedelcu	Romania	2:11.38	Q
2	Anne Bruns	West Germany	2:11.45	Q
3	Irma Betancourt	Mexico	2:11.47	Q
4	Sophie Scamps	Australia	2:11.77
5	Najat Ouali	Morocco	2:11.90
6	Kimberly Toney	United States	2:12.26
7	Amna Abakar	Sudan	2:28.59

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Aurica Rautu	Romania	2:10.39	Q
2	Stella Jongmans	Netherlands	2:10.50	Q
3	Carla Sacramento	Portugal	2:10.56	Q
4	Qu Yunxia	China	2:10.76	q
5	Séverine Foulon	France	2:10.88
6	Ursula Friedmann	West Germany	2:12.71
	Egigayehu Worku	Ethiopia	DQ	IAAF rule 141.3

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Larisa Popova	Soviet Union	2:06.61	Q
2	Inez Turner	Jamaica	2:06.69	Q
3	Fabia Trabaldo	Italy	2:06.79	Q
4	Toni Hodgkinson	New Zealand	2:07.04	q
5	Pavlina Neycheva	Bulgaria	2:13.35

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 26 athletes from 20 countries participated in the event.

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