Nadezhda Olizarenko URS 800m 1:54.9 World Record Moscow 1980

Moskva, , International meeting, Leninstadium, Hr. 1. 1: Nadezhda Olizarenko URS (1:54.9, World Record) 2. 1: Fita Lovin ROM National Record 3. 1:57.0 Olga Vakhrusheva URS PB 4. 1:57.0 Tatyana Kazankina URS 5. 1:57.6 Lyudmila Veselkova URS 6. 1:57.9 Nina Ruchayeva URS PB 7. 1:59.9 Valentina Gerasimova URS 8. 2:00.7 Lyudmila Shesterova URS (1:58.7 PB in heats) Having won the heats the previous day in a world leading time of 1:56.7, Nadezhda Olizarenko took the control of the final with a relatively slow pace. Reaching the 600m mark in 1:27.2, she was 2.4 off the split time set by Tatyana Kazankina when she ran the world record, 1: during the 1976 olympic final in Montreal. Olizarenko increased the pace covering the last 200m in 27.7, while Kazankina finished a distant fourth in 1:57.0. Another former world record holder, Valentina Gerasimova (1:56.0 in Kiev 1976) came 7th. The winner’s official time was 1:54.9, submitted as such by Soviet o