Athing Mu, Keely Hodgkinson advance to women’s 800m final – World Athletics Championships 2022 results

EUGENE, Oregon (July 22) — Olympic champion Athing Mu and the Tokyo silver medalist Keely Hodgkinson both advanced to the final of the women’s 800m final at the World Athletics Championships 2022 here at Hayward Field in Oregon on Friday’s (22) Day 8.

Great Britain’s Hodgkinson was the quickest among the qualifiers from the three semi-finals after clocking a comfortable 1:58.51 to win the second section, defeating Olympic finalist Natoya Goule of Jamaica who ran 1:58.73 and American Olympic bronze medalist Raevyn Rogers, who also advanced on time after finishing third at 1:58.77.

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Athing Mu, in the meantime, ran a well-measured 1:58.12 to take the third semi-final ahead of Diribe Welteji of Ethiopia who clocked a personal best of 1:58.16, while Anita Horvat of Slovenia also ran a personal best of 1:59.60 to move on to the final.

Kenya’s Mary Moraa won the first semi-final in 1:59.65 with USA’s World Indoor champion Ajee’ Wilson qualifying as well with her second-place 1:59.97 finish.

Women’s 800m semi-finals results -World Athletics Championships 2022

RESULT
POS	BIB	COUNTRY	ATHLETE	MARK	DETAILS
1	912	KEN	Mary MORAA	1:59.65	Q
2	1216	USA	Ajee WILSON	1:59.97	Q
3	856	JAM	Adelle TRACEY	2:00.21
4	628	ETH	Habitam ALEMU	2:00.37 SB
5	714	GBR	Jemma REEKIE	2:00.43
6	675	FRA	Renelle LAMOTE	2:00.86
7	494	CAN	Lindsey BUTTERWORTH	2:01.39
8	732	GER	Christina HERING	2:01.57

RESULT
POS	BIB	COUNTRY	ATHLETE	MARK	DETAILS
1	692	GBR	Keely HODGKINSON	1:58.51	Q
2	838	JAM	Natoya GOULE	1:58.73	Q
3	1201	USA	Raevyn ROGERS	1:58.77	q
4	637	ETH	Freweyni HAILU	2:00.11
5	1025	POL	Anna WIELGOSZ	2:00.51
6	741	GER	Majtie KOLBERG	2:01.36
7	465	BEN	Noélie YARIGO	2:01.52
8	682	GBR	Ellie BAKER	2:02.77
9	409	AUS	Catriona BISSET	2:05.20

RESULT
POS	BIB	COUNTRY	ATHLETE	MARK	DETAILS
1	1192	USA	Athing MU	1:58.12	Q
2	643	ETH	Diribe WELTEJI	1:58.16 PB	Q
3	1066	SLO	Anita HORVAT	1:59.60 PB	q
4	1081	SUI	Lore HOFFMANN	1:59.88 SB
5	1055	RSA	Prudence SEKGODISO	2:00.01
6	800	ITA	Elena BELLÒ	2:00.34
7	683	GBR	Alexandra BELL	2:00.82
8	1121	UGA	Halimah NAKAAYI	2:01.05
9	911	KEN	Naomi KORIR	2:03.08

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