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Women's 800 metres at the 2006 Asian Games
Venue	Khalifa International Stadium
Dates	8–9 December
Competitors	17 from 13 nations
Medalists
Maryam Yusuf Jamal    Bahrain   Viktoriya Yalovtseva    Kazakhstan   Zamira Amirova    Uzbekistan
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Athletics at the 2006 Asian Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
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
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 800 metres competition at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar was held on 8 and 9 December 2006 at the Khalifa International Stadium.

Schedule

All times are Arabia Standard Time (UTC+03:00)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH)	1:53.28	Munich, West Germany	26 July 1983
Asian Record	Liu Dong (CHN)	1:55.54	Beijing, China	9 September 1993
Games Record	Qu Yunxia (CHN)	1:59.85	Hiroshima, Japan	12 October 1994

Results

Legend

• DNF — Did not finish

1st round

• Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Santhi Soundarajan (IND)	2:08.62	Q
2	Đỗ Thị Bông (VIE)	2:08.64	Q
3	Miho Sugimori (JPN)	2:08.69	q
4	Anna Kliushkina (KGZ)	2:09.31
5	Sana Abu-Bakheet (PLE)	2:31.50
6	Danah Al-Nasrallah (KUW)	2:40.60

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BRN)	2:08.87	Q
2	Sinimole Paulose (IND)	2:10.16	Q
3	Trương Thanh Hằng (VIE)	2:10.95
4	Leila Ebrahimi (IRI)	2:17.16
—	Tatyana Borisova (KGZ)	DNF

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Viktoriya Yalovtseva (KAZ)	2:04.70	Q
2	Zamira Amirova (UZB)	2:06.57	Q
3	Liu Qing (CHN)	2:07.34	q
4	Bushra Parveen (PAK)	2:15.17
5	Mina Pourseifi (IRI)	2:18.35
6	Leong Ka Man (MAC)	2:26.51

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Maryam Yusuf Jamal (BRN)	2:01.79
	Viktoriya Yalovtseva (KAZ)	2:03.19
	Zamira Amirova (UZB)	2:03.56
4	Sinimole Paulose (IND)	2:03.76
5	Miho Sugimori (JPN)	2:05.28
6	Đỗ Thị Bông (VIE)	2:07.75
7	Liu Qing (CHN)	2:09.39
DQ	Santhi Soundarajan (IND)	2:03.16

• Santhi Soundarajan of India originally won the silver medal, but she was disqualified after a sex test indicated that she "does not possess the sexual characteristics of a woman".

References

1. "Indian athlete fails gender test". BBC News. 18 December 2006. Retrieved 20 August 2009.
2. "Indian silver medalist female runner at Asian Games fails gender test". International Herald Tribune. 18 December 2006.

External links

• Results – 1st Round Heat 1
• Results – 1st Round Heat 2
• Results – 1st Round Heat 3
• Results – Final

• Athletics at the 2006 Asian Games
• 800 metres at the Asian Games