Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games – Women's 800 metres

Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
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
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
30 km 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
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 800 metres event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 8 and 10 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Judy Peckham  Australia	Tekla Chemabwai  Kenya	Jane Colebrook  England

Held on 8 August

Qualification: First 4 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualify for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Liz Barnes	England	2:03.9	Q
2	1	Tekla Chemabwai	Kenya	2:05.1	Q
3	3	Evelyn McMeekin	Scotland	2:06.1	Q
4	3	Francine Gendron	Canada	2:06.5	Q
5	3	Jane Colebrook	England	2:06.7	Q
6	3	Judy Peckham	Australia	2:06.8	Q
7	2	Adrienne Smyth	Northern Ireland	2:07.5	Q
8	1	Carmen Campton	Australia	2:07.6	Q
9	2	Alison Wright	New Zealand	2:07.7	Q
10	2	Charlene Rendina	Australia	2:07.9	Q
11	2	Anne Mackie-Morelli	Canada	2:08.2	Q
12	1	Debbie Campbell	Canada	2:08.4	Q
12	3	Rose Tata	Kenya	2:08.4	q
14	2	Paula Newnham	England	2:09.7	q
15	1	Helen Opoku	Ghana	2:10.3	q
16	1	Pamela Reece	Northern Ireland	2:11.0	q
17	2	Gladys Konadu	Ghana	2:12.93
18	2	Violet Molobeka	Zambia	2:15.02
19	3	Helen Blake	Jamaica	2:20.79
20	1	Theodora Corea	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	2:22.20
21	3	Jennifer Boca	Grenada	2:22.58
22	3	Hannah Bantamoi	Sierra Leone	2:52.59

Held on 8 August

Qualification: First 4 in each semifinal (Q) qualify directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Evelyn McMeekin	Scotland	2:02.99	Q
2	1	Charlene Rendina	Australia	2:04.78	Q
3	1	Jane Colebrook	England	2:04.78	Q
4	1	Anne Mackie-Morelli	Canada	2:05.05	Q
5	2	Judy Peckham	Australia	2:05.22	Q
6	2	Liz Barnes	England	2:05.38	Q
7	1	Debbie Campbell	Canada	2:05.47
8	2	Francine Gendron	Canada	2:05.66	Q
9	2	Tekla Chemabwai	Kenya	2:05.71	Q
10	2	Adrienne Smyth	Northern Ireland	2:06.68
11	2	Alison Wright	New Zealand	2:06.71
12	1	Paula Newnham	England	2:07.68
13	2	Carmen Campton	Australia	2:08.30
14	1	Rose Tata	Kenya	2:13.72
15	2	Helen Opoku	Ghana	2:18.79
16	1	Pamela Reece	Northern Ireland	2:20.12

Held on 10 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Judy Peckham	Australia	2:02.82
	Tekla Chemabwai	Kenya	2:02.87
	Jane Colebrook	England	2:03.10
4	Liz Barnes	England	2:03.41
5	Francine Gendron	Canada	2:04.02
6	Evelyn McMeekin	Scotland	2:04.10
7	Anne Mackie-Morelli	Canada	2:04.16
8	Charlene Rendina	Australia	2:04.82

• Heats & Semifinals results (The Canberra Times)
• Final results (The Canberra Times)
• Australian results