Athletics at the 1990 Commonwealth Games – Women's 800 metres

Athletics at the 1990 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	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
10 km walk		women
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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The women's 800 metres event at the 1990 Commonwealth Games was held on 29 January and 1 February at the Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Diane Edwards  England	Ann Williams  England	Sharon Stewart  Australia

Qualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 1 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Wendy Old	Australia	2:03.19	Q
2	2	Gail Luke	Australia	2:03.73	Q
3	2	Diane Edwards	England	2:04.86	Q
4	1	Sharon Stewart	Australia	2:05.46	Q
5	1	Lorraine Baker	England	2:05.80	Q
6	2	Toni Hodgkinson	New Zealand	2:05.86	Q
7	1	Nicky Knapp	Canada	2:06.11	Q
8	2	Brit Lind-Peterson	Canada	2:06.17	q
9	1	Ann Williams	England	2:06.22	Q
10	1	Carlene Dillimore	New Zealand	2:06.88
11	1	Ranza Clark	Canada	2:07.73
12	2	Marcia Tate	Jamaica	2:09.15
13	1	Sheila Seebaluck	Mauritius	2:13.69

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Diane Edwards	England	2:00.25	GR
	Ann Williams	England	2:00.40
	Sharon Stewart	Australia	2:00.87
4	Wendy Old	Australia	2:01.70
5	Lorraine Baker	England	2:01.77
6	Gail Luke	Australia	2:02.71
7	Nicky Knapp	Canada	2:03.79
8	Brit Lind-Peterson	Canada	2:07.40
9	Toni Hodgkinson	New Zealand	2:09.11