Women's 800 metres at the 2022 Asian Games
Venue	HOC Stadium
Date	3–4 October 2023
Competitors	20 from 16 nations
Medalists
Tharushi Karunarathna    Sri Lanka   Harmilan Bains    India   Wang Chunyu    China

Athletics at the 2022 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	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
	mixed
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
35 km walk team	mixed
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

The women's 800 metres competition at the 2022 Asian Games took place on 3 and 4 October 2023 at the HOC Stadium, Hangzhou.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)^[1]

Records

^[2] 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	Margarita Mukasheva (KAZ)	1:59.02	Incheon, South Korea	1 October 2014

Results

Round 1

• Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.^[3]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	K. M. Chanda (IND)	2:07.38	Q
2	Rao Xinyu (CHN)	2:07.77	Q
3	Nguyễn Thị Thu Hà (VIE)	2:08.06	PB
4	Zuunnast Gankhishig (MGL)	2:12.75	PB
5	Fasuhaa Ahmed (MDV)	2:20.66	NR
–	Goh Chui Ling (SGP)	DQ	TR17.3.1

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Harmilan Bains (IND)	2:06.62	Q
2	Marta Yota (BRN)	2:06.85	Q
3	Gayanthika Abeyratne (SRI)	2:07.17	q
4	Akbayan Nurmamet (KAZ)	2:12.33
5	Angela Freitas (TLS)	2:16.16	PB
6	Phulmati Rana (NEP)	2:22.59
–	Rabeela Farooq (PAK)	DQ	TR17.3.1

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Wang Chunyu (CHN)	2:05.37	Q
2	Tharushi Karunarathna (SRI)	2:05.48	Q
3	Ayano Shiomi (JPN)	2:06.37	q
4	Amal Al-Roumi (KUW)	2:13.20
5	Cha Ji-won (KOR)	2:13.53
6	Chuluunkhuu Shinetsetseg (MGL)	2:13.82	PB
7	Haneen Yacoub (PLE)	2:28.73

Final

^[4]

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Tharushi Karunarathna (SRI)	2:03.20
	Harmilan Bains (IND)	2:03.75
	Wang Chunyu (CHN)	2:03.90	SB
4	Rao Xinyu (CHN)	2:04.16
5	Ayano Shiomi (JPN)	2:05.21
6	Marta Yota (BRN)	2:05.65
7	K. M. Chanda (IND)	2:05.69
8	Gayanthika Abeyratne (SRI)	2:05.87

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