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The Women’s 800 metres competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London United Kingdom. The event was held at the Olympic Stadium on 8–11 August.While heat 3 and heat 5 of the qualifying round allowed some athletes to run as slow as 2:07s or 2:08s and qualify the semi finals were decidedly quicker. In heat 1 Pamela Jelimo and Ekaterina Poistogova managed to qualify virtually together in mid 1:59s those were the slowest times.