800 metres at the Olympics 800 meters is one of four individual events documented exclusively by Olympic documentary filmmaker Bud Greenspan. The Olympic records are held by David Rudisha, who ran a world record of 1:40.91 minutes in 2012, and Nadezhda Olizarenko, who ran a former world record of 1:53.43 minutes in 1980. Olizarenko's mark is the joint longest-standing women's Olympic record (technically set three days after Ilona Slupianek's shot put record) and the joint second-longest after the men's long jump record by Bob Beamon. Her time remains the second fastest ever for the event. The 800 metres world record has been broken or tied
Singapore at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medal for Singapore in the women's team event against South Korea. Singapore has qualified one athlete for the women's events. This is the first time a Singaporean canoeist has qualified for the Olympic games. Geraldine managed to qualify for the semi-finals for the K-1 500 m event. She was eventually placed twenty-first out of 24 competitors in the event, beating her own target of bettering at least one other country. Lim Heem Wei is the only Singaporean gymnast to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympic games, and the first ever Singaporean gymnast to qualify for an Olympic games.