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Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade
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
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
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
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The women's 800 metres event at the 1979 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City on 12. And 13 September 1979.

Medalists※

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Nadezhda Mushta  Soviet Union	Olga Dvirna  Soviet Union	Fița Lovin  Romania

Results※

Heats※

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Olga Dvirna	Soviet Union	2:00.78	Q
2	3	Natalia Mărășescu	Romania	2:02.47	Q
3	2	Fița Lovin	Romania	2:02.93	Q
4	2	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	2:02.94	Q
5	3	Margherita Gargano	Italy	2:03.38	q
6	3	Janet Prictoe	Great Britain	2:03.39	q
7	1	Nadezhda Mushta	Soviet Union	2:03.43	Q
8	1	Galina Atanasova	Bulgaria	2:03.97	Q
9	2	Cherry Hanson	Great Britain	2:04.44
10	1	Éva Mohácsi	Hungary	2:04.85
11	2	Anne Mackie-Morelli	Canada	2:05.05
12	1	Ana Orendain	Mexico	2:09.29
13	3	Deborah Campbell	Canada	2:12.12
14	1	Kay Hawkins	New Zealand	2:15.32
15	2	Marta Vázquez	Mexico	2:20.80
16	1	Sonia Lemus	Guatemala	2:31.64
17	3	Lai Wah Ho	Hong Kong	2:35.95

Final※

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Nadezhda Mushta	Soviet Union	2:00.50
	Olga Dvirna	Soviet Union	2:00.77
	Fița Lovin	Romania	2:00.81
4	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	2:01.60
5	Janet Prictoe	Great Britain	2:03.21
6	Galina Atanasova	Bulgaria	2:03.29
7	Margherita Gargano	Italy	2:05.54
	Natalia Mărășescu	Romania	DNS

References※