2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships

The Women's 800 metres event at the 2006 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 10–12.

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Maria Mutola Mozambique	Kenia Sinclair Jamaica	Hasna Benhassi Morocco

First 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Maria Mutola	Mozambique	2:02.33	Q
2	1	Tetiana Petlyuk	Ukraine	2:02.40	Q
3	1	Jennifer Meadows	Great Britain	2:02.75	q
4	2	Hasna Benhassi	Morocco	2:03.63	Q
5	2	Ewelina Sętowska-Dryk	Poland	2:03.71	Q, SB
6	3	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	2:03.75	Q
7	3	Kenia Sinclair	Jamaica	2:03.94	Q
8	1	Teodora Kolarova	Bulgaria	2:04.12	q
9	3	Frances Santin	United States	2:04.22	q
10	2	Mihaela Neacsu	Romania	2:04.24	q
11	2	Karen Harewood	Great Britain	2:04.51
12	4	Élisabeth Grousselle	France	2:04.74	Q
13	4	Natalya Tsyganova	Russia	2:04.82	Q
14	3	Elisa Cusma Piccione	Italy	2:04.95
15	3	Mina Aït Hammou	Morocco	2:05.11
16	4	Maria Cioncan	Romania	2:05.17
17	1	Lwiza Msyani John	Tanzania	2:05.88	SB
18	4	Zoya Nesterenko-Hladun	Ukraine	2:05.90
19	1	Marian Burnett	Guyana	2:07.18
20	2	Alexia Oberstolz	Italy	2:07.62
	4	Alice Schmidt	United States	DQ

First 3 of each semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Kenia Sinclair	Jamaica	2:00.06	Q, NR
2	2	Maria Mutola	Mozambique	2:00.29	Q, SB
3	2	Élisabeth Grousselle	France	2:00.42	Q, NR
4	2	Natalya Tsyganova	Russia	2:00.46
5	2	Mihaela Neacsu	Romania	2:02.51
6	1	Hasna Benhassi	Morocco	2:03.59	Q
7	1	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	2:03.70	Q
8	1	Ewelina Sętowska-Dryk	Poland	2:03.87	Q
9	1	Jennifer Meadows	Great Britain	2:03.95
10	1	Tetiana Petlyuk	Ukraine	2:04.74
11	1	Teodora Kolarova	Bulgaria	2:04.88
12	2	Frances Santin	United States	2:05.40

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Maria Mutola	Mozambique	1:58.90	SB
	Kenia Sinclair	Jamaica	1:59.54	NR
	Hasna Benhassi	Morocco	2:00.34	SB
4	Élisabeth Grousselle	France	2:00.74
5	Olga Kotlyarova	Russia	2:01.26
6	Ewelina Sętowska-Dryk	Poland	2:02.39	PB