Athletics at the 1981 Summer Universiade
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The women's 800 metres event at the 1981 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadionul Naţional in Bucharest on 25 and 26 July 1981.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Doina Melinte  Romania	Gabriella Dorio  Italy	Tudorita Morutan  Romania

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Doina Melinte	Romania	2:02.92	Q
2	1	Nina Ruchayeva	Soviet Union	2:03.56	Q
3	1	Ewa Głódź	Poland	2:04.05
4	1	Heather Wright	Australia	2:04.14	[2]
5	1	Angelita Lind	Puerto Rico	2:05.98
6	1	Hala El-Moughrabi	Syria	2:14.39
1	2	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	1:59.17	Q[3]
2	2	Cherry Hanson	Great Britain	2:00.30	Q
3	2	Ludmila Ashikhmina	Soviet Union	2:02.05	q
4	2	Nery McKeen	Cuba	2:04.05
5	2	Katharina Sävestrand	Sweden	2:11.00
1	3	Robin Campbell	United States	2:01.86	Q
2	3	Tudorita Morutan	Romania	2:0?.??	Q
3	3	Christina Boxer	Great Britain	2:02.50
4	3	Gloria Pallé	Spain	2:05.06	[4]
5	3	Georgia Troubouki	Greece	2:06.10

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Doina Melinte	Romania	1:57.81
	Gabriella Dorio	Italy	1:58.99
	Tudorita Morutan	Romania	1:59.30
4	Nina Ruchayeva	Soviet Union	1:59.31
5	LeAnn Warren	United States	1:59.72
6	Ludmila Ashikhmina	Soviet Union	2:01.13
7	Robin Campbell	United States	2:01.44
8	Cherry Hanson	Great Britain	2:02.83