1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 16, 17 and 18 July. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Gold	David Sharpe   United Kingdom
Silver	Manuel Balmaceda   Chile
Bronze	Andriy Sudnik   Soviet Union

Results

Final

18 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	David Sharpe	United Kingdom	1:48.32
	Manuel Balmaceda	Chile	1:48.91
	Andriy Sudnik	Soviet Union	1:48.93
4	Predrag Melnjak	Yugoslavia	1:49.54
5	Paul Williams	United Kingdom	1:49.78
6	Sergey Timofeyev	Soviet Union	1:49.92
7	Geoffrey Seurey	Kenya	1:50.28
8	George Kersh	United States	1:50.41

Semifinals

17 July

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Andriy Sudnik	Soviet Union	1:50.31	Q
2	David Sharpe	United Kingdom	1:50.38	Q
3	John Ndhlovu	Zimbabwe	1:50.60
4	Richard Brant	Canada	1:50.67
5	Keiichiro Nakamura	Japan	1:50.81
6	Anders Persson	Sweden	1:51.67
7	Tadelle Abebe	Ethiopia	1:52.38
8	Bouazza Noualla	Algeria	1:52.42

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Predrag Melnjak	Yugoslavia	1:48.25	Q
2	Geoffrey Seurey	Kenya	1:48.71	Q
3	Sergey Timofeyev	Soviet Union	1:48.95	q
4	George Kersh	United States	1:49.02	q
5	Alexander Adam	West Germany	1:49.88
6	Samir Benfarès	France	1:50.76
7	Momouni Apiou	Côte d'Ivoire	1:53.59
8	Cameron Orr	Australia	1:56.04

Semifinal 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Manuel Balmaceda	Chile	1:49.75	Q
2	Paul Williams	United Kingdom	1:50.03	Q
3	Anthony Christie	Jamaica	1:50.05
4	Marek Szymkowicz	Poland	1:50.27
5	David Moore	United States	1:50.66
6	Miroslav Chochkov	Bulgaria	1:50.87
7	Bernd Müller	West Germany	1:51.94
8	Joseph Meli Kiprobon	Kenya	1:52.02

Heats

16 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	David Moore	United States	1:49.82	Q
2	Cameron Orr	Australia	1:50.81	Q
3	Anders Persson	Sweden	1:51.04	Q
4	Momouni Apiou	Côte d'Ivoire	1:51.27	q
5	Philippos Tandis	Greece	1:52.39
6	Omar Ibrahim	Egypt	1:53.07
7	Eduardo Cabrera	Mexico	1:55.05
8	Momodou Bello N'Jie	Gambia	1:55.24

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Andriy Sudnik	Soviet Union	1:50.54	Q
2	Keiichiro Nakamura	Japan	1:50.57	Q
3	Paul Williams	United Kingdom	1:50.83	Q
4	Alexander Adam	West Germany	1:51.46	q
5	Riccardo Cardone	Italy	1:51.57
6	Honest Umbe	Tanzania	1:51.60
7	Guillermo Ghersi	Peru	1:56.32
8	Mahamat Nour Amdaye	Chad	1:56.90
9	Sergio Iván Gómez	Guatemala	1:59.01

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	David Sharpe	United Kingdom	1:51.49	Q
2	Manuel Balmaceda	Chile	1:51.51	Q
3	Richard Brant	Canada	1:51.56	Q
4	Ado Maude	Nigeria	1:51.69
5	Peter Hepworth	Australia	1:52.75
6	Hossain Milzer	Bangladesh	1:54.81
7	Lucien Simon	Antigua and Barbuda	1:54.92
8	Alan Bunce	New Zealand	1:54.92

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	John Ndhlovu	Zimbabwe	1:49.53	Q
2	Predrag Melnjak	Yugoslavia	1:49.86	Q
3	Marek Szymkowicz	Poland	1:50.09	Q
4	Joseph Meli Kiprobon	Kenya	1:50.58	q
5	Santiago Gutiérrez	Spain	1:53.37
6	Ricardo Morrison	Panama	1:53.99
7	Moses Phiri	Zambia	1:54.49
8	Mansour Al-Balushi	Oman	1:56.17

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	George Kersh	United States	1:51.66	Q
2	Sergey Timofeyev	Soviet Union	1:51.72	Q
3	Bernd Müller	West Germany	1:51.82	Q
4	António de Oliveira	Brazil	1:51.96
5	Brahim El-Ghazali	Morocco	1:52.56
6	Mitoshi Wada	Japan	1:53.61
7	Patrick Haas	Austria	1:54.66
8	Ingemar Sluis	Netherlands Antilles	1:57.26
9	Bernard Henry	Saint Lucia	2:00.22

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Geoffrey Seurey	Kenya	1:50.13	Q
2	Samir Benfarès	France	1:50.79	Q
3	Bouazza Noualla	Algeria	1:51.13	Q
4	Howard Jackson	Canada	1:51.51
5	Joseph Sean	Trinidad and Tobago	1:52.78
6	Saravanan Arjunan	Singapore	1:59.05

Heat 7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anthony Christie	Jamaica	1:51.22	Q
2	Miroslav Chochkov	Bulgaria	1:51.61	Q
3	Tadelle Abebe	Ethiopia	1:52.26	Q
4	Fabio Di Vito	Italy	1:52.85
5	Steinn Jóhannsson	Iceland	1:56.72

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 53 athletes from 44 countries participated in the event.

•   Algeria (1)
•   Antigua and Barbuda (1)
•   Australia (2)
•   Austria (1)
•   Bangladesh (1)
•   Brazil (1)
•   Bulgaria (1)
•   Canada (2)
•   Chad (1)
•   Chile (1)
• Côte d'Ivoire (1)
•   Egypt (1)
•   Ethiopia (1)
•   France (1)
•   Gambia (1)
•   Greece (1)
•   Guatemala (1)
•   Iceland (1)
•   Italy (2)
•   Jamaica (1)
•   Japan (2)
•   Kenya (2)
•   Mexico (1)
•   Morocco (1)
•   Netherlands Antilles (1)
•   New Zealand (1)
•   Nigeria (1)
•   Oman (1)
•   Panama (1)
•   Peru (1)
•   Poland (1)
•   Saint Lucia (1)
•   Singapore (1)
•   Soviet Union (2)
•   Spain (1)
•   Sweden (1)
•   Tanzania (1)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (1)
•   United Kingdom (2)
•   United States (2)
•   West Germany (2)
•   Yugoslavia (1)
•   Zambia (1)
•   Zimbabwe (1)

References

1. Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1986 Athens GRE Jul 16-20, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 26 February 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
2. IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF , retrieved 13 June 2015