Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1979 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City on 11, 12 and 13 September 1979. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Evans White   United States	Garry Cook   Great Britain	Hans-Peter Ferner   West Germany

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Evans White	United States	1:51.36	Q
2	4	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	1:51.82	Q
3	4	Thomas Wilking	West Germany	1:52.03	Q
4	3	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	1:52.44	Q
5	1	Robert Nemeth	Austria	1:52.63	Q
5	2	Roger Milhau	France	1:52.63	Q [3]
7	1	Binko Kolev	Bulgaria	1:52.74	Q
8	1	Philippe Dupont	France	1:52.75	q [3]
9	4	Garry Cook	Great Britain	1:52.87	q
10	2	Hans-Peter Ferner	West Germany	1:52.91	Q
11	2	Chum Darvall	Australia	1:53.17	q [4]
12	3	Charles Borromeo	India	1:53.20	q
13	1	Víctor Ibáñez	Mexico	1:53.40	q
14	5	Adomo Corradini	Italy	1:53.41	Q [5]
15	3	David Belyon	Kenya	1:53.60	q
16	4	Ángel Gil	Mexico	1:53.70
17	5	Scott Clark	United States	1:53.82	Q
18	1	Khaled Hussein	Kuwait	1:54.03
19	5	Roger Soler	Peru	1:54.32
20	1	Leonard Smith	Jamaica	1:55.00
21	5	John Bowden	New Zealand	1:55.02
22	1	Jeptham Karingo	Kenya	1:55.74
23	5	Jorge Camacho	Costa Rica	1:56.85
24	4	Kossivi Attikpo	Togo	1:57.32
25	3	Yabaty Agbéré	Togo	1:57.74
26	5	Abdallah Mohammed	Saudi Arabia	2:00.13
27	4	Miguel Banegas	Honduras	2:00.92
28	3	Raúl Campos	Peru	2:02.41
29	5	John Erysthee	Saint Lucia	2:03.30
30	2	Orlando Ruano	Guatemala	2:05.10
31	4	Mohamed Khalil	Saudi Arabia	2:05.70
32	3	Jean-Louis Pellegrin	Mauritius	2:06.42
33	5	Francisco King	Guatemala	2:07.88
34	2	Edwin Attard	Malta	2:10.16
35	1	Theodore Muziwakh Khumalo	Swaziland	2:17.21

Semifinals

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Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Evans White	United States	1:50.02	Q
2	1	Roger Milhau	France	1:50.08	Q [3]
3	1	Garry Cook	Great Britain	1:50.37	Q
4	1	Thomas Wilking	West Germany	1:50.75	Q
5	1	Robert Nemeth	Austria	1:50.94
6	2	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	1:51.31	Q
7	2	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	1:51.36	Q
8	2	Philippe Dupont	France	1:51.76	Q [3]
9	2	Hans-Peter Ferner	West Germany	1:51.78	Q
10	2	Binko Kolev	Bulgaria	1:51.80
11	1	Charles Borromeo	India	1:51.92
12	1	David Belyon	Kenya	1:51.92
13	2	Chum Darvall	Australia	1:51.99	[4]
14	2	Scott Clark	United States	1:52.12
15	1	Víctor Ibáñez	Mexico	1:52.54
	2	Adomo Corradini	Italy	?

Final

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Evans White	United States	1:48.87
	Garry Cook	Great Britain	1:49.50
	Hans-Peter Ferner	West Germany	1:49.77
4	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	1:49.89
5	Philippe Dupont	France	1:51.84
6	Thomas Wilking	West Germany	1:54.45
	Roger Milhau	France	DNF	[3]
	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	DNF

References

1. Holzbach, Gerd (25 September 1979). "Pietro Mennea war der große Held von Mexico" [Pietro Mennea was the big hero of Mexico]. Leichtathletik (in German). 39/1979. Bartels & Wernitz: 1240–1245. ISSN   0343-5369.
2. Results at Tilastopaja
3. French results
4. Australian results
5. "Tre medaglie sotto il diluvio" (in Italian). La Stampa. 13 September 1979. p. 21.
6. "Estafette lukt" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 14 September 1979. p. 23. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
7. "Final results". El Paso Times. 14 September 1979. p. 17. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
8. "Final results". Hartford Courant. 14 September 1979. p. 40. Retrieved 22 March 2020.