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

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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]

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	1	Robert Nemeth	Austria	1:52.63	Q
2	1	Binko Kolev	Bulgaria	1:52.74	Q
3	1	Philippe Dupont	France	1:52.75	q^[2]
4	1	Víctor Ibáñez	Mexico	1:53.40	q
5	1	Khaled Hussein	Kuwait	1:54.03
6	1	Leonard Smith	Jamaica	1:55.00
1	2	Roger Milhau	France	1:52.63	Q^[2]
2	2	Hans-Peter Ferner	West Germany	1:52.91	Q
3	2	Chum Darvall	Australia	1:53.17	q^[3]
1	3	Evans White	United States	1:51.36	Q
2	3	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	1:52.44	Q
3	3	Charles Borromeo	India	1:53.20	q
4	3	David Belyon	Kenya	1:53.60	q
1	4	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	1:51.82	Q
2	4	Thomas Wilking	West Germany	1:52.03	Q
3	4	Garry Cook	Great Britain	1:52.87	q
4	4	Ángel Gil	Mexico	1:53.70
1	5	Adomo Corradini	Italy	1:53.41	Q^[4]
2	5	Scott Clark	United States	1:53.82	Q
3	5	Roger Soler	Peru	1:54.32
4	5	John Bowden	New Zealand	1:55.02

Semifinals

^[5]

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^[2]
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^[2]
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	^[3]
14	2	Scott Clark	United States	1:52.12
15	1	Víctor Ibáñez	Mexico	1:52.54
	2	Adomo Corradini	Italy	?

Final

^[6]^[7]

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	^[2]
	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	DNF

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References

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

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[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). Bartels & Wernitz. 39/1979: 1240–1245. ISSN 0343-5369.

[FRA-2] 1 2 3 4 5 French results

[AUS-3] 1 2 Australian results

[Stampa1-4] "Tre medaglie sotto il diluvio" (in Italian). La Stampa. 13 September 1979. p. 21.

[5] "Estafette lukt" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 14 September 1979. p. 23. Retrieved 29 March 2020.

[6] "Final results". El Paso Times. 14 September 1979. p. 17. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[7] "Final results". Hartford Courant. 14 September 1979. p. 40. Retrieved 22 March 2020.

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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
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