Athletics at the 1987 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1987 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadion Maksimir in Zagreb on 14, 15 and 16 July 1987. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Slobodan Popović   Yugoslavia	Moussa Fall   Senegal	Luis Toledo   Mexico

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Alberto Barsotti	Italy	1:49.05	Q
2	1	Ibrahim Okash	Somalia	1:49.17	Q
3	1	Alex Geissbühler	Switzerland	1:50.15	Q [3]
4	1	Ove Talsnes	Norway	1:51.97
5	1	David Montañez	Puerto Rico	1:54.05
6	1	Jorge Fidel Ponce	Honduras	2:00.38
7	1	Lee Ka Kit	Hong Kong	2:07.52
1	2	Manuel Balmaceda	Chile	1:50.17	Q
2	2	Ryu Tae-kyung	South Korea	1:50.24	Q
3	2	Brian Thompson	Canada	1:50.30	Q
4	2	Raivo Mägi	Soviet Union	1:50.67	q
1	3	Moussa Fall	Senegal	1:49.34	Q
2	3	Luis Toledo	Mexico	1:49.39	Q
3	3	Miles Irish	United States	1:51.47	Q
4	3	Luis Martínez	Guatemala	1:51.47
5	3	Faiz Ould Abdallah	Mauritania	2:07.25
1	4	Paul Osland	Canada	1:58.56	Q
2	4	Valeriy Starodubtsev	Soviet Union	2:00.11	Q
3	4	Chris McGeorge	Great Britain	2:00.27	Q
4	4	Hugo Sánchez	Costa Rica	2:00.52
1	5	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1:50.65	Q
2	5	Yoshikazu Arata	Japan	1:50.67	Q
3	5	Miguel Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	1:52.55	Q
4	5	Eugene Curran	Ireland	1:55.64
5	5	Mohamed El Moctar	Mauritania	2:04.49
	5	Colvis Samuels	Guyana	DNF
1	6	Rob Harrison	Great Britain	1:50.13	Q
2	6	Milan Drahoňovský	Czechoslovakia	1:50.16	Q
1	7	Tracy Baskin	United States	1:51.82	Q
?	?	Pablo Squella	Chile	?:??.??	Q
?	?	Eduardo Cabrera	Mexico	?:??.??	Q
?	?	Syed Meesaq Rizvi	Pakistan	?:??.??	Q
?	?	Saša Stojilović	Yugoslavia	?:??.??	Q

Semifinals

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Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Moussa Fall	Senegal	1:47.36	Q
2	1	Luis Toledo	Mexico	1:47.45	Q
3	1	Chris McGeorge	Great Britain	1:47.54	q
4	1	Miles Irish	United States	1:47.67	q
5	1	Milan Drahoňovský	Czechoslovakia	1:47.96
6	1	Brian Thompson	Canada	1:48.09
7	3	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1:48.96	Q
8	3	Manuel Balmaceda	Chile	1:49.21	Q
9	3	Tracy Baskin	United States	1:49.33
10	1	Raivo Mägi	Soviet Union	1:49.85	[5]
11	3	Paul Osland	Canada	1:50.30
12	3	Alberto Barsotti	Italy	1:50.47
13	3	Ryu Tae-kyung	South Korea	1:50.55
14	2	Ibrahim Okash	Somalia	1:50.68	Q
15	2	Valeriy Starodubtsev	Soviet Union	1:50.79	Q
16	1	Miguel Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	1:51.05
17	3	Eduardo Cabrera	Mexico	1:51.08
18	2	Pablo Squella	Chile	1:51.14
19	2	Alex Geissbühler	Switzerland	1:51.16
20	2	Saša Stojilović	Yugoslavia	1:51.39
21	2	Yoshikazu Arata	Japan	1:52.13
22	3	Syed Meesaq Rizvi	Pakistan	1:52.81
	?	Rob Harrison	Great Britain	?

Final

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1:46.13
	Moussa Fall	Senegal	1:46.71
	Luis Toledo	Mexico	1:47.07
4	Manuel Balmaceda	Chile	1:47.37
5	Ibrahim Okash	Somalia	1:47.81
6	Miles Irish	United States	1:47.94
7	Valeriy Starodubtsev	Soviet Union	1:48.02
8	Chris McGeorge	Great Britain	1:48.07

References

1. Treutlein, Gerhard (4 August 1987). "Die Universiade in Zagreb – Ausblick und Eindrücke" [The Universiade in Zagreb – outlook and impressions]. Leichtathletik (in German). 32/1987. Bartels & Wernitz: 1015–1018. ISSN   0343-5369.
2. Results at Tilastopaja
3. "Les McRae en vendette" (in French). Fribourg La Liberte. 15 July 1987. p. 21. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
4. "Semifinals results". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 July 1987. p. 32. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
5. Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p40)
6. "Final results". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 July 1987. p. 76. Retrieved 14 January 2020.