Athletics at the 1989 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1989 Summer Universiade was held at the Wedaustadion in Duisburg with the final on 28 August 1989. ^{[1] [2]}

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ari Suhonen   Finland	Ikem Billy   Great Britain	Simon Doyle   Australia

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Miroslav Chochkov	Bulgaria	1:50.28	Q
2	3	Ikem Billy	Great Britain	1:50.35	Q
3	6	Valeriy Starodubtsev	Soviet Union	1:50.48	Q
4	6	Luis Karin Toledo	Mexico	1:50.65	Q
5	3	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1:50.69	Q
6	1	Simon Doyle	Australia	1:50.71	Q [3]
7	3	Mike Macinko	United States	1:50.73	Q
8	1	Holger Böttcher	West Germany	1:50.85	Q
9	4	Ari Suhonen	Finland	1:50.86	Q
10	2	Réda Abdenouz	Algeria	1:51.07	Q
10	3	Mike Birke	Canada	1:51.07	q
12	4	Sergey Timofeyev	Soviet Union	1:51.14	Q
13	5	Tonny Baltus	Netherlands	1:51.15	Q [4]
14	1	Yoshikazu Tachi	Japan	1:51.19	Q
15	1	Alex Geissbühler	Switzerland	1:51.28	q [5]
16	2	Paul Rowbotham	Great Britain	1:51.28	Q
16	4	Ryu Tae-kyung	South Korea	1:51.28	Q
18	2	António Abrantes	Portugal	1:51.47	Q
19	5	Alfredo Lahuerta	Spain	1:51.49	Q
20	2	Geraldo de Assis	Brazil	1:51.56	q
20	6	David Moore	United States	1:51.60	q
22	5	Pierre Leveille	Canada	1:51.89	Q
22	6	Philip Tweedie	Ireland	1:51.89	q
24	4	Des English	Ireland	1:51.92	q
25	5	Joachim Heydgen	West Germany	1:51.92
26	5	Armando Rodríguez	Mexico	1:52.13
27	2	Frank Otto Meinseth	Norway	1:52.78
28	3	Ousmane Diarra	Senegal	1:53.58
29	5	Pompeu Castro	Portugal	1:53.62	[6]
30	6	Peter Kariuki	Kenya	1:53.70
31	1	Abdikader Omer	Somalia	1:53.85
32	2	Luis Martínez	Guatemala	1:54.76
33	3	Mohamed Shawki Abdullah	Qatar	1:55.87
34	3	Lin Kuang-liang	Chinese Taipei	1:57.03
35	2	Mohamed Alassane	Mali	1:59.35
36	1	Wong Hung	Hong Kong	2:10.48
37	4	Mohamed Cherif	Guinea	2:12.83
38	3	Ndoluvualu Mukoko	Zaire	2:25.08
	4	Elijah Dicken	Uganda	DQ
	4	Petros Theodosiou	Cyprus	DNF
	6	Faha Sy	Mauritania	DNF

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Ikem Billy	Great Britain	1:48.94	Q
2	3	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1:49.01	Q
3	3	Holger Böttcher	West Germany	1:49.23	q
4	3	Réda Abdenouz	Algeria	1:49.42	q
5	3	Pierre Leveille	Canada	1:49.47
6	1	Valeriy Starodubtsev	Soviet Union	1:49.66	Q
7	1	Ari Suhonen	Finland	1:49.67	Q
8	1	Alex Geissbühler	Switzerland	1:49.83	[7]
9	1	Luis Karin Toledo	Mexico	1:50.02
10	1	Paul Rowbotham	Great Britain	1:50.26
11	2	Simon Doyle	Australia	1:50.41	Q [3]
12	3	Tonny Baltus	Netherlands	1:50.53
13	2	Miroslav Chochkov	Bulgaria	1:50.63	Q
14	1	Mike Birke	Canada	1:50.66
15	2	Mike Macinko	United States	1:50.95
16	2	António Abrantes	Portugal	1:50.96
17	3	Geraldo de Assis	Brazil	1:50.97
18	1	David Moore	United States	1:51.49
19	2	Alfredo Lahuerta	Spain	1:51.84	[8]
20	2	Sergey Timofeyev	Soviet Union	1:52.58
21	2	Yoshikazu Tachi	Japan	1:53.07
22	2	Des English	Ireland	1:53.19
23	3	Ryu Tae-kyung	South Korea	1:53.24
24	1	Philip Tweedie	Ireland	1:54.79

Final

Held on 30 August ^[9]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ari Suhonen	Finland	1:47.13
	Ikem Billy	Great Britain	1:47.29
	Simon Doyle	Australia	1:47.48
4	Réda Abdenouz	Algeria	1:47.69
5	Holger Böttcher	West Germany	1:48.39
6	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1:48.84
7	Valeriy Starodubtsev	Soviet Union	1:48.96
8	Miroslav Chochkov	Bulgaria	1:49.09

References

1. Schröder, Gustav (7 September 1989). "XV. Universiade: Ein Hauch von Olympia im Ruhrevier" [XV. Universiade: A touch of the Olympics in the Ruhrevier]. Leichtathletik (in German). 36/1989. Bartels & Wernitz: 1134–1139. ISSN   0343-5369.
2. Results at Tilastopaja
3. Australian results
4. "Ana Quirot snel bij Universiade" (in Dutch). Het Parool. 28 August 1989. p. 7. Retrieved 9 January 2020.
5. "Universiade: Pipoz Sechste, Alex Geissbühler weiter" (in German). Fribourg Freiburger Nachrichten. 28 August 1989. p. 6.
6. Portuguese results
7. "Geissbühler échoue de peu" (in French). Fribourg La Liberte. 29 August 1989. p. 22.
8. "Roberto Hernández: una victoria cara" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 29 August 1989. p. 34. Retrieved 25 November 2020.
9. "Final results". The Times . 30 August 1989. p. 12. Retrieved 1 January 2020.