2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

Events at the 2007 World Championships
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		women
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men		women
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
20 km walk		men		women
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men		women
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 800 metres at the 2007 World Championships in Athletics was held at the Nagai Stadium on 30, 31 August and 2 September.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Alfred Kirwa Yego  Kenya	Gary Reed  Canada	Yuriy Borzakovskiy  Russia

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World record	Wilson Kipketer (DEN)	1:41.11	Cologne, Germany	24 August 1997
Championship record	Billy Konchellah (KEN)	1:43.06	Rome, Italy	1 September 1987
World leading	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi (RSA)	1:43.74	Monaco	25 July 2007

Schedule

Date	Time	Round
August 30, 2007	19:40	Heats
August 31, 2007	20:05	Semifinals
September 2, 2007	19:55	Final

Results

KEY:

q

Fastest non-qualifiers

Q

Qualified

WR

World record

AR

Area record

NR

National record

PB

Personal best

SB

Seasonal best

Heats

Qualification: First 3 in each heat(Q) and the next 6 fastest(q) advance to the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Yusuf Saad Kamel	Bahrain	1:45.25	Q
2	4	Alfred Kirwa Yego	Kenya	1:45.52	Q, SB
3	3	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi	South Africa	1:45.56	Q
4	5	Mohammed Al-Salhi	Saudi Arabia	1:45.58	Q
5	3	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	1:45.64	Q, SB
6	3	Dmitriy Bogdanov	Russia	1:45.66	Q
6	4	Michael Rimmer	United Kingdom	1:45.66	Q
8	6	Abraham Chepkirwok	Uganda	1:45.68	Q
9	4	Dmitrijs Miļkevičs	Latvia	1:45.72	Q
10	3	Fabiano Peçanha	Brazil	1:45.77	q
11	4	Khadevis Robinson	United States	1:45.78	q
12	5	Yuriy Borzakovskiy	Russia	1:45.79	Q
13	5	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1:45.79	Q
14	6	Mohammad Al-Azemi	Kuwait	1:45.85	Q
15	4	Manuel Olmedo	Spain	1:45.90	q
15	5	Yassine Bensghir	Morocco	1:45.90	q, SB
17	1	Amine Laâlou	Morocco	1:46.00	Q
17	2	Gary Reed	Canada	1:46.00	Q
19	2	Nabil Madi	Algeria	1:46.02	Q
20	2	Justus Koech	Kenya	1:46.08	Q
21	1	Nick Symmonds	United States	1:46.16	Q
21	6	Mouhssin Chehibi	Morocco	1:46.16	q
23	1	Kléberson Davide	Brazil	1:46.17	Q
24	5	Abdoulaye Wagne	Senegal	1:46.20	q
25	6	Samwel Mwera	Tanzania	1:46.24	SB
26	3	Yeimer López	Cuba	1:46.28
27	4	Eduard Villanueva	Venezuela	1:46.33	PB
28	1	Belal Mansoor Ali	Bahrain	1:46.34
29	2	Antonio Manuel Reina	Spain	1:46.35
30	5	Abubaker Kaki Khamis	Sudan	1:46.38
31	3	Mattias Claesson	Sweden	1:46.43	PB
32	4	David Campbell	Ireland	1:46.47
33	6	Jozef Repcìk	Slovakia	1:46.53
34	3	Eugenio Barrios	Spain	1:46.62
35	1	Achraf Tadili	Canada	1:46.73
36	1	Sajjad Moradi	Iran	1:46.75
37	3	Bram Som	Netherlands	1:46.81
38	5	Masato Yokota	Japan	1:47.16	PB
39	2	Arnoud Okken	Netherlands	1:47.23
40	2	Jeffrey Riseley	Australia	1:47.44
41	2	Aunese Curreen	Samoa	1:47.72	NR
42	4	Fadrique Iglesias	Bolivia	1:48.42
43	6	Duane Solomon	United States	1:48.95
44	5	Mahamoud Farah	Djibouti	1:49.06
45	6	Souleymane Ould Chebal	Mauritania	1:56.45	SB
46	1	Mohammed Ahmed Al-Yafaee	Yemen	1:56.55
	1	Ismail Ahmed Ismail	Sudan		DNF
	2	Ivan Heshko	Ukraine		DNS

Semifinals

Qualification: First 2 in each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Alfred Kirwa Yego	Kenya	1:44.54	Q, SB
2	1	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi	South Africa	1:44.71	Q
3	1	Abraham Chepkirwok	Uganda	1:44.84	q
4	2	Gary Reed	Canada	1:44.92	Q
5	2	Amine Laâlou	Morocco	1:45.11	Q
6	3	Yuriy Borzakovskiy	Russia	1:45.12	Q
7	3	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1:45.20	Q
8	3	Mohammed Al-Salhi	Saudi Arabia	1:45.23	q
9	3	Yusuf Saad Kamel	Bahrain	1:45.31
10	2	Dmitriy Bogdanov	Russia	1:45.36	SB
11	1	Khadevis Robinson	United States	1:45.45
12	2	Nabil Madi	Algeria	1:45.59
13	2	Manuel Olmedo	Spain	1:45.61
14	1	Fabiano Peçanha	Brazil	1:45.95
15	1	Dmitrijs Miļkevičs	Latvia	1:46.27
16	2	Nick Symmonds	United States	1:46.41
17	3	Kléberson Davide	Brazil	1:46.45
18	1	Abdoulaye Wagne	Senegal	1:46.49
19	2	Justus Koech	Kenya	1:46.86
20	3	Michael Rimmer	United Kingdom	1:47.39
21	2	Rashid Ramzi	Bahrain	1:47.76
22	3	Yassine Bensghir	Morocco	1:48.04
23	3	Mohammad Al-Azemi	Kuwait	1:50.28
24	1	Mouhssin Chehibi	Morocco	1:51.31

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alfred Kirwa Yego	Kenya	1:47.09
	Gary Reed	Canada	1:47.10
	Yuriy Borzakovskiy	Russia	1:47.39
4	Abraham Chepkirwok	Uganda	1:47.41
5	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1:47.42
6	Amine Laâlou	Morocco	1:47.45
7	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi	South Africa	1:47.52
8	Mohammed Al-Salhi	Saudi Arabia	1:47.58

References

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