2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

Events at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men
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
10,000 m walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 800 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 13, 14, and 15 July.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Medalists

Gold	Nigel Amos Botswana
Silver	Timothy Kitum Kenya
Bronze	Edwin Kiplagat Melly Kenya

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

Broken records during the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics
World Junior Record	Abubaker Kaki (SUD)	1:42.69	Oslo, Norway	6 June 2008
Championship Record	Benson Koech (KEN)	1:44.77	Seoul, South Korea	18 September 1992
World Junior Leading	Nigel Amos (BOT)	1:43.11	Mannheim, Germany	9 June 2012
Championship Record	Nigel Amos (BOT)	1:43.79	Barcelona, Spain	15 July 2012

Results

The field of the 800 metres

Heats

Qualification: The first 3 of each heat (Q) and the 3 fastest times (q) qualified

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	3	2	Jamal Hairane	Qatar	1:47.61	Q, PB
2	3	6	Jena Umar	Ethiopia	1:47.80	Q
3	4	4	Timothy Kitum	Kenya	1:47.96	Q
4	4	5	Mohamed Belbachir	Algeria	1:48.24	Q, PB
5	1	8	Edwin Kiplagat Melly	Kenya	1:48.27	Q, PB
6	2	1	Nijel Amos	Botswana	1:48.31	Q
7	3	5	Žan Rudolf	Slovenia	1:48.63	Q
8	2	6	Elnazeer Abdelgader	Sudan	1:48.66	Q, SB
9	1	2	Wesley Vazquez	Puerto Rico	1:48.78	Q
9	4	2	Tyler Smith	Canada	1:48.78	Q
11	3	4	Shaquille Dill	Bermuda	1:49.06	q, PB
12	2	2	Anthonio Mascoll	Barbados	1:49.31	Q
12	3	3	Nikolaus Franzmair	Austria	1:49.31	q, NJ
14	1	9	Ben Waterman	Great Britain	1:49.48	Q
15	2	5	Shaquille Walker	United States	1:49.55	q
16	1	4	Brad Mathas	New Zealand	1:49.73
17	3	8	Joren Bouckaert	Belgium	1:49.74
18	7	7	Brandon McBride	Canada	1:49.77	Q
19	7	6	Sho Kawamoto	Japan	1:50.12	Q
20	2	7	Johan Rogestedt	Sweden	1:50.25
21	2	9	Daniel Andújar	Spain	1:50.30
22	7	1	Kevin Stadler	Germany	1:50.39	Q
23	4	1	Sean Molloy	Great Britain	1:50.43
24	6	8	Radouane Baaziri	Morocco	1:50.45	Q
24	1	1	Guilherme Pinto	Portugal	1:50.45	PB
26	6	4	Thapelo Madiba	South Africa	1:50.52	Q
27	6	9	Muayad Mohamed Ahmed	Qatar	1:50.57	Q
28	7	5	Oleksandr Shelest	Ukraine	1:50.70	PB
29	2	3	Filip Ingebrigtsen	Norway	1:50.74
30	1	3	Tanner Sork	United States	1:50.80
31	7	3	Víctor Emilio Ortiz	Costa Rica	1:51.01
32	6	3	Brecht Bertels	Belgium	1:51.18
33	3	9	Robert Lister	Australia	1:51.42
34	7	4	Alejandro Peirano	Chile	1:51.45
35	4	9	Ignacio Díaz-Cano	Spain	1:51.62
36	5	3	Mark English	Ireland	1:51.74	Q
37	6	7	Mohamed Amine Layachi	Algeria	1:51.84
38	5	7	Dennis Krüger	Germany	1:51.86	Q
39	7	9	Karl Griffin	Ireland	1:51.98
40	6	2	Žan Kozan	Slovenia	1:52.01
41	7	2	Soufiane El Kabbouri	Italy	1:52.11
42	4	8	Valentin Voicu	Romania	1:52.18
43	4	7	Christos Dimitriou	Cyprus	1:52.59
44	7	8	Geabel Ali Al-Muradi	Yemen	1:52.73	PB
45	4	6	Alberto Mamba	Mozambique	1:52.91
46	2	8	Mark London	Trinidad and Tobago	1:53.23
47	1	6	Shota Kozuma	Japan	1:53.40
48	5	1	Dominik Stadlmann	Austria	1:53.78	Q
49	5	8	Artur Kuciapski	Poland	1:53.95
50	5	6	Joel Hogarth	Australia	1:53.98
51	1	7	Roald H. Frøskeland	Norway	1:54.12
52	6	6	Julian Oakley	New Zealand	1:54.74
53	6	5	Nemanja Kojić	Serbia	1:54.79
54	5	2	Jorge Collares	Uruguay	1:55.19	PB
55	3	7	Jacopo Lahbi	Italy	1:55.45
56	2	4	Alex Beddoes	Cook Islands	1:58.30	NJ
57	5	5	Mohamed Ahmed Ismail	Sudan	1:58.65
58	1	5	Agit Mutlu	Turkey	2:00.60
59	4	3	Rondre Lewis	Belize	2:03.67	PB
	5	9	Fiker Belete	Ethiopia	9:99.99 !DQ
	5	4	Carlos Díaz	Chile	9:99.99 !DNS

Semi-Final

Qualification: The first 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	3	8	Edwin Kiplagat Melly	Kenya	1:47.08	Q, PB
2	3	5	Wesley Vazquez	Puerto Rico	1:47.37	Q
3	3	6	Brandon McBride	Canada	1:47.69	q
4	3	7	Mark English	Ireland	1:47.77	q
5	3	4	Radouane Baaziri	Morocco	1:48.10
6	2	5	Timothy Kitum	Kenya	1:49.09	Q
7	2	8	Mohamed Belbachir	Algeria	1:49.46	Q
8	1	7	Nijel Amos	Botswana	1:49.67	Q
9	2	4	Jena Umar	Ethiopia	1:49.68
10	3	3	Nikolaus Franzmair	Austria	1:49.71
11	3	2	Muayad Mohamed Ahmed	Qatar	1:49.79
12	1	9	Dennis Krüger	Germany	1:49.89	Q
12	2	6	Jamal Hairane	Qatar	1:49.89
14	1	5	Žan Rudolf	Slovenia	1:49.93
15	2	7	Sho Kawamoto	Japan	1:50.17
16	2	9	Elnazeer Abdelgader	Sudan	1:51.18
17	2	2	Shaquille Walker	United States	1:51.43
18	3	9	Anthonio Mascoll	Barbados	1:51.44
19	1	2	Shaquille Dill	Bermuda	1:51.66
20	2	3	Kevin Stadler	Germany	1:52.23
21	1	3	Dominik Stadlmann	Austria	1:52.43
22	1	6	Thapelo Madiba	South Africa	1:53.10
23	1	8	Ben Waterman	Great Britain	1:53.78
24	1	4	Tyler Smith	Canada	1:54.95

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
01 !	6	Nijel Amos	Botswana	1:43.79	CR
02 !	5	Timothy Kitum	Kenya	1:44.56
03 !	4	Edwin Kiplagat Melly	Kenya	1:44.79	PB
4	7	Wesley Vazquez	Puerto Rico	1:45.29	NJ
5	3	Mark English	Ireland	1:46.02
6	9	Brandon McBride	Canada	1:46.07	NJ
7	8	Mohamed Belbachir	Algeria	1:46.70	NJ
8	2	Dennis Krüger	Germany	1:46.92	PB

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 60 athletes from 41 countries participated in the event.

Algeria (2)
Australia (2)
Austria (2)
Barbados (1)
Belgium (2)
Belize (1)
Bermuda (1)
Botswana (1)
Canada (2)
Chile (1)
Cook Islands (1)
Costa Rica (1)
Cyprus (1)
Ethiopia (2)
Germany (2)
Ireland (2)
Italy (2)
Japan (2)
Kenya (2)
Morocco (1)
Mozambique (1)
New Zealand (2)
Norway (2)
Poland (1)
Portugal (1)
Puerto Rico (1)
Qatar (2)
Romania (1)
Serbia (1)
Slovenia (2)
South Africa (1)
Spain (2)
Sudan (2)
Sweden (1)
Trinidad and Tobago (1)
Turkey (1)
Ukraine (1)
United Kingdom (2)
United States (2)
Uruguay (1)
Yemen (1)

References

↑ http://www.iaaf.org/Mini/WJC12/Results/ResultsByEvent.aspx?/disctype=4/sex=M/discCode=800/combCode=hash/timetable.html
↑ Peters, Lionel; Magnusson, Tomas, WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 2012 Barcelona ESP Jul 10-15, WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH"), archived from the original on 22 Feb 2014, retrieved 13 June 2015
↑ IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES (PDF), IAAF, retrieved 13 June 2015

External links

WJC12 800 metres schedule

800 metres at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics

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