Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres
at the Games of the XI Olympiad

Venue

Dates

August 2 (heats)
August 3 (semifinals)
August 4 (final)

Competitors

42 from 23 nations

Medalists

	John Woodruff United States
	Mario Lanzi Italy
	Phil Edwards Canada

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeple	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 800 metres event at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games took place between August 2 and August 4. The final was won by American John Woodruff.

Results

Heats

The fastest four runners in each of the six heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Phil Edwards	Canada	1:53.7
2	Chuck Hornbostel	United States	1:53.7
3	Jean Verhaert	Belgium	1:54.3
4	Ferenc Temesvári	Hungary	1:55.0
5	Pierre Hemmer	Luxembourg	1:56.3
6	Rudolf Harbig	Germany	1:56.8
7	Francisco Váldez	Peru
8	Stavros Velkopoulos	Greece

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Harry Williamson	United States	1:56.2
2	Ab Conway	Canada	1:56.2
3	Pat Boot	New Zealand	1:56.6
4	Emil Hübscher	Austria	1:57.3
5	Emil Goršek	Yugoslavia	1:59.5
6	Carlos Marcenaro	Peru	2:00.8

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Brian MacCabe	Great Britain	1:54.5
2	Raymond Petit	France	1:54.8
3	Hjalmar Johannessen	Norway	1:54.9
4	Ewald Mertens	Germany	1:55.1
5	Clarke Scholtz	South Africa	1:57.6
6	Toshinao Tomie	Japan	1:59.9
7	Stanislav Otáhal	Czechoslovakia
8	Gyan Bhalla	India

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Gerald Backhouse	Australia	1:57.7
2	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	1:57.8
3	John Woodruff	United States	1:58.7
4	Frank Handley	Great Britain	1:58.9
5	Evžen Rošický	Czechoslovakia	1:59.5
6	Paul Martin	Switzerland	2:00.0
7	Charles Stein	Luxembourg

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Jack Powell	Great Britain	1:56.0
2	Mario Lanzi	Italy	1:56.1
3	Franz Eichberger	Austria	1:56.3
4	József Vadas	Hungary	1:56.5
5	Willie Botha	South Africa	1:57.0
6	Grigorios Georgakopoulos	Greece	1:57.3
7	Jack Liddle	Canada

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Juan Carlos Anderson	Argentina	1:55.1
2	Kazimierz Kucharski	Poland	1:55.7
3	Wolfgang Dessecker	Germany	1:56.0
4	René Soulier	France	1:56.1
5	William Lindeque	South Africa	1:56.4
6	Kumao Aochi	Japan	1:56.8

Semifinals

The fastest three runners in each of the three heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	John Woodruff	United States	1:52.7
2	Kazimierz Kucharski	Poland	1:54.7
3	Juan Carlos Anderson	Argentina	1:54.8
4	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	1:55.1
5	Wolfgang Dessecker	Germany	1:55.3
6	Franz Eichberger	Austria	1:56.2
7	Pat Boot	New Zealand
8	Frank Handley	Great Britain

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Harry Williamson	United States	1:53.1
2	Gerald Backhouse	Australia	1:53.2
3	Phil Edwards	Canada	1:53.2
4	Jack Powell	Great Britain	1:54.8
5	Ewald Mertens	Germany	1:54.9
6	René Soulier	France	1:56.8
7	Emil Hübscher	Austria
8	József Vadas	Hungary

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
1	Chuck Hornbostel	United States	1:53.2
2	Mario Lanzi	Italy	1:54.1
3	Brian MacCabe	Great Britain	1:55.4
4	Raymond Petit	France	1:55.7
5	Ab Conway	Canada	1:55.9
6	Hjalmar Johannessen	Norway	1:56.0
7	Ferenc Temesvári	Hungary
8	Jean Verhaert	Belgium

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
01 !	John Woodruff	United States	1:52.9
02 !	Mario Lanzi	Italy	1:53.3
03 !	Phil Edwards	Canada	1:53.6
4	Kazimierz Kucharski	Poland	1:53.8
5	Chuck Hornbostel	United States	1:54.6
6	Harry Williamson	United States	1:55.8
7	Juan Carlos Anderson	Argentina
8	Gerald Backhouse	Australia
9	Brian MacCabe	Great Britain

References

1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 800 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-28.

800 metres at the Olympic Games

Summary

Men	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012

Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012

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