Athletics at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres
at the Games of the XXI Olympiad
Medalists
 Alberto Juantorena  Cuba
 Ivo van Damme  Belgium
 Rick Wohlhuter  United States
Athletics at the
1976 Summer Olympics
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
10,000 m men
100 m hurdles women
110 m hurdles men
400 m hurdles men
3000 m
steeplechase		 men
4×100 m relay men women
4×400 m relay men women
Road events
Marathon men
20 km walk men
Field events
Long jump men women
Triple jump men
High jump men women
Pole vault men
Shot put men women
Discus throw men women
Javelin throw men women
Hammer throw men
Combined events
Pentathlon women
Decathlon men

These are the official results of the Men's 800 metres event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. The competition was held on July 23, 1976, July 24, 1976, and on July 25, 1976.

From the gun Alberto Juantorena took an apparent lead against the field through the staggered start. Passing the break at 300 metres, the long striding Cuban was a couple of steps ahead of the noticeably smaller American Rick Wohlhuter. Sriram Singh came from more than 10 metres back at the break to sprint past Juantorena and the rest of the field, to take the lead just after the bell. Singh's lead was short lived as the field bunched then started to make their way around him. Wohlhuter stuck less than a mere step behind Juantorena all the way through the final turn as Ivo van Damme, Willi Wülbeck and future champion Steve Ovett jockeyed for position. Coming off the turn, Juantorena found more speed to pull away from Wohlhuter. As he struggled down the home stretch, Wohlhuter was passed by van Damme 20 metres before the finish.

Juantorena's 1:43.5 clearly broke Marcello Fiasconaro's hand timed world record of 1:43.7. When automatic times became a requirement the following year, the time time 1:43.50, accurate to the hundredth, became the world record. Despite the erratic pace, Singh's time in 7th place stood as the Asian record until it was broken by Lee Jin-il in 1994.

Records

These are the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1976 Summer Olympics.

World Record 1:43.7 Italy Marcello Fiasconaro Milan (ITA) June 27, 1973
Olympic Record 1:44.40 Australia Ralph Doubell Mexico City (MEX) October 15, 1968

Final

RANK FINAL TIME
 Alberto Juantorena (CUB) 1:43.50 (WR)
 Ivo van Damme (BEL) 1:43.86
 Rick Wohlhuter (USA) 1:44.12
4.  Willi Wülbeck (FRG) 1:45.26
5.  Steve Ovett (GBR) 1:45.44
6.  Luciano Sušanj (YUG) 1:45.75
7.  Sriram Singh (IND) 1:45.77
8.  Carlo Grippo (ITA) 1:48.39

Semifinals

RANK HEAT 1 TIME
1.  Alberto Juantorena (CUB) 1:45.88
2.  Ivo van Damme (BEL) 1:46.00
3.  Steve Ovett (GBR) 1:46.14
4.  Sri Ram Singh (IND) 1:46.42
5.  James Robinson (USA) 1:46.43
6.  Marian Gęsicki (POL) 1:47.06
7.  Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) 1:48.18
—  Horace Tuitt (TRI) DNF


RANK HEAT 2 TIME
1.  Rick Wohlhuter (USA) 1:46.72
2.  Carlo Grippo (ITA) 1:46.95
3.  Luciano Sušanj (YUG) 1:47.03
4.  Willi Wülbeck (FRG) 1:47.18
5.  Seymour Newman (JAM) 1:47.22
6.  Leandro Civil (CUB) 1:47.31
7.  Viktor Anokhin (URS) 1:47.71
8.  Frank Clement (GBR) 1:48.28

Heats

RANK HEAT 1 TIME
1.  Rick Wohlhuter (USA) 1:45.71
2.  Sri Ram Singh (IND) 1:45.86
3.  Leandro Civil (CUB) 1:45.88
4.  Marian Gęsicki (POL) 1:46.36
5.  Thomas Wessinghage (FRG) 1:46.56
6.  Viktor Anokhin (URS) 1:46.81
7.  Muhammad Younis (PAK) 1:48.50


RANK HEAT 2 TIME
1.  Frank Clement (GBR) 1:47.51
2.  James Robinson (USA) 1:47.56
3.  John Walker (NZL) 1:47.63
4.  Andrés Ballbé (ESP) 1:48.38
5.  Fernando Mamede (POR) 1:49.58
6.  Francisco Solis (DOM) 1:55.56
7.  Wilnor Joseph (HAI) 2:15.26


RANK HEAT 3 TIME
1.  Steve Ovett (GBR) 1:48.27
2.  Seymour Newman (JAM) 1:48.46
3.  Paul-Heinz Wellmann (FRG) 1:48.47
4.  Jozef Plachý (TCH) 1:48.63
5.  Günther Hasler (LIE) 1:48.83
6.  Evert Hoving (NED) 1:48.99
7.  Roy Bottse (SUR) 1:49.85
8.  Erasmo Gómez (NCA) 1:57.97


RANK HEAT 4 TIME
1.  Alberto Juantorena (CUB) 1:47.15
2.  Carlo Grippo (ITA) 1:47.21
3.  János Zemen (HUN) 1:47.40
4.  Milovan Savić (YUG) 1:47.73
5.  Jorge Ortíz (PUR) 1:51.38
—  Roqui Sanchez (FRA) DSQ
—  Markku Taskinen (FIN) DNS


RANK HEAT 5 TIME
1.  Willi Wülbeck (FRG) 1:48.47
2.  Horace Tuitt (TRI) 1:48.48
3.  Vladimir Ponomaryov (URS) 1:48.59
4.  Åke Svensson (SWE) 1:48.86
5.  José Marajo (FRA) 1:49.60
6.  Orlando Greene (BAR) 1:51.43
7.  Attiya Al-Qahtani (KSA) 1:57.67


RANK HEAT 6 TIME
1.  Ivo van Damme (BEL) 1:47.80
2.  Luciano Sušanj (YUG) 1:47.82
3.  Mark Enyeart (USA) 1:47.96
4.  Rolf Gysin (SUI) 1:48.69
5.  Niall O'Shaughnessy (IRL) 1:49.29
6.  Luis Medina (CUB) 1:50.15
7.  Marcel Philippe (FRA) 1:50.81

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References

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