Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres at the 2010 Asian Games
Venue	Aoti Main Stadium
Dates	November 24, 2010–November 25, 2010
Competitors	22 from 16 nations
Medalists
Sajjad Moradi   Iran   Adnan Taess   Iraq   Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla   Qatar

Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games
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
10000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m s'chase		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
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 event at the 2010 Asian Games was held at the Aoti Main Stadium, Guangzhou, China on 24–25 November.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Date	Time	Event
Wednesday, 24 November 2010	18:50	Round 1
Thursday, 25 November 2010	17:40	Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Asian records were as follows.

World Record	David Rudisha (KEN)	1:41.11	Rieti, Italy	29 August 2010
Asian Record	Yusuf Saad Kamel (BRN)	1:42.79	Monaco	29 July 2008
Games Record	Lee Jin-il (KOR)	1:45.72	Hiroshima, Japan	12 October 1994

Results

Legend

• DNF — Did not finish
• DNS — Did not start
• DSQ — Disqualified

Round 1

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

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Sajjad Moradi (IRI)	1:49.05	Q
2	Masato Yokota (JPN)	1:49.26	Q
3	Sajeesh Joseph (IND)	1:49.58
4	Zhang Haikun (CHN)	1:50.01
5	Abdulaziz Ladan (KSA)	1:50.39
6	Sergey Pakura (KGZ)	1:51.25
7	Watcharin Waekachi (THA)	1:52.35
—	Nguyễn Đình Cương (VIE)	DSQ

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Adnan Taess (IRQ)	1:49.94	Q
2	Mohammad Al-Azemi (IOC)	1:50.07	Q
3	Francis Sagyaraj (IND)	1:50.18
4	Geabel Al-Muradi (YEM)	1:53.27
—	Farkhod Kuralov (TJK)	DSQ
—	Yusuf Saad Kamel (BRN)	DNS
DQ	Abdelnasser Awajna (PLE)	2:03.93

• Abdelnasser Awajna of Palestine originally finished 5th in the heat, but was later disqualified after he tested positive for Norandrosterone.^[1]

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Mohammed Al-Salhi (KSA)	1:46.47	Q
2	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla (QAT)	1:46.87	Q
3	Belal Mansoor Ali (BRN)	1:47.37	q
4	Amir Moradi (IRI)	1:47.98	q
5	Yang Xiaofei (CHN)	1:48.02
6	Saud Abdelkarim (UAE)	1:50.41
7	Ajmal Amirov (TJK)	1:53.34

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Sajjad Moradi (IRI)	1:45.45	GR
	Adnan Taess (IRQ)	1:45.88
	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla (QAT)	1:46.19
4	Masato Yokota (JPN)	1:46.48
5	Mohammed Al-Salhi (KSA)	1:46.86
6	Mohammad Al-Azemi (IOC)	1:47.51
7	Belal Mansoor Ali (BRN)	1:49.03
—	Amir Moradi (IRI)	DNF

References

1. "2 Asian Games athletes fail drug test". ESPN. 25 January 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2013.

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