2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

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