Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1997 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Cibali in Catania, Italy, on 29 and 30 August.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Norberto Téllez  Cuba	Hezekiél Sepeng  South Africa	Bryan Woodward  United States

Results

Heats

Held on 29 August

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:48.13	Q
2	6	Oleg Stepanov	Russia	1:48.35	Q
3	1	Balázs Tölgyesi	Hungary	1:48.47	Q
4	3	Shaun Benefield	United States	1:48.73	Q
5	3	Andy Hart	Great Britain	1:48.84	Q
6	1	Daryl Fillion	Canada	1:48.91	q
7	6	Mark Sesay	Great Britain	1:48.92	Q
8	3	Jean-Gilles Talin	France	1:49.00	q
9	1	Duarte Ponte	Portugal	1:49.13	q[2]
10	6	Paul Byrne	Australia	1:49.29	q[3]
11	6	Celso Ficagna	Brazil	1:49.69	q
12	8	Bryan Woodward	United States	1:50.15	Q
13	5	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	1:50.26	Q
14	8	Bjørn Arild Bøhleng	Norway	1:50.30	Q
15	8	Miklós Árpási	Hungary	1:50.33	q
16	5	Panagiotis Stroumbakos	Greece	1:50.35	Q
17	8	Barnaby Shone	South Africa	1:50.49	q
18	1	Eyvind Solbu	Norway	1:50.82	q
19	2	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:50.93	Q
20	2	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:50.96	Q
21	2	Urmet Uusorg	Estonia	1:51.06
22	5	Kim Soon-hyung	South Korea	1:51.07
23	7	Sergey Kozhevnikov	Russia	1:51.21	Q
24	7	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1:51.21	Q
25	5	Aleš Tomič	Slovenia	1:51.36
26	7	Grzegorz Krzosek	Poland	1:51.52
27	7	Dennis van Tongeren	Netherlands	1:51.95
28	2	Sylvere Ntibushinitse	Burundi	1:52.11
29	8	Noureddine Djazouli	Algeria	1:52.50
30	2	Christian Díaz	Argentina	1:52.57
31	4	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1:52.66	Q
32	4	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:53.22	Q
33	5	Vanko Stoyanov	Macedonia	1:53.51
34	7	Hamid Sadjadi	Iran	1:53.60
35	7	Mark Harris	New Zealand	1:53.79
36	1	Xandru Grech	Malta	1:54.08
37	6	Petrus Ndara	Namibia	1:54.09
38	4	Philip Rotich	Kenya	1:54.12
39	4	Sylvester Simelane	Swaziland	1:54.22
40	8	Lameck King	Botswana	1:54.56
41	3	Jean-Paul Niyonsaba	Burundi	1:55.50
42	7	Luis Romero	Peru	1:55.72
43	5	Choge Kipsang	Kenya	1:55.92
44	4	Kabemba Mwape	Zambia	1:56.08
45	3	Junior Anguyo	Uganda	1:56.20
46	8	Carlos Sequeira	Nicaragua	1:56.36
47	5	Christophe Irumwa	Rwanda	1:56.58
48	4	Jeremy Deere	Canada	1:56.97
49	6	Chris Musenze	Uganda	1:57.01
50	4	Fadi Hatamleh	Jordan	1:57.43
51	6	Omar Khalaf	Jordan	1:57.87
52	2	Gerald Grech	Malta	1:59.29
53	2	Ma Wai Hou	Macau	1:59.31
54	8	Tang Win Kin	Hong Kong	2:03.08
55	3	Md Safiqul Islam	Bangladesh	2:03.90
56	3	Gordon Kapak	Papua New Guinea	2:09.76
57	7	Tam Hoi Keng	Macau	2:10.02
	1	Noor Aslam	Pakistan	DNF
	3	Modise Bakupi	Botswana	DNF

Semifinals

Held on 30 August

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1:47.35	Q
2	1	Balázs Tölgyesi	Hungary	1:47.42	Q
3	2	Bryan Woodward	United States	1:47.45	Q
4	1	Shaun Benefield	United States	1:47.60	Q
5	1	Sergey Kozhevnikov	Russia	1:47.63	q[4]
6	2	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:47.71	q
7	2	Panagiotis Stroumbakos	Greece	1:47.73
8	1	Andy Hart	Great Britain	1:47.74
9	1	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1:47.83
10	2	Jean-Gilles Talin	France	1:48.44
11	1	Duarte Ponte	Portugal	1:48.81
11	3	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:48.81	Q
13	3	Oleg Stepanov	Russia	1:48.87	Q
14	3	Miklós Árpási	Hungary	1:48.92
15	3	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	1:49.03
16	1	Paul Byrne	Australia	1:49.24	[3]
17	3	Mark Sesay	Great Britain	1:49.70
18	3	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:50.19
19	2	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:50.38
20	1	Eyvind Solbu	Norway	1:50.56
21	2	Daryl Fillion	Canada	1:50.60	[5]
22	2	Celso Ficagna	Brazil	1:50.88
23	3	Bjørn Arild Bøhleng	Norway	1:50.93
24	3	Barnaby Shone	South Africa	1:52.32

Final

Held on 30 August ^[6]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:47.63
	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1:47.77
	Bryan Woodward	United States	1:48.43
4	Shaun Benefield	United States	1:48.65
5	Balázs Tölgyesi	Hungary	1:49.13
6	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:49.41
7	Sergey Kozhevnikov	Russia	1:49.51
8	Oleg Stepanov	Russia	1:50.74