Athletics at the 2014 Asian Games – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 2014 Asian Games was held at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium, Incheon, South Korea on 30 September – 1 October.

Men's 800 metres at the 2014 Asian Games
Venue	Incheon Asiad Main Stadium
Dates	30 September – 1 October
Competitors	23 from 17 nations
Medalists
Adnan Taess    Iraq   Teng Haining    China   Jamal Hairane    Qatar
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Schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Date	Time	Event
Tuesday, 30 September 2014	20:40	Round 1
Wednesday, 1 October 2014	19:20	Final

Records

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

World Record	David Rudisha (KEN)	1:40.91	London, United Kingdom	9 August 2012
Asian Record	Yusuf Saad Kamel (BRN)	1:42.79	Monaco	29 July 2008
Games Record	Sajjad Moradi (IRI)	1:45.45	Guangzhou, China	25 November 2010

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	Abdulaziz Ladan (KSA)	1:48.85	Q
2	Jamal Hairane (QAT)	1:48.91	Q
3	Adnan Taess (IRQ)	1:49.03	q
4	Dương Văn Thái (VIE)	1:50.66
5	Kim Jun-young (KOR)	1:51.81
6	Gal-Erdenegiin Odkhüü (MGL)	1:53.69
7	Ahmed Hassan (MDV)	1:56.46
—	Sajjad Moradi (IRI)	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla (QAT)	1:49.50	Q
2	Yusuf Saad Kamel (BRN)	1:49.56	Q
3	Sajeesh Joseph (IND)	1:49.90	q
4	Choi Hyeon-gi (KOR)	1:50.15
5	Farkhod Kuralov (TJK)	1:50.55
6	Asyeikhany Akhyt (MGL)	1:55.49
7	Nurgazy Asankulov (KGZ)	1:57.40

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Abraham Rotich (BRN)	1:47.95	Q
2	Teng Haining (CHN)	1:48.82	Q
3	Mohammad Al-Azemi (KUW)	1:51.63
4	Sho Kawamoto (JPN)	1:53.24
5	Mukti Bahadur Khadka (NEP)	1:55.20
6	Almazbek Kazibekov (KGZ)	1:55.90
7	Shifaz Mohamed (MDV)	2:02.58
—	Wesam Al-Massri (PLE)	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Adnan Taess (IRQ)	1:47.48
	Teng Haining (CHN)	1:47.81
	Jamal Hairane (QAT)	1:48.25
4	Sajeesh Joseph (IND)	1:49.59
—	Yusuf Saad Kamel (BRN)	DNF
—	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla (QAT)	DSQ
—	Abdulaziz Ladan (KSA)	DSQ
—	Abraham Rotich (BRN)	DSQ