2007 World Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

Events at the 2007 World Championships
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
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	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
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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

Results

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

References

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