The men's 800 metres at the 2022 World Athletics Championships was held at the Hayward Field in Eugene from 20 to 23 July 2022.Timetable
Summary
After missing the Olympics, defending champion Donavan Brazier was eliminated in the heats. World leader Max Burgin did not start. Aside from Olympic Champion Emmanuel Korir the rest of the Olympic and previous championships podium athletes did not make it to this event.
In the final, Slimane Moula came off the break looking to take the lead, tangling elbows with Peter Bol en route. His lead lasted through the second turn when Marco Arop went by, then taking the bell at 52.02. Gabriel Tual moved behind him on the rail, while Wycliffe Kinyamal Kisasy went to the outside. Arop opened up a metre gap, Korir followed Kisasy as the four broke away a couple of metres from the other half of the field down the backstretch. Korir poured it on through the final curve, passing Tual, then Kisasy, then 70 metres from home, Arop. As Korir pulled away, Arop tightened up and struggled home. Leading the second group before the turn, Djamel Sedjati also sped through the turn, catching Kaul just before the end of the turn. Kisasy faded on the home stretch, eventually finishing last, leaving the struggling Arop as his next target, caught 12 metres before the finish for silver. Dead last entering the turn, 17 year old Emmanuel Wanyonyi weaved his way through the crowd but didn't get to Arop in time to grab a medal.
Records Before the competition records were as follows:
RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record1:40.91London, Great Britain9 August 2012Championship record1:42.34Doha, Qatar1 October 2019World Leading1:43.52Turku, Finland14 June 2022African Record1:40.91London, Great Britain9 August 2012Asian Record1:42.79Monte Carlo, Monaco29 July 2008North, Central American and Caribbean record1:42.34Doha, Qatar1 October 2019South American Record1:41.77Cologne, West Germany26 August 1984European Record1:41.11Cologne, Germany24 August 1997Oceanian record1:44.00Paris, France18 June 2022
Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 1:45.20.
Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC−7), was as follows:
Date Time Round20 July 17:20 Heats21 July 19:00 Semi-finals23 July 18:10 Final
Results
Heats
The first 3 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualify for the semi-finals.Heats Summary
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 5 Marco Arop 1:44.56 Q 2 5 Jesús Tonatiú López 1:44.67 Q, 3 5 Mark English 1:44.76 Q, 4 5 Catalin Tecuceanu 1:44.83 q, 5 6 Slimane Moula 1:44.90 Q 6 6 Wycliffe Kinyamal 1:45.08 Q 7 6 Abdelati El Guesse 1:45.25 Q, 8 5 Noah Kibet 1:45.41 q 9 2 Peter Bol 1:45.50 Q 10 6 Daniel Rowden 1:45.53 q, 11 2 Kyle Langford 1:45.68 Q 12 2 Mariano García 1:45.74 Q 13 5 Andreas Kramer 1:45.77 q 14 6 Tolesa Bodena 1:45.81 q 15 2 Benjamin Robert 1:45.94 q 16 5 Yassine Hethat 1:46.05 17 3 Moad Zahafi 1:46.15 Q 18 2 Abedin Mujezinović 1:46.26 19 3 Gabriel Tual 1:46.34 Q 20 4 Djamel Sedjati 1:46.39 Q 21 3 Emmanuel Wanyonyi 1:46.45 Q 22 4 Tony van Diepen 1:46.59 Q 23 4 Abdessalem Ayouni 1:46.59 Q 24 3 Eliott Crestan 1:46.61 25 4 Adrián Ben 1:46.71 26 2 Donavan Brazier 1:46.72 27 6 Patryk Dobek 1:46.80 28 3 Bryce Hoppel 1:46.98 29 4 Brandon Miller 1:47.29 30 3 Mateusz Borkowski 1:47.61 31 4 Tshepo Tshite 1:47.61 32 4 Brad Mathas 1:47.70 33 3 Navasky Anderson 1:48.37 34 2 Patryk Sieradzki 1:48.78 35 1 Emmanuel Korir 1:49.05 Q 36 1 Elhassane Moujahid 1:49.27 Q 37 1 Álvaro de Arriba 1:49.30 Q 38 1 Ermias Girma 1:49.36 39 6 Žan Rudolf 1:49.87 40 1 Marc Reuther 1:50.75 41 3 Brandon McBride 1:57.43 42 1 Manuel Belo Amaral Ataide 1:58.91 5 Jonah Koech 2 Alex Amankwah 1 Max Burgin
Semi-finals
The first 2 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the finals.Semi-finals Summary
Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes 1 3 Slimane Moula 1:44.89 Q 2 3 Marco Arop 1:45.12 Q 3 1 Emmanuel Korir 1:45.38 Q, 4 3 Emmanuel Wanyonyi 1:45.42 q 5 2 Djamel Sedjati 1:45.44 Q 6 1 Wycliffe Kinyamal 1:45.49 Q 7 2 Gabriel Tual 1:45.53 Q 8 1 Peter Bol 1:45.58 q 9 3 Benjamin Robert 1:45.67 10 3 Mark English 1:45.78 11 1 Kyle Langford 1:45.91 12 3 Abdessalem Ayouni 1:46.08 13 1 Jesús Tonatiú López 1:46.17 14 2 Daniel Rowden 1:46.27 15 3 Álvaro de Arriba 1:46.30 16 2 Catalin Tecuceanu 1:46.31 17 2 Moad Zahafi 1:46.35 18 3 Abdelati El Guesse 1:46.46 19 2 Mariano García 1:46.70 20 1 Tony van Diepen 1:46.70 21 2 Andreas Kramer 1:46.71 22 2 Noah Kibet 1:47.15 23 1 Elhassane Moujahid 1:47.18 24 1 Tolesa Bodena 1:50.55
Final
Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Emmanuel Korir 1:43.71 Djamel Sedjati 1:44.14 Marco Arop 1:44.28 4 Emmanuel Wanyonyi 1:44.54 5 Slimane Moula 1:44.85 6 Gabriel Tual 1:45.49 7 Peter Bol 1:45.51 8 Wycliffe Kinyamal 1:47.07
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