The men's 800 metres at the 2025 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Stadium in Tokyo on 16, 18 and 20 September 2025.
Summary
Records Before the competition records were as follows:
RecordAthlete & LocationDate World record 1:40.91 London, United Kingdom 9 August 2012 Championship record 1:42.34 Doha, Qatar 1 October 2019 World Leading 1:41.44 Fontvieille, Monaco 11 July 2025 African Record 1:40.91 London, United Kingdom 9 August 2012 Asian Record 1:42.79 Fontvieille, Monaco 29 July 2008 European Record 1:41.11 Cologne, Germany 24 August 1997 North, Central American and Caribbean record 1:41.20 Paris, France 10 August 2024 Oceanian record 1:42.55 Fontvieille, Monaco 11 July 2025 South American Record 1:41.77 Cologne, West Germany 26 August 1984
Qualification standard The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 1:44.50.
Schedule The event schedule, in local time (UTC+9), was as follows:
Date Time Round16 September 19:35 Heats18 September 21:45 Semi-finals20 September 22:22 Final
Results Heats The heats took place on 16 September. The first three athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the three fastest ( q ) qualified for the semi-finals.
Heat 1 Place Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 David Barroso 1:44.96 2 Djamel Sedjati 1:45.01 3 Kethobogile Haingura 1:45.02 4 Ibrahim Abass M Chuot 1:45.16 5 Handal Roban 1:45.32 6 Ngeno Kipngetich 1:45.37 7 Jared Micallef 1:46.62 8 Giovanni Lazzaro 1:47.00 9 Justin O'Toole 1:48.88
Heat 2 Place Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Mohamed Attaoui 1:45.23 2 Kelvin Loti 1:45.35 3 Marco Arop 1:45.39 4 Samuel Chapple 1:45.45 5 Tiarnan Crorken 1:45.63 6 Tom Dradriga 1:46.18 7 Pieter Sisk 1:46.37 8 Abdelati El Guesse 1:46.80 9 Musa Suliman 1:48.28
Heat 3 Place Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Maciej Wyderka 1:46.30 2 Ben Pattison 1:46.51 3 Gabriel Tual 1:46.54 4 Mariano García 1:47.09 5 Moad Zahafi 1:47.14 6 Ebrahim Alzofairi 1:47.26 7 Cooper Lutkenhaus 1:47.68 8 Matthew Erickson 1:48.49 9 1:52.70
Heat 4 Place Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Cian McPhillips 1:44.91 2 Bryce Hoppel 1:45.09 3 Tyrice Taylor 1:45.13 4 Peter Bol 1:45.15 5 Ivan Pelizza 1:45.65 6 Catalin Tecuceanu 1:46.22 7 Alexander Stepanov 1:46.32 8 Andreas Kramer 1:46.84 9 Stephen Rahuasi 1:55.21
Heat 5 Place Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Emmanuel Wanyonyi 1:45.05 2 Francesco Pernici 1:45.11 3 Mark English 1:45.13 4 Peyton Craig 1:45.44 5 Mohamed Ali Gouaned 1:45.49 6 Tobias Grønstad 1:45.93 7 Ko Ochiai 1:46.78 8 Abdullahi Hassan 1:47.50 9 Ryan Clarke 1:49.08
Heat 6 Place Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Max Burgin 1:44.73 2 Tshepiso Masalela 1:44.74 3 Navasky Anderson 1:44.87 4 Yanis Meziane 1:45.02 5 Eliott Crestan 1:45.05 6 Luke Boyes 1:45.54 7 Patryk Sieradzki 1:45.99 8 Yohannes Tefera 1:50.93 9 Mohammed Dwedar 1:53.63
Heat 7 Place Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Donavan Brazier 1:44.66 2 Slimane Moula 1:44.77 3 Marino Bloudek 1:44.78 4 Nicholas Kebenei 1:44.91 5 Filip Ostrowski 1:45.47 6 Jakub Dudycha 1:45.76 7 Abderrahman El Assal 1:46.12 8 Alex Amankwah 1:47.12 9 Eduardo Moreira 1:50.40
Semi-finals The semi-finals took place on 18 September. The first two athletes in each heat ( Q ) and the two fastest ( q ) qualified for the final.
Heat 1 Place Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Marco Arop 1:45.09 2 Djamel Sedjati 1:45.09 3 Mark English 1:45.47 4 Maciej Wyderka 1:45.55 5 Ben Pattison 1:45.84 6 Kethobogile Haingura 1:46.05 7 Tyrice Taylor 1:46.56 8 Nicholas Kebenei 1:49.54
Heat 2 Place Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Cian McPhillips 1:43.18 , 2 Max Burgin 1:43.37 3 Donavan Brazier 1:43.82 4 Francesco Pernici 1:43.84 5 Gabriel Tual 1:44.09 6 David Barroso 1:44.27 7 Kelvin Loti 1:44.82 8 Slimane Moula 1:46.82
Heat 3 Place Athlete Nation Time Notes 1 Mohamed Attaoui 1:43.18 2 Emmanuel Wanyonyi 1:43.47 3 Navasky Anderson 1:43.72 , 4 Tshepiso Masalela 1:43.80 5 Bryce Hoppel 1:43.92 6 Yanis Meziane 1:44.12 7 Marino Bloudek 1:44.33 8 Eliott Crestan 1:44.56
Final Place Athlete Nation Time Notes Emmanuel Wanyonyi 1:41.86 Djamel Sedjati 1:41.90 Marco Arop 1:41.95 4 Cian McPhillips 1:42.15 5 Mohamed Attaoui 1:42.21 6 Max Burgin 1:42.29 7 Navasky Anderson 1:42.76 8 Tshepiso Masalela 1:42.77
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