Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics - Men's 800 metres

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Athletics at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 800 metres at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea had an entrylist of 70 competitors, with nine qualifying heats (70), four second-round races (32) and two semi-finals (16), before the final (8) took off on Monday September 26, 1988.

1 Medalists
2 Records
3 Final
4 Semi Finals
5 Quarter Finals
6 Qualifying Heats
7 See also
8 References

[edit] Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Paul Ereng Kenya (KEN)	Joaquim Cruz Brazil (BRA)	Saïd Aouita Morocco (MAR)

[edit] Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1988 Summer Olympics.

World Record	1:41.73	Sebastian Coe	Florence (ITA)	June 10, 1981
Olympic Record	1:43.00	Joaquim Cruz	Los Angeles (USA)	August 6, 1984

[edit] Final

RANK	FINAL	TIME
	Paul Ereng (KEN)	1:43.55
	Joaquim Cruz (BRA)	1:43.90
	Saïd Aouita (MAR)	1:44.06
4.	Peter Elliott (GBR)	1:44.12
5.	Johnny Gray (USA)	1:44.80
6.	José Luiz Barbosa (BRA)	1:46.39
7.	Donato Sabia (ITA)	1:48.03
8.	Nixon Kiprotich (KEN)	1:49.55

[edit] Semi Finals

Held on Sunday 1988-09-25

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Paul Ereng (KEN)	1:44.55
2.	Joaquim Cruz (BRA)	1:44.75
3.	Donato Sabia (ITA)	1:44.90
4.	Peter Elliott (GBR)	1:44.94
5.	Babacar Niang (SEN)	1:45.09
6.	Slobodan Popović (YUG)	1:45.11
7.	Simon Hoogewerf (CAN)	1:47.30
8.	Peter Braun (FRG)	1:47.43

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Nixon Kiprotich (KEN)	1:44.71
2.	Saïd Aouita (MAR)	1:44.79
3.	José Luiz Barbosa (BRA)	1:44.99
4.	Johnny Gray (USA)	1:45.04
5.	Alvaro Silva (POR)	1:45.12
6.	Cheikh Boyé (SEN)	1:45.93
7.	Réda Abdenouz (ALG)	1:45.95
8.	Ibrahim Okash Omar (SOM)	1:46.62

[edit] Quarter Finals

Held on Saturday 1988-09-24

RANK	HEAT 1	TIME
1.	Joaquim Cruz (BRA)	1:46.10
2.	Paul Ereng (KEN)	1:46.38
3.	Cheikh Boyé (SEN)	1:46.62
4.	Réda Abdenouz (ALG)	1:46.97
5.	Vladimir Graudyn (URS)	1:47.07
6.	Paul Osland (CAN)	1:48.02
7.	Tonino Viali (ITA)	1:50.85
—	Ari Suhonen (FIN)	DNF

RANK	HEAT 2	TIME
1.	Johnny Gray (USA)	1:45.96
2.	Simon Hoogewerf (CAN)	1:45.99
3.	José Luiz Barbosa (BRA)	1:46.20
4.	Tom McKean (GBR)	1:46.40
5.	Ibrahim Okash Omar (SOM)	1:46.55
6.	Rob Druppers (NED)	1:46.91
7.	Juma Ndiwa (KEN)	1:47.27
8.	Faouzi Lahbi (MAR)	1:47.32

RANK	HEAT 3	TIME
1.	Saïd Aouita (MAR)	1:45.24
2.	Slobodan Popović (YUG)	1:45.30
3.	Babacar Niang (SEN)	1:45.38
4.	Nixon Kiprotich (KEN)	1:45.68
5.	Pablo Squella (CHI)	1:46.45
6.	Steve Cram (GBR)	1:46.47
7.	Robin van Helden (NED)	1:46.61
8.	Tomas de Teresa (ESP)	1:48.01

RANK	HEAT 4	TIME
1.	Donato Sabia (ITA)	1:46.58
2.	Peter Elliott (GBR)	1:46.61
3.	Alvaro Silva (POR)	1:46.65
4.	Peter Braun (FRG)	1:46.86
5.	Ahmed Belkessam (ALG)	1:46.93
6.	Ryszard Ostrowski (POL)	1:47.72
7.	Colomán Trabado (ESP)	1:48.12
8.	Melford Homela (ZIM)	1:49.62