European Athletics Championships 2002/800 m men

18th European Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	29 athletes from 18 countries
venue	Munich
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 9th (preliminary) August 10th (semi-finals) August 11th (final)
Medalist Wilson Kipketer ( DEN )   André Bucher ( SUI )   Nils Schumann ( GER )

Munich Olympic Stadium

The men's 800-meter run at the 2002 European Athletics Championships was held from August 9th to 11th, 2002 in Munich's Olympic Stadium.

European champion was the three-time world champion ( 1995 / 1997 / 1999 ), Olympic silver medalist from 2000 and world record holder Wilson Kipketer from Denmark. The reigning world champion André Bucher from Switzerland came in second . Bronze went to the German Olympic champion of 2000 and defending champion Nils Schumann .

Existing records

World record	1: 41.11 min	Wilson Kipketer	Cologne , Germany	August 24, 1997
European record
Championship record	1: 43.84 min	Olaf Beyer	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 31, 1978

Even at these European Championships since remained 1,978 existing EM -record untouched.

Preliminary round

August 9, 2002

The preliminary round was held in four runs. The first three athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Antonio Manuel Reina	Spain	1: 47.52
2	Stefan Beumer	Netherlands	1: 47.66
3	Nicolas Aïssat	France	1: 48.07
4th	Christian Neunhäuserer	Italy	1: 48.25
5	Tom Omey	Belgium	1: 48.27
6th	Alibey Sukürov	Azerbaijan	1: 49.27
7th	Fernando Almeida	Portugal	1: 50.81
8th	Dominic Carroll	Gibraltar	1: 58.22

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Antonio Manuel Reina	Spain	1: 47.52
2	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1: 47.53
3	Joeri Jansen	Belgium	1: 47.71
4th	Miguel Quesada	Spain	1: 47.85
5	Ramil Aritkulov	Russia	1: 48.15
6th	Vanco Stojanov	Macedonia	1: 48.31
7th	Franck Barré	France	1: 48.68

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	René Herms	Germany	1: 47.07
2	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 47.29
3	André Bucher	Switzerland	1: 47.48
4th	James McIlroy	Great Britain	1: 47.67
5	Grzegorz Krzosek	Poland	1: 47.98
6th	Dmitry Bogdanov	Russia	1: 48.15
DNF	Khaled Azerkan	Sweden

Forward 4

Wilson Kirwa was eliminated sixth in his preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Nils Schumann	Germany	1: 46.90
2	Arnoud Okken	Netherlands	1: 47.22
3	Rizak Dirshe	Sweden	1: 47.36
4th	Florent Lacasse	France	1: 47.74
5	Panayiótis Stroubákos	Greece	1: 48.00
6th	Wilson Kirwa	Sweden	1: 48.23
7th	Anthony Whiteman	Great Britain	1: 50.60

Semifinals

August 10, 2002

In each of the two semi-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

Florent Lacasse finished his semifinal race in eighth place and was eliminated

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Nils Schumann	Germany	1: 48.01
2	Arnoud Okken	Netherlands	1: 48.22
3	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1: 48.37
4th	Joeri Jansen	Belgium	1: 48.62
5	James McIlroy	Great Britain	1: 49.15
6th	Stefan Beumer	Netherlands	1: 49.60
7th	Miguel Quesada	Spain	1: 49.83
8th	Florent Lacasse	France	1: 50.41

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 46.56
2	René Herms	Germany	1: 46.77
3	Nicolas Aïssat	France	1: 46.89
4th	André Bucher	Switzerland	1: 47.08
5	Bram Som	Netherlands	1: 47.20
6th	Rizak Dirshe	Sweden	1: 47.38
7th	Antonio Manuel Reina	Spain	1: 47.41
8th	Grzegorz Krzosek	Poland	1: 47.82

After three World Cup victories and Olympic silver in 2000 , world record holder Wilson Kipketer became European champion

final

August 11, 2002

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 47.25
2	André Bucher	Switzerland	1: 47.43
3	Nils Schumann	Germany	1: 47.60
4th	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1: 47.92
5	Arnoud Okken	Netherlands	1: 48.39
6th	Bram Som	Netherlands	1: 48.56
7th	René Herms	Germany	1: 48.86
8th	Nicolas Aïssat	France	1: 49.16

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  The 2000 Olympic champion and defending champion Nils Schumann (center) won bronze this time

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  Paweł Czapiewski came in fourth

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  Arnoud Okken finished fifth

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  Bram Som finished sixth in that final

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  René Herms reached seventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Munich 2002 at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 27, 2019
• Men 800m European Championship 2002 Munich on todor66.com, accessed October 27, 2019
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2002 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on October 27, 2019
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 800m European Championship 2002 Munich, p. 481 (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on October 27, 2019
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2002, 800 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on October 27, 2019
• 18th European Athletics Championships 2002 in Munich, Germany from ifosta.de, accessed on October 27, 2019

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m men , accessed October 27, 2019