European Athletics Championships 2012/800 m men

21st European Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	38 athletes from 26 countries
venue	Helsinki
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	June 27th (preliminary) June 28th (semi-finals) June 29th (final)
Medalist Juri Borsakowski ( RUS )   Andreas Bube ( DEN )   Pierre-Ambroise Bosse ( FRA )

The Olympic Stadium in Helsinki

The men's 800-meter run at the European Athletics Championships 2012 was held from June 27 to 29, 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in the Finnish capital Helsinki .

European champion was the Russian Olympic champion in 2004 , Vice World Champion in 2003 and World Championship -Third of 2007 / 2011 Yuri Borzakovsky . He won ahead of the Dane Andreas Bube . Bronze went to the Frenchman Pierre-Ambroise Bosse .

Existing records

World record	1: 41.01 min	David Lekuta Rudisha	Rieti , Italy	August 29, 2010
European record	1: 41.11 min	Wilson Kipketer	Cologne , Germany	August 24, 1997
Championship record	1: 43.84 min	Olaf Beyer	EM Prague , Czechoslovakia	August 31, 1978

The since 1978 existing EM -record survived these European Championships without prejudice. There was not a single race that ran at speed, it always came down to the sprint. The fastest was the first run, in which the winner was almost two seconds slower than Olaf Beyer in his championship record.

Preliminary round

June 27, 2012

The preliminary round was carried out in five runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Charles Grethen could not keep up in the first run and was eliminated

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Gareth Warburton	Great Britain	1: 45.80
2	Andreas Bube	Denmark	1: 46.51
3	Žan Rudolf	Slovenia	1: 46.98
4th	Ioan Zaizan	Romania	1: 47.31
5	Oleh Kayafa	Ukraine	1: 47.56
6th	Thijmen Kupers	Netherlands	1: 47.69
7th	Charles Grethen	Luxembourg	1: 53.22
DNF	Brice Etès	Monaco

Forward 2

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  As sixth of his prelim, Ådne Svahn Dæhlin did not reach the next round

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  Andreas Rapatz failed as seventh in his preliminary run

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sebastian None	Germany	1: 48.09
2	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	France	1: 48.23
3	Amel Tuka	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1: 48.32 NU23R
4th	Jakub Holuša	Czech Republic	1: 48.54
5	Dmitrijs Jurkevičs	Latvia	1: 48.59
6th	Ådne Svahn Dæhlin	Norway	1: 49.34
7th	Andreas Rapatz	Austria	1: 51.79
8th	Dustin Emrani	Israel	1: 58.69

Forward 3

Tommy Granlund was eliminated in eighth of his forerunner

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Sören Ludolph	Germany	1: 47.10
2	Mukhtar Mohammed	Great Britain	1: 47.11
3	Jozef Repčík	Slovakia	1: 47.41
4th	Luis Alberto Marco	Spain	1: 47.62
5	Jan Kubista	Czech Republic	1: 47.66
6th	Ihor Davydov	Ukraine	1: 47.79
7th	Johan Rogestedt	Sweden	1: 48.86
8th	Tommy Granlund	Finland	1: 50.12

Forward 4

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  Johan Svensson missed the semi-finals by one place in his preliminary run

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  Szymon Krawczyk - disqualified in the fourth heat

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Yuri Borsakovsky	Russia	1: 47.48
2	Antonio Manuel Reina	Spain	1: 47.61
3	Paul Renaudie	France	1: 47.74
4th	Thomas Roth	Norway	1: 47.78
5	Johan Svensson	Sweden	1: 48.21
6th	Péter Szemeti	Hungary	1: 49.13
DSQ	Szymon Krawczyk	Poland

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Robert Lathouwers	Netherlands	1: 48.00
2	Jan Van Den Broeck	Belgium	1: 48.35
3	Hamid Oualich	France	1: 48.44
4th	Kevin López	Spain	1: 48.46
5	Vitaly Kozlov	Lithuania	1: 48.61
6th	Raphael Pallitsch	Austria	1: 48.84
7th	Andréas Dimitrákis	Greece	1: 49.88

Semifinals

June 28, 2012, 5:35 pm

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

Run 1

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  Sebastian Keiner missed the final by three hundredths of a second

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  His fifth place in the first semifinals was not enough for Hamid Oualich for the final

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  Gareth Warburton - in the run-up with the fastest time of the entire competition, still right at the front and now eliminated in eighth in the first semifinals

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Antonio Manuel Reina	Spain	1: 46.49
2	Jozef Repčík	Slovakia	1: 46.62
3	Jakub Holuša	Czech Republic	1: 46.63
4th	Thomas Roth	Norway	1: 46.88
5	Sebastian None	Germany	1: 46.91
6th	Hamid Oualich	France	1: 47.14
7th	Ihor Davydov	Ukraine	1: 47.22
8th	Gareth Warburton	Great Britain	1: 47.37

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	France	1: 46.70
2	Yuri Borsakovsky	Russia	1: 46.92
3	Kevin López	Spain	1: 47.30
4th	Žan Rudolf	Slovenia	1: 47.41
5	Sören Ludolph	Germany	1: 48.06
6th	Jan Kubista	Czech Republic	1: 48.94
7th	Oleh Kayafa	Ukraine	1: 49.61
8th	Thijmen Kupers	Netherlands	1: 50.37

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  Žan Rudolf was fourth in the second semifinals, which was not enough for the final

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  Sören Ludolph was eliminated as fifth in his semi-final run

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  Jan Kubista's sixth place in his semifinal race was too little for the final

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  Thijmen Kupers failed as eighth of his race in the semifinals

Run 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Andreas Bube	Denmark	1: 48.48
2	Robert Lathouwers	Netherlands	1: 48.49
3	Mukhtar Mohammed	Great Britain	1: 48.84
4th	Paul Renaudie	France	1: 48.97
5	Luis Alberto Marco	Spain	1: 49.06
6th	Ioan Zaizan	Romania	1: 49.91
7th	Jan Van Den Broeck	Belgium	1: 50.63
8th	Amel Tuka	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1: 51.14

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  Despite his third place in the last semifinals, Mukhtar Mohammed did not reach the final

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  Paul Renaudie - fourth in the third semifinals and eliminated

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  Jan Van Den Broeck finished seventh in his race after the semi-finals

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  Amel Tuka had no chance as eighth of his semi-final race

final

The 800 meter final

June 29, 2012, 7:40 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Yuri Borsakovsky	Russia	1: 48.61
2	Andreas Bube	Denmark	1: 48.69
3	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	France	1: 48.83
4th	Antonio Manuel Reina	Spain	1: 48.98
5	Jakub Holuša	Czech Republic	1: 48.99
6th	Robert Lathouwers	Netherlands	1: 49.22
7th	Jozef Repčík	Slovakia	1: 49.42
8th	Thomas Roth	Norway	1: 49.54

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  The 2004 Olympic champion and three-time World Cup medalist Juri Borsakowski became European champion

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  Silver medalist Andreas Bube

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  For Pierre-Ambroise Bosse there was bronze - in 2017 he became world champion and in 2018 again third in the European Championship

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  Jakub Holuša finished fifth

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  Robert Lathouwers finished sixth in this final

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  Jozef Repčík (third from right) reached seventh place

Web links

• European Athletics Championships - Helsinki 2012 at european-athletics.org, accessed January 8, 2020
• Men 800m European Championship 2012 Helsinki on todor66.com, accessed January 8, 2020
• Track and Field Statistics, EM 2012 on trackfield.brinkster.net, accessed on January 8, 2020
• European Athletics Championships Zurich 2014 - Statistics Handbook , Men 800m European Championship 2012 Helsinki, p. 510f (PDF, 13,363 kB), in English at european-athletics.org, accessed on January 8, 2020
• Results of all European Athletics Championships - 2012, 800 m men on sportschau.de, accessed on January 8, 2020
• 21st European Athletics Championships 2012 in Helsinki, Finland from ifosta.de, accessed on January 8, 2020

Video

• yuriy borzakovskiy 2012 800m european athletics championships helsinki men final 1: 48.61 on youtube.com, accessed on January 8, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800m men , accessed January 8, 2019
2. ↑ Progression of the European Outdoor Records, 800 m Men , Spanish / English, p. 11 (PDF, 271 kB), accessed on January 8, 2020