World Athletics Championships 1987/800 m men

2. World Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	41 athletes from 32 countries
venue	Rome
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 29th (preliminary) August 30th (quarter-finals) August 31st (semi-finals) September 1st (final)
Medalist Billy Konchellah ( KEN )   Peter Elliott ( GBR )   José Luíz Barbosa ( BRA )

The Olympic Stadium in Rome

The men's 800-meter run at the World Athletics Championships in 1987 was held from August 29 to September 1, 1987 in the Olympic Stadium in the Italian capital, Rome .

World champion was the Kenyan Billy Konchellah . He won ahead of the British Peter Elliott . Bronze went to the Brazilian José Luíz Barbosa .

Records

Existing records

World record	1: 41.73 min	Sebastian Coe	Florence , Italy	June 10, 1981
World championship record	1: 43.65 min	Willi Wuelbeck	1983 World Cup in Helsinki , Finland	August 9, 1983

Record improvement

World champion Billy Konchellah from Kenya improved the existing world championship record in the final on September 1st by 59 hundredths of a second to 1: 43.06 min.

Preliminary round

August 29, 1987

The preliminary round was carried out in six runs. The first four athletes per run - highlighted in light blue - as well as the eight fastest runners qualified for the quarter-finals. However, there were two athletes at the same time who were eight ranks behind the athletes who were qualified by their placement. Both were admitted to the next round. So nine runners reached the quarter-finals over their time - highlighted in light green.

Forward 1

Rob Druppers, 1983 vice world champion, did not get beyond the preliminary round

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Faouzi Lahbi	Morocco	1: 46.07
2	Dieudonné Kwizéra	Burundi	1: 46.27
3	Andrei Sudnik	Soviet Union	1: 46.29
4th	José Luíz Barbosa	Brazil	1: 46.31
5	Ibrahim Okash	Somalia	1: 46.61
6th	Chern Srichudano	Thailand	1: 50.37
7th	Rob Druppers	Netherlands	1: 50.58
8th	Semi Vuetibau	Fiji	1: 50.58

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Johnny Gray	United States	1: 46.53
2	Peter Elliott	Great Britain	1: 46.63
3	Stephen Ole Marai	Kenya	1: 46.91
4th	Robin Van Heroes	Netherlands	1: 46.98
5	Luc Bernaert	Belgium	1: 47.48
6th	Pablo Squella	Chile	1: 47.48
7th	Manlio Molinari	San Marino	1: 53.41

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 47.98
2	Moussa case	Senegal	1: 48.01
3	Ryszard Ostrowski	Poland	1: 48.07
4th	Alvaro Silva	Portugal	1: 48.19
5	Gert Kilbert	Switzerland	1: 48.48
6th	Luis Migueles	Argentina	1: 49.52
DNS	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil
	Hossain Milzer	Bangladesh

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Philippe Collard	France	1: 47.44
2	Stanley Redwine	United States	1: 47.64
3	Tom McKean	Great Britain	1: 47.71
4th	Ari Suhonen	Finland	1: 47.81
5	Luis Karin Toledo	Mexico	1: 48.05
6th	Ismael Youssef	Qatar	1: 48.73
7th	John Chappory	Gibraltar	1: 54.32

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Peter Braun	BR Germany	1: 47.96
2	Tony Morrell	Great Britain	1: 48.18
3	Martin Enholm	Sweden	1: 48.63
4th	David Mack	United States	1: 49.47
5	Augustin Ntamihanga	Rwanda	1: 50.69
6th	Simon Hoogewerf	Canada	1: 51.13
DNS	Joaquim Cruz	Brazil

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1: 47.42
2	Babacar Niang	Senegal	1: 47.46
3	Edwin Koech	Kenya	1: 47.56
4th	William Wuyke	Venezuela	1: 47.49
5	Vladimir Graudyn	Soviet Union	1: 47.75
6th	Getahun Ayana	Ethiopia	1: 49.22
7th	Reda Abdenouz	Algeria	1: 49.22
DNS	Syed Meesaq Rizvi	Pakistan

Quarter finals

August 30, 1987

In each of the four quarter-finals, the first three athletes - highlighted in light blue - and the four fastest runners - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals. The fastest times by far were achieved in the second race, so that all athletes who were qualified over their time came out of this race. The ninth track, which was actually necessary and available in one of the quarter-finals due to the admission of 33 runners for this round, was not needed because three of the eligible athletes did not start.

Quarter-finals 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Stephen Ole Marai	Kenya	1: 45.97
2	Ryszard Ostrowski	Poland	1: 46.04
3	Faouzi Lahbi	Morocco	1: 46.12
4th	Stanley Redwine	United States	1: 46.25
5	William Wuyke	Venezuela	1: 46.38
6th	Robin Van Heroes	Netherlands	1: 46.69
7th	Luis Karin Toledo	Mexico	1: 46.88
8th	Reda Abdenouz	Algeria	1: 48.96
DNS	Getahun Ayana	Ethiopia

Quarter-finals 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Moussa case	Senegal	1: 44.74
2	Peter Elliott	Great Britain	1: 44.98
3	Dieudonné Kwizéra	Burundi	1: 45.06
4th	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1: 45.15
5	Vladimir Graudyn	Soviet Union	1: 45.19
6th	Alvaro Silva	Portugal	1: 45.63
7th	David Mack	United States	1: 45.68
8th	Edwin Koech	Kenya	1: 46.36

Quarter-finals 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 45.53
2	Philippe Collard	France	1: 45.89
3	Tom McKean	Great Britain	1: 46.11
4th	Andrei Sudnik	Soviet Union	1: 46.48
5	Ibrahim Okash	Somalia	1: 47.00
6th	Ismael Youssef	Qatar	1: 47.26
DNS	Gert Kilbert	Switzerland
	Pablo Squella	Chile

Quarter-finals 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Babacar Niang	Senegal	1: 45.81
2	José Luíz Barbosa	Brazil	1: 46.07
3	Ari Suhonen	Finland	1: 46.18
4th	Tony Morrell	Great Britain	1: 46.25
5	Peter Braun	BR Germany	1: 46.53
6th	Luc Bernaert	Belgium	1: 49.06
7th	Martin Enholm	Sweden	1: 49.17
8th	Johnny Gray	United States	1: 49.50

Semifinals

August 31, 1987

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.

Semi-final run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tom McKean	Great Britain	1: 44.86
2	José Luíz Barbosa	Brazil	1: 45.03
3	Stephen Ole Marai	Kenya	1: 45.09
4th	Faouzi Lahbi	Morocco	1: 45.19
5	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1: 45.33
6th	Vladimir Graudyn	Soviet Union	1: 45.36
7th	Moussa case	Senegal	1: 47.55
8th	Philippe Collard	France	1: 48.24

Semi-final run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 46.11
2	Ryszard Ostrowski	Poland	1: 46.22
3	Peter Elliott	Great Britain	1: 46.23
4th	Babacar Niang	Senegal	1: 46.23
5	Dieudonné Kwizéra	Burundi	1: 46.26
6th	David Mack	United States	1: 48.49
7th	Ari Suhonen	Finland	1: 48.85
8th	Alvaro Silva	Portugal	1: 49.41

final

Ryszard Ostrowski (here in 2007) achieved the greatest success of his career with fourth place

September 1, 1987

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 43.06 CR
2	Peter Elliott	Great Britain	1: 43.41
3	José Luíz Barbosa	Brazil	1: 43.46
4th	Ryszard Ostrowski	Poland	1: 44.59
5	Faouzi Lahbi	Morocco	1: 44.83
6th	Stephen Ole Marai	Kenya	1: 44.84
7th	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1: 45.07
8th	Tom McKean	Great Britain	1: 49.21

Web links

• IAAF World Championships in Athletics, 2nd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed March 21, 2020
• Men 800m Athletics II World Championship Rome (ITA) 1987 at todor66.com, accessed March 21, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 800 m, Rome 1987 (PDF 10.3 MB, p. 111f), English, accessed on March 21, 2020

Video

• 800m Final 1987 World Championships, Rome (Konchellah / Elliott / Barbosa) on youtube.com, accessed March 21, 2020

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on March 21, 2020