World Athletics Championships 1991/800 m men

3rd World Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	40 athletes from 30 countries
venue	Tokyo
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 25th (preliminary) August 26th (semi-finals) August 27th (final)
Medalist Billy Konchellah ( KEN )   José Luíz Barbosa ( BRA )   Mark Everett ( USA )

The Olympic Stadium in Tokyo in 2008

The men's 800-meter race at the 1991 World Athletics Championships was held from August 25 to 27, 1991 in the Olympic Stadium in the Japanese capital, Tokyo .

The Kenyan defending champion Billy Konchellah became world champion . He won before the Brazilian World Cup third in 1987 José Luíz Barbosa . Bronze went to the American Mark Everett .

Existing records

World record	1: 41.73 min	Sebastian Coe	Florence , Italy	June 10, 1981
World championship record	1: 43.06 min	Billy Konchellah	World Cup 1987 in Rome , Italy	September 1, 1987

The existing world championship record was not set and not improved at these world championships.

Preliminary round

August 25, 1991, 5:35 p.m.

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

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 47.35
2	Mark Everett	United States	1: 47.37
3	Tom McKean	Great Britain	1: 47.38
4th	Desta Asgedom	Ethiopia	1: 48.28
5	Fabian Franco	Gibraltar	1: 54.29
6th	Charles Nkazamyampi	Burundi	4: 13.28 - overturned
DSQ	Ismael Youssef	Qatar

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Paul Ereng	Kenya	1: 45.94
2	Tomás de Teresa	Spain	1: 46.41
3	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1: 46.89
4th	Valery Starodubtsev	Soviet Union	1: 47.55
5	Ari Suhonen	Finland	1: 48.15
6th	Luis Martínez	Guatemala	1: 49.07
DNS	Ibrahim Okash	Somalia

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Robert Kibet	Kenya	1: 50.13
2	Brian Whittle	Great Britain	1: 50.20
3	Luis Javier González	Spain	1: 50.46
4th	Reda Abdenouz	Algeria	1: 50.47
5	Pablo Squella	Chile	1: 50.92
6th	Luis Migueles	Argentina	1: 51.42
7th	Samson Vallabouy	Malaysia	1: 51.46

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	George Kersh	United States	1: 47.00
2	Frederic Cornette	France	1: 47.02
3	Ahmed Belkessam	Algeria	1: 47.06
4th	Esko Parpala	Finland	1: 47.28
5	Babacar Niang	Senegal	1: 47.75
6th	Dale Jones	Antigua and Barbuda	1: 48.62
DNS	Dieudonné Kwizéra	Burundi

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	José Luíz Barbosa	Brazil	1: 45.68
2	Freddie Williams	Canada	1: 45.83
3	Mbiganyi Thee	Botswana	1: 45.94
4th	Joachim Dehmel	Germany	1: 46.24
5	Steve Heard	Great Britain	1: 46.29
6th	Tommy Asinga	Suriname	1: 47.33
DSQ	João N'Tyamba	Angola

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Johnny Gray	United States	1: 46.59
2	Piotr Piekarski	Poland	1: 46.63
3	Andrei Sudnik	Soviet Union	1: 46.77
4th	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1: 46.82
5	Markus Trinkler	Switzerland	1: 47.67
6th	Antonio Abrantes	Portugal	1: 47.91
7th	Douglas Kalembo	Zambia	1: 48.26

Semifinals

August 26, 1991, 6:15 p.m.

In each of the two semi-finals, the first four athletes - highlighted in light blue - qualified for the final.

Semi-final run 1

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 46.86
2	Mark Everett	United States	1: 46.96
3	Johnny Gray	United States	1: 47.04
4th	Piotr Piekarski	Poland	1: 47.14
5	Freddie Williams	Canada	1: 47.17
6th	Robert Kibet	Kenya	1: 47.36
7th	Frederic Cornette	France	1: 48.04
8th	Steve Heard	Great Britain	1: 49.91

Semi-final run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	José Luíz Barbosa	Brazil	1: 45.14
2	Paul Ereng	Kenya	1: 45.42
3	Tomás de Teresa	Spain	1: 45.84
4th	Andrei Sudnik	Soviet Union	1: 45.91
5	George Kersh	United States	1: 45.98
6th	Mbiganyi Thee	Botswana	1: 46.30
7th	Joachim Dehmel	Germany	1: 47.91
8th	Brian Whittle	Great Britain	1: 54.14

final

August 27, 1991, 7:50 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 43.99
2	José Luíz Barbosa	Brazil	1: 44.24
3	Mark Everett	United States	1: 44.67
4th	Paul Ereng	Kenya	1: 44.75
5	Piotr Piekarski	Poland	1: 45.45
6th	Johnny Gray	United States	1: 45.67
7th	Andrei Sudnik	Soviet Union	1: 46.36
8th	Tomás de Teresa	Spain	1: 47.65

Video

• Tokyo 1991 Athletics WC Men 800m Billy Konchellah Tokyo 1991 , video posted August 21, 2011 on youtube.com, accessed April 18, 2020

Web links

• World Championships in Athletics, 3rd IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed April 18, 2020
• Men 800m Athletics III World Championship Tokyo (JPN) 1991 at todor66.com, accessed April 18, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 800 m, Tokyo 1991, p. 112 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on April 18, 2020

References and comments

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