World Athletics Championships 1993/800 m men

4th World Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	41 athletes from 30 countries
venue	Stuttgart
Competition location	Gottlieb Daimler Stadium
Competition phase	August 14th (preliminary) August 15th (semi-finals) August 17th (final)
Medalist Paul Ruto ( KEN )   Giuseppe D'Urso ( ITA )   Billy Konchellah ( KEN )

The Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart in 2007

The men's 800-meter run at the World Athletics Championships in 1993 was held from August 14th to 17th, 1993 in the Gottlieb Daimler Stadium in Stuttgart .

The middle-distance runners from Kenya won two gold and bronze medals in this competition. World champion was the second of the African Championships in 1993 Paul Ruto . He won ahead of the Italian Giuseppe D'Urso . Bronze went to the two-time world champion ( 1987 / 1991 ) Billy Konchellah .

Existing records

World record	1: 41.73 min	Sebastian Coe	Florence , Italy	June 10, 1981
World Cup 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

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

Forward 1

August 14, 1993, 6:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1: 46.27
2	Johnny Gray	United States	1: 46.28
3	Luis Javier González	Spain	1: 46.36
4th	Marko Koers	Netherlands	1: 46.37
5	Gilmar Santos	Brazil	1: 51.04
6th	Christopher Blackburn	Mauritius	1: 52.78
7th	Juan José Tapia	Panama	1: 52.99

Forward 2

August 14, 1993, 6:06 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	José Luíz Barbosa	Brazil	1: 46.12
2	Ivan Komar	Belarus	1: 46.40
3	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 46.53
4th	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1: 46.57
5	José Parrilla	United States	1: 46.94
6th	Lee Jin-Il	South Korea	1: 47.99
7th	Gop Bahadur Adgikari	Nepal	1: 51.74
8th	Mukadi Mubenga	Zaire	1: 55.83

Forward 3

August 14, 1993, 6:12 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Atle Douglas	Norway	1: 49.13
2	Ari Suhonen	Finland	1: 49.44
3	William Tanui	Kenya	1: 49.51
4th	Tomás de Teresa	Spain	1: 49.79
5	Anatoly Makarevich	Belarus	1: 50.65
6th	Dale Jones	Antigua and Barbuda	1: 51.02
7th	Naseer Ismail	Maldives	2: 02.70

Forward 4

August 14, 1993, 6:18 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Kennedy Osei	Ghana	1: 48.65
2	Curtis Robb	Great Britain	1: 49.29
3	Clive Terrelonge	Jamaica	1: 50.03
4th	Adoum Terap	Chad	1: 53.61
DNF	Andrea Benvenuti	Italy
DNS	Charles Nkazamyampi	Burundi
	Tommy Asinga	Suriname

Forward 5

Abdi Bile, the world champion over 1500 meters from 1987 , missed the semi-finals by a hundredth of a second or one rank - here he won bronze over 1500 meters five days later

August 14, 1993, 6:24 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1: 48.79
2	Tom McKean	Great Britain	1: 48.79
3	Mark Everett	United States	1: 48.89
4th	Abdi Bile	Somalia	1: 48.90
5	Farah Ibrahim	Qatar	1: 49.86
6th	Mbiganyi Thee	Botswana	1: 49.91
7th	Carlos Mairena	Nicaragua	1: 52.01

Forward 6

August 14, 1993, 6: 2304 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Majoub Haïda	Morocco	1: 46.35
2	Paul Ruto	Kenya	1: 46.41
3	Martin Steele	Great Britain	1: 46.47
4th	Freddie Williams	Canada	1: 46.63
5	Nathan Kahan	Belgium	1: 46.72
6th	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1: 46.94
7th	Ali Khazaal	Lebanon	1: 57.15

Semifinals

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.

Semi-final run 1

August 15, 1993, 8:50 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 45.04
2	Freddie Williams	Canada	1: 45.13
3	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1: 45.46
4th	Majoub Haïda	Morocco	1: 45.66
5	Atle Douglas	Norway	1: 46.54
6th	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1: 46.58
7th	Martin Steele	Great Britain	1: 46.70
8th	Mark Everett	United States	1: 57.39

Vebjørn Rodal - three years later Olympic champion - did not reach the final with his seventh place

Semi-final run 2

August 15, 1993, 9:00 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1: 44.83
2	Curtis Robb	Great Britain	1: 44.92
3	Paul Ruto	Kenya	1: 45.05
4th	Nathan Kahan	Belgium	1: 45.75
5	Ivan Komar	Belarus	1: 45.76
6th	José Luíz Barbosa	Brazil	1: 45.92
7th	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1: 46.50
8th	Johnny Gray	United States	1: 50.89

Marko Koers did not survive the semi-finals as fifth in his race

Semi-final run 3

August 15, 1993, 9:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Tom McKean	Great Britain	1: 45.64
2	William Tanui	Kenya	1: 45.74
3	Clive Terrelonge	Jamaica	1: 45.75
4th	José Parrilla	United States	1: 45.89
5	Marko Koers	Netherlands	1: 45.90
6th	Ari Suhonen	Finland	1: 46.35
7th	Kennedy Osei	Ghana	1: 46.48
8th	Luis Javier González	Spain	1: 47.29

final

August 17, 1993, 8:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Paul Ruto	Kenya	1: 44.71
2	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1: 44.86
3	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 44.89
4th	Curtis Robb	Great Britain	1: 45.54
5	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1: 45.64
6th	Freddie Williams	Canada	1: 45.79
7th	William Tanui	Kenya	1: 45.80
8th	Tom McKean	Great Britain	1: 46.17

Video

• 1993 World Championships 800m Final, Stuttgart, Germany from youtube.com, accessed on May 8, 2020

Web links

• 4th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed May 8, 2020
• Men 800m Athletics IV World Championship Stuttgart (GER) 1993 at todor66.com (English), accessed on May 8, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 800 m, Stuttgart 1993, p. 112 (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 8, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 8, 2020