World Athletics Championships 1995/800 m men

5th World Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	48 athletes from 33 countries
venue	Gothenburg
Competition location	Ullevi Stadium
Competition phase	August 5th (preliminary) August 6th (semi-finals) August 8th (final)
Medalist Wilson Kipketer ( DEN )   Arthémon Hatungimana ( BDI )   Vebjørn Rodal ( NOR )

The Gothenburg Ullevi Stadium in 2006

The men's 800-meter run at the 1995 World Athletics Championships was held from August 5th to 8th, 1995 in Gothenburg's Ullevi Stadium .

The Dane Wilson Kipketer won his first of three world titles . He won Arthémon Hatungimana from Burundi before third at the African Championships in 1993 . Bronze went to the Norwegian Vice European Champion from 1994 Vebjørn Rodal .

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 missed by a long way at these world championships. The races were aimed exclusively at a sprint finish. With the fastest time in the competition, achieved in the final, world champion Wilson Kipketer stayed exactly two seconds above the eight-year-old world championship record.

Preliminary round

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

Forward 1

Marko Koers was eliminated in the preliminary round as fifth in his race

August 5, 1995, 4:15 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Jose Parrilla	United States	1: 46.32
2	Curtis Robb	Great Britain	1: 46.34
3	Andrea Giocondi	Italy	1: 46.44
4th	Einars tupuritis	Latvia	1: 46.45
5	Marko Koers	Netherlands	1: 46.73
6th	José Arconada	Spain	1: 47.70
7th	Tavakalo Kailes	Vanuatu	1: 58.06

Forward 2

August 5, 1995, 4:21 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Philip Kibitok	Kenya	1: 48.45
2	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1: 48.48
3	Tomás de Teresa	Spain	1: 49.07
4th	Jurgens Kotzé	South Africa	1: 49.40
5	Brendan Hanigan	Australia	1: 50.25
6th	Tommy Asinga	Suriname	1: 51.60
7th	Michael Wildner	Austria	1: 57.58

Forward 3

Andrés Manuel Díaz missed the semi-finals by one place as third in his preliminary run

August 5, 1995, 4:27 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 47.35
2	Arthémon Hatungimana	Burundi	1: 47.74
3	Andrés Manuel Díaz	Spain	1: 48.00
4th	David Strand	Great Britain	1: 48.76
5	Babacar Niang	Senegal	1: 49.74
6th	William Kimaru Serem	Kenya	1: 50.61
DSQ	Bekele Banbere	Ethiopia	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

Forward 4

August 5, 1995, 4:33 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1: 46.33
2	Atle Douglas	Norway	1: 46.41
3	Benyounés Lahlou	Morocco	1: 46.72
4th	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1: 47.43
5	Tomonari Ono	Japan	1: 48.43
6th	Ivan Komar	Belarus	1: 51,, 36
7th	Vanxay Singbandith	Laos	2: 00.25

Forward 5

August 5, 1995, 4:39 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Mark Everett	United States	1: 48.06
2	Davide Cadoni	Italy	1: 48.25
3	Andrei Loginow	Russia	1: 48.30
4th	Pavel Soukup	Czech Republic	1: 48.32
5	Savieri Ngidhi	Zimbabwe	1: 48.77
6th	Jimmy Jean-Joseph	France	1: 51.00
DSQ	Dhani Ram Chaudhari	Nepal	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

Forward 6

His third place in the sixth heat was not enough for José Luíz Barbosa to take part in the semi-finals

August 5, 1995, 4:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Brandon Rock	United States	1: 46.83
2	Mahjoub Haïda	Morocco	1: 46.88
3	José Luíz Barbosa	Brazil	1: 47.10
4th	Frédéric Cornette	France	1: 47.36
5	Charles Nkazamyampi	Burundi	1: 49.76
6th	Anwar Omar Mohammad	Yemen	1: 58.20
DNS	Julius Achon	Uganda

Forward 7

August 5, 1995, 4:51 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1: 46.14
2	Joseph Tengelei	Kenya	1: 46.18
3	Bruno Konczylo	France	1: 46.44
4th	David Matthews	Ireland	1: 46.52
5	Antonio Abrantes	Portugal	1: 48.10
6th	Torbjörn Johansson	Sweden	1: 48.31
7th	Mahmoud Al-Kheirat	Syria	1: 48.76

Semifinals

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

Semi-final run 1

August 6, 1995, 4:25 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 48.39
2	Jose Parrilla	United States	1: 49.43
3	Andrea Giocondi	Italy	1: 49.45
4th	Mark Everett	United States	1: 49.47
5	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1: 49.58
6th	Atle Douglas	Norway	1: 49.63
7th	Philip Kibitok	Kenya	1: 49.87
8th	Curtis Robb	Great Britain	1: 50.12

Semi-final run 2

August 6, 1995, 4:33 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1: 47.69
2	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1: 47.96
3	Arthémon Hatungimana	Burundi	1: 48.02
4th	Brandon Rock	United States	1: 48.04
5	Bruno Konczylo	France	1: 48.05
6th	Mahjoub Haïda	Morocco	1: 48.21
7th	Joseph Tengelei	Kenya	1: 48.71
8th	Davide Cadoni	Italy	1: 53.67

• 

  Wilson Kipketer (here after his world record run in Cologne in 1997) won his first of three world championship titles

• 

  Vebjørn Rodal, Vice European Champion in 1994 , won bronze - the following year he became  Olympic champion

final

August 8, 1995, 6:10 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 45.08
2	Arthémon Hatungimana	Burundi	1: 45.64
3	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1: 45.68
4th	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1: 45.97
5	Brandon Rock	United States	1: 46.42
6th	Jose Parrilla	United States	1: 46.44
7th	Andrea Giocondi	Italy	1: 47.78
8th	Mark Everett	United States	1: 53.12

Video

• 1995 World Championships 800m Final on youtube.com, accessed May 24, 2020

Web links

• 5th IAAF World Championships in Athletics , accessed on May 24, 2020
• Men 800m Athletics V World Championship 1995 Goteborg (SWE) on todor66.com (English), accessed on May 24, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 800 m, Gothenborg 1995, p. 112f (PDF 10.3 MB), English, accessed on May 24, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on May 24, 2020
2. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on May 24, 2020