World Athletics Championships 1999/800 m men

7th World Athletics Championships
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	58 athletes from 41 countries
venue	Seville
Competition location	Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 26th (preliminary) August 27th (semi-finals) August 29th (final)
Medalist Wilson Kipketer ( DEN )   Hezekiél Sepeng ( RSA )   Djabir Saïd-Guerni ( ALG )

The Olympic Stadium of Seville in 2011

The men's 800-meter race at the 1999 World Athletics Championships was held from August 26th to 29th, 1999 in the Olympic Stadium in the Spanish city ​​of Seville .

Wilson Kipketer , who started for Denmark and also held the world record, won his third World Cup title in a row . He won Hezekiél Sepeng before the South African 1996 Olympic runner-up . Bronze went to the Algerian Djabir Saïd-Guerni .

Existing records

World record	1: 41.11 min	Wilson Kipketer	Cologne , Germany	August 24, 1997
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. World champion Wilson Kipketer starting
for Denmark - 32 hundredths of a second above the existing record at the previous World Championships - this time only missed this record by 24 hundredths of a second in the final on August 29th.

Two national records were set.

• Carlos Calvo ( Luxembourg ) - 1: 48.48 min (6th preliminary on August 26th)
• Djabir Saïd-Guerni ( Algeria ) - 1: 44.18 min (final on August 29th)

Preliminary round

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

Forward 1

• 

  Vebjørn Rodal, 1996 Olympic champion, missed the semifinals by one place

• 

  Khadevis Robinson was eliminated as fifth in his preliminary run

August 26, 1999, 9:45 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 47.29
2	Savieri Ngidhi	Zimbabwe	1: 47.58
3	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1: 48.05
4th	Assane Diallo	Senegal	1: 48.06
5	Khadevis Robinson	United States	1: 48.31
6th	José Manuel Cerezo	Spain	1: 50.08
DSQ	Milton Browne	Barbados	IAAF Rule 163.2 - Disability

Forward 2

August 26, 1999, 9:57 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	André Bucher	Switzerland	1: 46.81
2	Wojciech Kaldowski	Poland	1: 46.88
3	Arthémon Hatungimana	Burundi	1: 47.08
4th	Mark Sesay	Great Britain	1: 47.48
5	Mouhssin Chehibi	Morocco	1: 47.65
6th	Frederick Onyancha	Kenya	1: 47.76
7th	Naseer Ismail	Maldives	1: 56.67
DSQ	Karma Dorji	Bhutan	IAAF Rule 163.3 - Crossing the Track

Forward 3

August 26, 1999, 10:04 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Andrea Longo	Italy	1: 45.01
2	Grant Cremer	Australia	1: 45.21
3	Adem Hecini	Algeria	1: 46.13
4th	James Nolan	Ireland	1: 46.38
5	Kim Soon-hyung	South Korea	1: 46.78
6th	Guillaume Douceret	France	1: 47.69
7th	Mohamed Abd El Rahman	Sudan	1: 53.67

Forward 4

August 26, 1999, 10:11 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Rich Kenah	United States	1: 47.95
2	Kennedy Kimwetich	Kenya	1: 48.45
3	Fact Khaled Azerkan	Sweden	1: 48.46
4th	Crispen Mutakanyi	Zimbabwe	1: 48.73
5	Aleksandr Trutsko	Belarus	1: 48.99
6th	Curtis Robb	Great Britain	1: 49.13
7th	Batmunkh Banzragch	Mongolia	2: 02.45
DSQ	Lucky Hadebe	South Africa	IAAF Rule 163.3b - Crossing the track

Forward 5

August 26, 1999, 10:18 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1: 45.65
2	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1: 46.01
3	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1: 46.18
4th	Rachid Khouia	Morocco	1: 46.96
5	Ian Roberts	Guyana	1: 47.53
6th	Urmet Uusorg	Estonia	1: 48.85
7th	Mohammed SM Albayed	Palestine	1: 52.53

Forward 6

August 26, 1999, 10:25 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Johan Botha	South Africa	1: 46.59
2	Jean-Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1: 46.73
3	Nils Schumann	Germany	1: 46.79
4th	João Pires	Portugal	1: 47.07
5	Jason Lobo	Great Britain	1: 47.53
6th	Balázs Korányi	Hungary	1: 47.60
7th	Carlos Calvo	Luxembourg	1: 48.48 NO

Forward 7

August 26, 1999, 10:32 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1: 45.66
2	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1: 45.80
3	Bryan Woodward	United States	1: 45.98
4th	Glody Dube	Botswana	1: 46.67
5	Zach Whitmarsh	Canada	1: 47.01
6th	Øivind Ødegard gate	Norway	1: 47.07
7th	Víctor Martínez	Andorra	1: 48.73

Forward 8

August 26, 1999, 10:39 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Wilson Kirwa	Finland	1: 46.20
2	Roberto Parra	Spain	1: 46.22
3	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1: 46.24
4th	Mahjoub Haïda	Morocco	1: 46.86
5	Panayiótis Stroubákos	Greece	1: 48.56
6th	David Matthews	Ireland	1: 49.52
7th	Ketson Kabiriel	Northern Mariana Islands	2: 07.73
DNS	Abdul Rahman Hasan Abdulla	Qatar

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 27, 1999, 7:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1: 45.20
2	Andrea Longo	Italy	1: 45.63
3	Rich Kenah	United States	1: 45.99
4th	Roberto Parra	Spain	1: 46.07
5	Wojciech Kaldowski	Poland	1: 46.49
6th	Adem Hecini	Algeria	1: 46.61
7th	James Nolan	Ireland	1: 47.07
8th	Kim Soon-hyung	South Korea	1: 47.15

Semi-final run 2

Wilson Kirwa's seventh place in his semifinals was not enough for the final

August 27, 1999, 7:35 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 44.87
2	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1: 45.17
3	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1: 45.22
4th	Kennedy Kimwetich	Kenya	1: 45.67
5	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1: 45.78
6th	Savieri Ngidhi	Zimbabwe	1: 46.56
7th	Wilson Kirwa	Finland	1: 46.65
8th	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1: 47.16

Semi-final run 3

August 27, 1999, 7:40 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1: 47.74
2	Nils Schumann	Germany	1: 47.90
3	André Bucher	Switzerland	1: 48.07
4th	Grant Cremer	Australia	1: 48.22
5	Glody Dube	Botswana	1: 48.67
6th	Jean-Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1: 48.91
7th	Johan Botha	South Africa	1: 49.71
8th	Bryan Woodward	United States	1: 55.52

• 

  World record holder Wilson Kipketer became world champion for the third time in a row

• 

  Nils Schumann, 1998 European Champion, had to settle for eighth place in the final

final

August 29, 1999, 8:30 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)
1	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 43.30
2	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1: 43.32
3	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1: 44.18 NO
4th	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1: 45.03
5	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1: 45.18
6th	Andrea Longo	Italy	1: 45.33
7th	Kennedy Kimwetich	Kenya	1: 46.27
8th	Nils Schumann	Germany	1: 46.79

Video

• 1999 World Championships Men's 800m Final on youtube.com, accessed July 12, 2020

Web links

• 7th IAAF World Championships In Athletics , accessed July 12, 2020
• Men 800m Athletics VII World Championship 1999 Sevilla (ESP) on todor66.com, accessed July 12, 2020
• Results in the IAAF Statistics Handbook for the 2019 World Cup in Doha, Men 800 m, Seville 1999, p. 113f (PDF; 10.3 MB), English, accessed on July 12, 2020

References and comments

1. ↑ IAAF world records. 800 m men on rekorde-im-sport.de, accessed on July 12, 2020
2. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 88 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on July 12, 2020
3. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules, page 91 (PDF; 4364 kB), accessed on July 12, 2020