World Athletics Championships 2017/800 m men

2017 World Athletics Championships
discipline	Men's 800-meter run
city	London
place	Olympic Stadium London
Attendees	49 athletes from 35 countries
Competition phase	August 5, 2017 (preliminary) August 6, 2017 (semi-finals) August 8, 2017 (final)
Medalist
gold	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse ( FRA )
silver	Adam Kszczot ( POL )
bronze	Kipyegon bed ( KEN )

Runners field in round one of the 800 meter final

The men's 800 meter race at the 2017 World Athletics Championships took place in London , Great Britain , between August 5 and 8, 2017 .

World champion was the Frenchman Pierre-Ambroise Bosse . The Pole Adam Kszczot won the silver medal. Bronze went to the Kenyan Kipyegon bed .

Records

World record	David Lekuta Rudisha	1: 40.91 min	Summer Olympics in London , UK	August 9, 2012
Championship record	Billy Konchellah	1: 43.06 min	World Cup in Rome , Italy	September 1, 1987

Prelims

From the six preliminary runs, the first three of each run - highlighted in light blue - and also the six fastest - highlighted in light green - qualified for the semifinals.

Run 1

The Moroccan Abdelati El Guesse was eliminated in sixth place in his preliminary run

His fifth place in the fourth heat was not enough for the German Marc Reuther to make it to the semi-finals

The Frenchman Samir Dahmani was eliminated with his sixth place in the preliminary run

The Moroccan Mostafa Smaili was fourth in the fifth heat and did not reach the next round

Amel Tuka from Bosnia and Herzegovina finished fifth in his preliminary run and was eliminated

August 5, 2017, 12:45 p.m. local time (1:45 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Kipyegon bed	Kenya	1: 45.76
2	Andreas Kramer	Sweden	1: 45.98
3	Drew Windle	United States	1: 46.08
4th	Abdessalem Ayouni	Tunisia	1: 46.19
5	Andrés Arroyo	Puerto Rico	1: 46.46
6th	Edose Ibadin	Nigeria	1: 46.51
7th	Saud Al-Zaabi	United Arab Emirates	1: 53.34
8th	Pyae Sone Maung	Myanmar	2: 13.38
DNF	Amine Belferar	Algeria

Run 2

August 5, 2017, 12:54 p.m. local time (1:54 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Thijmen Kupers	Netherlands	1: 45.53
2	Brandon McBride	Canada	1: 45.69
3	Kevin López	Spain	1: 45.77
4th	Antoine Gakeme	Burundi	1: 45.97
5	Kyle Langford	Great Britain	1: 46.38
6th	Jesús Tenatiu López	Mexico	1: 46.71
7th	Leandro Paris	Argentina	1: 47.09 PB
8th	Pol Moya	Andorra	1: 49.06

Run 3

August 5, 2017, 1:03 p.m. local time (2:03 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich	Kenya	1: 45.77
2	Isaiah Harris	United States	1: 45.82
3	Elliot Giles	Great Britain	1: 45.86
4th	Ebrahim al-Zofairi	Kuwait	1: 46.29 PB
5	Álvaro de Arriba	Spain	1: 46.42
6th	Abdelati El Guesse	Morocco	1: 46.74
7th	Ryan Sánchez	Puerto Rico	1: 50.74
DNS	Wesam Al-Massri	Palestine

Run 4

August 5, 2017, 1:12 p.m. local time (2:12 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Emmanuel Korir	Kenya	1: 47.08
2	Michał Rozmys	Poland	1: 47.09
3	Thiago André	Brazil	1: 47.22
4th	Alex Amankwah	Ghana	1: 47.56
5	Marc Reuther	Germany	1: 47.78
6th	Samir Dahmani	France	1: 48.62
7th	Peter Bol	Australia	1: 49.65
8th	Ahmed Bashir Farah	Athlete Refugee Team	1: 50.04 PB athlete from Somalia

Run 5

August 5, 2017, 1:21 p.m. local time (2:21 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Nijel Amos	Botswana	1: 47.10
2	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	France	1: 47.25
3	Adam Kszczot	Poland	1: 47.36
4th	Mostafa Smaili	Morocco	1: 47.50
5	Mark English	Ireland	1: 48.01
6th	Abu Salim Mayanja	Uganda	1: 48.11
7th	Francky-Edgard Mbotto	Central African Republic	1: 51.76
DNF	Hamada Mohamed	Egypt

Run 6

August 5, 2017, 1:30 p.m. local time (2:30 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Donavan Brazier	United States	1: 45.65
2	Mohammed Aman	Ethiopia	1: 45.81
3	Guy Learmonth	Great Britain	1: 45.90
4th	Marcin Lewandowski	Poland	1: 46.17
5	Amel Tuka	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1: 46.54
6th	Astrite Kryeziu	Kosovo	1: 49.94
DSQ	Daniel Andújar	Spain	IAAF Rule 163.2 - Disability
DNS	Michael Loturomom Saruni	Kenya

Semifinals

From the three semi-finals, the first two of each run - highlighted in light blue - and the two fastest times - highlighted in light green - qualified for the final.

Run 1

The Kenyan Ferguson Rotich retired as third in his semi-final race

Even Marcin Lewandowski from Poland was not enough to take third place in the second semifinal run

In the last and fastest of the three semi-finals, the Swede Andreas Kramer was eliminated with his sixth place

August 6, 2017, 9:15 p.m. local time (10:15 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Adam Kszczot	Poland	1: 46.24
2	Nijel Amos	Botswana	1: 46.29
3	Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich	Kenya	1: 46.49
4th	Isaiah Harris	United States	1: 46.66
5	Guy Learmonth	Great Britain	1: 46.75
6th	Elliot Giles	Great Britain	1: 46.95
7th	Abdessalem Ayouni	Tunisia	1: 47.39
8th	Kevin López	Spain	1: 47.62

Run 2

August 6, 2017, 9:23 p.m. local time (10:23 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Brandon McBride	Canada	1: 45.53
2	Kyle Langford	Great Britain	1: 45.81
3	Marcin Lewandowski	Poland	1: 45.93
4th	Emmanuel Korir	Kenya	1: 46.08
5	Drew Windle	United States	1: 46.33
6th	Ebrahim al-Zofairi	Kuwait	1: 46.68
7th	Antoine Gakeme	Burundi	1: 47.08
DNS	Thijmen Kupers	Netherlands

Run 3

August 6, 2017, 9:32 p.m. local time (10:32 p.m. CEST )

space	Surname	country	Time (min)
1	Kipyegon bed	Kenya	1: 45.02
2	Mohammed Aman	Ethiopia	1: 45.40 SB
3	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	France	1: 45.63
4th	Thiago André	Brazil	1: 45.83
5	Michał Rozmys	Poland	1: 46.10
6th	Andreas Kramer	Sweden	1: 46.25
7th	Donavan Brazier	United States	1: 46.27
8th	Álvaro de Arriba	Spain	1: 46.64

final

August 8, 2017, 9:35 p.m. local time (10:35 p.m. CEST )

Not there was the Kenyan Olympic champion in 2012 / 2016 and world champion of 2011 / 2015 David Rudisha , the same also holds the world record . The world champion were among the favorites in the first place in 2013 Mohammed Aman of Ethiopia, the Olympic silver medalist from 2012 Nijel Amos from Botswana, the Pole Adam Kszczot as Vice World Champion in 2015 and European champion of 2014 / 2016 and the Kenyans Kipyegon bed, which here in the semifinals had presented strongly in London .

In the final, Canadian Brandon McBride set a high starting pace. The 400 meter split was 50.78 seconds. On the back straight of the final lap, Frenchman Pierre-Ambroise Bosse attacked and took the lead. In the target curve, he pulled away from his opponents a little. But the second-placed Bett and Amos in third were still promising in the race. Aman and Kszczot followed on the next ranks with some distance. With great stamina, Pierre-Ambroise Bosse brought his lead to the finish and won the world title. On the home straight, two runners in particular sped past several opponents: Adam Kszczot won the silver medal and the Briton Kyle Langford came very close to Kipyegon Bett, who was able to save the bronze medal with a lead of four hundredths of a second over the Briton. Behind Langford, Nijel Amos was fifth, Mohammed Aman was sixth, ahead of Brazilian Thiago André and Brandon McBride, who was initially in the lead.

space	athlete	country	Time (min)
	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	France	1: 44.67 SB
	Adam Kszczot	Poland	1: 44.95 SB
	Kipyegon bed	Kenya	1: 45.21
4th	Kyle Langford	Great Britain	1: 45.25 PB
5	Nijel Amos	Botswana	1: 45.83
6th	Mohammed Aman	Ethiopia	1: 46.06
7th	Thiago André	Brazil	1: 46.30
8th	Brandon McBride	Canada	1: 47.09

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  World champion Pierre-Ambroise Bosse, France

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  Joy about his success: Vice World Champion Adam Kszczot from Poland

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  Bronze medalist Kipyegon Bett from Kenya - here as the leader in his semi-final race

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  The Briton Kyle Langfort came fourth

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  Fifth place for Nijel Amos from Botswana

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  The Ethiopian Mohammed Aman came in sixth place

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  The Brazilian Thiago André finished seventh

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  The Canadian Brandon McBride finished eighth in this final

Web links and sources

• Homepage for the 2017 World Championships, 800 m men on the IAAF website , accessed on November 21, 2018
• Results of the 2017 World Athletics Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 21, 2018
• Reports on the 2017 World Championships at Leichtathletik.de, accessed on November 21, 2018

Video

• WCH London 2017 Highlights - 800m Men - Final - Bosse wins on youtube.com, published on August 9, 2017, accessed on November 21, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF competition rules, page 73 (PDF), accessed on November 21, 2018