1920 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	40 athletes from 17 countries
Competition location	Antwerp Olympic Stadium
Competition phase	August 15, 1920 (preliminary round) August 17, 1920 (semi-finals / finals)
Medalist Albert Hill ( GBR )   Earl Eby ( USA )   Bevil Rudd ( ZAF )

The men's 800-meter run at the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp was held from August 15 to 17, 1920 in the Antwerp Olympic Stadium. 40 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was Albert Hill from Britain, ahead of Earl Eby from the United States . Bronze went to the South African Bevil Rudd .

Germany and Austria were excluded from participating in the 1920 Olympic Games .
The Swiss Paul Martin retired with 1: 59.0 minutes as sixth of his prelim.

Existing records

World record	Ted Meredith ( USA )	1: 51.9 min	Stockholm	July 8, 1912
Olympic record

Conducting the competition

A total of five preliminary runs were carried out on August 15 (4:00 p.m. local time). The athletes who finished in the first four places qualified for the semi-finals, which took place on August 16 at 4.15 p.m. From each of these three races, the three best starters made it to the final, which started at 4.45 p.m. the following day.

Note: The runners qualified for the next round are highlighted in light blue.

Prelims

Date: August 15, 1950, 4:00 p.m. local time

The times are not completely handed down.

Forward 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Edgar Mountain	Great Britain	1: 57.6 min
2	Giuseppe Bonini	Italy	2: 02.2 min
3	Fernand Bauduin	France	2: 02.5 min
4th	James Doig	South African Union	2: 03.0 min
5	Joseph Van Der Wee	Belgium	k. A.
6th	Saburo Hasumi	Japan	k. A.
7th	José Grasset	Spain	k. A.
8th	Karel Přibyl	Czechoslovakia	k. A.
9	Jean Proess	Luxembourg	k. A.

Forward 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Bevil Rudd	South African Union	1: 55.0 min
2	Albert Hill	Great Britain	1: 56.2 min
3	Earl Eby	United States	1: 57.7 min
4th	Paul Esparbès	France	1: 57.7 min
5	Elis Johansson	Sweden	k. A.
6th	Arturo Porro	Italy	k. A.
7th	Léoncé Oleffe	Belgium	k. A.
8th	Hector Phillips	Canada	k. A.
9	Odolf Larsen	Norway	k. A.

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Philip Noel-Baker	Great Britain	1: 56.0 min
2	Donald Scott	United States	1: 56.9 min
3	Anatole Bolin	Sweden	1: 57.8 min
4th	Adriaan Paulen	Netherlands	1: 58.4 min
5	Agide Simonazzi	Italy	1: 58.9 min
6th	Paul Martin	Switzerland	1: 59.0 min
7th	Karel Frankenstein	Czechoslovakia	2: 00.0 min

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Robert Goullieux	France	1: 58.8 min
2	Tom Campbell	United States	1: 59.4 min
3	Henry Dafel	South African Union	1: 59.9 min
4th	Ernesto Ambrosini	Italy	2: 00.2 min
5	Nils Engdahl	Sweden	k. A.
6th	Johannes Villemson	Estonia	k. A.
7th	Josef Teplý	Czechoslovakia	k. A.
DNF	Jean Delarge	Belgium

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sven Lundgren	Sweden	2: 00.6 min
2	Albert Sprott	United States	2: 01.5 min
3	Miguel García Onsalo	Spain	2: 02.2 min
4th	Kléber Argouac'h	France	2: 02.5 min
5	Jaroslav Procházka	Czechoslovakia	k. A.
6th	Henri Godin	Belgium	k. A.
7th	Émile Barral	Monaco	k. A.

Semifinals

Date: August 16, 1950, 4.15 p.m. local time

The transmission of the times is not complete.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Donald Scott	United States	1: 57.2 min
2	Edgar Mountain	Great Britain	1: 58.0 min
3	Albert Sprott	United States	1: 58.7 min
4th	Ernesto Ambrosini	Italy	1: 59.5 min
5	Robert Goullieux	France	1: 59.6 min
6th	Miguel García Onsalo	Spain	2: 01.2 min
7th	James Doig	South African Union	2: 01.5 min

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Bevil Rudd	South African Union	1: 57.0 min
2	Tom Campbell	United States	1: 57.6 min
3	Adriaan Paulen	Netherlands	1: 57.8 min
4th	Sven Lundgren	Sweden	1: 58.1 min
5	Giuseppe Bonini	Italy	1: 58.1 min
6th	Kléber Argouac'h	France	k. A.

Run 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Albert Hill	Great Britain	1: 56.4 min
2	Earl Eby	United States	1: 57.0 min
3	Paul Esparbès	France	1: 57.3 min
4th	Anatole Bolin	Sweden	1: 57.5 min
5	Fernand Bauduin	France	1: 58.0 min
6th	Henry Dafel	South African Union	k. A.
DNS	Philip Noel-Baker	Great Britain

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Albert Hill	Great Britain	1: 53.4 min
2	Earl Eby	United States	1: 53.7 min
3	Bevil Rudd	South African Union	1: 53.7 min
4th	Edgar Mountain	Great Britain	1: 53.8 min
5	Donald Scott	United States	1: 54.8 min
6th	Albert Sprott	United States	1: 56.4 min
7th	Adriaan Paulen	Netherlands	1: 56.4 min
8th	Paul Esparbès	France	1: 58.0 min
DNF	Tom Campbell	United States

Date: August 17, 1950, 4:45 p.m. local time

In the first round of the finals, US runners Earl Eby and Donald Scott took the lead. South African Bevil Rudd, three days later gold medalist over 400 meters , passed the two at the start of the second round and maintained the lead to the home straight before Albert Hill and Eby overtook them and sprinted for victory. Hill was only able to secure the gold medal in the last meters.

Bevil Rudd won the first South African medal in this discipline.

Picture gallery

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  Earl Eby (pictured left, USA), silver medal winner

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  The South African Bevil Rudd wins bronze

literature

• Ekkehard zur Megede , The History of Olympic Athletics, Volume 1: 1896-1936, Verlag Bartels & Wernitz KG, Berlin, 2nd edition 1970, pp. 135f

Web links

• SportsReference 800m , accessed August 30, 2017
• Official report , fr. (PDF), accessed on August 30, 2017

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, ( Memento from June 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Berlin 2009, p. 548.
2. ↑ Official report ( Memento of October 7, 2018 in the Internet Archive ), p. 93. (French)
3. ↑ Description of the finals on SportsReference