1984 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	69 athletes from 54 countries
Competition location	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Competition phase	August 3, 1984 (preliminary round) August 4, 1984 (quarter-finals) August 5, 1984 (semi-finals) August 6, 1984 (final)
Medalist Joaquim Cruz ( BRA )   Sebastian Coe ( GBR )   Earl Jones ( USA )

The men's 800-meter race at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles was held from August 3 to 6, 1984 at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum . 69 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the Brazilian Joaquim Cruz . He won ahead of the Briton Sebastian Coe and the American Earl Jones .

The Federal Republic of Germany was represented by Hans-Peter Ferner and Axel Harries . Harries was eliminated in the preliminary round, also in the semi-finals. The Swiss Marco Mayr failed in the quarterfinals. Runners from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part. Athletes from the GDR were also not there because of the Olympic boycott.

Current title holders

Olympic champion 1980	Steve Ovett ( Great Britain )	1: 45.4 min	Moscow 1980
World Champion 1983	Willi Wülbeck ( Federal Republic of Germany )	1: 43.65 min	Helsinki 1983
European Champion 1982	Hans-Peter Ferner ( Federal Republic of Germany )	1: 46.33 min	Athens 1982
Pan American Champion 1983	Agberto Guimarães ( Brazil )	1: 46.31 min	Caracas 1983
Central America and Caribbean Champion 1983	Bárbaro Serrano ( Cuba )	1: 47.67 min	Havana 1983
South America Champion 1983	José Luíz Barbosa ( Brazil )	1: 49.1 min	Santa Fe 1983
Asian champion 1983	Najem Abdullah Mutiaq ( Kuwait )	1: 49.43 min	Kuwait City 1983
African champions 1982	Juma Ndiwa ( Kenya )	1: 48.10 min	Cairo 1982

Existing records

World record	1: 41.73 min	Sebastian Coe ( Great Britain )	Florence , Italy	June 10, 1981
Olympic record	1: 43.50 min	Alberto Juantorena ( Cuba )	Final of Montreal , Canada	July 25, 1976

Preliminary round

Date: August 3, 1984

The 69 participants were drawn in nine runs. The first three athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. Furthermore, the five fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , advanced. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

At the age of 16, Barakat Al-Sharji from Oman was the youngest participant. The oldest starter was Jodha Gurung from Nepal at the age of 30 .

The Brazilian Joaquim Cruz achieved the fastest lead time with 1: 45.66 minutes in run 5. The slowest directly qualified athlete was Philippe Dupont from France in run 4 with 1: 48.09 min. The fastest athlete who could not qualify was the Canadian Simon Hoogewerf, who retired in the eighth run with 1: 47.74 minutes.

Forward 1

With Samuel Sawny, a track and field athlete from Grenada took part in the Olympic Games for the first time.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Babacar Niang	Senegal	1: 46.90 min
2	Abdi Bile	Somalia	1: 46.92 min
3	Donato Sabia	Italy	1: 47.04 min
4th	Sotirios Moutsanas	Greece	1: 47.32 min
5	Joseph Ramotshabi	Botswana	1: 48.17 min
6th	André Titos	Mozambique	1: 51.73 min
7th	Samuel Sawny	Grenada	1: 53.08 min
8th	Jodha Gurung	Kingdom of Nepal	1: 56.72 min

Forward 2

Omer Khalifa from Sudan reached the semi-finals and was eliminated there in sixth

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sebastian Coe	Great Britain	1: 45.71 min
2	Omer Khalifa	Sudan	1: 45.81 min
3	Colomán Trabado	Spain	1: 46.00 min
4th	Riccardo Materazzi	Italy	1: 46.03 min
5	Marcus O'Sullivan	Ireland	1: 46.85 min
6th	Archfell Musango	Zambia	1: 48.84 min
7th	Leopoldo Acosta	Ecuador	1: 54.06 min
8th	Manlio Molinari	San Marino	1: 57.09 min

Forward 3

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Owen Hamilton	Jamaica	1: 46.95 min
2	Moussa case	Senegal	1: 47.91 min
3	John Marshall	United States	1: 47.99 min
4th	Jama Mohamed Aden	Somalia	1: 48.64 min
5	Peter Pearless	New Zealand	1: 49.95 min
6th	Alberto López Davila	Guatemala	1: 54.19 min
DSQ	Vusie Dlamini	Swaziland
DNS	Manuel Ramírez-Caicedo	Colombia

Forward 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Earl Jones	United States	1: 47.75 min
2	Faouzi Lahbi	Morocco	1: 47.81 min
3	Philipe Dupont	France	1: 48.09 min
4th	Axel Harries	BR Germany	1: 48.92 min
5	Mouteb Al-Faouri	Jordan	1: 53.89 min
6th	Ibrahim Aziz	United Arab Emirates	1: 54.86 min
DSQ	Kim Bok-joo	South Korea

Forward 5

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Joaquim Cruz	Brazil	1: 45.66 min
2	Steve Ovett	Great Britain	1: 46.66 min
3	Oslen Barr	Guyana	1: 47.65 min
4th	Benjamin González	Spain	1: 48.01 min
5	Batulamai Rajakumar	Malaysia	1: 48.19 min
6th	Isaac Ganunga	Malawi	1: 51.25 min
7th	Francisco Figueredo	Paraguay	1: 52.22 min
8th	Siegfried Cruden	Suriname	1: 53.31 min

Forward 6

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Johnny Gray	United States	1: 47.19 min
2	Patrick Scammell	Australia	1: 47.24 min
3	Marco Mayr	Switzerland	1: 47.36 min
4th	Ahmed Belkessam	Algeria	1: 47.51 min
5	Syed Meshaq Rizvi	Pakistan	1: 51.29 min
6th	William Amakye	Ghana	1: 54.80 min
7th	Philip Sinon	Seychelles	2: 04.89 min

Forward 7

Together with his teammate Faustin Butera, Jean-Marie Rudasingwa was the first athlete in Rwanda to take part in the Olympic Games in the 400-meter hurdles . With Moussa Daweye, the first athlete from Niger took part.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Edwin Koech	Kenya	1: 47.11 min
2	Hans-Peter Ferner	BR Germany	1: 47.55 min
3	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	1: 47.72 min
4th	Mark Handelsman	Israel	1: 47.90 min
5	Jeremy Molyneaux	British Virgin Islands	1: 53.23 min
6th	Jean-Marie Rudasingwa	Togo	1: 53.23 min
7th	Bartolome Esono Asumu	Equatorial Guinea	2: 17.29 min
DSQ	Moussa Daweye	Niger

Forward 8

Charles Oliver, along with his teammate Johnson Kere in the 100-meter run , was the Solomon Islands' first athlete to compete in the Olympic Games.
Abdul Al-Ghadi and his brother Ali Al-Ghadi in the 10,000 meter run were the first athletes in North Yemen at the Olympic Games.

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Juma Ndiwa	Kenya	1: 46.73 min
2	William Wuycke	Venezuela	1: 46.88 min
3	Mohamed Alouini	Tunisia	1: 47.20 min
4th	Simon Hoogewerf	Canada	1: 47.74 min
5	Tapfumaneyi Jonga	Zimbabwe	1: 49.59 min
6th	Charles Oliver	Solomon Islands	1: 53.22 min
7th	Barakat Al-Sharji	Oman	2: 00.38 min
8th	Abdul Al-Ghadi	North Yemen	2: 05.90 min

Forward 9

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 46.27 min
2	Peter Elliott	Great Britain	1: 46.98 min
3	José Luíz Barbosa	Brazil	1: 47.12 min
4th	Bruce Roberts	Canada	1: 47.56 min
5	Charles Borromeo	India	1: 51.52 min
6th	Dale Jones	Antigua and Barbuda	1: 51.52 min
7th	Peter Ceesay	Gambia	1: 55.35 min
8th	Ousman Miangoto	Chad	1: 56.02 min

Quarter finals

Date: August 4, 1984

In each of the four rounds of the quarter-finals, the first four athletes (highlighted in light blue) qualified for the semi-finals.

With 1: 44.74 min, Edwin Koech from Kenya ran the fastest quarter-final time in race 1. The slowest time of a qualifier was the 1: 46.87 min of the Brazilian José Luíz Barbosa in run 2.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Edwin Koech	Kenya	1: 44.74 min
2	Donato Sabia	Italy	1: 44.90 min
3	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	1: 45.18 min
4th	Peter Elliott	Great Britain	1: 45.49 min
5	Faouzi Lahbi	Morocco	1: 45.67 min
6th	Babacar Niang	Senegal	1: 45.71 min
7th	Sotirios Moutsanas	Greece	1: 46.34 min
DNS	Colomán Trabado	Spain	1: 46.34 min

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 46.15 min
2	Omer Khalifa	Sudan	1: 46.33 min
3	Sebastian Coe	Great Britain	1: 46.75 min
4th	José Luíz Barbosa	Brazil	1: 46.87 min
5	John Marshall	United States	1: 47.18 min
6th	Riccardo Materazzi	Italy	1: 47.90 min
7th	Ahmed Belkessam	Algeria	1: 48.11 min
8th	Marco Mayr	Switzerland	1: 48.30 min

Run 3

Scene from run 3: Steve Ovett (388) and William Wuycke (950), Hamilton is running between the two, Abdi Bile on the right, Patrick Scammell on the left

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Joaquim Cruz	Brazil	1: 44.84 min
2	Steve Ovett	Great Britain	1: 45.72 min
3	Johnny Gray	United States	1: 45.82 min
4th	William Wuycke	Venezuela	1: 46.17 min
5	Abdi Bile	Somalia	1: 46.49 min
6th	Owen Hamilton	Jamaica	1: 46.74 min
7th	Patrick Scammell	Australia	1: 47.90 min
8th	Bruce Roberts	Canada	1: 49.72 min

Run 4

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Earl Jones	United States	1: 45.44 min
2	Hans-Peter Ferner	BR Germany	1: 45.52 min
3	Juma Ndiwa	Kenya	1: 45.59 min
4th	Moussa case	Senegal	1: 45.71 min
5	Mohamed Alouini	Tunisia	1: 45.78 min
6th	Marcus O'Sullivan	Ireland	1: 46.21 min
7th	Oslen Barr	Guyana	1: 46.97 min
8th	Philippe Dupont	France	1: 48.95 min

Semifinals

Date: August 5, 1984

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

The best time of the semifinals was achieved by Joaquim Cruz with 1: 43.82 min in run 1.

Run 1

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Joaquim Cruz	Brazil	1: 43.82 min
2	Edwin Koech	Kenya	1: 44.12 min
3	Earl Jones	United States	1: 44.51 min
4th	Steve Ovett	Great Britain	1: 44.81 min
5	Omer Khalifa	Sudan	1: 44.87 min
6th	Moussa case	Senegal	1: 45.03 min
7th	William Wuycke	Venezuela	1: 47.32 min
DNS	Peter Elliott	Great Britain

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Sebastian Coe	Great Britain	1: 45.51 min
2	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 45.67 min
3	Johnny Gray	United States	1: 45.82 min
4th	Donato Sabia	Italy	1: 45.96 min
5	Hans-Peter Ferner	BR Germany	1: 46.16 min
6th	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	1: 46.65 min
7th	Juma Ndiwa	Kenya	1: 48.06 min
8th	José Luíz Barbosa	Brazil	1: 48.70 min

final

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Joaquim Cruz	Brazil	1: 43.00 min	OR
2	Sebastian Coe	Great Britain	1: 43.64 min
3	Earl Jones	United States	1: 43.83 min
4th	Billy Konchellah	Kenya	1: 44.03 min
5	Donato Sabia	Italy	1: 44.53 min
6th	Edwin Koech	Kenya	1: 44.86 min
7th	Johnny Gray	United States	1: 47.89 min
8th	Steve Ovett	Great Britain	1: 52.28 min

Date: August 6, 1984

Both participating US-Americans, two British, two Kenyans, one Italian and one Brazilian had qualified for the final. The Brazilian Joaquim Cruz was considered the favorite of the race. In addition, there was the world record holder Sebastian Coe and his compatriot, the 1980 Olympic champion Steve Ovett , who however suffered from breathing difficulties.

The field stayed together until the 600 meter mark, led by the Kenyan Edwin Koech. Then Cruz and Coe picked up the pace and pulled the field apart. At the start of the home stretch, Cruz had taken the lead and defeated Coe in the final sprint. Behind Coe, US runner Earl Jones took third place in front of Kenyan Billy Konchellah . Donato Sabia from Italy followed in 5th place . Edwin Koech, who had been leading for a long time, was sixth ahead of the second American, Johnny Gray . Ovett, Cruz's predecessor as Olympic champion, crossed the finish line eighth.

Joaquim Cruz was the first Olympic and medalist in Brazil over 800 meters .

literature

• Olympic Games 1984 Los Angeles Sarajevo with contributions by Ulrich Kaiser and Heinz Maegerlein , eds. Manfred Vorderwülbecke , C. Bertelsmann Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-570-01851-2 , pp. 18f

Web links

• SportsReference 800m , accessed January 6, 2018
• Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , pp. 274–276, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 6, 2018

Video

• 1984 Los Angeles Olympics 800m Final , posted April 19, 2006 on youtube.com, accessed January 6, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 669 , accessed on January 6, 2018
2. ↑ Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , pp. 274f, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 6, 2018
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Los Angeles 1984 Official Report, 3, Results of the Games , p. 275, English / French (PDF, 11 MB), accessed on January 6, 2018