2000 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	61 athletes from 48 countries
Competition location	Stadium Australia
Competition phase	September 23, 2000 (preliminary round) September 25, 2000 (semi-finals) September 27, 2000 (final)
Medalist Nils Schumann ( GER )   Wilson Kipketer ( DEN )   Djabir Saïd-Guerni ( ALG )

The men's 800-meter run at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney was held on September 23, 25 and 27, 2000 at Stadium Australia . 61 athletes took part.

Olympic champion was the German Nils Schumann . He won ahead of the Kenyan Wilson Kipketer , who started for Denmark, and the Algerian Djabir Saïd-Guerni .

The Swiss André Bucher also reached the final and was fifth there.
Athletes from Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Title holder

Olympic champion 1996	Vebjørn Rodal ( Norway )	1: 42.58 min	Atlanta 1996
World Champion 1999	Wilson Kipketer ( Denmark )	1: 43.30 min	Seville 1999
European champion 1998	Nils Schumann ( Germany )	1: 44.89 min	Budapest 1998
Pan American Champion 1999	Johnny Gray ( USA )	1: 45.38 min	Winnipeg 1999
Central America and Caribbean champions 1999	Ian Roberts ( Guyana )	1: 46.85 min	Bridgetown 1999
South American Champion 1999	Hudson de Souza ( Brazil )	1: 49.82 min	Bogotá 1999
Asian champion 2000	Mehdi Jelodarzadeh ( Iran )	1: 49.80 min	Jakarta 2000
African Champion 2000	Djabir Saïd-Guerni ( Algeria )	1: 45.88 min	Algiers 2000
Oceania Champion 2000	Isireli Naikelekelevesi ( Fiji )	1: 51.49 min	Adelaide 2000

Existing records

World record	1: 41.11 min	Wilson Kipketer ( Denmark )	Cologne , Germany	August 24, 1997
Olympic record	1: 42.58 min	Vebjørn Rodal ( Norway )	Atlanta , USA	July 31, 1996

Note: All times are local Sydney time ( UTC + 10 ).

Preliminary round

A total of eight preliminary runs were completed. The first two athletes per run qualified for the quarter-finals. In addition, the eight fastest drivers, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

September 23, 2000, 10:45 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Andrea Longo	Italy	1: 46.32
2	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1: 46.76
3	James McIlroy	Great Britain	1: 47.44
4th	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1: 47.66
5	Vanco Stajanov	Macedonia	1: 47.71
6th	Rich Kenah	United States	1: 47.85
7th	Kim Soon-hyung	South Korea	1: 48.49
DSQ	Mohammed Al-Kafraini	Jordan		DSQ according to IAAF Rule 163.3, crossing the lane boundary

Forward 2

September 23, 2000, 10:52 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Nils Schumann	Germany	1: 47.76
2	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1: 47.95
3	Arthémon Hatungimana	Burundi	1: 48.14
4th	Zachary Whitmarsh	Canada	1: 48.42
5	David Matthews	Ireland	1: 48.77
6th	Andrew Hart	Great Britain	1: 48.78
7th	Isireli Naikelekelevesi	Fiji	1: 49.61

Forward 3

September 23, 2000, 10:59 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1: 47.46
2	Adem Hecini	Algeria	1: 47.62
3	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1: 47.86
4th	Dmitry Bogdanov	Russia	1: 48.14
5	Roberto Parra	Spain	1: 48.19
6th	Robert True	Liberia	1: 48.79
7th	Mohamed Habib Bel Hajj	Tunisia	1: 49.14
8th	Jorge Duvane	Mozambique	1: 52.97

Forward 4

September 23, 2000, 11:06 am

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 45.57
2	Glody Dube	Botswana	1: 46.17
3	Johan Botha	South Africa	1: 46.91
4th	Crispen Mutakanyi	Zimbabwe	1: 47.66
5	José Manuel Cerezo	Spain	1: 48.11
6th	Artyom Mastrov	Russia	1: 49.89
7th	Ian Roberts	Guyana	1: 52.32
8th	Marvin Watts	Jamaica	1: 59.97	Wildcard according to IAAF Rule 163.2a, obstruction by an opponent

Forward 5

September 23, 2000, 11:13 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Pavel Pelepyagin	Belarus	1: 46.47
2	Jean-Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1: 46.78
3	El-Mahjoub Haida	Morocco	1: 47.14
4th	William Yiampoy	Kenya	1: 47.35
5	João Pires	Portugal	1: 47.61
6th	Abdou Ibrahim Youssef	Qatar	1: 53.23
7th	Naseer Ismail	Maldives	1: 56.67
8th	Faig Bagirov	Azerbaijan	1: 57.39

Forward 6

September 23, 2000, 11:20 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Yuri Borsakovsky	Russia	1: 45.39
2	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1: 45.60
3	Grant Cremer	Australia	1: 45.86
4th	Balázs Korányi	Hungary	1: 46.21
5	Bryan Woodward	United States	1: 47.64
6th	Mehdi Jelodarzadeh	Iran	1: 47.91
7th	Mohamed Haidara	Bahrain	1: 56.64
DNS	Mohammed Yagoub	Sudan

Forward 7

September 23, 2000, 11:27 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Khalid Tighazouine	Morocco	1: 46.33
2	André Bucher	Switzerland	1: 46.51
3	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1: 46.94
4th	Osmar dos Santos	Brazil	1: 47.05
5	Milton Browne	Barbados	1: 47.63
6th	Nathan Kahan	Belgium	147.69
7th	Panagiotis Stroubakos	Greece	1: 47.96

Forward 8

The Dutchman Bram Som was eliminated as third in his run

September 23, 2000, 11:34 a.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Werner Botha	South Africa	1: 47.85
2	Mouhssin Chehibi	Morocco	1: 48.51
3	Bram Som	Netherlands	1: 48.58
4th	Kristopher McCarthy	Australia	1: 48.92
5	Mark Everett	United States	1: 49.77
6th	Paskar Owor	Uganda	1: 49.99
7th	Witalie Cerches	Moldova	1: 52.15
8th	Puntsag-Ochiryn Pürevsüren	Mongolia	1: 56.29

Semifinals

In each of the three semi-finals, the first two athletes qualified for the final. In addition, the two fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Run 1

September 25, 2000, 10:55 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Nils Schumann	Germany	1: 44.22
2	André Bucher	Switzerland	1: 44.38
3	Glody dude	Botswana	1: 44.70	NO
4th	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1: 44.85
5	William Yiampoy	Kenya	1: 45.88
6th	James McIlroy	Great Britain	1: 46.39
7th	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1: 48.73
8th	Mouhssin Chehibi	Morocco	1: 49.88

Run 2

The Olympic sixth Juri Borsakowski from Russia

September 25, 2000, 11:12 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1: 44.19
2	Yuri Borsakovsky	Russia	1: 44.33
3	Khalid Tighazouine	Morocco	1: 45.38
4th	Johan Botha	South Africa	1: 45.49
5	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1: 45.64
6th	Jean-Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1: 46.98
7th	Pavel Pelepyagin	Belarus	1: 50.37
8th	Grant Cremer	Australia	1: 52.57

Run 3

September 25, 2000, 11:29 pm

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 44.22
2	Andrea Longo	Italy	1: 44.49
3	Adem Hecini	Algeria	1: 45.08
4th	El-Mahjoub Haida	Morocco	1: 46.35
5	Werner Botha	South Africa	1: 46.53
6th	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1: 47.24
7th	Balázs Korányi	Hungary	1: 47.35
8th	Marvin Watts	Jamaica	1: 47.68
	Osmar dos Santos	Brazil

final

Silver medalist Wilson Kipketer from Denmark

space	Surname	nation	Time (s)	annotation
1	Nils Schumann	Germany	1: 45.08
2	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1: 45.14
3	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1: 45.16
4th	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1: 45.29
5	André Bucher	Switzerland	1: 45.40
6th	Yuri Borsakovsky	Russia	1: 45.83
7th	Glody Dube	Botswana	1: 46.24
DSQ	Andrea Longo	Italy	-	DSQ according to IAAF Rule 163.2, disability

September 27, 2000, 8:20 pm

Athletes from eight nations qualified for the final.

After the major international athletics events leading up to the Sydney Games , a field of favorites for this race had emerged. These included the reigning world champion and world record holder Wilson Kipketer, a born Kenyan who competed for Denmark, the Algerian Djabir Saïd-Guerni, the Swiss André Bucher and Juri Borsakowski from Russia. Then there was the South African Hezekiél Sepeng, who won the silver medal in 1996 and was vice world champion, as well as the German European champion Nils Schumann, who started the season very late due to injury, but made a very good impression in the preliminary rounds here in Sydney.

The first lap was led by Bucher, followed by the Italian Andrea Longo and Schumann. With 53.43 s there was a very mediocre 400-meter split, the field of runners stayed together. Longo lay down next to Bucher at the beginning of the last lap and walked shoulder to shoulder with him. Schumann and Saïd-Guerni followed behind them. On the back straight the pace slowly increased. At the beginning of the last corner, Borsakowski passed Saïd-Guerni and Schumann on the outside. Longo tried to find a good starting position and pushed Bucher off the track. The Swiss continued the race just ahead of Schumann. At the beginning of the home straight, Schumann accelerated significantly and pulled past the runners in front of him into the leading position. There was a small gap between the German and the pursuers. Kipketer now also accelerated and took second place. In the last few meters he came closer to Schumann and it was very close. Saïd-Guerni sprinted past Borsakowski and Bucher, and he too was now very close to the two front runners. Nils Schumann finally won the race with a lead of six hundredths of a second over Wilson Kipketer. Djabir Saïd-Guerni won the bronze medal just two hundredths of a second behind the world champion. Hezekiél Sepeng came fourth ahead of André Bucher and Juri Borsakowski.

It was one of the tightest 800-meter races in Olympic history. The first three runners were only eight hundredths of a second apart, the fourth Sepeng only 21 hundredths of a second, the fifth Bucher 32 hundredths of a second later than the winner. Andrea Longo, who crossed the finish line in sixth ahead of Borsakowski and the Botswanian Glody Dube, was subsequently disqualified because of Bucher's handicap.

Nils Schumann was the first German Olympic champion in the 800 meter run .

Wilson Kipketer won the first Danish medal in this discipline, Djabir Saïd-Guerni the first Algerian.

literature

• Rudi Cerne (Ed.), Sydney 2000, The Games of the XXVII. Olympiad with contributions by Rudi Cerne, Birgit Fischer , Willi Phillip Knecht , Willi Leissl and Jan Ullrich , MOHN Media Mohndruck GmbH, Gütersloh, p. 56f

Web links

• SportsReference 800m , accessed March 19, 2018
• Results on the IAAF website , accessed on March 19, 2018
• Official Report of the XXVIIth Olympiad, Results , English / French (PDF, 17,708 MB), accessed on March 19, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 669 , accessed on March 19, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b c} IAAF competition rules, page 73 , accessed on March 19, 2018