Olympic Summer Games 2012 / Athletics - 800 m (men)

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Olympic rings
Athletics stadium (7734094962) .jpg
sport athletics
discipline 800 meter run
gender Men
Attendees 55 athletes from 45 countries
Competition location Olympic Stadium London
Competition phase August 6, 2012 (preliminary round)
August 7, 2012 (semi-finals)
August 9, 2012 (final)
Medalist
gold medal David Lekuta Rudisha ( KEN ) KenyaKenya 
Silver medal Nijel Amos ( BOT ) BotswanaBotswana 
Bronze medal Timothy Kitum ( KEN ) KenyaKenya 

The men's 800-meter run at the 2012 London Olympics was held on August 6, 7 and 9, 2012 at the London Olympic Stadium. 55 athletes took part.

The Olympic champion was the Kenyan David Lekuta Rudisha , who won in a new world record time ahead of Nijel Amos from Botswana. The bronze medal went to the Kenyan Timothy Kitum .

Sören Ludolph started for Germany , who was eliminated in the preliminary round.

Athletes from Switzerland, Austria and Liechtenstein did not take part.

Current title holders

Olympic champion Wilfred Bungei ( Kenya ) KenyaKenya  1: 44.65 min Beijing 2008
World Champion David Lekuta Rudisha ( Kenya ) KenyaKenya  1: 43.91 min Daegu 2011
European champion Yuri Borsakowski ( Russia ) RussiaRussia  1: 48.61 min Helsinki 2012
Central America and Caribbean champions Andy González ( Cuba ) CubaCuba  1: 48.15 min Mayagüez 2011
South America champion Rafith Rodríguez ( Colombia ) ColombiaColombia  1: 51.38 min Buenos Aires 2011
Asian champion Mohamed al-Azemi ( Kuwait ) KuwaitKuwait  1: 46.14 min Kobe 2011
African champions Taoufik Makhloufi ( Algeria ) AlgeriaAlgeria  1: 43.88 min Porto-Novo 2012
Oceania Champion Adrien Kela ( New Caledonia ) New CaledoniaNew Caledonia  1: 55.82 min Cairns 2012

Existing records

Olympic champion
David Lekuta Rudisha from Kenya
World record David Lekuta Rudisha ( Kenya ) KenyaKenya  1: 41.01 min Rieti , Italy August 29, 2010
Olympic record Vebjørn Rodal ( Norway ) NorwayNorway  1: 42.58 min Atlanta Final , USA July 31, 1996

Note:
All times in this post are given according to London local time ( UTC ± 0 ).

Qualification basics

Each NOK could nominate up to three athletes who ran the qualifying time of 1: 45.60  minutes (A standard) set by the IAAF in a competition held during the qualifying time. Should no athlete from a NOC achieve the A standard, the NOC concerned could nominate an athlete who had achieved the B standard of 1: 46.30  minutes. Regardless of the run times, the NOKs whose athletes had neither met the A nor the B standard could nominate an athlete.

Prelims

Seven preliminary runs were carried out. The first three athletes per run qualified for the semifinals. In addition, the three fastest times, the so-called lucky losers , made it through. The directly qualified athletes are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green. Marcin Lewandowski subsequently qualified for the next round by referee decision after he was stumbled by a bump from Muhamed Al-Azemi, who was disqualified for it.

In race five, the Algerian Taoufik Makhloufi gave up his race prematurely after 150 meters, whereupon he was disqualified by the IAAF for the rest of the games. The reason given was that Makhloufi had made no effort to conduct the race properly. The athlete then presented a medical certificate confirming that he had knee problems. The disqualification was lifted as a result and Makhloufi was able to deny the 1500-meter run , in which he reached the final.

With 1: 45.51 minutes, Abubaker Kaki from Sudan ran the fastest time of all heats in race three. The slowest time to reach the semifinals was 1: 48.27 min for the Spaniard Kevin López in race five.

Forward 1

August 6, 2012, 10:50 am

space Surname nation Time (min) annotation
1 Nijel Amos BotswanaBotswana Botswana 1: 45.90
2 Fabiano Pecanha BrazilBrazil Brazil 1: 46.29
3 Luis Alberto Marco SpainSpain Spain 1: 46.86
4th Khadevis Robinson United StatesUnited States United States 1: 47.17
5 Marcin Lewandowski PolandPoland Poland 1: 47.64 qualified by a referee's decision after a disability
6th Ivan Tukhtachov RussiaRussia Russia 1: 49.77
7th Derek Mandell GuamGuam Guam 1: 58.94
DSQ Mohamed Al-Azemi KuwaitKuwait Kuwait IAAF Rule 163.2 - Disability

Forward 2

August 6, 2012, 10:58 am

space Surname nation Time (min) annotation
1 David Lekuta Rudisha KenyaKenya Kenya 1: 45.90
2 Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla QatarQatar Qatar 1: 46.37
3 Andrew Osagie United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 1: 46.42
4th Wesley Vázquez Puerto RicoPuerto Rico Puerto Rico 1: 46.45
5 Jeffrey Riseley AustraliaAustralia Australia 1: 46.99
6th Ismail Ahmed Ismail SudanSudan Sudan 1: 48.79
7th Anise ananenka BelarusBelarus Belarus 1: 49.61
8th Kieng Samorn CambodiaCambodia Cambodia 1: 55.26

Forward 3

The German Sören Ludolph is eliminated as seventh in his preliminary run

August 6, 2012, 11:06 am

space Surname nation Time (min) annotation
1 Abubaker persimmon SudanSudan Sudan 1: 45.51
2 Timothy Kitum KenyaKenya Kenya 1: 45.72
3 Abdulaziz Ladan Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 1: 46.09
4th Andy González CubaCuba Cuba 1: 46.24
5 Gareth Warburton United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 1: 46.97
6th Tamás Kazi HungaryHungary Hungary 1: 47.10
7th Sören Ludolph GermanyGermany Germany 1: 48.57
8th Arnold Sorina VanuatuVanuatu Vanuatu 1: 54.29

Forward 4

August 6, 2012, 11:14 am

space Surname nation Time (min) annotation
1 Nick Symmonds United StatesUnited States United States 1: 45.91
2 Geoff Harris CanadaCanada Canada 1: 45.97
3 Adam Kszczot PolandPoland Poland 1: 45.99
4th Pierre-Ambroise Bosse FranceFrance France 1: 46.03
5 Yuri Borsakovsky RussiaRussia Russia 1: 46.29
6th Andreas Bube DenmarkDenmark Denmark 1: 46.40
7th Manuel António AngolaAngola Angola 1: 52.54
DSQ Brice Etès MonacoMonaco Monaco IAAF Rule 163.3 a - Violation of the lane marking

Forward 5

August 6, 2012, 11:22 am

space Surname nation Time (min) annotation
1 Hamada Mohamed EgyptEgypt Egypt 1: 48.05
2 Sajjad Moradi IranIran Iran 1: 48.23
3 Kevin López SpainSpain Spain 1: 48.27
4th Masato Yokota JapanJapan Japan 1: 48.48
5 Michael Rimmer United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 1: 49.05
6th Moussa Camara MaliMali Mali 1: 51.36
7th Edgar Cortez NicaraguaNicaragua Nicaragua 1: 58.99
DNF Taoufik Makhloufi AlgeriaAlgeria Algeria

Forward 6

August 6, 2012, 11:30 a.m.

space Surname nation Time (min) annotation
1 Mohammed Aman EgyptEgypt Egypt 1: 47.34
2 Antony Chemut KenyaKenya Kenya 1: 47.42
3 Antonio Manuel Reina SpainSpain Spain 1: 47.44
4th Rafith Rodríguez ColombiaColombia Colombia 1: 47.70
5 Adnan Taess Akkar IraqIraq Iraq 1: 47.83
6th Amine El Manaoui MoroccoMorocco Morocco 1: 48.48
7th Prince Moses Mumba ZambiaZambia Zambia 1: 49.07
8th Yerzhan Askarov KyrgyzstanKyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan 1: 59.56

Forward 7

August 6, 2012, 11:38 a.m.

space Surname nation Time (min) annotation
1 Duane Solomon United StatesUnited States United States 1: 46.05
2 Robert Lathouwers NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 1: 46.06
3 André Olivier South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 1: 46.42
4th Jakub Holuša Czech RepublicCzech Republic Czech Republic 1: 46.87
5 Julius Mutekanga UgandaUganda Uganda 1: 48.41
6th Moise Joseph HaitiHaiti Haiti 1: 48.46
7th Benjamin Enzema Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea 1: 57.47
DNS Kléberson Davide BrazilBrazil Brazil

Semifinals

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

Mohammed Aman from Ethiopia achieved the fastest semifinal time in race three with 1: 44.34 minutes. To reach the final, a time under 1:45 minutes had to be run. The slowest time was 1: 44.93 min for US American Duane Solomon in race three.

Run 1

August 7, 2012, 7:55 pm

space Surname nation Time (min) annotation
1 Abubaker persimmon SudanSudan Sudan 1: 44.51
2 Nijel Amos BotswanaBotswana Botswana 1: 44.54
3 Adam Kszczot PolandPoland Poland 1: 45.34
4th Antony Chemut KenyaKenya Kenya 1: 45.63
5 Robert Lathouwers NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 1: 45.85
6th Luis Alberto Marco SpainSpain Spain 1: 46.19
7th Fabiano Pecanha BrazilBrazil Brazil 1: 46.29
DSQ Sajjad Moradi IranIran Iran IAAF Rule 163.3 a - Crossing the lane marking

Run 2

Marcin Lewandowski from Poland narrowly failed in the semi-finals

August 7, 2012, 8:04 p.m.

space Surname nation Time (min) annotation
1 David Lekuta Rudisha KenyaKenya Kenya 1: 44.35
2 Andrew Osagie United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 1: 44.74
3 Nick Symmonds United StatesUnited States United States 1: 44.87
4th Marcin Lewandowski PolandPoland Poland 1: 45.08
5 Yuri Borsakovsky RussiaRussia Russia 1: 45.09
6th Kevin López SpainSpain Spain 1: 46.66
7th Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla QatarQatar Qatar 1: 47.52
8th Hamada Mohamed EgyptEgypt Egypt 1: 48.18
9 Andy González CubaCuba Cuba 1: 53.46

Run 3

August 7, 2012, 8:13 pm

space Surname nation Time (min) annotation
1 Mohammed Aman EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia 1: 44.34
2 Timothy Kitum KenyaKenya Kenya 1: 44.63
3 Duane Solomon United StatesUnited States United States 1: 44.93
4th Pierre-Ambroise Bosse FranceFrance France 1: 45.10
5 André Olivier South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa 1: 45.44
6th Antonio Manuel Reina SpainSpain Spain 1: 45.84
7th Geoff Harris CanadaCanada Canada 1: 46.14
8th Abdulaziz Ladan Saudi ArabiaSaudi Arabia Saudi Arabia 1: 48.98

final

Scene from the finale:
Rudisha in front, Amos, Aman, Kaki and Kitum behind, Solomon on the right

August 9, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

In the final, two Kenyans and two Americans ran against one participant each from Ethiopia, Botswana, Great Britain and Sudan.

With his world record , the winner David Lekuta Rudisha was the first athlete to run the 800 meters under 1:41 minutes. He took the lead right from the start, led by a large margin after half of the track and also maintained his high pace on the second lap. He became Olympic champion in harmony and superiority.

With the silver medal, the reigning junior world champion Nijel Amos won the first Olympic medal for Botswana . He not only improved the Botswana national record, he also set a new junior world record.

The race is the fastest Olympic final to date. For the first time, all finalists ran times below 1:44 minutes. In addition, seven of the eight runners set personal bests. All finalists had with the achieved times here in 2008 in Beijing won the gold medal.

space Surname nation Time (min) annotation
1 David Lekuta Rudisha KenyaKenya Kenya 1: 40.91 WR
2 Nijel Amos BotswanaBotswana Botswana 1: 41.73 NR / JWR
3 Timothy Kitum KenyaKenya Kenya 1: 42.53
4th Duane Solomon United StatesUnited States United States 1: 42.82
5 Nick Symmonds United StatesUnited States United States 1.42.95
6th Mohammed Aman EthiopiaEthiopia Ethiopia 1.43.20 NO
7th Abubaker persimmon SudanSudan Sudan 1: 43.32
8th Andrew Osagie United KingdomUnited Kingdom Great Britain 1: 43.77

Picture gallery

Web links

Video recordings

  • Prelims on youtube.com, published August 6, 2012, accessed September 10, 2018
  • Semi-finals on youtube.com, published August 7, 2012, accessed September 10, 2018
  • Finale on youtube.com, published on August 9, 2012, accessed on September 10, 2018

Individual evidence

  1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 669 , accessed on September 10, 2018
  2. The Guardian, August 7, 2012 , accessed September 10, 2018
  3. IAAF competition rules (PDF), page 73 , accessed on September 10, 2018
  4. a b IAAF competition rules, page 73 , accessed on September 10, 2018