2016 Summer Olympics / Athletics - 800 m (men)

sport	athletics
discipline	800 meter run
gender	Men
Attendees	57 athletes from 39 countries
Competition location	Estádio Nilton Santos
Competition phase	August 12, 2016 (preliminary) August 13, 2016 (semi-finals) August 15, 2016 (final)
Medalist David Lekuta Rudisha ( KEN )   Taoufik Makhloufi ( ALG )   Clayton Murphy ( USA )

The men's 800-meter run at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro was held on August 12, 13 and 15, 2016 at the Estádio Nilton Santos . 57 athletes took part.

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

Yiech Biel, who comes from South Sudan , took part as a refugee from his home country under the Olympic flag and the abbreviation ROT (Refugee Olympic Team).

Current title holders

Olympic champion	David Lekuta Rudisha ( Kenya )	1: 40.91 min	London 2012
World Champion		1: 45.84 min	Beijing 2015
European champion	Adam Kszczot ( Poland )	1: 45.18 min	Amsterdam 2016
North / Central America / Caribbean champions	Ryan Martin ( USA )	1: 45.79 min	San José 2015
South America champion	Rafith Rodríguez ( Colombia )	1: 46.48 min	Lima 2015
Asian champion	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla ( Qatar )	1: 49.40 min	Wuhan 2015
African champions	Nijel Amos ( Botswana )	1: 45.11 min	Durban 2016
Oceania Champion	Sam Russell ( Australia )	1: 45.18 min	Cairns 2015

Existing records

World record	David Lekuta Rudisha ( Kenya )	1: 40.91 min	London , UK	August 9, 2012
Olympic record			London finals , Great Britain

All times are based on local time in Rio ( UTC-3 ).

Preliminary round

The athletes competed in a total of seven heats. 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 runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Forward 1

August 12, 2016, 10:10 a.m.

Musa Hajdari was the first athlete to compete in the Olympics for Kosovo .

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Ayanleh Souleiman	Djibouti	1: 45.48 min
2	Amel Tuka	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1: 45.72 min
3	Boris Berian	United States	1: 45.87 min
4th	Kleberson Davide	Brazil	1: 46.14 min
5	Žan Rudolf	Slovenia	1: 46.93 min
6th	Antoine Gakeme	Burundi	1: 47.46 min
7th	Musa Hajdari	Kosovo	1: 48.41 min
DSQ	Abraham Rotich	Bahrain		IAAF rule 163.3 - lane violation

Forward 2

August 12, 2016, 10:18 am

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Adam Kszczot	Poland	1: 45.83 min
2	Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich	Kenya	1: 46.00 min
3	Andrés Arroyo	Puerto Rico	1: 46.17 min
4th	Hamada Mohamed	Egypt	1: 46.65 min
5	Rafith Rodríguez	Colombia	1: 46.65 min
6th	Boitumelo Masilo	Botswana	1: 48.48 min
7th	Luke Mathews	Australia	1: 50.17 min
8th	Brice Etès	Monaco	1: 50.40 min

Forward 3

August 12, 2016, 10:26 am

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	David Lekuta Rudisha	Kenya	1: 45.09 min
2	Rynardt van Rensburg	South Africa	1: 45.67 min
3	Michael Rimmer	Great Britain	1: 45.99 min
4th	Clayton Murphy	United States	1: 46.18 min
5	Jinson Johnson	India	1: 47.27 min
6th	Anthony Romaniw	Canada	1: 47.49 min
7th	Lutimar Paes	Brazil	1: 48.38 min
8th	Benjamin Enzema	Equatorial Guinea	1: 52.14 min	NO
9	Alexander Beddoes	Cook Islands	1: 52.76 min

Forward 4

The American Charles Jock did not get past the preliminary round as sixth in his race

August 12, 2016, 10:34 am

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Alfred Kipketer	Kenya	1: 46.61 min
2	Andreas Bube	Denmark	1: 46.67 min
3	Yassine Hathat	Algeria	1: 46.81 min
4th	Álvaro de Arriba	Spain	1: 46.86 min
5	Wesley Vázquez	Puerto Rico	1: 46.96 min
6th	Charles Jock	United States	1: 47.06 min
7th	Elliot Giles	Great Britain	1: 47.88 min
8th	Yiech Biel	Refugee Olympic Team	1: 54.67 min	Refugee from South Sudan
DSQ	Joshua Ilustre	Guam		IAAF rule 163.3 - lane violation

Forward 5

August 12, 2016, 10:42 am

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	1: 49.17 min
2	Mustafa Smaili	Morocco	1: 49.29 min
3	Giordano Benedetti	Italy	1: 49.40 min
4th	Shō Kawamoto	Japan	1: 49.41 min
5	Jacob Rozani	South Africa	1: 49.79 min
6th	Jozef Repčík	Slovakia	1: 49.95 min
7th	Nijel Amos	Botswana	1: 50.46 min
8th	Kevín López	Spain	1: 53.41 min

Forward 6

August 12, 2016, 10:50 am

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Brandon McBride	Canada	1: 45.99 min
2	Marcin Lewandowski	Poland	1: 46.35 min
3	Mark English	Ireland	1: 46.40 min
4th	Jeffrey Riseley	Australia	1: 46.93 min
5	Abubaker Haydar Abdalla	Qatar	1: 47.81 min
6th	Pol Moya	Andorra	1: 48.88 min
7th	Alex Amankwah	Ghana	1: 50.33 min
DNF	Abdelati El Guesse	Morocco

Forward 7

August 12, 2016, 10:58 am

space	Surname	nation	time	annotation
1	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	France	1: 48.12 min
2	Mohammed Aman	Ethiopia	1: 48.33 min
3	Amine Belferar	Algeria	1: 48.40 min
4th	Daniel Andújar	Spain	1: 48.50 min
5	Charles Grethen	Luxembourg	1: 48.93 min
6th	Peter Bol	Australia	1: 49.36 min
7th	Francky-Edgard Mbotto	Central African Republic	1: 52.97 min
DNS	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla	Qatar

Semifinals

The semifinals were held in three runs. 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 runners are highlighted in light blue, the lucky losers in light green.

Run 1

Amel Tuka from Bosnia and Herzegovina was eliminated in fourth of his run in the semi-finals

Third place was not enough for the Polish European Champion Adam Kszczot to reach the final

Ayanleh Souleiman from Djibouti finished fourth in his semi-final race and was eliminated

The Irishman Mark English reached the semifinals, but failed there as fifth of his run

August 13, 2016, 10:08 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	France	1: 43.85
2	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	1: 43.85
3	Marcin Lewandowski	Poland	1: 44.56
4th	Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich	Kenya	1: 44.65
5	Mostafa Smaili	Morocco	1: 45.78
6th	Kleberson Davide	Brazil	1: 46.19
7th	Andrés Arroyo	Puerto Rico	1: 46.74
8th	Michael Rimmer	Great Britain	1: 46.80

Run 2

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	Alfred Kipketer	Kenya	1: 44.38
2	Boris Berian	United States	1: 44.56
3	Yassine Hathat	Algeria	1: 44.81
4th	Amel Tuka	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1: 45.24
5	Reinhardt van Rensburg	South Africa	1: 45.33
6th	Brandon McBride	Canada	1: 45.41
7th	Andreas Bube	Denmark	1: 45.87
8th	Mohammed Aman	Ethiopia	1: 46.14

Run 3

August 13, 2016, 10:26 p.m.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	David Lekuta Rudisha	Kenya	1: 43.88
2	Clayton Murphy	United States	1: 44.30
3	Adam Kszczot	Poland	1: 44.70
4th	Ayanleh Souleiman	Djibouti	1: 45.19
5	Mark English	Ireland	1: 45.93
6th	Giovanni Benedetti	Italy	1: 46.41
7th	Amine Belferar	Algeria	1: 46.55
8th	Hamada Mohamed	Egypt	1: 48.17

final

August 15, 2016, 10:45 p.m.

All three Kenyans and two Americans qualified. There were also participants from Algeria, France and Poland.

The top favorite was the Kenyan Olympic champion from 2012 , world champion and world record holder David Lekuta Rudisha , who started on track three . Right from the start he set a fast pace and had caught up with his neighbor on lane four, the Frenchman Pierre-Ambroise Bosse. After two hundred meters, Rudisha's compatriot Alfred Kipketer took the lead, who led the field into the last lap after an intermediate time of a very fast 49.23 seconds. Rudisha, Bosse and US runner Boris Berian followed at a distance of three meters. With almost three hundred meters to go, Rudisha then went forward, set himself apart from his pursuers and could no longer be caught. In the last corner Bosse also increased the pace and took second position. But sixty meters from the finish, the Frenchman was stopped and passed by the Algerian Taoufik Makhloufi. The US runner Clayton Murphy, who secured bronze, also passed the declining boss, so that there was no medal for the French. Just behind him, the Kenyan Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich took fifth place, ahead of Vice European Champion Marcin Lewandowski from Poland.

It was a quick race. Silver medalist Taoufik Makhloufi set a new Algerian national record, the first three remained under 1:43 minutes.

David Lekuta Rudisha won his personal second gold medal and the third consecutive gold medal for Kenya in this discipline.

space	Surname	nation	Time (min)	annotation
1	David Lekuta Rudisha	Kenya	1: 42.15
2	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	1: 42.61	NO
3	Clayton Murphy	United States	1: 42.93
4th	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	France	1: 43.41
5	Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich	Kenya	1: 43.55
6th	Marcin Lewandowski	Poland	1: 44.20
7th	Alfred Kipketer	Kenya	1: 46.02
8th	Boris Berian	United States	1: 46.15

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  Olympic Champion:
  David Lekuta Rudisha, Kenya

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  Silver medal winner:
  Taoufik Makhloufi from Algeria

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  Bronze medalist:
  Clayton Murphy, USA

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  Pierre-Ambroise Bosse finished fourth in the final

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  The Kenyan Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich finished fifth in the Olympics

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  Marcin Lewandowski from Poland came in sixth place

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  The Kenyan Alfred Kipketer - here at a meeting in Paris in front of Taoufik Makhloufi - came in seventh

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  The American Boris Berian - here at the same meeting in Paris - was Olympic eight

Web links

• Results Book Rio 2016, Official Report at library.olympic.org, accessed September 30, 2018
• Results on the website of the IAAF World Athletics Federation (English), accessed on September 30, 2018
• Sports reference, result of 800 m men (English), accessed on September 30, 2018

Video

• Rudisha retains 800m crown on youtube.com, published August 21, 2016, accessed September 30, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ IAAF Statistics Handbook, Beijing 2015, page 669 , accessed on September 30, 2018
2. ↑ ^{a b} IAAF competition rules, page 73 (PDF), accessed on September 30, 2018