1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Road events
20 km	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 800 metres event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 27, 28 and 29 July.^[1][2]

Medalists[]

Gold	Jonah Birir  Kenya
Silver	Kevin McKay  United Kingdom
Bronze	Melford Homela  Zimbabwe

Results[]

Final[]

29 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jonah Birir	Kenya	1:50.03
	Kevin McKay	United Kingdom	1:50.79
	Melford Homela	Zimbabwe	1:51.34
4		Yugoslavia	1:52.07
5	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1:53.34
6		Poland	1:55.14
7	Joachim Dehmel	West Germany	1:55.68
8		Soviet Union	1:55.74

Semifinals[]

28 July

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1:52.16	Q
2	Joachim Dehmel	West Germany	1:52.23	Q
3		Czechoslovakia	1:52.27
4		Canada	1:53.38
5	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	1:53.43
6		France	1:54.86
7		Australia	1:55.90
8		Qatar	1:56.26

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jonah Birir	Kenya	1:51.32	Q
2	Melford Homela	Zimbabwe	1:51.48	Q
3		United Kingdom	1:51.60
4	Luis Javier González	Spain	1:51.98
5		France	1:52.00
6		Soviet Union	1:52.20
7		United States	1:53.13
8	Andrea Benvenuti	Italy	1:57.48

Semifinal 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kevin McKay	United Kingdom	1:49.22	Q
2		Yugoslavia	1:49.40	Q
3		Poland	1:49.60	q
4		Soviet Union	1:49.86	q
5		Cuba	1:49.99
6		Bulgaria	1:50.55
7		Canada	1:50.87
8		Tanzania	18:30.30

Heats[]

27 July

Heat 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1:51.12	Q
2		Cuba	1:51.32	Q
3	Luis Javier González	Spain	1:51.77	Q
4		France	1:52.18	q
5		Portugal	1:53.81
6		Philippines	1:54.13
7		Japan	1:55.04

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joachim Dehmel	West Germany	1:50.21	Q
2		United Kingdom	1:50.37	Q
3		France	1:51.83	Q
4	Momodou Bello N'Jie	Gambia	1:58.07
5		Antigua and Barbuda	2:07.76
		Ethiopia	DQ

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kevin McKay	United Kingdom	1:49.86	Q
2	Melford Homela	Zimbabwe	1:49.93	Q
3		Qatar	1:50.02	Q
4		Soviet Union	1:50.33	q
5		Norway	1:54.64
		American Samoa	DQ
		Austria	DNF

Heat 4[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jonah Birir	Kenya	1:50.56	Q
2		Soviet Union	1:51.13	Q
3	Andrea Benvenuti	Italy	1:51.60	Q
4		Australia	1:51.86	q
5		Saint Lucia	1:56.47
		United States	DQ

Heat 5[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Poland	1:50.41	Q
2	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	1:50.76	Q
3		Tanzania	1:51.15	Q
4		Bulgaria	1:51.83	q
5		Canada	1:52.39	q
	Wilson Kipketer	Kenya	DQ

Heat 6[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Czechoslovakia	1:52.48	Q
2		Yugoslavia	1:52.88	Q
3		United States	1:52.95	Q
4		Canada	1:52.99	q
5		Norway	1:53.46
6		Australia	1:54.03
7		Thailand	1:54.57

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 39 athletes from 29 countries participated in the event.

References[]