1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

1990 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 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Deveti Septemvri Stadium on 8, 9 and 10 August.^[1][2]

Medalists[]

Gold	Desta Asgedom  Ethiopia
Silver	Jonah Birir  Kenya
Bronze	Norberto Téllez  Cuba

Results[]

Final[]

10 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Desta Asgedom	Ethiopia	1:46.35
	Jonah Birir	Kenya	1:46.61
	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:47.33
4	Wilson Kipketer	Kenya	1:48.13
5		United Kingdom	1:48.54
6		Czechoslovakia	1:49.36
7		Bulgaria	1:49.69
8		Australia	1:49.88

Semifinals[]

9 August

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jonah Birir	Kenya	1:49.07	Q
2		Bulgaria	1:49.31	Q
3		Soviet Union	1:49.48
4	Alemayehu Roba	Ethiopia	1:49.54
5	Pavel Soukup	Czechoslovakia	1:49.60
6		United States	1:49.78
7		Jamaica	1:51.55
8		Netherlands	1:58.89

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Desta Asgedom	Ethiopia	1:47.90	Q
2	Wilson Kipketer	Kenya	1:48.21	Q
3		Czechoslovakia	1:48.43	q
4		United Kingdom	1:49.56
5		Netherlands	1:50.66
6		China	1:51.33
7		Canada	2:05.50
		Greece	DNS

Semifinal 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:47.96	Q
2		United Kingdom	1:48.36	Q
3		Australia	1:48.68	q
4		France	1:49.84
5	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1:49.94
6		Mauritius	1:52.60
7		East Germany	1:58.50
	Niall Bruton	Ireland	DNS

Heats[]

8 August

Heat 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Alemayehu Roba	Ethiopia	1:48.51	Q
2	Wilson Kipketer	Kenya	1:48.66	Q
3		Czechoslovakia	1:48.88	Q
4		Jamaica	1:49.43	q
5		Canada	1:49.51	q
6		Netherlands	1:50.02	q
7		Denmark	1:50.81
8		Finland	1:54.45

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Desta Asgedom	Ethiopia	1:49.07	Q
2		Bulgaria	1:49.42	Q
3	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:49.52	Q
4		Greece	1:49.52	q
5		Spain	1:51.79
6		Yugoslavia	1:52.17
7		Portugal	1:52.43
8		Tanzania	1:58.47

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		East Germany	1:49.15	Q
2		United States	1:49.27	Q
3		China	1:49.55	Q
4	Niall Bruton	Ireland	1:49.64	q
5		Mauritius	1:49.73	q
6	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	1:51.57
7		Algeria	1:53.85
		North Yemen	DNF

Heat 4[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jonah Birir	Kenya	1:50.36	Q
2	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1:50.58	Q
3		Netherlands	1:50.58	Q
4		Poland	1:50.60
5		Yugoslavia	1:50.75
6		Soviet Union	1:50.98
7		West Germany	1:52.15
8		United States	1:52.98

Heat 5[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		Soviet Union	1:51.00	Q
2		Australia	1:51.16	Q
3		United Kingdom	1:51.25	Q
4		Argentina	1:51.36
5		Italy	1:51.90
6		Romania	1:52.37
7		Sweden	2:00.79
		Venezuela	DQ

Heat 6[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pavel Soukup	Czechoslovakia	1:50.70	Q
2		United Kingdom	1:51.02	Q
3		France	1:51.32	Q
4		Romania	1:51.59
5		Australia	1:53.17
6		Spain	2:00.16
7		Singapore	2:00.27
		Barbados	DQ	IAAF rule 141.2

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 48 athletes from 36 countries participated in the event.

References[]