1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

1996 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	women
10,000 m	men
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
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 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 21, 22 and 23 August.^[1][2]

Medalists[]

Gold	Joseph Mutua  Kenya
Silver	United Kingdom
Bronze	Grant Cremer  Australia

Results[]

Final[]

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1:48.21
		United Kingdom	1:48.40
	Grant Cremer	Australia	1:48.46
4	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1:48.97
5	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:49.44
6	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:50.11
7	Zach Whitmarsh	Canada	1:50.26
8	James Nolan	Ireland	1:51.88

Semifinals[]

22 August

Semifinal 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1:45.63	Q
2		United Kingdom	1:47.27	Q
3	Zach Whitmarsh	Canada	1:47.33	Q
4	James Nolan	Ireland	1:47.55	Q
5		South Africa	1:47.84
6		Japan	1:48.65
7	Abdul Rahman Abdullah	Qatar	1:49.88
8		Slovakia	1:53.02

Semifinal 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grant Cremer	Australia	1:48.72	Q
2	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:48.91	Q
3	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:48.98	Q
4	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1:49.21	Q
5		Japan	1:49.32
6	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:49.46
7	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:50.23
8	Jean-Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1:50.50

Heats[]

21 August

Heat 1[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:52.88	Q
2		Japan	1:53.38	Q
3		Zambia	1:53.99
4	Youcef Abdi	Algeria	1:54.12
5		Uganda	1:54.69
6		Gambia	1:55.09
7		Western Samoa	2:01.75

Heat 2[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	James Nolan	Ireland	1:49.02	Q
2		United Kingdom	1:49.22	Q
3	Zach Whitmarsh	Canada	1:49.33	q
4	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:49.47	q
5		Spain	1:50.26
6		Hungary	1:50.64
7		Mongolia	2:11.85
		Swaziland	DQ	(163.3)

Heat 3[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jean-Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1:51.05	Q
2	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:51.27	Q
3	Robert True	United States	1:51.68
4		Yemen	1:52.21
5		Estonia	1:52.83
6	Vane Stojanov	North Macedonia	1:53.20
7		Solomon Islands	2:06.21

Heat 4[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1:47.89	Q
2	Abdul Rahman Abdullah	Qatar	1:49.95	Q
3		Spain	1:51.91
4	Clyde McIntosh	New Zealand	1:52.17
5	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1:53.02
6		Brazil	1:53.49
7	Mohamed Yagoub	Sudan	1:55.34

Heat 5[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1		South Africa	1:48.83	Q
2	Grant Cremer	Australia	1:48.84	Q
3	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:49.06	q
4		Japan	1:49.33	q
5	Roman Tarasov	Russia	1:53.04
6		Hungary	1:53.36
7		Turks and Caicos Islands	2:06.73
8		Vanuatu	2:11.15

Heat 6[]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1:49.99	Q
2		Slovakia	1:50.81	Q
3	Robin Martin	United States	1:51.33
4	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:52.06
5	Werner Botha	South Africa	1:52.83
6		Australia	1:53.27
7		Sweden	1:57.01
8		Tonga	2:05.97

Participation[]

According to an unofficial count, 45 athletes from 37 countries participated in the event.

References[]