2018 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

2018 African 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
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
20 km walk	men	women
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 800 metres event at the 2018 African Championships in Athletics was held on 2 and 3 August in Asaba, Nigeria.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Nijel Amos  Botswana	Emmanuel Korir  Kenya	Mostafa Smaili  Morocco

Results[]

Heats[]

Qualification: First 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3		Kenya	1:46.55	Q
2	2	Emmanuel Korir	Kenya	1:46.92	Q
3	3	Antoine Gakeme	Burundi	1:46.99	Q
4	3	Edose Ibadin	Nigeria	1:47.28	q
5	2	Nijel Amos	Botswana	1:47.41	Q
6	3	Riadh Chninni	Tunisia	1:47.66	q
7	2		Ethiopia	1:47.79
8	3		Ethiopia	1:47.83
9	3	Tshepo Tshite	South Africa	1:48.17
10	1	Ferguson Rotich	Kenya	1:48.19	Q
11	1	Mostafa Smaili	Morocco	1:48.42	Q
12	1		Ethiopia	1:48.46
13	1		Uganda	1:48.48
14	2	Yassine Hethat	Algeria	1:48.59
15	1		South Africa	1:48.60
16	1	Mohamed Belbachir	Algeria	1:48.71
17	3		Uganda	1:48.78
18	1		Zimbabwe	1:49.40
19	3		Eritrea	1:49.66
20	3		Cameroon	1:49.91
21	3	Boitumelo Masilo	Botswana	1:49.97
22	2		South Africa	1:50.30
23	1		Republic of the Congo	1:50.80
24	2	Benjamin Manuel Enzema	Equatorial Guinea	1:50.91
25	1		Senegal	1:51.36
26	2		South Sudan	1:51.56
27	3		Niger	1:52.18
28	2		Sudan	1:52.73
29	2		Burundi	1:52.83
30	2		Somalia	1:53.01
31	1	Yiech Pur Biel	ART[2]	1:53.20
32	3		ART[2]	1:55.20
33	1		Sudan	1:55.65
34	2	James Chiengjiek	ART[2]	1:58.69	[3]
	2	Hamada Mohamed	Egypt	DNS

Final[]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Nijel Amos	Botswana	1:45.20
	Emmanuel Korir	Kenya	1:45.65
	Mostafa Smaili	Morocco	1:45.90
4	Antoine Gakeme	Burundi	1:45.91
5	Ferguson Rotich	Kenya	1:46.33
6		Kenya	1:46.88
7	Edose Ibadin	Nigeria	1:48.31
8	Riadh Chninni	Tunisia	1:51.46

References[]