Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

Athletics at the 1997 Summer Universiade
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
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Half marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
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 1997 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadio Cibali in Catania, Italy, on 29 and 30 August.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Norberto Téllez  Cuba	Hezekiél Sepeng  South Africa	Bryan Woodward  United States

Results[]

Heats[]

Held on 29 August

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:48.13	Q
2	6		Russia	1:48.35	Q
3	1	Balázs Tölgyesi	Hungary	1:48.47	Q
4	3		United States	1:48.73	Q
5	3	Andy Hart	Great Britain	1:48.84	Q
6	1		Canada	1:48.91	q
7	6		Great Britain	1:48.92	Q
8	3		France	1:49.00	q
9	1		Portugal	1:49.13	q[2]
10	6	Paul Byrne	Australia	1:49.29	q[3]
11	6		Brazil	1:49.69	q
12	8	Bryan Woodward	United States	1:50.15	Q
13	5	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	1:50.26	Q
14	8		Norway	1:50.30	Q
15	8		Hungary	1:50.33	q
16	5	Panagiotis Stroumbakos	Greece	1:50.35	Q
17	8		South Africa	1:50.49	q
18	1		Norway	1:50.82	q
19	2	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:50.93	Q
20	2	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:50.96	Q
21	2		Estonia	1:51.06
22	5	Kim Soon-hyung	South Korea	1:51.07
23	7	Sergey Kozhevnikov	Russia	1:51.21	Q
24	7	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1:51.21	Q
25	5		Slovenia	1:51.36
26	7	Grzegorz Krzosek	Poland	1:51.52
27	7		Netherlands	1:51.95
28	2		Burundi	1:52.11
29	8		Algeria	1:52.50
30	2		Argentina	1:52.57
31	4	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1:52.66	Q
32	4	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:53.22	Q
33	5		Macedonia	1:53.51
34	7	Hamid Sadjadi	Iran	1:53.60
35	7		New Zealand	1:53.79
36	1	Xandru Grech	Malta	1:54.08
37	6		Namibia	1:54.09
38	4		Kenya	1:54.12
39	4		Swaziland	1:54.22
40	8		Botswana	1:54.56
41	3		Burundi	1:55.50
42	7		Peru	1:55.72
43	5		Kenya	1:55.92
44	4		Zambia	1:56.08
45	3		Uganda	1:56.20
46	8		Nicaragua	1:56.36
47	5		Rwanda	1:56.58
48	4		Canada	1:56.97
49	6		Uganda	1:57.01
50	4		Jordan	1:57.43
51	6		Jordan	1:57.87
52	2		Malta	1:59.29
53	2		Macau	1:59.31
54	8		Hong Kong	2:03.08
55	3		Bangladesh	2:03.90
56	3		Papua New Guinea	2:09.76
57	7		Macau	2:10.02
	1		Pakistan	DNF
	3		Botswana	DNF

Semifinals[]

Held on 30 August

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1:47.35	Q
2	1	Balázs Tölgyesi	Hungary	1:47.42	Q
3	2	Bryan Woodward	United States	1:47.45	Q
4	1		United States	1:47.60	Q
5	1	Sergey Kozhevnikov	Russia	1:47.63	q[4]
6	2	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:47.71	q
7	2	Panagiotis Stroumbakos	Greece	1:47.73
8	1	Andy Hart	Great Britain	1:47.74
9	1	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1:47.83
10	2		France	1:48.44
11	1		Portugal	1:48.81
11	3	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:48.81	Q
13	3		Russia	1:48.87	Q
14	3		Hungary	1:48.92
15	3	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	1:49.03
16	1	Paul Byrne	Australia	1:49.24	[3]
17	3		Great Britain	1:49.70
18	3	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:50.19
19	2	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:50.38
20	1		Norway	1:50.56
21	2		Canada	1:50.60	[5]
22	2		Brazil	1:50.88
23	3		Norway	1:50.93
24	3		South Africa	1:52.32

Final[]

Held on 30 August ^[6]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:47.63
	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1:47.77
	Bryan Woodward	United States	1:48.43
4		United States	1:48.65
5	Balázs Tölgyesi	Hungary	1:49.13
6	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:49.41
7	Sergey Kozhevnikov	Russia	1:49.51
8		Russia	1:50.74

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