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

Events at the 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		women
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

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	Tom Lerwill  United Kingdom
Bronze	Grant Cremer  Australia

Results

Final

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1:48.21
02 !	Tom Lerwill	United Kingdom	1:48.40
03 !	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	Tom Lerwill	United Kingdom	1:47.27	Q
3	Zach Whitmarsh	Canada	1:47.33	Q
4	James Nolan	Ireland	1:47.55	Q
5	Clyde Colenso	South Africa	1:47.84
6	Hirohisa Muramatsu	Japan	1:48.65
7	Abdul Rahman Abdullah	Qatar	1:49.88
8	Roman Hanzel	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	Kazutomo Iwasaki	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	Hirohisa Muramatsu	Japan	1:53.38	Q
3	Reuben Silwimba	Zambia	1:53.99
4	Youcef Abdi	Algeria	1:54.12
5	Moses Kavuma	Uganda	1:54.69
6	Momodou Lamin Drammeh	Gambia	1:55.09
7	Kuripitone Betham	Western Samoa	2:01.75

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	James Nolan	Ireland	1:49.02	Q
2	Tom Lerwill	United Kingdom	1:49.22	Q
3	Zach Whitmarsh	Canada	1:49.33	q
4	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:49.47	q
5	Juan Delgado	Spain	1:50.26
6	István Nagy	Hungary	1:50.64
7	Lkhagvasuren Choisuren	Mongolia	2:11.85
8	Nhlanhla Dlamini	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	Said Basweidan	Yemen	1:52.21
5	Meelis Tammre	Estonia	1:52.83
6	Vane Stojanov	Macedonia	1:53.20
7	Chris Votu	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	Israel Domínguez	Spain	1:51.91
4	Clyde McIntosh	New Zealand	1:52.17
5	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1:53.02
6	Davi de Jesús	Brazil	1:53.49
7	Mohamed Yagoub	Sudan	1:55.34

Heat 5

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

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1:49.99	Q
2	Roman Hanzel	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	Craig Wood	Australia	1:53.27
7	Rickard Pell	Sweden	1:57.01
8	Henele Taliai	Tonga	2:05.97

Participation

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

References