The men's 800 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held at the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys on 13, 14, and 15 July.

Medalists Gold Nigel AmosSilver Timothy KitumBronze Edwin Kiplagat Melly

Records , the existing world junior and championship records were as follows.

World Junior Record1:42.69Oslo, Norway6 June 2008Championship Record1:44.77Seoul, South Korea18 September 1992World Junior Leading1:43.11Mannheim, Germany9 June 2012Broken records during the 2012 World Junior Championships in AthleticsChampionship Record1:43.79Barcelona, Spain15 July 2012

Results

Heats

Qualification: The first 3 of each heat (Q) and the 3 fastest times (q) qualified

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Note 1 3 2 Jamal Hairane 1:47.61 Q, PB 2 3 6 Jena Umar 1:47.80 Q 3 4 4 Timothy Kitum 1:47.96 Q 4 4 5 Mohamed Belbachir 1:48.24 Q, PB 5 1 8 Edwin Kiplagat Melly 1:48.27 Q, PB 6 2 1 Nijel Amos 1:48.31 Q 7 3 5 Žan Rudolf 1:48.63 Q 8 2 6 Elnazeer Abdelgader 1:48.66 Q, SB 9 1 2 Wesley Vazquez 1:48.78 Q 9 4 2 Tyler Smith 1:48.78 Q 11 3 4 Shaquille Dill 1:49.06 q, PB 12 2 2 Anthonio Mascoll 1:49.31 Q 12 3 3 Nikolaus Franzmair 1:49.31 q, NJ 14 1 9 Ben Waterman 1:49.48 Q 15 2 5 Shaquille Walker 1:49.55 q 16 1 4 Brad Mathas 1:49.73 17 3 8 Joren Bouckaert 1:49.74 18 7 7 Brandon McBride 1:49.77 Q 19 7 6 Sho Kawamoto 1:50.12 Q 20 2 7 Johan Rogestedt 1:50.25 21 2 9 Daniel Andújar 1:50.30 22 7 1 Kevin Stadler 1:50.39 Q 23 4 1 Sean Molloy 1:50.43 24 6 8 Radouane Baaziri 1:50.45 Q 24 1 1 Guilherme Pinto 1:50.45 PB 26 6 4 Thapelo Madiba 1:50.52 Q 27 6 9 Muayad Mohamed Ahmed 1:50.57 Q 28 7 5 Oleksandr Shelest 1:50.70 PB 29 2 3 Filip Ingebrigtsen 1:50.74 30 1 3 Tanner Sork 1:50.80 31 7 3 Víctor Emilio Ortiz 1:51.01 32 6 3 Brecht Bertels 1:51.18 33 3 9 Robert Lister 1:51.42 34 7 4 Alejandro Peirano 1:51.45 35 4 9 Ignacio Díaz-Cano 1:51.62 36 5 3 Mark English 1:51.74 Q 37 6 7 Mohamed Amine Layachi 1:51.84 38 5 7 Dennis Krüger 1:51.86 Q 39 7 9 Karl Griffin 1:51.98 40 6 2 Žan Kozan 1:52.01 41 7 2 Soufiane El Kabbouri 1:52.11 42 4 8 Valentin Voicu 1:52.18 43 4 7 Christos Dimitriou 1:52.59 44 7 8 Geabel Ali Al-Muradi 1:52.73 PB 45 4 6 Alberto Mamba 1:52.91 46 2 8 Mark London 1:53.23 47 1 6 Shota Kozuma 1:53.40 48 5 1 Dominik Stadlmann 1:53.78 Q 49 5 8 Artur Kuciapski 1:53.95 50 5 6 Joel Hogarth 1:53.98 51 1 7 Roald H. Frøskeland 1:54.12 52 6 6 Julian Oakley 1:54.74 53 6 5 Nemanja Kojić 1:54.79 54 5 2 Jorge Collares 1:55.19 PB 55 3 7 Jacopo Lahbi 1:55.45 56 2 4 Alex Beddoes 1:58.30 NJ 57 5 5 Mohamed Ahmed Ismail 1:58.65 58 1 5 Agit Mutlu 2:00.60 59 4 3 Rondre Lewis 2:03.67 PB 5 9 Fiker Belete 5 4 Carlos Díaz

Semi-final

Qualification: The first 2 of each heat (Q) and the 2 fastest times (q) qualified

Rank Heat Lane Name Nationality Time Note 1 3 8 Edwin Kiplagat Melly 1:47.08 Q, PB 2 3 5 Wesley Vazquez 1:47.37 Q 3 3 6 Brandon McBride 1:47.69 q 4 3 7 Mark English 1:47.77 q 5 3 4 Radouane Baaziri 1:48.10 6 2 5 Timothy Kitum 1:49.09 Q 7 2 8 Mohamed Belbachir 1:49.46 Q 8 1 7 Nijel Amos 1:49.67 Q 9 2 4 Jena Umar 1:49.68 10 3 3 Nikolaus Franzmair 1:49.71 11 3 2 Muayad Mohamed Ahmed 1:49.79 12 1 9 Dennis Krüger 1:49.89 Q 12 2 6 Jamal Hairane 1:49.89 14 1 5 Žan Rudolf 1:49.93 15 2 7 Sho Kawamoto 1:50.17 16 2 9 Elnazeer Abdelgader 1:51.18 17 2 2 Shaquille Walker 1:51.43 18 3 9 Anthonio Mascoll 1:51.44 19 1 2 Shaquille Dill 1:51.66 20 2 3 Kevin Stadler 1:52.23 21 1 3 Dominik Stadlmann 1:52.43 22 1 6 Thapelo Madiba 1:53.10 23 1 8 Ben Waterman 1:53.78 24 1 4 Tyler Smith 1:54.95

Final Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Note 6 Nijel Amos 1:43.79 CR 5 Timothy Kitum 1:44.56 4 Edwin Kiplagat Melly 1:44.79 PB 4 7 Wesley Vazquez 1:45.29 NJ 5 3 Mark English 1:46.02 6 9 Brandon McBride 1:46.07 NJ 7 8 Mohamed Belbachir 1:46.70 NJ 8 2 Dennis Krüger 1:46.92 PB

Participation According to an unofficial count, 60 athletes from 41 countries participated in the event.

References

External links WJC12 800 metres schedule