2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 800 metres explained

Event:	Boys' 800 metres
Competition:	2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics
Venue:	RSC Olimpiyskiy
Dates:	10 July (heats) 11 July (semifinal) 13 July (final)
Competitors:	41
Win Value:	1:48.01
Gold:	Alfred Kipketer
Goldnoc:	KEN
Silver:	Konstantin Tolokonnikov
Silvernoc:	RUS
Bronze:	Kyle Langford
Bronzenoc:	GBR
Prev:	2011
Next:	2015

The boys' 800 metres at the 2013 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held on 10, 11 and 13 July.

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Alfred Kipketer	Konstantin Tolokonnikov	Kyle Langford

Records

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best		1:43.37	Rieti, Italy	10 September 2011
Championship Record		1:44.08	Lille, France	9 July 2011
World Youth Leading		1:46.98	Tokyo, Japan	5 May 2013

Heats

Qualification rule: first 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest qualified.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2			1.51.50	Q
2	6			1.52.05	Q
3	5			1.52.70	Q, PB
4	1			1.52.75	Q, PB
5	4			1.53.23	q, PB
6	8			1.53.40
7	3			1.53.61
8	7			1.58.77

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5			1:52.86	Q
2	1			1:53.13	Q
3	6			1:53.37	Q
4	4			1:53.39	Q
5	2			1:54.11
6	8			1:55.60	PB
	3			DQ
	7			DNS

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6			1:50.14	Q, PB
2	3			1:50.30	Q
3	5			1:51.22	Q
4	1			1:52.88	Q
5	2			1:54.40
6	4			1:54.63
7	7			1:56.58
8	6			2:05.81	PB
	8			DQ

Heat 4

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	5			1:51:88	Q
2	6			1:51:92	Q, PB
3	1			1:52:02	Q
4	2			1:52:44	Q
5	8			1:52:61	q
6	3			1:52:98	q, PB
7	4			1:53:13	q
8	7			1:53:63	PB

Heat 5

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7			1:53:49	Q
2	6			1:53:88	Q
3	8			1:53:95	Q
4	3			1:54:19	Q
5	1			1:55:99
6	2			1:56:49
7	5			1:57:29
	4			DNS

Semifinals

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.^[2]

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1			1:48.38	Q, PB
2			1:48.68	Q, SB
3			1:48.85	q, PB
4			1:52.59
5			1:53.05
6			1:53.53
7			1:54.02
8			2:00.67

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1			1:50.92	Q
2			1:51.06	Q, PB
3			1:51.25
4			1:53.44
5			1:53.69
6			1:54.56
7			1:54.97
8			1:57.02

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1			1:49.50	Q, PB
2			1:49.95	Q
3			1:50.08	q, PB
4			1:50.66	PB
5			1:52.19	PB
6			1:53.59
7			1:57.75
			DQ

Final

Results:^[3]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
			1:48.01	PB
			1:48.29	PB
			1:48.32	PB
4			1:49.85
5			1:50.05	PB
6			1:50.28
7			1:50.60	PB
8			1:51.53

Notes and References

1. Web site: 800 Metres Boys - Round 1 . . 10 July 2013.
2. Web site: 800 Metres Boys - Semi-Final . . 11 July 2013.
3. Web site: 800 Metres Boys - Final . . 13 July 2013.