2023 World Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres explained

Event:Men's 800 metres
Competition:2023 World Championships
Venue:National Athletics Centre
Dates:22 August (heats)
24 August (semi-finals)
26 August (final)
Gold:Marco Arop
Goldnoc:CAN
Silver:Emmanuel Wanyonyi
Silvernoc:KEN
Bronze:Ben Pattison
Bronzenoc:GBR
Prev:2022
Next:2025

The men's 800 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships was held at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest, Hungary from 22 to 26 August 2023.[1]

Summary

Several renowned athletes failed to progress past the heats. Olympic and defending champion, Emmanuel Korir, Olympic silver medalist and 2019 bronze medalist Ferguson Rotich, 2019 bronze medalist Amel Tuka, 2016 Olympic bronze medalist Clayton Murphy and 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medalist Peter Bol all failed to qualify for the semifinals. Returning silver medalist Djamel Sedjati was lucky to be in the slow second semi. His second place automatic qualifier of 1:44.49 was the slowest time to make the final. Ben Pattison was the slowest qualifier on time with 1:44.23. Emmanuel Wanyonyi was the fastest qualifier with 1:43.83.

The final started with Pattison the first to the break line, but Wanyonyi pushed the back stretch to take the lead before the next turn, then used his position to keep the pace slow taking the bell at 52.68. In the 2022 Olympic final Arop hit the bell in 52.05 and relinquished the lead on the home stretch. This year he was dead last after 400m. Halfway through the penultimate turn, Arop moved out to get some running room. Shifting gears as he hit the backstretch, Arop ran past the field, taking the lead at the beginning of the final turn and he kept going opening up a 2 metre lead through the turn. Coming off the turn, the others lined up three abreast behind Wanyonyi to sprint for home, but Arop was way out front and pulling away. Wanyonyi made a late run, pulling back a metre from Arop's lead, but still finished 2 metres back. Two more metres back, Pattison hit the line barely ahead of Adrián Ben and Slimane Moula for bronze. Sedjati was later disqualified for a lane violation.

Records

Before the competition records were as follows:[2]

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World record1:40.91London, Great Britain9 August 2012
Championship record1:42.34Doha, Qatar1 October 2019
World Leading1:43.22Doha, Qatar21 July 2023
African Record1:40.91London, Great Britain9 August 2012
Asian Record1:42.79Monte Carlo, Monaco29 July 2008
North, Central American and Caribbean record1:42.34Doha, Qatar1 October 2019
South American Record1:41.77Cologne, West Germany26 August 1984
European Record1:41.11Cologne, Germany24 August 1997
Oceanian record1:43.99Paris, France8 July 2023

Qualification standard

The standard to qualify automatically for entry was 1:44.70.[3]

Schedule

The event schedule, in local time (UTC+2), was as follows:

DateTimeRound
22 August 19:20 Heats
24 August 20:50 Semi-finals
26 August 20:30 Final

Results

Heats

The first 3 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) qualify for the semi-finals.[4]

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1Emmanuel Wanyonyi1:44.92Q
2 7Marco Arop1:45.05Q
3 1Gabriel Tual1:45.10Q
4 7Simone Barontini1:45.21Q
5 6Abdelati El Guesse1:45.24Q
6 7Yanis Meziane1:45.30Q
7 1Catalin Tecuceanu1:45.31Q
8 4Adrián Ben1:45.24Q
9 2Mateusz Borkowski1:45.40Q
10 6Andreas Kramer1:45.42Q
11 2Max Burgin1:45.43Q
12 2Joseph Deng1:45.48Q
13 4Bryce Hoppel1:45.56Q
14 1Tshepiso Masalela1:45.60q
15 4Daniel Rowden1:45.67Q
16 2Mark English1:45.71q,
17 6Slimane Moula1:45.76Q
17 4Filip Ostrowski1:45.76q
19 6Francesco Pernici1:45.89
20 7Joonas Rinne1:45.93
21 2Brad Mathas1:45.95
22 4Abdullahi Hassan1:46.33
23 5Benjamin Robert1:46.45Q
24 4Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich1:46.53
25 5Ben Pattison1:46.57Q
26 41:46.63
27 5Mohamed Attaoui1:46.65Q
28 6Peter Bol1:46.75
29 5Emmanuel Kipkurui Korir1:46.78
30 6James Preston1:46.84
31 5Abdessalem Ayouni1:46.85
32 6Handal Roban1:46.86
33 5Clayton Murphy1:47.06
34 71:47.18
35 21:47.41
36 3Ngeno Kipngetich1:47.63Q
37 71:47.75
38 5Abedin Mujezinović1:47.76
39 7Oussama Nabil1:47.79
40 3Djamel Sedjati1:47.87Q
41 3Saúl Ordóñez1:47.97Q
42 7Abdullah Al-Yaari1:47.98
43 3Isaiah Harris1:48.00
44 3John Fitzsimons1:48.20
45 1Ryan Sánchez1:48.24
46 6Alex Beddoes1:48.31
47 5Riley McGown1:48.38
48 3Ebrahim Alzofairi1:48.41
49 2Tom Dradriga1:48.60
50 3John Rivera1:48.83
51 3Amel Tuka1:49.01
52 1Mohamed Ali Gouaned1:49.16
53 1Krishan Kumar1:50.36
54 3Allan Ngitsi Chirwa1:51.62
55 4Ole Jakob Solbu1:51.66
56 1Hein Htet Aung1:53.63
57 7Mohammed Dwedar1:55.45
58 11:58.32
59 61:59.56
60 5Faustino Prieto Alfaro2:04.20
2Navasky Anderson

Semi-finals

The first 2 athletes in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualify for the final.[5]

Rank Heat Name Nationality Time Notes
1 3Emmanuel Wanyonyi1:43.83Q
2 3Adrián Ben1:43.92Q,
3 1Slimane Moula1:43.93Q
4 2Marco Arop1:44.02Q
5 3Bryce Hoppel1:44.04q
6 1Tshepiso Masalela1:44.14Q,
7 1Ben Pattison1:44.23q
8 1Mateusz Borkowski1:44.30
9 3Yanis Meziane1:44.30
10 3Simone Barontini1:44.34
11 1Mohamed Attaoui1:44.35
12 1Benjamin Robert1:44.38
13 2Djamel Sedjati1:44.49Q
14 1Abdelati El Guesse1:44.55
15 3Andreas Kramer1:44.57
16 2Saúl Ordóñez1:44.74
17 2Catalin Tecuceanu1:44.79
18 2Gabriel Tual1:44.83
19 3Mark English1:45.14
20 2Filip Ostrowski1:45.30
21 2Daniel Rowden1:45.38
22 2Ngeno Kipngetich1:45.56
23 3Max Burgin1:47.60
24 1Joseph Deng1:48.12

Final

The final was started on 26 August at 20:30.[6]

Rank Name Nationality Time Notes
Marco Arop1:44.24
Emmanuel Wanyonyi1:44.53
Ben Pattison1:44.83
4 Adrián Ben1:44.91
5 Slimane Moula1:44.95
6 Tshepiso Masalela1:45.57
7 Bryce Hoppel1:46.02
8 Djamel Sedjati

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Timetable - Budapest 23 - World Athletics Championship - Men 800 Metres . . 28 August 2023 . August 22, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230822182059/https://worldathletics.org/competitions/world-athletics-championships/budapest23/timetable/bydiscipline/men/800-metres . live .
  2. Web site: 800 Metres Men − Records . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20240104200017/https://worldathletics.org/records/by-discipline/middlelong/800-metres/outdoor/men . 4 January 2024 . 22 August 2023 . World Athletics.
  3. News: 22 August 2023 . Qualification system published for World Athletics Championships Budapest 23 . 22 August 2023 . . August 19, 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220819191514/https://assets.aws.worldathletics.org/document/62ff627cef4200119b5555be.pdf . live .
  4. Web site: 22 August 2023 . Summary - 800 Metres Men - Round 1 . 22 August 2023 . . August 22, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230822192054/https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/7138987/AT-800-M-h----.RS4.pdf . live .
  5. Web site: 24 August 2023 . Summary - 800 Metres Men - Semi-finals . 24 August 2023 . . August 24, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230824222915/https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/7138987/AT-800-M-sf----.RS4.pdf . live .
  6. Web site: 26 August 2023 . 800 Metres Men - Final . 26 August 2023 . . August 27, 2023 . https://web.archive.org/web/20230827093117/https://media.aws.iaaf.org/competitiondocuments/pdf/7138987/AT-800-M-f----.RS6.pdf . live .

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