Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres

at the Games of the XXXI Olympiad

Interior view of the Estádio Olímpico João Havelange, where the Men's 800m took place.

Venue

Olympic Stadium

Dates

12 August 2016 (heats)
13 August 2016 (semifinals)
15 August 2016 (final)

Competitors

58 from 39 nations

Winning time

1:42.15

Medalists

	David Rudisha	Kenya
	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria
	Clayton Murphy	United States

Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics
List of athletes
Qualification
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	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 800 metres event at the 2016 Summer Olympics took place between 12–15 August at the Olympic Stadium.^[1]

Summary

Kenya's David Rudisha entered the competition as the reigning 2012 Olympic champion and the 2015 World Champion. He also held the season's fastest time at 1:43.35 minutes.^[2] His principal challengers included Kenyans Alfred Kipketer and Ferguson Rotich, the African champion Nijel Amos of Botswana, and Olympic 1500 metres champion Taoufik Makhloufi.^[3]

In the first round, Amos was a surprise elimination, faring poorly at the end of a slow, tactical race.^[4] The semi-finals saw the elimination of world #1 Amel Tuka who has not shown evidence of his finishing kick this year, and world championship silver medalist Adam Kszczot. Frenchman Pierre-Ambroise Bosse and Algerian Makhloufi shared the semi-final's leading time of 1:43.85 in the first semi-final, with Rudisha just three hundredths slower. Kipketer won the third semi-final.^[5]

In the final, Kenyan trials winner Kipketer took the lead, closing off Rudisha's challenge after the break. Kipketer took the 200 in 23.2 and continued to lead at 400 in 49.3 but Rudisha was just a step behind. Through the turn, Rudisha went around Kipketer and accelerated down the backstretch. The next chaser was Bosse, in position to challenge at the 600 metres in 1:16.1, but most of the field was really in contention, within about a second. Through the final turn, Rudisha established separation, with Bosse the last to fall off. Taoufik Makhloufi tracked Bosse through the turn and sped by as they hit the straightaway. Makhloufi took off in chase of Rudisha but was too far back to make any headway. Clayton Murphy came from sixth place to sprint past Bosse to take the bronze.^[6]

While it was "only" Rudisha's eleventh best performance, only four other men have ever run faster. It was also Rudisha's best race since 2012. Makhloufi set the national record for Algeria and became the seventeenth fastest man in history. Murphy became #31 and the #3 American in history.^[7] Rudisha joined Douglas Lowe, Mal Whitfield and Peter Snell in defending the Olympic 800 metres championship, the first to accomplish the feat in over 50 years.^[8]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	David Rudisha (KEN)	1:40.91	London, United Kingdom	9 August 2012
Olympic record	David Rudisha (KEN)	1:40.91	London, United Kingdom	9 August 2012

Area
Area	Time (s)	Athlete	Nation
Africa (records)	1:40.91 WR	David Rudisha	Kenya
Asia (records)	1:42.79	Yusuf Saad Kamel	Bahrain
Europe (records)	1:41.11	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark
North, Central America and Caribbean (records)	1:42.60	Johnny Gray	United States
Oceania (records)	1.44.3+	Peter Snell	New Zealand
South America (records)	1:41.77	Joaquim Cruz	Brazil

The following national record was established during the competition:

Country	Athlete	Round	Time	Notes
Algeria	Taoufik Makhloufi (ALG)	Final	1:42.61

Schedule

All times are Brasília Time (UTC−3).

Date	Time	Round
Friday, 12 August 2016	10:10	Heats
Saturday, 13 August 2016	22:08	Semifinals
Monday, 15 August 2016	22:25	Finals

Results

Heats

Qualification rule: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 3 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinals.^[9]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ayanleh Souleiman	Djibouti	1:45.48	Q
2	Amel Tuka	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:45.72	Q
3	Boris Berian	United States	1:45.87	Q
4	Kléberson Davide	Brazil	1:46.14	q
5	Žan Rudolf	Slovenia	1:46.93	SB
6	Antoine Gakeme	Burundi	1:47.46
7	Musa Hajdari	Kosovo	1:48.41
8 !–	Abraham Rotich	Bahrain	DQ	R163.3a

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Adam Kszczot	Poland	1:45.83	Q
2	Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich	Kenya	1:46.00	Q
3	Andrés Arroyo	Puerto Rico	1:46.17	Q
4	Hamada Mohamed	Egypt	1:46.65	q
5	Rafith Rodríguez	Colombia	1:46.65	SB
6	Boitumelo Masilo	Botswana	1:48.48
7	Luke Mathews	Australia	1:50.17
8	Brice Etès	Monaco	1:50.40

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	David Rudisha	Kenya	1:45.09	Q
2	Reinhardt van Rensburg	South Africa	1:45.67	Q, SB
3	Michael Rimmer	Great Britain	1:45.99	Q
4	Clayton Murphy	United States	1:46.18	q
5	Jinson Johnson	India	1:47.27
6	Anthony Romaniw	Canada	1:47.59
7	Lutimar Paes	Brazil	1:48.38
8	Benjamín Enzema	Equatorial Guinea	1:52.14
9	Alex Beddoes	Cook Islands	1:52.76	PB

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Alfred Kipketer	Kenya	1:46.61	Q
2	Andreas Bube	Denmark	1:46.67	Q
3	Yassine Hathat	Algeria	1:46.81	Q
4	Álvaro de Arriba	Spain	1:46.86
5	Wesley Vázquez	Puerto Rico	1:46.96
6	Charles Jock	United States	1:47.06
7	Elliot Giles	Great Britain	1:47.88
8	Yiech Biel	Refugee Olympic Team	1:54.67
9 !–	Joshua Ilustre	Guam	DQ	R163.3a

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	1:49.17	Q
2	Mostafa Smaili	Morocco	1:49.29	Q
3	Giordano Benedetti	Italy	1:49.40	Q
4	Sho Kawamoto	Japan	1:49.41
5	Jacob Rozani	South Africa	1:49.79
6	Jozef Repčík	Slovakia	1:49.95
7	Nijel Amos	Botswana	1:50.46
8	Kevin López	Spain	1:53.41

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Brandon McBride	Canada	1:45.99	Q
2	Marcin Lewandowski	Poland	1:46.35	Q
3	Mark English	Ireland	1:46.40	Q
4	Jeff Riseley	Australia	1:46.93
5	Abubaker Haydar Abdalla	Qatar	1:47.81
6	Pol Moya	Andorra	1:48.88
7	Alex Amankwah	Ghana	1:50.33
N/A	Abdelati El Guesse	Morocco	N/A	DNF

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	France	1:48.12	Q
2	Mohammed Aman	Ethiopia	1:48.33	Q
3	Amine Belferar	Algeria	1:48.40	Q
4	Daniel Andújar	Spain	1:48.50
5	Charles Grethen	Luxembourg	1:48.93
6	Peter Bol	Australia	1:49.36
7	Francky-Edgard Mbotto	Central African Republic	1:52.97
N/A	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla	Qatar	N/A	DNS

Semifinals

Qualification rule: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	France	1:43.85	Q, SB
2	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	1:43.85	Q, SB
3	Marcin Lewandowski	Poland	1:44.56	q, SB
4	Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich	Kenya	1:44.65	q
5	Mostafa Smaili	Morocco	1:45.78
6	Kléberson Davide	Brazil	1:46.19
7	Andrés Arroyo	Puerto Rico	1:46.74
8	Michael Rimmer	Great Britain	1:46.80

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Alfred Kipketer	Kenya	1:44.38	Q
2	Boris Berian	United States	1:44.56	Q
3	Yassine Hathat	Algeria	1:44.81	PB
4	Amel Tuka	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:45.24
5	Reinhardt van Rensburg	South Africa	1:45.33	PB
6	Brandon McBride	Canada	1:45.41
7	Andreas Bube	Denmark	1:45.87	SB
8	Mohammed Aman	Ethiopia	1:46.14

Semifinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	David Rudisha	Kenya	1:43.88	Q
2	Clayton Murphy	United States	1:44.30	Q, PB
3	Adam Kszczot	Poland	1:44.70
4	Ayanleh Souleiman	Djibouti	1:45.19
5	Mark English	Ireland	1:45.93
6	Giordano Benedetti	Italy	1:46.41	SB
7	Amine Belferar	Algeria	1:46.55
8	Hamada Mohamed	Egypt	1:48.17

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	David Rudisha	Kenya	1:42.15	SB
02 !	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	1:42.61	NR
03 !	Clayton Murphy	United States	1:42.93	PB
4	Pierre-Ambroise Bosse	France	1:43.41	SB
5	Ferguson Cheruiyot Rotich	Kenya	1:43.55	SB
6	Marcin Lewandowski	Poland	1:44.20	SB
7	Alfred Kipketer	Kenya	1:46.02
8	Boris Berian	United States	1:46.15

References

↑ "Men's 800m". Rio 2016 Organisation. Retrieved 3 August 2016.
↑ senior outdoor 2016 800 Metres men. IAAF. Retrieved on 12 August 2016.
↑ Minshull, Phil (9 August 2016). Preview: men's 800m – Rio 2016 Olympic Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 12 August 2016.
↑ Minshull, Phil (12 August 2016). Report: men's 800m heats – Rio 2016 Olympic Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 13 August 2016.
↑ Minshull, Phil (14 August 2016). Report: men's 800m semi-finals – Rio 2016 Olympic Games. IAAF. Retrieved on 14 August 2016.
↑ https://smsprio2016-a.akamaihd.net/_odf-documents/A/T/ATM008101_RaceAnalysis_2016_08_15_96738351_13b7_4dd1_8151_5c46e94f8dcb.pdf
↑ https://www.iaaf.org/records/toplists/middle-long/800-metres/outdoor/men/senior
↑ "David Rudisha retains Olympic 800m title with 'greatest moment of career'". The Guardian. 15 August 2016. Retrieved 16 August 2016.
↑ Heats results

800 metres at the Olympic Games

Summary

Men	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

Women	1896 1900 1904 1908 1912 1920 1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

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