1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

Events at the 1986 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
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
2000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
5000 m walk				women
10,000 m walk		men
Road events
20 km road run		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
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 1986 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Athens, Greece, at Olympic Stadium on 16, 17 and 18 July.

Medalists

Gold	David Sharpe United Kingdom
Silver	Manuel Balmaceda Chile
Bronze	Andriy Sudnik Soviet Union

Results

Final

18 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	David Sharpe	United Kingdom	1:48.32
	Manuel Balmaceda	Chile	1:48.91
	Andriy Sudnik	Soviet Union	1:48.93
4	Predrag Melnjak	Yugoslavia	1:49.54
5	Paul Williams	United Kingdom	1:49.78
6	Sergey Timofeyev	Soviet Union	1:49.92
7	Geoffrey Seurey	Kenya	1:50.28
8	George Kersh	United States	1:50.41

Semifinals

17 July

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Andriy Sudnik	Soviet Union	1:50.31	Q
2	David Sharpe	United Kingdom	1:50.38	Q
3	John Ndhlovu	Zimbabwe	1:50.60
4	Richard Brant	Canada	1:50.67
5	Keiichiro Nakamura	Japan	1:50.81
6	Anders Persson	Sweden	1:51.67
7	Tadelle Abebe	Ethiopia	1:52.38
8	Bouazza Noualla	Algeria	1:52.42

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Predrag Melnjak	Yugoslavia	1:48.25	Q
2	Geoffrey Seurey	Kenya	1:48.71	Q
3	Sergey Timofeyev	Soviet Union	1:48.95	q
4	George Kersh	United States	1:49.02	q
5	Alexander Adam	West Germany	1:49.88
6	Samir Benfarès	France	1:50.76
7	Momouni Apiou	Côte d'Ivoire	1:53.59
8	Cameron Orr	Australia	1:56.04

Semifinal 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Manuel Balmaceda	Chile	1:49.75	Q
2	Paul Williams	United Kingdom	1:50.03	Q
3	Anthony Christie	Jamaica	1:50.05
4	Marek Szymkowicz	Poland	1:50.27
5	David Moore	United States	1:50.66
6	Miroslav Chochkov	Bulgaria	1:50.87
7	Bernd Müller	West Germany	1:51.94
8	Joseph Meli Kiprobon	Kenya	1:52.02

Heats

16 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	David Moore	United States	1:49.82	Q
2	Cameron Orr	Australia	1:50.81	Q
3	Anders Persson	Sweden	1:51.04	Q
4	Momouni Apiou	Côte d'Ivoire	1:51.27	q
5	Philippos Tandis	Greece	1:52.39
6	Omar Ibrahim	Egypt	1:53.07
7	Eduardo Cabrera	Mexico	1:55.05
8	Momodou Bello N'Jie	Gambia	1:55.24

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Andriy Sudnik	Soviet Union	1:50.54	Q
2	Keiichiro Nakamura	Japan	1:50.57	Q
3	Paul Williams	United Kingdom	1:50.83	Q
4	Alexander Adam	West Germany	1:51.46	q
5	Riccardo Cardone	Italy	1:51.57
6	Honest Umbe	Tanzania	1:51.60
7	Guillermo Ghersi	Peru	1:56.32
8	Mahamat Nour Amdaye	Chad	1:56.90
9	Sergio Iván Gómez	Guatemala	1:59.01

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	David Sharpe	United Kingdom	1:51.49	Q
2	Manuel Balmaceda	Chile	1:51.51	Q
3	Richard Brant	Canada	1:51.56	Q
4	Ado Maude	Nigeria	1:51.69
5	Peter Hepworth	Australia	1:52.75
6	Hossain Milzer	Bangladesh	1:54.81
7	Lucien Simon	Antigua and Barbuda	1:54.92
8	Alan Bunce	New Zealand	1:54.92

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	John Ndhlovu	Zimbabwe	1:49.53	Q
2	Predrag Melnjak	Yugoslavia	1:49.86	Q
3	Marek Szymkowicz	Poland	1:50.09	Q
4	Joseph Meli Kiprobon	Kenya	1:50.58	q
5	Santiago Gutiérrez	Spain	1:53.37
6	Ricardo Morrison	Panama	1:53.99
7	Moses Phiri	Zambia	1:54.49
8	Mansour Al-Balushi	Oman	1:56.17

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	George Kersh	United States	1:51.66	Q
2	Sergey Timofeyev	Soviet Union	1:51.72	Q
3	Bernd Müller	West Germany	1:51.82	Q
4	António de Oliveira	Brazil	1:51.96
5	Brahim El-Ghazali	Morocco	1:52.56
6	Mitoshi Wada	Japan	1:53.61
7	Patrick Haas	Austria	1:54.66
8	Ingemar Sluis	Netherlands Antilles	1:57.26
9	Bernard Henry	Saint Lucia	2:00.22

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Geoffrey Seurey	Kenya	1:50.13	Q
2	Samir Benfarès	France	1:50.79	Q
3	Bouazza Noualla	Algeria	1:51.13	Q
4	Howard Jackson	Canada	1:51.51
5	Joseph Sean	Trinidad and Tobago	1:52.78
6	Saravanan Arjunan	Singapore	1:59.05

Heat 7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Anthony Christie	Jamaica	1:51.22	Q
2	Miroslav Chochkov	Bulgaria	1:51.61	Q
3	Tadelle Abebe	Ethiopia	1:52.26	Q
4	Fabio Di Vito	Italy	1:52.85
5	Steinn Jóhannsson	Iceland	1:56.72

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 53 athletes from 44 countries participated in the event.

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