Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1979 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City on 11, 12 and 13 September 1979.[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Evans White  United States	Garry Cook  Great Britain	Hans-Peter Ferner  West Germany

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Robert Nemeth	Austria	1:52.63	Q
2	1	Binko Kolev	Bulgaria	1:52.74	Q
3	1	Philippe Dupont	France	1:52.75	q[2]
4	1	Víctor Ibáñez	Mexico	1:53.40	q
5	1	Khaled Hussein	Kuwait	1:54.03
6	1	Leonard Smith	Jamaica	1:55.00
1	2	Roger Milhau	France	1:52.63	Q[2]
2	2	Hans-Peter Ferner	West Germany	1:52.91	Q
3	2	Chum Darvall	Australia	1:53.17	q[3]
1	3	Evans White	United States	1:51.36	Q
2	3	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	1:52.44	Q
3	3	Charles Borromeo	India	1:53.20	q
4	3	David Belyon	Kenya	1:53.60	q
1	4	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	1:51.82	Q
2	4	Thomas Wilking	West Germany	1:52.03	Q
3	4	Garry Cook	Great Britain	1:52.87	q
4	4	Ángel Gil	Mexico	1:53.70
1	5	Adomo Corradini	Italy	1:53.41	Q[4]
2	5	Scott Clark	United States	1:53.82	Q
3	5	Roger Soler	Peru	1:54.32
4	5	John Bowden	New Zealand	1:55.02

Semifinals

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Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Evans White	United States	1:50.02	Q
2	1	Roger Milhau	France	1:50.08	Q[2]
3	1	Garry Cook	Great Britain	1:50.37	Q
4	1	Thomas Wilking	West Germany	1:50.75	Q
5	1	Robert Nemeth	Austria	1:50.94
6	2	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	1:51.31	Q
7	2	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	1:51.36	Q
8	2	Philippe Dupont	France	1:51.76	Q[2]
9	2	Hans-Peter Ferner	West Germany	1:51.78	Q
10	2	Binko Kolev	Bulgaria	1:51.80
11	1	Charles Borromeo	India	1:51.92
12	1	David Belyon	Kenya	1:51.92
13	2	Chum Darvall	Australia	1:51.99	[3]
14	2	Scott Clark	United States	1:52.12
15	1	Víctor Ibáñez	Mexico	1:52.54
	2	Adomo Corradini	Italy	?

Final

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Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Evans White	United States	1:48.87
	Garry Cook	Great Britain	1:49.50
	Hans-Peter Ferner	West Germany	1:49.77
4	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	1:49.89
5	Philippe Dupont	France	1:51.84
6	Thomas Wilking	West Germany	1:54.45
	Roger Milhau	France	DNF	[2]
	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	DNF

References

1. Holzbach, Gerd (25 September 1979). "Pietro Mennea war der große Held von Mexico" [Pietro Mennea was the big hero of Mexico]. Leichtathletik (in German). Bartels & Wernitz. 39/1979: 1240–1245. ISSN 0343-5369.
2. French results
3. Australian results
4. "Tre medaglie sotto il diluvio" (in Italian). La Stampa. 13 September 1979. p. 21.
5. "Estafette lukt" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 14 September 1979. p. 23. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
6. "Final results". El Paso Times. 14 September 1979. p. 17. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
7. "Final results". Hartford Courant. 14 September 1979. p. 40. Retrieved 22 March 2020.