2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 800 metres

Events at the
2011 World Youth
Championships
Track events
100 m   boys   girls
200 m boys girls
400 m boys girls
800 m boys girls
1,500 m boys girls
3,000 m boys girls
100 m hurdles girls
110 m hurdles boys
400 m hurdles boys girls
2,000 m
steeplechase		 boys girls
Medley relay boys girls
5,000 m walk girls
10,000 m walk boys
Field events
Long jump boys girls
Triple jump boys girls
High jump boys girls
Pole vault boys girls
Shot put boys girls
Discus throw boys girls
Javelin throw boys girls
Hammer throw boys girls
Combined events
Heptathlon girls
Decathlon boys
 

The Men's 800 metres at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadium Nord Lille Métropole on 6, 7 and 8 July.[1]

Contents

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
Leonard Kirwa Kosencha
 Kenya		 Mohammed Aman
 Ethiopia		 Timothy Kitum
 Kenya

Records

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

World Youth Best  Belal Mansoor Ali (BHR) 1:44.34 Conegliano, Italy 17 June 2005
Championship Record  Gilbert Keter Kipkurui (KEN) 1:48.42 Marrakesh, Morocco 15 July 2005
World Youth Leading  Mohammed Aman (ETH) 1:45.74 Montreuil-sous-Bois, France 7 June 2011

During the competition, Leonard Kirwa Kosencha lowered Belal Mansoor Ali's world youth best to 1:44.08, thereby establishing a new championship record, too.

Heats

Qualification rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 3 fastest times (q) qualified.[2]

Heat 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 6 Mohammed Aman  Ethiopia 1:53.17 Q
2 4 Nader Belhanbel  Morocco 1:53.44 Q
3 5 Mihn Kyun Cho  Denmark 1:53.54 Q, PB
4 7 Mihai Romas  Romania 1:53.73
5 1 John Apolinário  Brazil 1:54.15
6 2 Benjámin Ludvig  Hungary 1:54.30 PB
7 3 Ashley Riley  Bahamas 1:57.40

Heat 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Tyler Smith  Canada 1:51.64 Q
2 1 Cameron Thornton  United States 1:52.34 Q
3 6 William Gurton  Great Britain 1:52.80 Q
4 5 Kevin Angulo  Ecuador 1:54.69
5 2 Nemanja Kojic  Serbia 1:54.97
6 7 Zachary Ryan Devaraj  Singapore 1:57.36
7 3 Aleksandr Kozinets  Estonia 1:59.04 PB
8 8 Brandon Parris  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1:59.48

Heat 3

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7 Hamza Driouch  Qatar 1:50.55 Q
2 4 Gaëtan Manceaux  France 1:52.30 Q
3 2 Nikolaus Franzmair  Austria 1:52.88 Q, PB
4 5 Luy de Lima  Brazil 1:53.73
5 3 Riri Reste  Madagascar 1:55.30 PB
6 6 Alexandr Kurlov  Kazakhstan 1:58.83
7 1 Faisal Abdo Majrashi  Saudi Arabia 2:02.11

Heat 4

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Abdelkerim Mohammed Hussein  Eritrea 1:51.01 Q, PB
2 3 Esrael Awoke  Ethiopia 1:51.75 Q
3 1 Elliot Slade  Great Britain 1:52.25 Q
4 2 Tre'tez Kinnaird  United States 1:52.81 q
5 6 Saúl Martínez  Spain 1:53.23 q
6 8 Alberto Mamba  Mozambique 1:53.68 PB
7 5 Andre Timothy Colebrook  Bahamas 1:55.38
8 7 Dominik Stadlmann  Austria 1:56.47

Heat 5

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 6 Leonard Kirwa Kosencha  Kenya 1:49.32 Q, PB
2 7 Brandon McBride  Canada 1:51.55 Q
3 1 Patrick Zwicker  Germany 1:51.64 Q
4 5 Andreas Almgren  Sweden 1:52.46 q
5 3 Mohamed Belbachir  Algeria 1:54.58
6 2 Chibuzor Igiliegbe  Nigeria 1:57.97
- 8 Artiom Cozacioc  Moldova DQ
- 2 Elnazeer Abdelgader  Sudan DNS

Heat 6

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7 Wesley Vazquez  Puerto Rico 1:51.71 Q
2 2 Brecht Bertels  Belgium 1:52.53 Q
3 1 Jun Mitake  Japan 1:52.69 Q
4 5 Abdessalem Ayouni  Tunisia 1:53.81 PB
5 4 Ville Lampinen  Finland 1:53.99
6 6 Ilie Macovei  Romania 1:54.84
7 3 Nick Flammang  Luxembourg 1:55.18 PB
8 8 Sayed Ali  Kuwait 1:56.39 PB

Heat 7

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 Timothy Kitum  Kenya 1:52.63 Q
2 7 Nijel Amos  Botswana 1:52.72 Q
3 4 Patryk Wróbel  Poland 1:53.83 Q
4 2 Roald H. Frøskeland  Norway 1:54.27
5 6 Víctor Emilio Ortiz  Costa Rica 1:54.28 PB
6 8 Daniel Andújar  Spain 1:54.83
7 5 Komnen Cvijovic  Serbia 1:56.87
8 3 Jerrad Mason  Barbados 1:59.32

Semifinals

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.[3]

Heat 1

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Hamza Driouch  Qatar 1:48.93 Q
2 5 Abdelkerim Mohammed Hussein  Eritrea 1:49.24 Q, PB
3 6 Esrael Awoke  Ethiopia 1:49.49 q
4 3 Brandon McBride  Canada 1:51.00
5 8 Brecht Bertels  Belgium 1:51.28
6 7 Jun Mitake  Japan 1:51.68
7 1 William Gurton  Great Britain 1:52.42
8 2 Saúl Martínez  Spain 1:52.86 PB

Heat 2

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Leonard Kirwa Kosencha  Kenya 1:47.11 Q, CR
2 5 Mohammed Aman  Ethiopia 1:47.72 Q
3 3 Cameron Thornton  United States 1:49.64
4 6 Tyler Smith  Canada 1:49.67 PB
5 8 Elliot Slade  Great Britain 1:52.25
6 1 Andreas Almgren  Sweden 1:52.26
7 7 Patryk Wróbel  Poland 1:53.70
8 2 Mihn Kyun Cho  Denmark 1:54.38

Heat 3

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Nijel Amos  Botswana 1:48.54 Q
2 1 Timothy Kitum  Kenya 1:48.80 Q, PB
3 3 Wesley Vazquez  Puerto Rico 1:49.24 q
4 5 Patrick Zwicker  Germany 1:50.56
5 6 Tre'tez Kinnaird  United States 1:50.64
6 2 Nikolaus Franzmair  Austria 1:51.45 PB
7 8 Gaëtan Manceaux  France 1:51.63
8 7 Nader Belhanbel  Morocco 1:52.45

Final

[4]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
5 Leonard Kirwa Kosencha  Kenya 1:44.08 WY
6 Mohammed Aman  Ethiopia 1:44.68 PB
8 Timothy Kitum  Kenya 1:44.98 PB
4 4 Hamza Driouch  Qatar 1:46.39 PB
5 3 Nijel Amos  Botswana 1:47.28 PB
6 2 Esrael Awoke  Ethiopia 1:48.94 PB
7 7 Wesley Vazquez  Puerto Rico 1:51.25
8 1 Abdelkerim Mohammed Hussein  Eritrea 1:51.85

References

  1. ^ Timetable
  2. ^ Heat results
  3. ^ Semifinal results
  4. ^ Final results