Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres at the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad
Venue	Athens Olympic Stadium
Dates	August 25 to August 28
Competitors	79 from 62 nations
Medalists
Yuriy Borzakovskiy   Russia   Mbulaeni Mulaudzi   South Africa   Wilson Kipketer   Denmark

Athletics at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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
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
Wheelchair races
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The 800 m at the 2004 Summer Olympics as part of the athletics program were held at the Athens Olympic Stadium from August 25 to August 28.

The final was tactical, like the previous several Olympics with most athletes running faster to qualify than they ran in the final. Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Mouhssin Chehibi lagged significantly off the pace as world champion Djabir Saïd-Guerni and 2004 world leader Wilfred Bungei battled for the lead, chased closely by Bungei's second cousin, world record holder Wilson Kipketer. Mbulaeni Mulaudzi had lucked into the slowest qualifying time in the semi final round, ran comfortably in a box inside of Kipketer through 500 meters as Borzakovskiy and Chehibi joined the back of the pack. Guerni fell back as the cousins battled for the lead through the final turn, with Mulaudzi a step back and Borzakovskiy the final athlete in the breakaway. Coming off the turn, Kipketer pounced and took off for the finish in lane 2. But the always fast closing Borzakovskiy came along the outside from 5 meters back to catch Kipketer 30 meters out. Not giving up the fight, Mulaudzi pulled even with Kipketer. Borzakovskiy held his hands up with a meter victory, while Mulaudzi out leaned Kipketer for silver.

Records

World record	Wilson Kipketer (DEN)	1:41.11	Cologne, Germany	24 August 1997
Olympic record	Vebjorn Rodal (NOR)	1:42.58	Atlanta, USA	29 July 1996

Qualifying

From the initial nine heats the first two in each plus six fastest losers progressed through to the semi-finals.

The final was made up of the first two finishers from each of the semi-finals plus two fastest losers.

Heats

All times shown are in minutes:seconds.
Q denotes automatic qualification.
q denotes fastest losers.
DNS denotes did not start.
DNF denotes did not finish.
NR denotes national record.
PB denotes personal best.
SB denotes seasons best.

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	3	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1:44.69	Q
2	4	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1:44.84	Q
3	4	Ismail Ahmed Ismail	Sudan	1:45.17	Q, PB
4	4	Samwel Mwera	Tanzania	1:45.30	q, NR
5	4	Nicolas Aissat	France	1:45.31	q
5	3	Jonathan Johnson	United States	1:45.31	Q
7	3	Jean Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1:45.38	q
8	2	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1:45.65	Q
9	2	Ricky Soos	Great Britain	1:45.70	Q, PB
10	1	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi	South Africa	1:45.72	Q
10	4	Bram Som	Netherlands	1:45.72	q
12	1	Rene Herms	Germany	1:45.83	Q
13	6	Amine Laalou	Morocco	1:45.88	Q
14	3	Osmar dos Santos	Brazil	1:45.90	q
13	6	Ivan Heshko	Ukraine	1:45.92	Q, SB
15	2	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:45.94	q
17	6	Khadevis Robinson	United States	1:46.14
18	5	Yuriy Borzakovskiy	Russia	1:46.20	Q
19	1	Lee Jae-Hoon	South Korea	1:46.24	PB
19	3	Jason Stewart	New Zealand	1:46.24	PB
21	5	Berhanu Alemu	Ethiopia	1:46.26	Q
22	5	Miguel Quesada	Spain	1:46.32
23	1	Arthemon Hatungimana	Burundi	1:46.35
24	1	Michael Rotich	Kenya	1:46.42
25	2	Achraf Tadili	Canada	1:46.63
26	5	Joeri Jansen	Belgium	1:46.66
26	7	Dmitrijs Milkevics	Latvia	1:46.66	Q
26	7	Antonio Manuel Reina	Spain	1:46.66	Q
29	3	João Pires	Portugal	1:46.71	SB
30	9	Gary Reed	Canada	1:46.74	Q
31	8	Andrea Longo	Italy	1:46.75	Q
31	9	Mouhssin Chehibi	Morocco	1:46.77	Q
33	8	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1:46.82	Q
34	7	Florent Lacasse	France	1:46.91
35	9	Yusuf Saad Kamel	Bahrain	1:46.94
36	2	David Fiegen	Luxembourg	1:46.97
37	6	Dmitriy Bogdanov	Russia	1:47.03
38	8	Andre Bucher	Switzerland	1:47.34
39	4	Mihail Kolganov	Kazakhstan	1:47.36
40	2	Mindaugas Norbutas	Lithuania	1:47.38	SB
41	6	Nabil Madi	Algeria	1:47.52
42	9	Derrick Peterson	United States	1:47.60
43	4	Mohammad Al-Azemi	Kuwait	1:47.67
44	2	Panayiotis Stroubakos	Greece	1:47.69
45	8	Manuel Olmedo	Spain	1:47.71
46	6	Selahattin Çobanoğlu	Turkey	1:47.83
47	5	Paskar Owor	Uganda	1:47.87
48	7	Majed Saeed Sultan	Qatar	1:47.92
49	8	Michal Šneberger	Czech Republic	1:47.89
50	7	Abdoulaye Wagne	Senegal	1:47.95
51	8	Sherridan Kirk	Trinidad and Tobago	1:48.12
52	5	Moise Joseph	Haiti	1:48.15
53	9	Glody Dube	Botswana	1:48.25
54	4	Erkinjon Isakov	Uzbekistan	1:48.28
55	9	Prince Mumba	Zambia	1:48.36
56	7	Mohammed Al Salhi	Saudi Arabia	1:48.42	SB
56	9	Byron Piedra	Ecuador	1:48.42
58	8	Vanco Stojanov	Macedonia	1:49.02	SB
59	5	Isireli Naikelekelevesi	Fiji	1:49.08
60	7	Ramil Aritkulov	Russia	1:49.25
61	6	Sajjad Moradi	Iran	1:49.49
62	3	Jasmin Salihović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:49.59
63	1	Nazar Begliyev	Turkmenistan	1:49.64	PB
64	2	Lê Văn Dương	Vietnam	1:49.81	NR
65	5	Kondwani Chiwina	Malawi	1:49.87	PB
66	1	Alibay Shukurov	Azerbaijan	1:51.11
67	7	Ali Mohammed Al-Balooshi	United Arab Emirates	1:51.76
68	1	Fadrique Iglesias	Bolivia	1:51.87
69	8	Abdalsalam Aldabaji	Palestine	1:53.86
70	3	Jan Sekpona	Togo	1:54.25
71	6	Andy Grant	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	1:57.08
72	9	Cornelis Sibe	Suriname	2:00.06

Semi-finals

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	2	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1:44.28	Q
2	2	Yuriy Borzakovskiy	Russia	1:44.29	Q
3	2	Mouhssin Chehibi	Morocco	1:44.62	q, PB
4	3	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1:44.63	Q
5	2	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1:44.75	q
6	3	Ismail Ahmed Ismail	Sudan	1:45.45	Q
7	2	Bram Som	Netherlands	1:45.52
8	3	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1:45.54
9	1	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:45.76	Q
10	3	Andrea Longo	Italy	1:45.97
11	1	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi	South Africa	1:46.09	Q
12	3	Jean Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1:46.15
13	1	Antonio Manuel Reina	Spain	1:46.17
14	2	Dmitrijs Milkevics	Latvia	1:46.62
15	1	Ivan Heshko	Ukraine	1:46.66
16	3	Ricky Soos	Great Britain	1:46.74
17	1	Nicolas Aissat	France	1:47.14
18	2	Gary Reed	Canada	1:47.38
19	1	Berhanu Alemu	Ethiopia	1:47.40
20	1	Amine Laalou	Morocco	1:47.53
21	1	Rene Herms	Germany	1:47.68
22	3	Osmar dos Santos	Brazil	1:48.23
23	3	Jonathan Johnson	United States	1:50.10
99 !	2	Samwel Mwera	Tanzania	DSQ

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
01 !	Yuriy Borzakovskiy	Russia	1:44.45
02 !	Mbulaeni Mulaudzi	South Africa	1:44.61	SB
03 !	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1:44.65
4	Mouhssin Chehibi	Morocco	1:45.16
5	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1:45.31
6	Hezekiél Sepeng	South Africa	1:45.53
7	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:45.61
8	Ismail Ahmed Ismail	Sudan	1:52.49

References

• Official Olympic Report