1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

None The men's 800 metres event at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 21, 22 and 23 August. Peters Lionel Magnusson Tomas WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS WJC - 1996 Sydney AUS Aug 20-25 http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/WJC/WJC1996.html https://web.archive.org/web/20131031070305/http://www.wjah.co.uk/wojc/WJC/WJC1996.html 31 October 2013 dead WORLD JUNIOR ATHLETICS HISTORY ("WJAH") 13 June 2015 IAAF WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS - Eugene 2014 - FACTS & FIGURES http://dt9guucc6nuua.cloudfront.net/competitioninfo/1b820a45-e3d7-40f4-9d5d-7a3abea7f433.pdf IAAF 13 June 2015 Medalists Gold Joseph Mutua KENSilver Tom Lerwill UKBronze Grant Cremer AUS Results Final 23 August Rank Name Nationality Time Notes Joseph Mutua KEN 1:48.21 Tom Lerwill UK 1:48.40 Grant Cremer AUS 1:48.46 4 Japheth Kimutai KEN 1:48.97 5 Nils Schumann GER 1:49.44 6 Viktors Lācis LAT 1:50.11 7 Zach Whitmarsh CAN 1:50.26 8 James Nolan IRL 1:51.88 Semifinals 22 August Semifinal 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Japheth Kimutai KEN 1:45.63 Q 2 Tom Lerwill UK 1:47.27 Q 3 Zach Whitmarsh CAN 1:47.33 Q 4 James Nolan IRL 1:47.55 Q 5 Clyde Colenso RSA 1:47.84 6 Hirohisa Muramatsu JPN 1:48.65 7 Abdul Rahman Abdullah QAT 1:49.88 8 Roman Hanzel SVK 1:53.02 Semifinal 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Grant Cremer AUS 1:48.72 Q 2 Viktors Lācis LAT 1:48.91 Q 3 Nils Schumann GER 1:48.98 Q 4 Joseph Mutua KEN 1:49.21 Q 5 Kazutomo Iwasaki JPN 1:49.32 6 Tim Rogge BEL 1:49.46 7 Roman Oravec CZE 1:50.23 8 Jean-Patrick Nduwimana BDI 1:50.50 Heats 21 August Heat 1 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Roman Oravec CZE 1:52.88 Q 2 Hirohisa Muramatsu JPN 1:53.38 Q 3 Reuben Silwimba ZAM 1:53.99 4 Youcef Abdi ALG 1:54.12 5 Moses Kavuma UGA 1:54.69 6 Momodou Lamin Drammeh GAM 1:55.09 7 Kuripitone Betham Western Samoa 2:01.75 Heat 2 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 James Nolan IRL 1:49.02 Q 2 Tom Lerwill UK 1:49.22 Q 3 Zach Whitmarsh CAN 1:49.33 q 4 Tim Rogge BEL 1:49.47 q 5 Juan Delgado ESP 1:50.26 6 István Nagy HUN 1:50.64 7 Lkhagvasuren Choisuren MGL 2:11.85 8 Nhlanhla Dlamini Swaziland DQ (163.3) Heat 3 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Jean-Patrick Nduwimana BDI 1:51.05 Q 2 Nils Schumann GER 1:51.27 Q 3 Robert True USA 1:51.68 4 Said Basweidan YEM 1:52.21 5 Meelis Tammre EST 1:52.83 6 Vane Stojanov MKD 1:53.20 7 Chris Votu SOL 2:06.21 Heat 4 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Japheth Kimutai KEN 1:47.89 Q 2 Abdul Rahman Abdullah QAT 1:49.95 Q 3 Israel Domínguez ESP 1:51.91 4 Clyde McIntosh NZL 1:52.17 5 Paweł Czapiewski POL 1:53.02 6 Davi de Jesús BRA 1:53.49 7 Mohamed Yagoub SUD 1:55.34 Heat 5 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Clyde Colenso RSA 1:48.83 Q 2 Grant Cremer AUS 1:48.84 Q 3 Viktors Lācis LAT 1:49.06 q 4 Kazutomo Iwasaki JPN 1:49.33 q 5 Roman Tarasov RUS 1:53.04 6 Péter Berezvai HUN 1:53.36 7 Lionel Barranco TCA 2:06.73 8 David Dexter VAN 2:11.15 Heat 6 Rank Name Nationality Time Notes 1 Joseph Mutua KEN 1:49.99 Q 2 Roman Hanzel SVK 1:50.81 Q 3 Robin Martin USA 1:51.33 4 Djabir Saïd-Guerni ALG 1:52.06 5 Werner Botha RSA 1:52.83 6 Craig Wood AUS 1:53.27 7 Rickard Pell SWE 1:57.01 8 Henele Taliai TGA 2:05.97 Participation According to an unofficial count, 45 athletes from 37 countries participated in the event. 22em ALG (2) AUS (2) BEL (1) BRA (1) BDI (1) CAN (1) CZE (1) EST (1) GAM (1) GER (1) HUN (2) IRL (1) JPN (2) KEN (2) LAT (1) MKD (1) MGL (1) NZL (1) POL (1) QAT (1) RUS (1) SVK (1) SOL (1) RSA (2) ESP (2) SUD (1) Swaziland (1) SWE (1) TGA (1) TCA (1) UGA (1) UK (1) USA (2) VAN (1) Western Samoa (1) YEM (1) ZAM (1) References Category:800 metres at the World Athletics U20 Championships Category:Men's events at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics