1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1988 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada, at Laurentian University Stadium on 27, 28 and 29 July.

Medalists

Gold	Jonah Birir Kenya
Silver	Kevin McKay United Kingdom
Bronze	Melford Homela Zimbabwe

Results

Final

29 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jonah Birir	Kenya	1:50.03
	Kevin McKay	United Kingdom	1:50.79
	Melford Homela	Zimbabwe	1:51.34
4	Predrag Melnjak	Yugoslavia	1:52.07
5	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1:53.34
6	Mariusz Hawrylak	Poland	1:55.14
7	Joachim Dehmel	West Germany	1:55.68
8	Oleg Yefimov	Soviet Union	1:55.74

Semifinals

28 July

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1:52.16	Q
2	Joachim Dehmel	West Germany	1:52.23	Q
3	Pavel Hujer	Czechoslovakia	1:52.27
4	Neil Chomos	Canada	1:53.38
5	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	1:53.43
6	Stéphane Bonnaud	France	1:54.86
7	Simon Still	Australia	1:55.90
8	Mohamed Shawki Abdullah	Qatar	1:56.26

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jonah Birir	Kenya	1:51.32	Q
2	Melford Homela	Zimbabwe	1:51.48	Q
3	Paul Burgess	United Kingdom	1:51.60
4	Luis Javier González	Spain	1:51.98
5	Philippe Appoline	France	1:52.00
6	Mikhail Tsyoma	Soviet Union	1:52.20
7	D'Juan Strozier	United States	1:53.13
8	Andrea Benvenuti	Italy	1:57.48

Semifinal 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kevin McKay	United Kingdom	1:49.22	Q
2	Predrag Melnjak	Yugoslavia	1:49.40	Q
3	Mariusz Hawrylak	Poland	1:49.60	q
4	Oleg Yefimov	Soviet Union	1:49.86	q
5	Luis Cadogan	Cuba	1:49.99
6	Sergey Mitov	Bulgaria	1:50.55
7	Colin Mathieson	Canada	1:50.87
8	Benito Mpwewe	Tanzania	18:30.30

Heats

27 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1:51.12	Q
2	Luis Cadogan	Cuba	1:51.32	Q
3	Luis Javier González	Spain	1:51.77	Q
4	Philippe Appoline	France	1:52.18	q
5	Paulo Estiveira	Portugal	1:53.81
6	Felizardo Sardenia	Philippines	1:54.13
7	Yoshikazu Tachi	Japan	1:55.04

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joachim Dehmel	West Germany	1:50.21	Q
2	Paul Burgess	United Kingdom	1:50.37	Q
3	Stéphane Bonnaud	France	1:51.83	Q
4	Momodou Bello N'Jie	Gambia	1:58.07
5	Peter Merchant	Antigua and Barbuda	2:07.76
	Fransua Woldemarian	Ethiopia	DQ

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Kevin McKay	United Kingdom	1:49.86	Q
2	Melford Homela	Zimbabwe	1:49.93	Q
3	Mohamed Shawki Abdullah	Qatar	1:50.02	Q
4	Oleg Yefimov	Soviet Union	1:50.33	q
5	Odd Magne Øgried	Norway	1:54.64
	Lyle Tenfingers	American Samoa	DQ
	Oliver Münzer	Austria	DNF

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jonah Birir	Kenya	1:50.56	Q
2	Mikhail Tsyoma	Soviet Union	1:51.13	Q
3	Andrea Benvenuti	Italy	1:51.60	Q
4	Simon Still	Australia	1:51.86	q
5	Bernard Henry	Saint Lucia	1:56.47
	Lawrence Lenin	United States	DQ

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mariusz Hawrylak	Poland	1:50.41	Q
2	Isaac Viciosa	Spain	1:50.76	Q
3	Benito Mpwewe	Tanzania	1:51.15	Q
4	Sergey Mitov	Bulgaria	1:51.83	q
5	Neil Chomos	Canada	1:52.39	q
	Wilson Kipketer	Kenya	DQ

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pavel Hujer	Czechoslovakia	1:52.48	Q
2	Predrag Melnjak	Yugoslavia	1:52.88	Q
3	D'Juan Strozier	United States	1:52.95	Q
4	Colin Mathieson	Canada	1:52.99	q
5	Kenneth Nielsen	Norway	1:53.46
6	Greg Whitfield	Australia	1:54.03
7	Chern Srichudanu	Thailand	1:54.57

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 39 athletes from 29 countries participated in the event.

• American Samoa (1)
• Antigua and Barbuda (1)
• Australia (2)
• Austria (1)
• Bulgaria (1)
• Canada (2)
• Cuba (1)
• Czechoslovakia (1)
• Ethiopia (1)
• France (2)
• Gambia (1)
• Italy (2)
• Japan (1)
• Kenya (2)
• Norway (2)
• Philippines (1)
• Poland (1)
• Portugal (1)
• Qatar (1)
• Saint Lucia (1)
• Soviet Union (2)
• Spain (2)
• Tanzania (1)
• Thailand (1)
• United Kingdom (2)
• United States (2)
• West Germany (1)
• Yugoslavia (1)
• Zimbabwe (1)