Athletics at the 1985 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1985 Summer Universiade was held at the Kobe Universiade Memorial Stadium in Kobe on 2, 3, and 4 September 1985.^[1]

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Ryszard Ostrowski Poland	Viktor Kalinkin Soviet Union	John Marshall United States

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Petru Drăgoescu	Romania	1:47.75	Q
2	2	Ocky Clark	United States	1:47.87	Q
2	3	Rob Harrison	Great Britain	1:47.87	Q
4	2	Simon Hoogewerf	Canada	1:48.06	Q
5	2	Matt Favier	Australia	1:48.12	Q^[2]
6	5	Viktor Kalinkin	Soviet Union	1:48.24	Q
7	2	Akanni Gbadamosi	Nigeria	1:48.38	q
8	2	Javier Nieto	Spain	1:48.39	q
9	3	Jürgen Grothe	West Germany	1:48.40	q
10	5	Herbert Wursthorn	West Germany	1:48.56	Q
11	5	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1:48.60	q
12	4	John Marshall	United States	1:48.70	Q
13	3	Ryu Tae-kyung	South Korea	1:48.71	q
14	4	Anatoliy Millin	Soviet Union	1:48.72	Q
15	4	Benjamín González	Spain	1:48.77	^[3]
16	3	Héctor Flores	Mexico	1:48.91
17	5	Alberto Barsotti	Italy	1:49.27	^[4]
18	5	Toru Shiota	Japan	1:49.64
19	4	Yutaka Hoshino	Japan	1:50.08
20	3	Syed Meesaq Rizvi	Pakistan	1:50.23
21	2	Paul Gambrah	Ghana	1:50.27
22	1	Ryszard Ostrowski	Poland	1:50.65	Q
23	1	Chris McGeorge	Great Britain	1:50.76	Q
24	1	Manuel Balmaceda	Chile	1:51.03
25	1	Ahmed Belkessam	Algeria	1:51.21
26	1	Mustapha Lachaal	Morocco	1:51.24
27	2	Rachid Kram	Algeria	1:51.26
28	4	Philippos Stylianoudis	Cyprus	1:51.55
29	3	David Montañez	Puerto Rico	1:51.60
30	1	Danson Chepkwony	Kenya	1:51.81
31	1	Sebastien Wschiansky	Switzerland	1:51.96	^[5]
32	3	Alex Ngeno	Kenya	1:53.07
33	5	Luis Mena	Costa Rica	1:54.26
34	4	John Siguria	Papua New Guinea	1:57.70
35	5	M. Luveniyali	Fiji	2:02.61
36	2	Byron Vargas	Honduras	2:08.80

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Viktor Kalinkin	Soviet Union	1:46.93	Q
2	2	Ryszard Ostrowski	Poland	1:47.10	Q
3	2	Ocky Clark	United States	1:47.45	Q
4	1	Anatoliy Millin	Soviet Union	1:47.58	Q
5	1	John Marshall	United States	1:47.58	Q
6	2	Herbert Wursthorn	West Germany	1:47.65	q
7	2	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1:47.66	q
8	1	Petru Drăgoescu	Romania	1:47.68	Q
9	1	Chris McGeorge	Great Britain	1:47.69
10	1	Simon Hoogewerf	Canada	1:47.81
11	1	Javier Nieto	Spain	1:47.87
12	2	Rob Harrison	Great Britain	1:47.99
13	1	Jürgen Grothe	West Germany	1:48.26
14	1	Matt Favier	Australia	1:48.29	^[2]
15	2	Akanni Gbadamosi	Nigeria	1:48.33
16	2	Ryu Tae-kyung	South Korea	1:49.13

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Ryszard Ostrowski	Poland	1:44.38	NR
	Viktor Kalinkin	Soviet Union	1:45.21
	John Marshall	United States	1:45.32
4	Petru Drăgoescu	Romania	1:45.41	NR
5	Ocky Clark	United States	1:45.51
6	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1:46.09
7	Anatoliy Millin	Soviet Union	1:46.60	^[7]
8	Herbert Wursthorn	West Germany	1:46.77

^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ ^a ^b Australian results
^ "Simpkins: ¡Vaya triple salto!" (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 3 September 1985. p. 25. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
^ Tuscan athletes' results
^ "Simpkins à 13 cm de Banks" (in French). Fribourg La Liberte. 3 September 1985. p. 20. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
^ "Results". Red Deer Advocate. 5 September 1985. p. 14. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
^ Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p40)