Athletics at the 1979 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1979 Summer Universiade was held at the Estadio Olimpico Universitario in Mexico City on 11, 12 and 13 September 1979.^[1]^[2]

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Evans White United States	Garry Cook Great Britain	Hans-Peter Ferner West Germany

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Evans White	United States	1:51.36	Q
2	4	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	1:51.82	Q
3	4	Thomas Wilking	West Germany	1:52.03	Q
4	3	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	1:52.44	Q
5	1	Robert Nemeth	Austria	1:52.63	Q
5	2	Roger Milhau	France	1:52.63	Q^[3]
7	1	Binko Kolev	Bulgaria	1:52.74	Q
8	1	Philippe Dupont	France	1:52.75	q^[3]
9	4	Garry Cook	Great Britain	1:52.87	q
10	2	Hans-Peter Ferner	West Germany	1:52.91	Q
11	2	Chum Darvall	Australia	1:53.17	q^[4]
12	3	Charles Borromeo	India	1:53.20	q
13	1	Víctor Ibáñez	Mexico	1:53.40	q
14	5	Adomo Corradini	Italy	1:53.41	Q^[5]
15	3	David Belyon	Kenya	1:53.60	q
16	4	Ángel Gil	Mexico	1:53.70
17	5	Scott Clark	United States	1:53.82	Q
18	1	Khaled Hussein	Kuwait	1:54.03
19	5	Roger Soler	Peru	1:54.32
20	1	Leonard Smith	Jamaica	1:55.00
21	5	John Bowden	New Zealand	1:55.02
22	1	Jeptham Karingo	Kenya	1:55.74
23	5	Jorge Camacho	Costa Rica	1:56.85
24	4	Kossivi Attikpo	Togo	1:57.32
25	3	Yabaty Agbéré	Togo	1:57.74
26	5	Abdallah Mohammed	Saudi Arabia	2:00.13
27	4	Miguel Banegas	Honduras	2:00.92
28	3	Raúl Campos	Peru	2:02.41
29	5	John Erysthee	Saint Lucia	2:03.30
30	2	Orlando Ruano	Guatemala	2:05.10
31	4	Mohamed Khalil	Saudi Arabia	2:05.70
32	3	Jean-Louis Pellegrin	Mauritius	2:06.42
33	5	Francisco King	Guatemala	2:07.88
34	2	Edwin Attard	Malta	2:10.16
35	1	Theodore Muziwakh Khumalo	Swaziland	2:17.21

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Evans White	United States	1:50.02	Q
2	1	Roger Milhau	France	1:50.08	Q^[3]
3	1	Garry Cook	Great Britain	1:50.37	Q
4	1	Thomas Wilking	West Germany	1:50.75	Q
5	1	Robert Nemeth	Austria	1:50.94
6	2	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	1:51.31	Q
7	2	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	1:51.36	Q
8	2	Philippe Dupont	France	1:51.76	Q^[3]
9	2	Hans-Peter Ferner	West Germany	1:51.78	Q
10	2	Binko Kolev	Bulgaria	1:51.80
11	1	Charles Borromeo	India	1:51.92
12	1	David Belyon	Kenya	1:51.92
13	2	Chum Darvall	Australia	1:51.99	^[4]
14	2	Scott Clark	United States	1:52.12
15	1	Víctor Ibáñez	Mexico	1:52.54
	2	Adomo Corradini	Italy	?

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Evans White	United States	1:48.87
	Garry Cook	Great Britain	1:49.50
	Hans-Peter Ferner	West Germany	1:49.77
4	Abderrahmane Morceli	Algeria	1:49.89
5	Philippe Dupont	France	1:51.84
6	Thomas Wilking	West Germany	1:54.45
	Roger Milhau	France	DNF	^[3]
	Agberto Guimarães	Brazil	DNF

^ Holzbach, Gerd (25 September 1979). "Pietro Mennea war der große Held von Mexico" [Pietro Mennea was the big hero of Mexico]. Leichtathletik (in German). 39/1979. Bartels & Wernitz: 1240–1245. ISSN 0343-5369.
^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e French results
^ ^a ^b Australian results
^ "Tre medaglie sotto il diluvio" (in Italian). La Stampa. 13 September 1979. p. 21.
^ "Estafette lukt" (in Dutch). De Volkskrant. 14 September 1979. p. 23. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
^ "Final results". El Paso Times. 14 September 1979. p. 17. Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ "Final results". Hartford Courant. 14 September 1979. p. 40. Retrieved 22 March 2020.