Athletics at the 1987 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1987 Summer Universiade was held at the Stadion Maksimir in Zagreb on 14, 15 and 16 July 1987.^[1]^[2]

Medalists edit

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Slobodan Popović Yugoslavia	Moussa Fall Senegal	Luis Toledo Mexico

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Alberto Barsotti	Italy	1:49.05	Q
2	1	Ibrahim Okash	Somalia	1:49.17	Q
3	1	Alex Geissbühler	Switzerland	1:50.15	Q^[3]
4	1	Ove Talsnes	Norway	1:51.97
5	1	David Montañez	Puerto Rico	1:54.05
6	1	Jorge Fidel Ponce	Honduras	2:00.38
7	1	Lee Ka Kit	Hong Kong	2:07.52
1	2	Manuel Balmaceda	Chile	1:50.17	Q
2	2	Ryu Tae-kyung	South Korea	1:50.24	Q
3	2	Brian Thompson	Canada	1:50.30	Q
4	2	Raivo Mägi	Soviet Union	1:50.67	q
1	3	Moussa Fall	Senegal	1:49.34	Q
2	3	Luis Toledo	Mexico	1:49.39	Q
3	3	Miles Irish	United States	1:51.47	Q
4	3	Luis Martínez	Guatemala	1:51.47
5	3	Faiz Ould Abdallah	Mauritania	2:07.25
1	4	Paul Osland	Canada	1:58.56	Q
2	4	Valeriy Starodubtsev	Soviet Union	2:00.11	Q
3	4	Chris McGeorge	Great Britain	2:00.27	Q
4	4	Hugo Sánchez	Costa Rica	2:00.52
1	5	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1:50.65	Q
2	5	Yoshikazu Arata	Japan	1:50.67	Q
3	5	Miguel Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	1:52.55	Q
4	5	Eugene Curran	Ireland	1:55.64
5	5	Mohamed El Moctar	Mauritania	2:04.49
	5	Colvis Samuels	Guyana	DNF
1	6	Rob Harrison	Great Britain	1:50.13	Q
2	6	Milan Drahoňovský	Czechoslovakia	1:50.16	Q
1	7	Tracy Baskin	United States	1:51.82	Q
?	?	Pablo Squella	Chile	?:??.??	Q
?	?	Eduardo Cabrera	Mexico	?:??.??	Q
?	?	Syed Meesaq Rizvi	Pakistan	?:??.??	Q
?	?	Saša Stojilović	Yugoslavia	?:??.??	Q

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Moussa Fall	Senegal	1:47.36	Q
2	1	Luis Toledo	Mexico	1:47.45	Q
3	1	Chris McGeorge	Great Britain	1:47.54	q
4	1	Miles Irish	United States	1:47.67	q
5	1	Milan Drahoňovský	Czechoslovakia	1:47.96
6	1	Brian Thompson	Canada	1:48.09
7	3	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1:48.96	Q
8	3	Manuel Balmaceda	Chile	1:49.21	Q
9	3	Tracy Baskin	United States	1:49.33
10	1	Raivo Mägi	Soviet Union	1:49.85	^[5]
11	3	Paul Osland	Canada	1:50.30
12	3	Alberto Barsotti	Italy	1:50.47
13	3	Ryu Tae-kyung	South Korea	1:50.55
14	2	Ibrahim Okash	Somalia	1:50.68	Q
15	2	Valeriy Starodubtsev	Soviet Union	1:50.79	Q
16	1	Miguel Rodríguez	Puerto Rico	1:51.05
17	3	Eduardo Cabrera	Mexico	1:51.08
18	2	Pablo Squella	Chile	1:51.14
19	2	Alex Geissbühler	Switzerland	1:51.16
20	2	Saša Stojilović	Yugoslavia	1:51.39
21	2	Yoshikazu Arata	Japan	1:52.13
22	3	Syed Meesaq Rizvi	Pakistan	1:52.81
	?	Rob Harrison	Great Britain	?

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1:46.13
	Moussa Fall	Senegal	1:46.71
	Luis Toledo	Mexico	1:47.07
4	Manuel Balmaceda	Chile	1:47.37
5	Ibrahim Okash	Somalia	1:47.81
6	Miles Irish	United States	1:47.94
7	Valeriy Starodubtsev	Soviet Union	1:48.02
8	Chris McGeorge	Great Britain	1:48.07

^ Treutlein, Gerhard (4 August 1987). "Die Universiade in Zagreb – Ausblick und Eindrücke" [The Universiade in Zagreb – outlook and impressions]. Leichtathletik (in German). 32/1987. Bartels & Wernitz: 1015–1018. ISSN 0343-5369.
^ Results at Tilastopaja
^ "Les McRae en vendette" (in French). Fribourg La Liberte. 15 July 1987. p. 21. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
^ "Semifinals results". The Sydney Morning Herald. 17 July 1987. p. 32. Retrieved 14 January 2020.
^ Soviet results Archived 2021-10-31 at the Wayback Machine (p40)
^ "Final results". The Sydney Morning Herald. 18 July 1987. p. 76. Retrieved 14 January 2020.