2015 World Championships in Athletics – Men's masters 800 metres

Men's Masters 800 metres
at the 2015 World Championships
Venue Beijing National Stadium
Dates 29 August (final)
Competitors 9 from 8 nations
Winning time 2:00.92
Medalists
 David Heath   Great Britain
 Gunnar Rune Durén   Sweden
 Michael Sherar   Canada

The men's masters 800 metres at the 2015 World Championships in Athletics was a special demonstration event held at the Beijing National Stadium on 29 August.[1]

From the gun WMA M55 Champion Anselm Lebourne, the oldest athlete in the field,[2] seemed to go out slightly faster than everybody else, but a last moment burst at the break line put home town favorite Chunsheng Wang into the early lead. By the end of the straightaway, he was overtaken by new M50 1500 metres world record holder David Heath. Through the turn Michael Sherar was able to work his way around Wang and Lebourne tried to follow, but tripped and spent several strides trying to regain his balance. Wang entered the home stretch a bit wide giving Lebourne an opening to squeeze through. Heath hit the bell at 59.73 two seconds up, with Lebourne just passing Sherar to take over second place. 1988 Olympian Paul Osland led the rest of the field past Wang along the back stretch while Lebourne separated from pack now more than 20 metres behind Heath who hit 600 metres at 1:28.57. Onto the home stretch, Heath looked powerful way ahead of the field. Lebourne began to struggle, ten metres out from the finish line, Gunnar Rune Durén went by, then Sherar dipped by a step before the finish line for bronze.

Lebourne's time of 2:03.75 fully automatic time is technically better than Stan Immelmann's hand timed 2:03.7 M55 world record from January 2001. Lebrun ran 2:02.16, a significantly faster time, indoors in February. As of December 2015, WMA has not ratified Lebourne for the world record, USATF ratified his 2:04.79 performance in Lyon as the American record.

Schedule

Date Time Round
29 August 201517:50Final

All times are local times (UTC+8)

Results

RankLaneBibName (division)NationalityTimeNotes
1st, gold medalist(s)71106David Heath M50 Great Britain & N.I. (GBR)2:00.92
2nd, silver medalist(s)61101Gunnar Rune Durén M50 Sweden (SWE)2:03.41
3rd, bronze medalist(s)91102Michael Sherar M50 Canada (CAN)2:03.61
451107Anselm Lebourne M55 United States (USA)2:03.75
581110Benoït Zavattero M55 France (FRA)2:04.47
631105Peter Oberliessen M50 Germany (GER)2:05.08
781108Allan Francis Cook M50 Australia (AUS)2:05.59
821104Giuseppe Romeo M50 Italy (ITA)2:07.32
911109Chunsheng Wang M50 China (CHN)2:08.78
1041103Paul George Osland M50 Canada (CAN)2:10.60

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References

  1. ↑ Start list
  2. ↑ "{title}" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 September 2015. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
  3. ↑ Results
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