Athletics at the 2014 Asian Games – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres at the 2014 Asian Games
Venue	Incheon Asiad Main Stadium
Dates	September 30, 2014 (2014-09-30) – October 1, 2014 (2014-10-01)
Competitors	21 from 15 nations
Medalists
Adnan Taess    Iraq   Teng Haining    China   Jamal Hairane    Qatar

Athletics at the 2014 Asian Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 800 metres event at the 2014 Asian Games was held at the Incheon Asiad Main Stadium, Incheon, South Korea on 30 September – 1 October.

Schedule

All times are South Korea Standard Time (UTC+09:00)

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	David Rudisha (KEN)	1:40.91	London, United Kingdom	9 August 2012
Asian Record	Yusuf Saad Kamel (BHR)	1:42.79	Monaco	29 July 2008
Games Record	Sajjad Moradi (IRI)	1:45.45	Guangzhou, China	25 November 2010

Results

Legend

• DNF — Did not finish
• DNS — Did not start
• DSQ — Disqualified

Round 1

• Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Abdulaziz Ladan Mohammed (KSA)	1:48.85	Q
2	Jamal Hairane (QAT)	1:48.91	Q
3	Adnan Taess (IRQ)	1:49.03	q, SB
4	Dương Văn Thái (VIE)	1:50.66
5	Kim Jun-young (KOR)	1:51.81
6	Odkhuu Gal Erdene (MGL)	1:53.69	PB
7	Ahmed Hassan (MDV)	1:56.46	PB
—	Sajjad Moradi (IRI)	DNS

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla (QAT)	1:49.50	Q
2	Yusuf Saad Kamel (BRN)	1:49.56	Q
3	Sajeesh Joseph (IND)	1:49.90	q
4	Choi Hyeon-gi (KOR)	1:50.15
5	Farkhod Kuralov (TJK)	1:50.55
6	Akhyt Asyeikhan (MGL)	1:55.49
7	Nurgazy Asankulov (KGZ)	1:57.40

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Abraham Kipchirchir Rotich (BRN)	1:47.95	Q, SB
2	Teng Haining (CHN)	1:48.82	Q
3	Mohammad Al-Azemi (KUW)	1:51.63
4	Sho Kawamoto (JPN)	1:53.24
5	Mukti Bahadur Khadka (NEP)	1:55.20
6	Almazbek Kazibekov (KGZ)	1:55.90
7	Shifaz Mohamed (MDV)	2:02.58
—	Wesam Al-Massri (PLE)	DNS

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Adnan Taess (IRQ)	1:47.48	SB
	Teng Haining (CHN)	1:47.81
	Jamal Hairane (QAT)	1:48.25	SB
4	Sajeesh Joseph (IND)	1:49.59
—	Yusuf Saad Kamel (BRN)	DNF
—	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla (QAT)	DSQ
—	Abdulaziz Ladan Mohammed (KSA)	DSQ
—	Abraham Kipchirchir Rotich (BRN)	DSQ

References

• Final results