Athletics at the 2018 Asian Games – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres at the 2018 Asian Games
Venue	Gelora Bung Karno Stadium
Date	27 August (semifinals) 28 August (final)
Competitors	27 from 20 nations
Winning time	1:46.15
Medalists
Manjit Singh    India   Jinson Johnson    India   Abubaker Haydar Abdalla    Qatar

Athletics at the 2018 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
10,000 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
	mixed
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
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 800 metres competition at the 2018 Asian Games will take place on 27 and 28 August 2018 at the Gelora Bung Karno Stadium.^[1]

Schedule

All times are local Indonesia Western Standard Time (UTC+7).

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

Semifinals

Progression rules: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final

Heat 1

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	7	Jinson Johnson	India	1:47.39	Q
2	3	Jamal Hairane	Qatar	1:47.45	Q
3	9	Indunil Herath Ekanayaka Mudiyans	Sri Lanka	1:47.54	q
4	4	Sho Kawamoto	Japan	1:48.07	q
5	8	Li Junlin	China	1:48.74
6	5	Dương Văn Thái	Vietnam	1:49.79
7	2	Marco Vilog	Philippines	1:50.75
8	6	Odilshoh Ismatov	Tajikistan	1:51.80
9	1	Akhyt Asyeikhan	Mongolia	1:53.89

Heat 2

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Abraham Rotich	Bahrain	1:48.24	Q
2	8	Amir Moradi	Iran	1:48.31	Q
3	6	Takumi Murashima	Japan	1:48.86
4	3	Musulman Dzholomanov	Kyrgyzstan	1:50.28
5	1	Saud Al-Zaabi	United Arab Emirates	1:50.94
6	2	Wempy Pelamonia	Indonesia	1:54.53
7	7	Odkhuu Galerdene	Mongolia	1:55.07
8	9	Oh Jae-won	South Korea	1:59.58
9	5	Manuel Belo Amaral Ataide	East Timor	1:59.58

Heat 3

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	6	Abubaker Haydar Abdalla	Qatar	1:48.25	Q
2	4	Manjit Singh	India	1:48.64	Q
3	1	Ihab Jabbar Hashi Hashim	Iraq	1:48.87
4	2	Kumal Som Bahadur	Nepal	1:50.25
5	5	Khurshidjon Akhmadaliev	Uzbekistan	1:51.49
6	8	Mayouf Mayouf	United Arab Emirates	1:52.02
7	3	Budiman Holle	Indonesia	1:52.38
8	9	Yothin Yaprajan	Thailand	1:53.71
-	7	Alsadik Mikhou	Bahrain	DNF

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
		Manjit Singh	India	1:46.15
		Jinson Johnson	India	1:46.35
		Abubaker Haydar Abdalla	Qatar	1:46.38
4		Amir Moradi	Iran	1:46.55	PB
5		Abraham Rotich	Bahrain	1:47.05
6		Jamal Hairane	Qatar	1:49.05
7		Sho Kawamoto	Japan	1:50.87
8		Indunil Herath Ekanayaka Mudiyans	Sri Lanka	1:51.36

References