Athletics at the 1990 Commonwealth Games – Men's 800 metres

Athletics at the 1990 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men		women
400 m		men		women
800 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men		women
100 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men		women
3000 m steeplechase		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men		women
Road events
Marathon		men		women
10 km walk				women
30 km walk		men
Field events
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Long jump		men		women
Triple jump		men
Shot put		men		women
Discus throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Javelin throw		men		women
Combined events
Heptathlon				women
Decathlon		men

The men's 800 metres event at the 1990 Commonwealth Games was held on 29 January and 1 February at the Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sammy Tirop  Kenya	Nixon Kiprotich  Kenya	Matthew Yates  England

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Sammy Tirop	Kenya	1:48.60	Q
2	3	Robert Kibet	Kenya	1:49.16	Q
3	3	Matthew Yates	England	1:49.24	Q
4	1	Sebastian Coe	England	1:49.83	Q
4	2	Nixon Kiprotich	Kenya	1:49.83	Q
6	1	David Strang	Scotland	1:49.92	Q
7	1	Melford Homela	Zimbabwe	1:49.97	Q
8	1	John Walker	New Zealand	1:50.09	q
9	2	Ikem Billy	England	1:50.32	Q
10	3	Mike Birke	Canada	1:50.36	Q
11	4	Mbiganyi Thee	Botswana	1:50.71	Q
12	3	Michael Craig	New Zealand	1:50.81	Q
13	2	Brian Whittle	Scotland	1:50.87	Q
14	1	Neil Horsfield	Wales	1:50.88	q
15	4	Tom McKean	Scotland	1:50.87	Q
16	2	Paul Osland	Canada	1:51.00	Q
17	3	Kenneth Dzekedzeke	Malawi	1:51.17
18	3	Samson Vellabouy	Malaysia	1:51.19
19	4	Simon Doyle	Australia	1:51.21	Q
20	2	Zacharia Machangani	Botswana	1:51.41
21	4	Simon Hoogewerf	Canada	1:52.00	Q
22	2	Mark Kirk	Northern Ireland	1:52.09
23	2	Alick Musukuma	Zambia	1:52.18
24	1	Mohammad Hossain Milzer	Bangladesh	1:52.44
25	4	Paul Breed	New Zealand	1:52.92
26	4	Philip Sinon	Seychelles	1:53.17
27	3	John Siguria	Papua New Guinea	1:57.57
28	4	Ancel Nalau	Vanuatu	2:00.33

Semifinals

Qualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 1 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Tom McKean	Scotland	1:46.83	Q
2	1	Nixon Kiprotich	Kenya	1:46.92	Q
3	2	Robert Kibet	Kenya	1:47.00	Q
4	1	Sammy Tirop	Kenya	1:47.04	Q
5	2	Simon Doyle	Australia	1:47.38	Q
6	1	Brian Whittle	Scotland	1:47.51	Q
7	1	Sebastian Coe	England	1:47.67	Q
8	2	Matthew Yates	England	1:47.77	Q
9	1	Ikem Billy	England	1:47.80	q
10	1	Mbiganyi Thee	Botswana	1:48.33
11	2	Melford Homela	Zimbabwe	1:48.53
12	1	Paul Osland	Canada	1:48.59
13	1	John Walker	New Zealand	1:49.60
14	2	Mike Birke	Canada	1:49.64
15	2	Neil Horsfield	Wales	1:49.93
16	2	Michael Craig	New Zealand	1:51.00
17	2	David Strang	Scotland	1:51.05
18	1	Simon Hoogewerf	Canada	1:53.75

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
01 !	Sammy Tirop	Kenya	1:45.98
02 !	Nixon Kiprotich	Kenya	1:46.00
03 !	Matthew Yates	England	1:46.62
4	Brian Whittle	Scotland	1:46.85
5	Ikem Billy	England	1:47.16
6	Sebastian Coe	England	1:47.24
7	Tom McKean	Scotland	1:47.27
8	Simon Doyle	Australia	1:48.06
9	Robert Kibet	Kenya	1:48.57

References