2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics – Boys' 800 metres

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2011 World Youth
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The Men's 800 metres at the 2011 World Youth Championships in Athletics was held at the Stadium Nord Lille Métropole on 6, 7 and 8 July.[1]

Medalists[edit]

Gold Silver Bronze
Leonard Kirwa Kosencha
 Kenya 		Mohammed Aman
 Ethiopia 		Timothy Kitum
 Kenya

Records[edit]

Prior to the competition, the following records were as follows.

World Youth Best  Belal Mansoor Ali (BHR) 1:44.34 Conegliano, Italy 17 June 2005
Championship Record  Gilbert Keter Kipkurui (KEN) 1:48.42 Marrakesh, Morocco 15 July 2005
World Youth Leading  Mohammed Aman (ETH) 1:45.74 Montreuil-sous-Bois, France 7 June 2011

During the competition, Leonard Kirwa Kosencha lowered Belal Mansoor Ali's world youth best to 1:44.08, thereby establishing a new championship record, too.

Heats[edit]

Qualification rule: first 3 of each heat (Q) plus the 3 fastest times (q) qualified.[2]

Heat 1[edit]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 6 Mohammed Aman  Ethiopia 1:53.17 Q
2 4 Nader Belhanbel  Morocco 1:53.44 Q
3 5 Mihn Kyun Cho  Denmark 1:53.54 Q, PB
4 7 Mihai Romas  Romania 1:53.73
5 1 John Apolinário  Brazil 1:54.15
6 2 Benjámin Ludvig  Hungary 1:54.30 PB
7 3 Ashley Riley  Bahamas 1:57.40

Heat 2[edit]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Tyler Smith  Canada 1:51.64 Q
2 1 Cameron Thornton  United States 1:52.34 Q
3 6 William Gurton  Great Britain 1:52.80 Q
4 5 Kevin Angulo  Ecuador 1:54.69
5 2 Nemanja Kojić  Serbia 1:54.97
6 7 Zachary Ryan Devaraj  Singapore 1:57.36
7 3 Aleksandr Kozinets  Estonia 1:59.04 PB
8 8 Brandon Parris  Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 1:59.48

Heat 3[edit]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7 Hamza Driouch  Qatar 1:50.55 Q
2 4 Gaëtan Manceaux  France 1:52.30 Q
3 2 Nikolaus Franzmair  Austria 1:52.88 Q, PB
4 5 Luy de Lima  Brazil 1:53.73
5 3 Riri Reste  Madagascar 1:55.30 PB
6 6 Alexandr Kurlov  Kazakhstan 1:58.83
7 1 Faisal Abdo Majrashi  Saudi Arabia 2:02.11

Heat 4[edit]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Abdelkerim Mohammed Hussein  Eritrea 1:51.01 Q, PB
2 3 Esrael Awoke  Ethiopia 1:51.75 Q
3 1 Elliot Slade  Great Britain 1:52.25 Q
4 2 Tre'tez Kinnaird  United States 1:52.81 q
5 6 Saúl Martínez  Spain 1:53.23 q
6 8 Alberto Mamba  Mozambique 1:53.68 PB
7 5 Andre Timothy Colebrook  Bahamas 1:55.38
8 7 Dominik Stadlmann  Austria 1:56.47

Heat 5[edit]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 6 Leonard Kirwa Kosencha  Kenya 1:49.32 Q, PB
2 7 Brandon McBride  Canada 1:51.55 Q
3 1 Patrick Zwicker  Germany 1:51.64 Q
4 5 Andreas Almgren  Sweden 1:52.46 q
5 3 Mohamed Belbachir  Algeria 1:54.58
6 2 Chibuzor Igiliegbe  Nigeria 1:57.97
- 8 Artiom Cozacioc  Moldova DQ
- 2 Elnazeer Abdelgader  Sudan DNS

Heat 6[edit]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 7 Wesley Vazquez  Puerto Rico 1:51.71 Q
2 2 Brecht Bertels  Belgium 1:52.53 Q
3 1 Jun Mitake  Japan 1:52.69 Q
4 5 Abdessalem Ayouni  Tunisia 1:53.81 PB
5 4 Ville Lampinen  Finland 1:53.99
6 6 Ilie Macovei  Romania 1:54.84
7 3 Nick Flammang  Luxembourg 1:55.18 PB
8 8 Sayed Ali  Kuwait 1:56.39 PB

Heat 7[edit]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 1 Timothy Kitum  Kenya 1:52.63 Q
2 7 Nigel Amos  Botswana 1:52.72 Q
3 4 Patryk Wróbel  Poland 1:53.83 Q
4 2 Roald H. Frøskeland  Norway 1:54.27
5 6 Víctor Emilio Ortiz  Costa Rica 1:54.28 PB
6 8 Daniel Andújar  Spain 1:54.83
7 5 Komnen Cvijovic  Serbia 1:56.87
8 3 Jerrad Mason  Barbados 1:59.32

Semifinals[edit]

Qualification rule: first 2 of each heat (Q) plus the 2 fastest times (q) qualified.[3]

Heat 1[edit]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Hamza Driouch  Qatar 1:48.93 Q
2 5 Abdelkerim Mohammed Hussein  Eritrea 1:49.24 Q, PB
3 6 Esrael Awoke  Ethiopia 1:49.49 q
4 3 Brandon McBride  Canada 1:51.00
5 8 Brecht Bertels  Belgium 1:51.28
6 7 Jun Mitake  Japan 1:51.68
7 1 William Gurton  Great Britain 1:52.42
8 2 Saúl Martínez  Spain 1:52.86 PB

Heat 2[edit]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Leonard Kirwa Kosencha  Kenya 1:47.11 Q, CR
2 5 Mohammed Aman  Ethiopia 1:47.72 Q
3 3 Cameron Thornton  United States 1:49.64
4 6 Tyler Smith  Canada 1:49.67 PB
5 8 Elliot Slade  Great Britain 1:52.25
6 1 Andreas Almgren  Sweden 1:52.26
7 7 Patryk Wróbel  Poland 1:53.70
8 2 Mihn Kyun Cho  Denmark 1:54.38

Heat 3[edit]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1 4 Nigel Amos  Botswana 1:48.54 Q
2 1 Timothy Kitum  Kenya 1:48.80 Q, PB
3 3 Wesley Vazquez  Puerto Rico 1:49.24 q
4 5 Patrick Zwicker  Germany 1:50.56
5 6 Tre'tez Kinnaird  United States 1:50.64
6 2 Nikolaus Franzmair  Austria 1:51.45 PB
7 8 Gaëtan Manceaux  France 1:51.63
8 7 Nader Belhanbel  Morocco 1:52.45

Final[edit]

[4]

Rank Lane Name Nationality Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 5 Leonard Kirwa Kosencha  Kenya 1:44.08 WY
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 6 Mohammed Aman  Ethiopia 1:44.68 PB
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 8 Timothy Kitum  Kenya 1:44.98 PB
4 4 Hamza Driouch  Qatar 1:46.39 PB
5 3 Nigel Amos  Botswana 1:47.28 PB
6 2 Esrael Awoke  Ethiopia 1:48.94 PB
7 7 Wesley Vazquez  Puerto Rico 1:51.25
8 1 Abdelkerim Mohammed Hussein  Eritrea 1:51.85

References[edit]

  1. ^ Timetable
  2. ^ Heat results
  3. ^ Semifinal results
  4. ^ "Final results". Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2011-07-10.
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