Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres at the Games of the IX Olympiad
Dates	July 29 (heats) July 30 (semifinals) July 31 (final)
Medalists
Douglas Lowe  Great Britain Erik Byléhn  Sweden Hermann Engelhard  Germany

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The men's 800 metre event at the 1928 Olympic Games took place between July 29 & July 31.

Results

Round One

The first three finishers in each of the eight heats advanced to the Semifinal Round.

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Alex Wilson	Canada	1:59.2
2	Erik Byléhn	Sweden	1:59.8
3	John Sittig	United States	2:00.6
4	Guus Zeegers	Netherlands
5	Gérald Bertheloot	Belgium
6	Vasilios Stavrinos	Greece
7	Louis Schmit	Luxembourg

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Otto Peltzer	Germany	1:57.4
2	Brant Little	Canada	1:57.8
3	Wilfred Tatham	Great Britain	1:58.2
4	Adje Paulen	Netherlands
5	William Whyte	Australia
6	Albert Larsen	Denmark

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Jean Keller	France	1:59.0
2	Paul Martin	Switzerland	1:59.4
3	Ray Watson	United States	1:59.6
4	Wilhelm Tarnogrocki	Germany	1:59.9
5	Alfonso García	Mexico
6	Andries Hoogerwerf	Netherlands
7	Antonios Mangos	Greece

Heat Four

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Georges Baraton	France	2:03.4
2	Earl Fuller	United States	2:03.8
3	Olaf Strand	Norway	2:03.8
4	Ettore Tavernari	Italy
5	Philippe Coenjaerts	Belgium
6	Harry Houghton	Great Britain

Heat Five

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Lloyd Hahn	United States	1:56.8
2	Hermann Englehard	Sweden	1:57.0
3	Vilém Šindler	Czechoslovakia	1:57.0
4	René Féger	France
5	Jack Walters	Canada
6	Charles Stuart	Australia

Heat Six

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Serafín Dengra	Argentina	2:01.2
2	Douglas Lowe	Great Britain	2:02.2
3	Guido Cominotto	Italy	2:02.4
4	Ömer Besim Koşalay	Turkey

Heat Seven

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Séra Martin	France	1:58.8
2	László Barsi	Hungary	1:59.0
3	Fredy Müller	Germany	1:59.4
4	Adolf Kittel	Czechoslovakia	1:59.6
5	Feliks Malanowski	Poland	1:59.8
6	Gerry Coughlan	Ireland
7	J. Murphy	India

Heat Eight

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Phil Edwards	Canada	1:59.4
2	Ralph Starr	Great Britain	1:59.8
3	Norman MacEachern	Ireland	1:59.8
4	Leopoldo Ledesma	Argentina
5	José Lucílo Iturbe	Mexico
6	Joaquín Miquel	Spain	2:03.2

Semifinals

The three fastest runners from each of the three heats advanced to the Final Round.

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Earl Fuller	United States	1:55.6
2	Douglas Lowe	Great Britain	1:55.8
3	Jean Keller	France	1:56.0
4	László Barsi	Hungary	1:56.2
5	Otto Peltzer	Germany	1:56.3
6	Alex Wilson	Canada	1:57.1
7	Vilém Šindler	Czechoslovakia
AC	Norman MacEachern	Ireland	DNF

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Erik Blyéhn	Sweden	1:55.6
2	Ray Watson	United States	1:56.8
3	Hermann Engelhard	Germany	1:56.8
4	Brant Little	Canada	1:57.6
5	Ralph Starr	Great Britain
6	Guido Cominotto	Italy
7	Serafín Dengra	Argentina

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Lloyd Hahn	United States	1:52.6
2	Phil Edwards	Canada	1:52.8
3	Séra Martin	France	1:53.0
4	Paul Martin	Switzerland	1:53.3
5	John Sittig	United States	1:53.4
6	Fredy Müller	Germany	1:53.8
7	Wilfred Tatham	Great Britain
8	Olaf Strand	Norway	1:59.9

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Douglas Lowe	Great Britain	1:51.8	OR
	Erik Byléhn	Sweden	1:52.8
	Hermann Engelhard	Germany	1:53.2
4	Phil Edwards	Canada	1:54.0
5	Lloyd Hahn	United States	1:54.2
6	Séra Martin	France	1:54.6
7	Earl Fuller	United States	1:55.0
8	Jean Keller	France	1:57.0
9	Ray Watson	United States	2:03.0

Key: OR = Olympic record

References

• 1928 Summer Olympics results: Men's 800 m, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-03-01.
• www.sports-reference.com