1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Sydney, Australia, at International Athletic Centre on 21, 22 and 23 August.

Medalists

Gold	Joseph Mutua Kenya
Silver	Tom Lerwill United Kingdom
Bronze	Grant Cremer Australia

Results

Final

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1:48.21
	Tom Lerwill	United Kingdom	1:48.40
	Grant Cremer	Australia	1:48.46
4	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1:48.97
5	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:49.44
6	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:50.11
7	Zach Whitmarsh	Canada	1:50.26
8	James Nolan	Ireland	1:51.88

Semifinals

22 August

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1:45.63	Q
2	Tom Lerwill	United Kingdom	1:47.27	Q
3	Zach Whitmarsh	Canada	1:47.33	Q
4	James Nolan	Ireland	1:47.55	Q
5	Clyde Colenso	South Africa	1:47.84
6	Hirohisa Muramatsu	Japan	1:48.65
7	Abdul Rahman Abdullah	Qatar	1:49.88
8	Roman Hanzel	Slovakia	1:53.02

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grant Cremer	Australia	1:48.72	Q
2	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:48.91	Q
3	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:48.98	Q
4	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1:49.21	Q
5	Kazutomo Iwasaki	Japan	1:49.32
6	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:49.46
7	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:50.23
8	Jean-Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1:50.50

Heats

21 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:52.88	Q
2	Hirohisa Muramatsu	Japan	1:53.38	Q
3	Reuben Silwimba	Zambia	1:53.99
4	Youcef Abdi	Algeria	1:54.12
5	Moses Kavuma	Uganda	1:54.69
6	Momodou Lamin Drammeh	Gambia	1:55.09
7	Kuripitone Betham	Western Samoa	2:01.75

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	James Nolan	Ireland	1:49.02	Q
2	Tom Lerwill	United Kingdom	1:49.22	Q
3	Zach Whitmarsh	Canada	1:49.33	q
4	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:49.47	q
5	Juan Delgado	Spain	1:50.26
6	István Nagy	Hungary	1:50.64
7	Lkhagvasuren Choisuren	Mongolia	2:11.85
	Nhlanhla Dlamini	Swaziland	DQ	(163.3)

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jean-Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1:51.05	Q
2	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:51.27	Q
3	Robert True	United States	1:51.68
4	Said Basweidan	Yemen	1:52.21
5	Meelis Tammre	Estonia	1:52.83
6	Vane Stojanov	North Macedonia	1:53.20
7	Chris Votu	Solomon Islands	2:06.21

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1:47.89	Q
2	Abdul Rahman Abdullah	Qatar	1:49.95	Q
3	Israel Domínguez	Spain	1:51.91
4	Clyde McIntosh	New Zealand	1:52.17
5	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1:53.02
6	Davi de Jesús	Brazil	1:53.49
7	Mohamed Yagoub	Sudan	1:55.34

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Clyde Colenso	South Africa	1:48.83	Q
2	Grant Cremer	Australia	1:48.84	Q
3	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:49.06	q
4	Kazutomo Iwasaki	Japan	1:49.33	q
5	Roman Tarasov	Russia	1:53.04
6	Péter Berezvai	Hungary	1:53.36
7	Lionel Barranco	Turks and Caicos Islands	2:06.73
8	David Dexter	Vanuatu	2:11.15

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1:49.99	Q
2	Roman Hanzel	Slovakia	1:50.81	Q
3	Robin Martin	United States	1:51.33
4	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:52.06
5	Werner Botha	South Africa	1:52.83
6	Craig Wood	Australia	1:53.27
7	Rickard Pell	Sweden	1:57.01
8	Henele Taliai	Tonga	2:05.97

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 45 athletes from 37 countries participated in the event.

• Algeria (2)
• Australia (2)
• Belgium (1)
• Brazil (1)
• Burundi (1)
• Canada (1)
• Czech Republic (1)
• Estonia (1)
• Gambia (1)
• Germany (1)
• Hungary (2)
• Ireland (1)
• Japan (2)
• Kenya (2)
• Latvia (1)
• North Macedonia (1)
• Mongolia (1)
• New Zealand (1)
• Poland (1)
• Qatar (1)
• Russia (1)
• Slovakia (1)
• Solomon Islands (1)
• South Africa (2)
• Spain (2)
• Sudan (1)
• Swaziland (1)
• Sweden (1)
• Tonga (1)
• Turks and Caicos Islands (1)
• Uganda (1)
• United Kingdom (1)
• United States (2)
• Vanuatu (1)
• Western Samoa (1)
• Yemen (1)
• Zambia (1)