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Athletics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games:

Men's 800 metres Semi-Finals

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Events:
Phases:

Host City: Tokyo, Japan
Venue(s): National Stadium, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Date Started: October 15, 1964
Date Finished: October 15, 1964
Format: Top two in each heat and next two fastest advanced to the final.

Gold: NZL Peter Snell
Silver: CAN Bill Crothers
Bronze: KEN Wilson Kiprugut

Semi-Finals Heat One

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H)
1 Peter Snell 25 New Zealand NZL 1:46.9 QU
2 Jerry Siebert 26 United States USA 1:47.0 QU
3 Jacques Pennewaert 24 Belgium BEL 1:47.0 QC
4 Manfred Matuschewski 25 Germany GER 1:47.3
5 Valery Bulyshev 25 Soviet Union URS 1:47.5
6 Mamoru Morimoto 25 Japan JPN 1:47.7
7 Maurice Lurot 24 France FRA 1:49.7
8 Stig Lindbäck 27 Sweden SWE 1:49.8

Semi-Finals Heat Two

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H)
1 George Kerr 26 Jamaica JAM 1:46.1 QU/OR
2 Wilson Kiprugut Kenya KEN 1:46.1 QU/=OR
3 Dieter Bogatzki 22 Germany GER 1:46.9 QC
4 John Boulter 23 Great Britain GBR 1:47.1
5 Rudolf Klaban 26 Austria AUT 1:47.4
6 Abram Kryvosheiev 30 Soviet Union URS 1:47.5
7 Derek McCleane 26 Ireland IRL 1:48.4
8 Pekka Juutilainen 23 Finland FIN 1:50.3

Semi-Finals Heat Three

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H)
1 Bill Crothers 23 Canada CAN 1:47.3 QU
2 Tom Farrell 20 United States USA 1:47.8 QU
3 Manfred Kinder 26 Germany GER 1:47.9
4 Chris Carter 21 Great Britain GBR 1:49.1
5 Rein Tölp 23 Soviet Union URS 1:49.1
6 Ahmed Issa 21 Chad CHA 1:49.4
7 Tony Blue 28 Australia AUS 1:49.6
8 Jos Lambrechts 28 Belgium BEL 1:52.8