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Athletics at the 1980 Moskva Summer Games:

Men's 800 metres Semi-Finals

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Events:
Phases:

Host City: Moskva, Soviet Union
Venue(s): Grand Arena, Central Lenin Stadium Area, Moskva
Date Started: July 25, 1980
Date Finished: July 25, 1980
Format: Top two in each heat and next two fastest advanced to the final.

Gold: GBR Steve Ovett
Silver: GBR Seb Coe
Bronze: URS Nikolay Kirov

Semi-Finals Heat One

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H) T(A) L
1 Steve Ovett 24 Great Britain GBR 1:46.6 1:46.55 4 QU
2 Andreas Busse 21 East Germany GDR 1:46.9 1:46.86 1 QU
3 Agberto Guimarães 22 Brazil BRA 1:46.9 1:46.86 3 QC
4 Owen Hamilton 21 Jamaica JAM 1:47.6 1:47.56 2
5 Milovan Savić 27 Yugoslavia YUG 1:47.6 1:47.57 8
6 Roger Milhau 25 France FRA 1:48.1 1:48.05 7
7 Colomán Trabado 22 Spain ESP 1:48.1 1:48.08 6
8 Mehdi Aidet 26 Algeria ALG 1:48.2 1:48.11 5

Semi-Finals Heat Two

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H) T(A)
1 Nikolay Kirov 22 Soviet Union URS 1:46.6 1:46.53 QU
2 Dave Warren 24 Great Britain GBR 1:47.2 1:47.12 QU
3 José Marajo 25 France FRA 1:47.3 1:47.22 QC
4 Olaf Beyer 22 East Germany GDR 1:47.6 1:47.56
5 Antonio Páez 23 Spain ESP 1:47.8 1:47.75
6 Carlo Grippo 25 Italy ITA 1:48.7 1:48.68
7 András Paróczai 24 Hungary HUN 1:48.8 1:48.73
8 Sri Ram Singh 30 India IND 1:49.0 1:48.92

Semi-Finals Heat Three

Rank Athlete Age Team NOC T(H) T(A) L
1 Seb Coe 23 Great Britain GBR 1:46.7 1:46.61 7 QU
2 Detlef Wagenknecht 21 East Germany GDR 1:46.7 1:46.68 3 QU
3 Binko Kolev 21 Bulgaria BUL 1:47.3 1:47.27 1
4 William Wuycke 22 Venezuela VEN 1:47.4 1:47.38 5
5 Anatoliy Reshetniak 25 Soviet Union URS 1:48.2 1:48.12 4
6 Philippe Dupont 22 France FRA 1:49.7 1:49.67 2
7 Musa Luliga 25 Tanzania TAN 1:51.5 1:51.42 6
8 Derradji Harek 20 Algeria ALG 1:51.9 1:51.81 8