Athletics at the 1999 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1999 Summer Universiade was held on 8, 9 and 11 July at the Estadio Son Moix in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Norberto Téllez Cuba	André Bucher Switzerland	Derrick Peterson United States

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Grant Cremer	Australia	1:48.65	Q
2	1	Jean-Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1:48.91	Q
2	6	Trinity Gray	United States	1:48.91	Q
4	3	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:49.08	Q
4	6	Gideon van Oudtshoorn	South Africa	1:49.08	Q
6	1	Daryl Fillion	Canada	1:49.09	Q
7	6	Eugenio Barrios	Spain	1:49.15	q
8	1	Kim Soon-hyung	South Korea	1:49.22	q
9	2	André Bucher	Switzerland	1:49.24	Q
10	3	Wojciech Kałdowski	Poland	1:49.30	q
11	2	David Divad	France	1:49.45	Q
12	2	Urmet Uusorg	Estonia	1:49.56	q
13	2	Abderrahim Jaafari	Morocco	1:49.67
14	6	Duarte Ponte	Portugal	1:49.73
15	5	Derrick Peterson	United States	1:50.19	Q
16	5	Jurgens Kotze	South Africa	1:50.23	Q
17	1	Gezachw Yossef	Israel	1:50.24
18	5	Joseph Ischia	Australia	1:50.35
19	3	Márcio de Olivera	Brazil	1:50.51
20	6	Marcos Flademir Vieira	Brazil	1:51.15
21	1	Abdelkader Mokrane	Algeria	1:51.59
22	4	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:51.99	Q
23	4	James Karanu	Kenya	1:52.11	Q
24	2	Elliot Phelaphela	Botswana	1:52.27
24	4	Felix Leiter	Germany	1:52.27
26	4	Mouhssin Chehibi	Morocco	1:52.46
27	3	Juan Carlos Esteso	Spain	1:52.63
28	1	Carl Jackson	New Zealand	1:52.74
29	2	Damien Shirley	New Zealand	1:53.12
30	1	Peter Kerema	Kenya	1:53.87
31	1	Peter Poles	Slovenia	1:54.14
32	2	Carlos Mejía	Puerto Rico	1:54.87
33	4	Niclas Nygren-Johansson	Sweden	1:56.15
34	5	Xandru Grecht	Malta	1:56.33
35	3	Abednigo Sibandze	Swaziland	1:56.92
36	3	Luis Abaya	Costa Rica	1:58.71	PB
37	5	Henry Bakumpe	Uganda	1:59.29
38	4	Jaime Montes	Puerto Rico	1:59.78
39	6	Gerald Grecht	Malta	2:00.29
40	5	Yaya Terap Adoum	Chad	2:01.66
41	5	Paolo Cueva	Peru	2:02.29
	4	Farid da Graça	São Tomé and Príncipe	DNS
	6	Lam Ka Lam	Macau	DNS

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:46.31	Q
2	1	André Bucher	Switzerland	1:46.32	Q
3	1	David Divad	France	1:46.75	Q, SB
4	1	James Karanu	Kenya	1:47.03	q, PB
5	1	Trinity Gray	United States	1:47.56	q
6	2	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:48.02	Q
7	2	Grant Cremer	Australia	1:48.10	Q
8	2	Derrick Peterson	United States	1:48.25	Q
9	2	Kim Soon-hyung	South Korea	1:48.28
10	2	Jean-Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1:48.40
11	1	Jurgens Kotze	South Africa	1:48.90
12	2	Eugenio Barrios	Spain	1:49.22
13	1	Urmet Uusorg	Estonia	1:49.31
13	2	Daryl Fillion	Canada	1:49.31
15	2	Gideon van Oudtshoorn	South Africa	1:49.61
16	1	Wojciech Kałdowski	Poland	1:51.83

Final

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:46.11
	André Bucher	Switzerland	1:46.49
	Derrick Peterson	United States	1:46.75
4	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:46.75
5	Grant Cremer	Australia	1:46.97
6	James Karanu	Kenya	1:47.70
7	David Divad	France	1:47.81
8	Trinity Gray	United States	1:51.91