Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres at the 2010 Asian Games
Venue	Aoti Main Stadium
Dates	24–25 November
Competitors	22 from 16 nations
Medalists
Sajjad Moradi    Iran   Adnan Taess    Iraq   Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla    Qatar

Main article: Athletics at the 2010 Asian Games

The men's 800 metres event at the 2010 Asian Games was held at the Aoti Main Stadium, Guangzhou, China on 24–25 November.

Schedule

All times are China Standard Time (UTC+08:00)

Date	Time	Event
Wednesday, 24 November 2010	18:50	Round 1
Thursday, 25 November 2010	17:40	Final

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Asian and Games records were as follows.

World Record	David Rudisha (KEN)	1:41.11	Rieti, Italy	29 August 2010
Asian Record	Yusuf Saad Kamel (BRN)	1:42.79	Monaco	29 July 2008
Games Record	Lee Jin-il (KOR)	1:45.72	Hiroshima, Japan	12 October 1994

Results

Legend

• DNF — Did not finish
• DNS — Did not start
• DSQ — Disqualified

Round 1

• Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Sajjad Moradi (IRI)	1:49.05	Q
2	Masato Yokota (JPN)	1:49.26	Q
3	Sajeesh Joseph (IND)	1:49.58
4	Zhang Haikun (CHN)	1:50.01
5	Abdulaziz Ladan (KSA)	1:50.39
6	Sergey Pakura (KGZ)	1:51.25
7	Watcharin Waekachi (THA)	1:52.35
—	Nguyễn Đình Cương (VIE)	DSQ

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Adnan Taess (IRQ)	1:49.94	Q
2	Mohammad Al-Azemi (IOC)	1:50.07	Q
3	Francis Sagayaraj (IND)	1:50.18
4	Geabel Al-Muradi (YEM)	1:53.27
—	Farkhod Kuralov (TJK)	DSQ
—	Yusuf Saad Kamel (BRN)	DNS
DQ	Abdelnasser Awajna (PLE)	2:03.93

• Abdelnasser Awajna of Palestine originally finished 5th in the heat, but was later disqualified after he tested positive for Norandrosterone.^[1]

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Mohammed Al-Salhi (KSA)	1:46.47	Q
2	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla (QAT)	1:46.87	Q
3	Belal Mansoor Ali (BRN)	1:47.37	q
4	Amir Moradi (IRI)	1:47.98	q
5	Yang Xiaofei (CHN)	1:48.02
6	Saud Abdelkarim (UAE)	1:50.41
7	Ajmal Amirov (TJK)	1:53.34

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Sajjad Moradi (IRI)	1:45.45	GR
	Adnan Taess (IRQ)	1:45.88
	Musaeb Abdulrahman Balla (QAT)	1:46.19
4	Masato Yokota (JPN)	1:46.48
5	Mohammed Al-Salhi (KSA)	1:46.86
6	Mohammad Al-Azemi (IOC)	1:47.51
7	Belal Mansoor Ali (BRN)	1:49.03
—	Amir Moradi (IRI)	DNF

References

1. "2 Asian Games athletes fail drug test". ESPN. 25 January 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2013.

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