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800m Men
OLYMPIC RECORD EVOLUTION 800m Men
ATHLETE
NAME
SCORE
OLYMPIC GAME
DATE
COUNTRY
TIME
[minutes:seconds, 1/100 of a second]
1896
Edwin FLACK
2:10
Athens 1896
06 APRIL
AUS
1900
David HALL
1:59
Paris 1900
14 JULY
USA
1904
James LIGHTBODY
1:56
St Louis 1904
01 SEPTEMBER
USA
1908
Melvin SHEPPARD
1:52.80
London 1908
21 JULY
USA
1912
Meredith Ted
1:51.90
Stockholm 1912
08 JULY
1928
Lowe Douglas
1:51.80
Amsterdam 1928
30 JULY
1932
Hampson Tom
1:49.80
Los Angeles 1932
02 AUGUST
1948
Whitfield Mal
1:49.20
London 1948
02 AUGUST
1956
Courtney Tom
1:47.70
Melbourne / Stockholm 1956
26 NOVEMBER
1960
Kerr George
1:47.10
Rome 1960
01 SEPTEMBER
Peter SNELL
1:46.30
Rome 1960
02 SEPTEMBER
NZL
1964
Kiprugut Wilson
1:46.10
Tokyo 1964
15 OCTOBER
Kerr George
1:46.10
Tokyo 1964
15 OCTOBER
Peter SNELL
1:45.10
Tokyo 1964
16 OCTOBER
NZL
1968
Ralph DOUBELL
1:44.40
Mexico 1968
15 OCTOBER
AUS
1976
Alberto JUANTORENA
1:43.50
Montreal 1976
25 JULY
CUB
1984
Joaquim CRUZ
1:43
Los Angeles 1984
06 AUGUST
BRA
1996
Vebjorn RODAL
1:42.58
Atlanta 1996
31 JULY
NOR
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Yuriy BORZAKOVSKIY
Nils SCHUMANN
Vebjorn RODAL
William TANUI
Paul ERENG
Joaquim CRUZ
Steve OVETT
Alberto JUANTORENA
David James WOTTLE
Ralph DOUBELL
Peter SNELL
Thomas William COURTNEY
Malvin Groston WHITFIELD
John Youie WOODRUFF
Thomas HAMPSON
Douglas Gordon LOWE
Albert HILL
James Edwin MEREDITH
Melvin SHEPPARD
James LIGHTBODY
Alfred TYSOE
Edwin FLACK
Silver medals
Ismail Ahmed ISMAIL
Mbulaeni MULAUDZI
Wilson KIPKETER
Hezekiel SEPENG
Nixon KIPROTICH
Joaquim CRUZ
Sebastian COE
Ivo VAN DAMME
Yevgeni ARZHANOV
Wilson Chuma KIPRUGUT
William Frederick CROTHERS
Roger MOENS
Derek James Neville JOHNSON
Arthur WINT
Mario LANZI
Alexander S. WILSON
Erik BYLEHN
Paul MARTIN
Earl EBY
Melvin SHEPPARD
Emilio LUNGHI
Howard VALENTINE
John CREGAN
Nandor DANI
Bronze medals
Alfred Kirwa YEGO
Wilson KIPKETER
Djabir SAID GUERNI
Fred ONYANCHA
Johnny Lee Jr GRAY
Said AOUITA
Earl JONES
Nikolai KIROV
Richard Charles WOHLHUTER
Michael BOIT
Thomas Francis FARRELL
Wilson Chuma KIPRUGUT
George Ezekiel KERR
Audun BOYSEN
Heinz ULZHEIMER
Marcel HANSENNE
Philip EDWARDS
Hermann ENGELHARD
Schuyler ENCK
Bevil Gordon D'Urban RUDD
Ira Nelson DAVENPORT
Hans BRAUN
Emil BREITKREUTZ
David HALL
Dimitrios GOLEMIS