1996 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

Medalists

Gold	Joseph Mutua  Kenya
Silver	Tom Lerwill  United Kingdom
Bronze	Grant Cremer  Australia

Results

Final

23 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1:48.21
	Tom Lerwill	United Kingdom	1:48.40
	Grant Cremer	Australia	1:48.46
4	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1:48.97
5	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:49.44
6	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:50.11
7	Zach Whitmarsh	Canada	1:50.26
8	James Nolan	Ireland	1:51.88

Semifinals

22 August

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1:45.63	Q
2	Tom Lerwill	United Kingdom	1:47.27	Q
3	Zach Whitmarsh	Canada	1:47.33	Q
4	James Nolan	Ireland	1:47.55	Q
5	Clyde Colenso	South Africa	1:47.84
6	Hirohisa Muramatsu	Japan	1:48.65
7	Abdul Rahman Abdullah	Qatar	1:49.88
8	Roman Hanzel	Slovakia	1:53.02

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grant Cremer	Australia	1:48.72	Q
2	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:48.91	Q
3	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:48.98	Q
4	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1:49.21	Q
5	Kazutomo Iwasaki	Japan	1:49.32
6	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:49.46
7	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:50.23
8	Jean-Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1:50.50

Heats

21 August

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:52.88	Q
2	Hirohisa Muramatsu	Japan	1:53.38	Q
3	Reuben Silwimba	Zambia	1:53.99
4	Youcef Abdi	Algeria	1:54.12
5	Moses Kavuma	Uganda	1:54.69
6	Momodou Lamin Drammeh	Gambia	1:55.09
7	Kuripitone Betham	Western Samoa	2:01.75

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	James Nolan	Ireland	1:49.02	Q
2	Tom Lerwill	United Kingdom	1:49.22	Q
3	Zach Whitmarsh	Canada	1:49.33	q
4	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:49.47	q
5	Juan Delgado	Spain	1:50.26
6	István Nagy	Hungary	1:50.64
7	Lkhagvasuren Choisuren	Mongolia	2:11.85
	Nhlanhla Dlamini	Swaziland	DQ	(163.3)

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jean-Patrick Nduwimana	Burundi	1:51.05	Q
2	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:51.27	Q
3	Robert True	United States	1:51.68
4	Said Basweidan	Yemen	1:52.21
5	Meelis Tammre	Estonia	1:52.83
6	Vane Stojanov	North Macedonia	1:53.20
7	Chris Votu	Solomon Islands	2:06.21

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Japheth Kimutai	Kenya	1:47.89	Q
2	Abdul Rahman Abdullah	Qatar	1:49.95	Q
3	Israel Domínguez	Spain	1:51.91
4	Clyde McIntosh	New Zealand	1:52.17
5	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1:53.02
6	Davi de Jesús	Brazil	1:53.49
7	Mohamed Yagoub	Sudan	1:55.34

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Clyde Colenso	South Africa	1:48.83	Q
2	Grant Cremer	Australia	1:48.84	Q
3	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:49.06	q
4	Kazutomo Iwasaki	Japan	1:49.33	q
5	Roman Tarasov	Russia	1:53.04
6	Péter Berezvai	Hungary	1:53.36
7	Lionel Barranco	Turks and Caicos Islands	2:06.73
8	David Dexter	Vanuatu	2:11.15

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joseph Mutua	Kenya	1:49.99	Q
2	Roman Hanzel	Slovakia	1:50.81	Q
3	Robin Martin	United States	1:51.33
4	Djabir Saïd-Guerni	Algeria	1:52.06
5	Werner Botha	South Africa	1:52.83
6	Craig Wood	Australia	1:53.27
7	Rickard Pell	Sweden	1:57.01
8	Henele Taliai	Tonga	2:05.97

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 45 athletes from 37 countries participated in the event.