Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Thammasat Stadium
Dates	15–17 December
Competitors	19 from 14 nations
Medalists
Lee Jin-il    South Korea   Kim Soon-hyung    South Korea   Abdulrahman Hassan Abdullah    Qatar

Main article: Athletics at the 1998 Asian Games

The men's 800 metres competition at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand was held on 15–17 December at the Thammasat Stadium.

Schedule

All times are Indochina Time (UTC+07:00)

Date	Time	Event
Tuesday, 15 December 1998	15:20	Heats
Thursday, 17 December 1998	16:00	Final

Results

Heats

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

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Lee Jin-il (KOR)	1:51.85	Q
2	Abdou Ibrahim Youssef (QAT)	1:52.07	Q
3	Boris Kaveshnikov (KGZ)	1:52.25
4	Song Mingyou (CHN)	1:52.51
5	Mohammad Reza Molaei (IRI)	1:52.61
6	Mohammad Al-Matari (JOR)	1:55.20
7	Naseer Ismail (MDV)	1:55.31

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Abdulrahman Hassan Abdullah (QAT)	1:50.82	Q
2	Mahmoud Al-Kheirat (SYR)	1:51.32	Q
3	Abdullah Al-Anbari (OMA)	1:51.97
4	Phan Văn Hoá (VIE)	1:54.10
5	Vasu Subramaniam (MAS)	1:54.65
6	Mohammad Ayed (JOR)	1:55.22

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Kim Soon-hyung (KOR)	1:50.13	Q
2	Mehdi Jelodarzadeh (IRI)	1:50.28	Q
3	Tomohiro Kitamura (JPN)	1:50.30	q
4	Cheng Bing (CHN)	1:50.55	q
5	Sutus Sikawkhiew (THA)	1:50.72
6	Basheer Al-Khewani (YEM)	1:56.77

Final

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Lee Jin-il (KOR)	1:46.56
	Kim Soon-hyung (KOR)	1:46.61
	Abdulrahman Hassan Abdullah (QAT)	1:47.10
4	Abdou Ibrahim Youssef (QAT)	1:47.45
5	Mahmoud Al-Kheirat (SYR)	1:48.33
6	Mehdi Jelodarzadeh (IRI)	1:48:58
7	Cheng Bing (CHN)	1:48.89
8	Tomohiro Kitamura (JPN)	1:53.50

External links

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