Athletics at the 2022 Asian Games – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres at the 2022 Asian Games
Venue	Hangzhou Olympic Expo Main Stadium
Date	2–3 October 2023
Competitors	21 from 16 nations
Medalists
Essa Kzwani    Saudi Arabia   Mohammed Afsal    India   Husain Al-Farsi    Oman

Athletics at the 2022 Asian Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
	mixed
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men	women
35 km walk team	mixed
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 800 metres competition at the 2022 Asian Games took place on 2 and 3 October 2023 at the HOC Stadium, Hangzhou.^[1][2][3]

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

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

World Record	David Rudisha (KEN)	1:40.91	London, United Kingdom	9 August 2012
Asian Record	Yusuf Saad Kamel (BRN)	1:42.79	Monaco	29 July 2008
Games Record	Sajjad Moradi (IRI)	1:45.45	Guangzhou, China	25 November 2010

Legend

• DNF — Did not finish
• DSQ — Disqualified

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

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Essa Kzwani (KSA)	1:48.98	Q
2	Liu Dezhu (CHN)	1:49.32	Q
3	Abubaker Haydar Abdalla (QAT)	1:50.17
4	Chhun Bunthorn (CAM)	1:50.97
5	Musulman Dzholomanov (KGZ)	1:54.20
6	Mohammed Dwedar (PLE)	1:55.31
7	Hussain Fazeel Haroon (MDV)	1:57.20

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Mohammed Afsal (IND)	1:46.79	Q
2	Ebrahim Al-Zofairi (KUW)	1:47.01	Q
3	Husain Al-Farsi (OMA)	1:47.68	q
4	Joshua Atkinson (THA)	1:48.18	q
5	Waqas Akbar (PAK)	1:52.99
6	Hussain Riza (MDV)	1:54.58
—	Sorn Pisey (CAM)	DNF

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
1	Abdirahman Saeed Hassan (QAT)	1:49.32	Q
2	Krishan Kumar (IND)	1:49.45	Q
3	Sami Al-Yami (KSA)	1:49.56
4	Som Bahadur Kumal (NEP)	1:50.38
5	Sho Kawamoto (JPN)	1:52.93
6	Manuel Ataide (TLS)	1:58.62
7	Naraugiin Jandos (MGL)	1:59.11

Rank	Athlete	Time	Notes
	Essa Kzwani (KSA)	1:48.05
	Mohammed Afsal (IND)	1:48.43
	Husain Al-Farsi (OMA)	1:48.51
4	Abdirahman Saeed Hassan (QAT)	1:48.56
5	Liu Dezhu (CHN)	1:48.81
6	Ebrahim Al-Zofairi (KUW)	1:49.05
7	Joshua Atkinson (THA)	1:50.50
—	Krishan Kumar (IND)	DSQ

• Schedule