Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres

at the Games of the XIV Olympiad

Venue

Wembley Stadium

Dates

July 30 (heats)
July 31 (semifinals)
August 2 (final)

Medalists

Athletics at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
10 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Combined events
Decathlon	men

The men's 800 metres event at the 1948 Olympic Games took place July 30, July 31 and August 2. The final was won by American Mal Whitfield.

Records

Prior to the competition, the existing World and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Rudolf Harbig (GER)	1:46.6	Milan, Italy	15 July 1939
Olympic record	Tommy Hampson (GBR)	1:49.7	Los Angeles, United States	2 August 1932

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition:

Date	Event	Athlete	Time	Notes
2 August	Final	Mal Whitfield (USA)	1:49.2	OR

The first four in each heat qualified for the Semi-finals.^[1]

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time (hand)
1	France	Marcel Hansenne	1:54.6
2	Great Britain	John Parlett	1:55.0
2	Australia	Bill Ramsay	1:55.0
4	Switzerland	Karl Volkmer	1:55.3
5	Argentina	Adán Torres	1:56.7
6	South Korea	Lee Yun-seok	2:01.4
-	Egypt	Rashid Khadr	Also competed

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time (hand)
1	United States	Herb Barten	1:55.6
2	New Zealand	Doug Harris	1:56.6
2	Great Britain	Tom White	1:56.6
4	Belgium	Raymond Rosier	1:56.7
5	Greece	Vasilios Mavroidis	1:57.4
6	Peru	Antero Mongrut	1:58.7
-	Turkey	Cahit Önel	Also competed
-	Denmark	Herluf Christensen	DNF

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time (hand)
1	Denmark	Niels Holst-Sørensen	1:54.2
1	Norway	Bjørn Vade	1:54.2
3	United States	Bob Chambers	1:54.3
4	Belgium	Joseph Brys	1:55.4
4	Iceland	Óskar Jónsson	1:55.4
6	Canada	Bill Parnell	1:55.7
-	Spain	Juan Adarraga	Also competed

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time (hand)
1	Jamaica	Arthur Wint	1:53.9
2	Netherlands	Frits de Ruijter	1:54.4
3	Luxembourg	Josy Barthel	1:54.8
4	Czechoslovakia	Václav Winter	1:55.1
5	Canada	Ezra Henniger	1 55.4
6	Trinidad and Tobago	Wilfred Tull	1:55.7
-	Turkey	Seydi Dinçtürk	Also competed

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time (hand)
1	Sweden	Olle Ljunggren	1:56.1
2	France	Robert Chef d'Hôtel	1:56.2
3	Switzerland	Hans Streuli	1:56.5
4	Great Britain	Harry Tarraway	1:56.6
4	Argentina	Guillermo Avalos	1:56.6
6	Turkey	Riza Maksut İşman	2:01.1
-	Greece	Georgios Karageorgos	Also competed

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time (hand)
1	United States	Mal Whitfield	1:52.8
2	Sweden	Ingvar Bengtsson	1 52.9
3	Canada	Jack Hutchins	1:55.5
4	France	Gaston Mayordome	1:55.7
5	Greece	Stylianos Stratakos	2:02.2

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time (hand)
1	France	Marcel Hansenne	1:50.5
2	United States	Mal Whitfield	1:50.7
3	Great Britain	John Parlett	1:50.9
4	Canada	Jack Hutchins	1:52.6
5	Belgium	Joseph Brys	1:53.2
6	Luxembourg	Josy Barthel	1:54.6
-	Norway	Bjørn Vade	Also competed
-	Switzerland	Karl Volmer	DNF

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time (hand)
1	Sweden	Ingvar Bengtsson	1:51.2
2	Jamaica	Arthur Wint	1:52.7
3	United States	Bob Chambers	1:52.9
4	France	Gaston Mayordome	1:54.3
5	Australia	Bill Ramsay	1:54.9
6	Czechoslovakia	Václav Winter	1:57.7
-	Great Britain	Harry Tarraway	DNF
-	New Zealand	Doug Harris	DNF

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time (hand)
1	United States	Herb Barten	1:51.7
2	France	Robert Chef d'Hôtel	1:52.0
3	Denmark	Niels Holst-Sørensen	1:52.4
4	Sweden	Olle Ljunggren	1:52.5
5	Great Britain	Tom White	1:53.0
6	Netherlands	Frits de Ruijter	1:54.6
7	Belgium	Raymond Rosier
-	Switzerland	Hans Streuli	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time (hand)	Notes
01 !	Mal Whitfield	United States	1:49.2	OR
02 !	Arthur Wint	Jamaica	1:49.5
03 !	Marcel Hansenne	France	1:49.8
4	Herb Barten	United States	1:50.1
5	Ingvar Bengtsson	Sweden	1:50.5
6	Bob Chambers	United States	1:52.1
7	Robert Chef d'Hôtel	France	1:53.0
8	John Parlett	Great Britain	1:53.4
9	Niels Holst-Sørensen	Denmark	1:54.0

Key: OR = Olympic record

↑ THE OFFICIAL REPORT OF THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE XIV OLYMPIAD. LONDON: THE ORGANISING COMMITTEE FOR THE XIV OLYMPIAD. 1948. p. 248. Retrieved 24 February 2015.

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