1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Road events
20 km	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 800 metres event at the 1990 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, at Deveti Septemvri Stadium on 8, 9 and 10 August.^[1][2]

Gold	Desta Asgedom  Ethiopia
Silver	Jonah Birir  Kenya
Bronze	Norberto Téllez  Cuba

10 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Desta Asgedom	Ethiopia	1:46.35
	Jonah Birir	Kenya	1:46.61
	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:47.33
4	Wilson Kipketer	Kenya	1:48.13
5	Andrew Lill	United Kingdom	1:48.54
6	Václav Hrích	Czechoslovakia	1:49.36
7	Dian Petkov	Bulgaria	1:49.69
8	Mark Holcombe	Australia	1:49.88

9 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jonah Birir	Kenya	1:49.07	Q
2	Dian Petkov	Bulgaria	1:49.31	Q
3	Aleksey Oleynikov	Soviet Union	1:49.48
4	Alemayehu Roba	Ethiopia	1:49.54
5	Pavel Soukup	Czechoslovakia	1:49.60
6	Scott Peters	United States	1:49.78
7	Michael Williams	Jamaica	1:51.55
8	Eddy Kiemel	Netherlands	1:58.89

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Desta Asgedom	Ethiopia	1:47.90	Q
2	Wilson Kipketer	Kenya	1:48.21	Q
3	Václav Hrích	Czechoslovakia	1:48.43	q
4	Mark Sesay	United Kingdom	1:49.56
5	Vincent Hoek	Netherlands	1:50.66
6	Zhou Chaohui	China	1:51.33
7	Michael Belbeck	Canada	2:05.50
	Pantelis Kolokas	Greece	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:47.96	Q
2	Andrew Lill	United Kingdom	1:48.36	Q
3	Mark Holcombe	Australia	1:48.68	q
4	David Decarpentry	France	1:49.84
5	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1:49.94
6	Bruno Mikale	Mauritius	1:52.60
7	Ingo Janich	East Germany	1:58.50
	Niall Bruton	Ireland	DNS

8 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Alemayehu Roba	Ethiopia	1:48.51	Q
2	Wilson Kipketer	Kenya	1:48.66	Q
3	Václav Hrích	Czechoslovakia	1:48.88	Q
4	Michael Williams	Jamaica	1:49.43	q
5	Michael Belbeck	Canada	1:49.51	q
6	Vincent Hoek	Netherlands	1:50.02	q
7	Jan Dalsgaard	Denmark	1:50.81
8	Tomi Kankare	Finland	1:54.45

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Desta Asgedom	Ethiopia	1:49.07	Q
2	Dian Petkov	Bulgaria	1:49.42	Q
3	Norberto Téllez	Cuba	1:49.52	Q
4	Pantelis Kolokas	Greece	1:49.52	q
5	Jorge Alanis	Spain	1:51.79
6	Zvonko Bjelkanović	Yugoslavia	1:52.17
7	Henrique Meira	Portugal	1:52.43
8	Amir Mhando	Tanzania	1:58.47

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ingo Janich	East Germany	1:49.15	Q
2	Scott Peters	United States	1:49.27	Q
3	Zhou Chaohui	China	1:49.55	Q
4	Niall Bruton	Ireland	1:49.64	q
5	Bruno Mikale	Mauritius	1:49.73	q
6	Kevin Sullivan	Canada	1:51.57
7	Belkacem Aït Kaci	Algeria	1:53.85
	Riyadh Hugairy	North Yemen	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jonah Birir	Kenya	1:50.36	Q
2	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1:50.58	Q
3	Eddy Kiemel	Netherlands	1:50.58	Q
4	Dariusz Trudnowski	Poland	1:50.60
5	Draško Odrljin	Yugoslavia	1:50.75
6	Yuriy Tatarchuk	Soviet Union	1:50.98
7	Carsten Otte	West Germany	1:52.15
8	Lewis Lacey	United States	1:52.98

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Aleksey Oleynikov	Soviet Union	1:51.00	Q
2	Mark Holcombe	Australia	1:51.16	Q
3	Andrew Lill	United Kingdom	1:51.25	Q
4	Edgardo Graglia	Argentina	1:51.36
5	Marco Garzia	Italy	1:51.90
6	Daniel Bălașa	Romania	1:52.37
7	Niclas Norling	Sweden	2:00.79
	Omar Best	Venezuela	DQ

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Pavel Soukup	Czechoslovakia	1:50.70	Q
2	Mark Sesay	United Kingdom	1:51.02	Q
3	David Decarpentry	France	1:51.32	Q
4	Constantin Repca	Romania	1:51.59
5	Kealin Hannigan	Australia	1:53.17
6	Felipe Murga	Spain	2:00.16
7	Nesamani Subramaniam	Singapore	2:00.27
	Steven Roberts	Barbados	DQ	IAAF rule 141.2

According to an unofficial count, 48 athletes from 36 countries participated in the event.