Athletics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games – Men's 800 metres

Athletics at the 1986 Commonwealth Games
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
Road events
Marathon	men	women
30 km walk	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 1986 Commonwealth Games was held on 28 and 31 July at the Meadowbank Stadium in Edinburgh.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Steve Cram  England	Tom McKean  Scotland	Peter Elliott  England

Qualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Pat Scammell	Australia	1:49.68	Q
2	1	Peter Elliott	England	1:49.73	Q
3	1	Mal Edwards	Wales	1:49.81	Q
4	1	Paul Forbes	Scotland	1:50.07	Q
5	1	Joseph Ramotshabi	Botswana	1:50.07	q
6	1	Isaac Ganunga	Malawi	1:50.78	q
7	3	Peter Bourke	Australia	1:51.23	Q
8	3	Steve Cram	England	1:51.42	Q
9	3	Simon Hoogewerf	Canada	1:51.90	Q
10	3	Paul Williams	Wales	1:52.55	Q
11	2	Sebastian Coe	England	1:53.13	Q
12	2	Brian Thompson	Canada	1:53.25	Q
13	2	Mark Kirk	Northern Ireland	1:53.29	Q
14	2	Tom McKean	Scotland	1:53.31	Q
15	1	John Chappory	Gibraltar	1:53.38	q
16	2	Nick Hand	Guernsey	1:53.45	q
17	2	Mike Guegan	Jersey	1:53.97
18	3	Binesh Prasad	Fiji	1:55.13
19	3	Avelino Baldachino	Gibraltar	1:55.14
20	2	Gideon Mthembu	Swaziland	1:55.77
21	1	Sawelio Lutuni	Fiji	1:58.09

Qualification: First 4 of each semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Peter Elliott	England	1:47.42	Q
2	2	Simon Hoogewerf	Canada	1:47.63	Q
3	2	Sebastian Coe	England	1:48.07	Q
4	2	Paul Forbes	Scotland	1:48.29	Q
5	2	Peter Bourke	Australia	1:48.40
6	2	Paul Williams	Wales	1:48.52
7	1	Steve Cram	England	1:48.71	Q
8	1	Tom McKean	Scotland	1:49.02	Q
9	1	Pat Scammell	Australia	1:49.24	Q
10	1	Mal Edwards	Wales	1:49.33	Q
11	1	Mark Kirk	Northern Ireland	1:49.69
12	1	Joseph Ramotshabi	Botswana	1:49.98
13	1	Brian Thompson	Canada	1:50.25
14	2	Isaac Ganunga	Malawi	1:50.88
15	1	Nick Hand	Guernsey	1:54.83
16	2	John Chappory	Gibraltar	1:55.29

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Steve Cram	England	1:43.22	GR
	Tom McKean	Scotland	1:44.80	PB
	Peter Elliott	England	1:45.42
4	Pat Scammell	Australia	1:45.86
5	Mal Edwards	Wales	1:47.27
6	Simon Hoogewerf	Canada	1:49.04
7	Paul Forbes	Scotland	1:51.29
	Sebastian Coe	England	DNS