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The 'men's 800 metres' race was the second-longest of the four flat-track events on the Athletics at the 1896 Summer Olympics programme. The preliminary heats were the third event held on 6 April. The nine competitors were split into two groups. The top two athletes in each heat advanced to the final, which was held on 9 April.

Contents

Medallists

Results

Heats

Heat 1

Heat 2

Final

References

Medallists

'Gold'	'Silver'	'Bronze'

Results

Heats

The two heats of the preliminary round were held on 6 April. The top two runners in each heat advanced.

Heat 1

Place	Athlete	Time
1		2:10.0
2		2:10.2
3		''Unknown''
4		''Unknown''

Teddy Flack of Australia won the first heat, in a time of 2 minutes and 10 seconds. Nándor Dáni of Hungary came in second.

Heat 2

Place	Athlete	Time
1		2:16.6
2		2:16.8
3		''Unknown''
4		''Unknown''
5		''Unknown''

Albin Lermusiaux of France won the second heat. His time was 2 minutes and 16,6 seconds. Dimitrios Golemis of Greece was the runner-up.

Final

Place	Athlete	Time
1		2:11.0
2		2:11.8
3		2:28.0
–		DNS

The final consisted of only three runners, as Lermusiaux elected not to compete. Flack won the final, with Dáni close on his heels. Golemis came in a distant third.

References

★ The Olympic Games: BC 776 – AD 1896, Lampros, S.P.; Polites, N.G.; De Coubertin, Pierre; Philemon, P.J.; & Anninos, C., , , Charles Beck, 1897, (Digitally available at AAFLA.org)

★ The 1896 Olympic Games. Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary, Mallon, Bill; & Widlund, Ture, , , McFarland, 1998, ISBN 0-7864-0379-9 (Excerpt available at AAFLA.org)

★ Olympics in Athens 1896. The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games, Smith, Michael Llewellyn, , , Profile Books, 2004, ISBN 1-86197-342-X