# 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres at the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held at the ASPIRE Dome on 12, 13 and 14 March.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Abubaker Kaki Sudan | Boaz Kiplagat Lalang Kenya | Adam Kszczot Poland |

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2010 IAAF World Indoor Championships :
| World record | Wilson Kipketer (DEN) | 1:42.67 | Paris, France | 9 March 1997 |
| Championship record | Wilson Kipketer (DEN) | 1:42.67 | Paris, France | 9 March 1997 |
| World Leading | Yuriy Borzakovskiy (RUS) | 1:45.77 | Düsseldorf, Germany | 3 February 2010 |
| African record | Joseph Mutua (KEN) | 1:44.71 | Stuttgart, Germany | 31 January 2004 |
| Asian record | Yusuf Saad Kamel (BHR) | 1:45.26 | Valencia, Spain | 9 March 2008 |
| European record | Wilson Kipketer (DEN) | 1:42.67 | Paris, France | 9 March 1997 |
| North and Central American and Caribbean record | Johnny Gray (USA) | 1:45.00 | Sindelfingen, Germany | 8 March 1992 |
| Oceanian Record | Ryan Foster (AUS) | 1:47.48 | State College, United States | 30 January 2010 |
| South American record | José Luíz Barbosa (BRA) | 1:45.43 | Piraeus, Greece | 8 March 1989 |

## Qualification standards

| Indoor | Outdoor |
| 1:48.50 | 1:45.50 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| March 12, 2010 | 11:00 | Heats |
| March 13, 2010 | 11:00 | Semifinals |
| March 14, 2010 | 17:30 | Final |

## Results
### Heats

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the semifinals.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Ismail Ahmed Ismail | Sudan | 1:46.69 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Andrew Osagie | Great Britain | 1:47.40 | Q, PB |
| 3 | 2 | Abubaker Kaki | Sudan | 1:47.48 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | David Bustos | Spain | 1:47.65 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Fabiano Peçanha | Brazil | 1:48.29 | q, PB |
| 6 | 4 | Boaz Kiplagat Lalang | Kenya | 1:49.16 | Q |
| 7 | 4 | Luis Alberto Marco | Spain | 1:49.57 | Q |
| 8 | 4 | Duane Solomon | United States | 1:49.69 | q |
| 9 | 1 | Kléberson Davide | Brazil | 1:49.69 | PB |
| 10 | 5 | Adam Kszczot | Poland | 1:50.15 | Q |
| 11 | 2 | Ed Aston | Great Britain | 1:50.32 | |
| 12 | 5 | Andreas Rapatz | Austria | 1:50.35 | Q |
| 13 | 5 | Moise Joseph | Haiti | 1:50.43 | |
| 14 | 3 | Kévin Hautcœur | France | 1:50.61 | Q |
| 15 | 3 | Jakub Holuša | Czech Republic | 1:50.64 | Q |
| 16 | 3 | Mario Scapini | Italy | 1:50.74 | |
| 17 | 5 | Vitalij Kozlov | Lithuania | 1:50.92 | |
| 18 | 5 | Belal Mansoor Ali | Bahrain | 1:51.22 | SB |
| 19 | 3 | David McCarthy | Ireland | 1:51.88 | SB |
| 20 | 3 | Mattias Claesson | Sweden | 1:51.96 | |
| 21 | 4 | Mohammad Al-Azemi | Kuwait | 1:52.54 | |
| 22 | 1 | Brice Etès | Monaco | 1:53.52 | |
| 23 | 5 | Moussa Camara | Mali | 1:55.84 | PB |
| 24 | 4 | Elie Monga | Democratic Republic of the Congo | 1:57.02 | PB |
| 25 | 2 | Edgar Cortez | Nicaragua | 1:58.47 | PB |
| 26 | 4 | Iulio Lafai | Samoa | 2:07.08 | PB |
| | 1 | Nick Symmonds | United States | DQ | |

### Semifinals

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) advance to the final.
| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Abubaker Kaki | Sudan | 1:46.45 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Boaz Kiplagat Lalang | Kenya | 1:46.73 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Adam Kszczot | Poland | 1:46.90 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | David Bustos | Spain | 1:47.05 | PB |
| 5 | 1 | Kévin Hautcœur | France | 1:47.50 | PB |
| 6 | 1 | Fabiano Peçanha | Brazil | 1:49.70 | |
| 7 | 2 | Luis Alberto Marco | Spain | 1:51.05 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | Jakub Holuša | Czech Republic | 1:51.08 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | Ismail Ahmed Ismail | Sudan | 1:51.25 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | Andrew Osagie | Great Britain | 1:51.29 | |
| 11 | 2 | Duane Solomon | United States | 1:51.82 | |
| 12 | 2 | Andreas Rapatz | Austria | 1:52.43 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| | Abubaker Kaki | Sudan | 1:46.23 | SB |
| | Boaz Kiplagat Lalang | Kenya | 1:46.39 | |
| | Adam Kszczot | Poland | 1:46.69 | |
| 4 | Ismail Ahmed Ismail | Sudan | 1:46.90 | |
| 5 | Jakub Holuša | Czech Republic | 1:47.28 | |
| 6 | Luis Alberto Marco | Spain | 1:48.99 | |