# Athletics at the 1999 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1999 Summer Universiade was held on 8, 9 and 11 July at the Estadio Son Moix in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Norberto Téllez Cuba | André Bucher Switzerland | Derrick Peterson United States |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Grant Cremer | Australia | 1:48.65 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Jean-Patrick Nduwimana | Burundi | 1:48.91 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Trinity Gray | United States | 1:48.91 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Djabir Saïd-Guerni | Algeria | 1:49.08 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Gideon van Oudtshoorn | South Africa | 1:49.08 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Daryl Fillion | Canada | 1:49.09 | Q |
| 7 | 6 | Eugenio Barrios | Spain | 1:49.15 | q |
| 8 | 1 | Kim Soon-hyung | South Korea | 1:49.22 | q |
| 9 | 2 | André Bucher | Switzerland | 1:49.24 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | Wojciech Kałdowski | Poland | 1:49.30 | q |
| 11 | 2 | David Divad | France | 1:49.45 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | Urmet Uusorg | Estonia | 1:49.56 | q |
| 13 | 2 | Abderrahim Jaafari | Morocco | 1:49.67 | |
| 14 | 6 | Duarte Ponte | Portugal | 1:49.73 | |
| 15 | 5 | Derrick Peterson | United States | 1:50.19 | Q |
| 16 | 5 | Jurgens Kotze | South Africa | 1:50.23 | Q |
| 17 | 1 | Gezachw Yossef | Israel | 1:50.24 | |
| 18 | 5 | Joseph Ischia | Australia | 1:50.35 | |
| 19 | 3 | Márcio de Olivera | Brazil | 1:50.51 | |
| 20 | 6 | Marcos Flademir Vieira | Brazil | 1:51.15 | |
| 21 | 1 | Abdelkader Mokrane | Algeria | 1:51.59 | |
| 22 | 4 | Norberto Téllez | Cuba | 1:51.99 | Q |
| 23 | 4 | James Karanu | Kenya | 1:52.11 | Q |
| 24 | 2 | Elliot Phelaphela | Botswana | 1:52.27 | |
| 24 | 4 | Felix Leiter | Germany | 1:52.27 | |
| 26 | 4 | Mouhssin Chehibi | Morocco | 1:52.46 | |
| 27 | 3 | Juan Carlos Esteso | Spain | 1:52.63 | |
| 28 | 1 | Carl Jackson | New Zealand | 1:52.74 | |
| 29 | 2 | Damien Shirley | New Zealand | 1:53.12 | |
| 30 | 1 | Peter Kerema | Kenya | 1:53.87 | |
| 31 | 1 | Peter Poles | Slovenia | 1:54.14 | |
| 32 | 2 | Carlos Mejía | Puerto Rico | 1:54.87 | |
| 33 | 4 | Niclas Nygren-Johansson | Sweden | 1:56.15 | |
| 34 | 5 | Xandru Grecht | Malta | 1:56.33 | |
| 35 | 3 | Abednigo Sibandze | Swaziland | 1:56.92 | |
| 36 | 3 | Luis Abaya | Costa Rica | 1:58.71 | PB |
| 37 | 5 | Henry Bakumpe | Uganda | 1:59.29 | |
| 38 | 4 | Jaime Montes | Puerto Rico | 1:59.78 | |
| 39 | 6 | Gerald Grecht | Malta | 2:00.29 | |
| 40 | 5 | Yaya Terap Adoum | Chad | 2:01.66 | |
| 41 | 5 | Paolo Cueva | Peru | 2:02.29 | |
| | 4 | Farid da Graça | São Tomé and Príncipe | DNS | |
| | 6 | Lam Ka Lam | Macau | DNS | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Djabir Saïd-Guerni | Algeria | 1:46.31 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | André Bucher | Switzerland | 1:46.32 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | David Divad | France | 1:46.75 | Q, SB |
| 4 | 1 | James Karanu | Kenya | 1:47.03 | q, PB |
| 5 | 1 | Trinity Gray | United States | 1:47.56 | q |
| 6 | 2 | Norberto Téllez | Cuba | 1:48.02 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | Grant Cremer | Australia | 1:48.10 | Q |
| 8 | 2 | Derrick Peterson | United States | 1:48.25 | Q |
| 9 | 2 | Kim Soon-hyung | South Korea | 1:48.28 | |
| 10 | 2 | Jean-Patrick Nduwimana | Burundi | 1:48.40 | |
| 11 | 1 | Jurgens Kotze | South Africa | 1:48.90 | |
| 12 | 2 | Eugenio Barrios | Spain | 1:49.22 | |
| 13 | 1 | Urmet Uusorg | Estonia | 1:49.31 | |
| 13 | 2 | Daryl Fillion | Canada | 1:49.31 | |
| 15 | 2 | Gideon van Oudtshoorn | South Africa | 1:49.61 | |
| 16 | 1 | Wojciech Kałdowski | Poland | 1:51.83 | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Norberto Téllez | Cuba | 1:46.11 |
| | André Bucher | Switzerland | 1:46.49 |
| | Derrick Peterson | United States | 1:46.75 |
| 4 | Djabir Saïd-Guerni | Algeria | 1:46.75 |
| 5 | Grant Cremer | Australia | 1:46.97 |
| 6 | James Karanu | Kenya | 1:47.70 |
| 7 | David Divad | France | 1:47.81 |
| 8 | Trinity Gray | United States | 1:51.91 |