# Athletics at the 1989 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1989 Summer Universiade was held at the Wedaustadion in Duisburg with the final on 28 August 1989.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Ari Suhonen Finland | Ikem Billy Great Britain | Simon Doyle Australia |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 6 | Miroslav Chochkov | Bulgaria | 1:50.28 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Ikem Billy | Great Britain | 1:50.35 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Valeriy Starodubtsev | Soviet Union | 1:50.48 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Luis Karin Toledo | Mexico | 1:50.65 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Giuseppe D'Urso | Italy | 1:50.69 | Q |
| 6 | 1 | Simon Doyle | Australia | 1:50.71 | Q |
| 7 | 3 | Mike Macinko | United States | 1:50.73 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | Holger Böttcher | West Germany | 1:50.85 | Q |
| 9 | 4 | Ari Suhonen | Finland | 1:50.86 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | Réda Abdenouz | Algeria | 1:51.07 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | Mike Birke | Canada | 1:51.07 | q |
| 12 | 4 | Sergey Timofeyev | Soviet Union | 1:51.14 | Q |
| 13 | 5 | Tonny Baltus | Netherlands | 1:51.15 | Q |
| 14 | 1 | Yoshikazu Tachi | Japan | 1:51.19 | Q |
| 15 | 1 | Alex Geissbühler | Switzerland | 1:51.28 | q |
| 16 | 2 | Paul Rowbotham | Great Britain | 1:51.28 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | Ryu Tae-kyung | South Korea | 1:51.28 | Q |
| 18 | 2 | António Abrantes | Portugal | 1:51.47 | Q |
| 19 | 5 | Alfredo Lahuerta | Spain | 1:51.49 | Q |
| 20 | 2 | Geraldo de Assis | Brazil | 1:51.56 | q |
| 20 | 6 | David Moore | United States | 1:51.60 | q |
| 22 | 5 | Pierre Leveille | Canada | 1:51.89 | Q |
| 22 | 6 | Philip Tweedie | Ireland | 1:51.89 | q |
| 24 | 4 | Des English | Ireland | 1:51.92 | q |
| 25 | 5 | Joachim Heydgen | West Germany | 1:51.92 | |
| 26 | 5 | Armando Rodríguez | Mexico | 1:52.13 | |
| 27 | 2 | Frank Otto Meinseth | Norway | 1:52.78 | |
| 28 | 3 | Ousmane Diarra | Senegal | 1:53.58 | |
| 29 | 5 | Pompeu Castro | Portugal | 1:53.62 | |
| 30 | 6 | Peter Kariuki | Kenya | 1:53.70 | |
| 31 | 1 | Abdikader Omer | Somalia | 1:53.85 | |
| 32 | 2 | Luis Martínez | Guatemala | 1:54.76 | |
| 33 | 3 | Mohamed Shawki Abdullah | Qatar | 1:55.87 | |
| 34 | 3 | Lin Kuang-liang | Chinese Taipei | 1:57.03 | |
| 35 | 2 | Mohamed Alassane | Mali | 1:59.35 | |
| 36 | 1 | Wong Hung | Hong Kong | 2:10.48 | |
| 37 | 4 | Mohamed Cherif | Guinea | 2:12.83 | |
| 38 | 3 | Ndoluvualu Mukoko | Zaire | 2:25.08 | |
| | 4 | Elijah Dicken | Uganda | DQ | |
| | 4 | Petros Theodosiou | Cyprus | DNF | |
| | 6 | Faha Sy | Mauritania | DNF | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 3 | Ikem Billy | Great Britain | 1:48.94 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Giuseppe D'Urso | Italy | 1:49.01 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Holger Böttcher | West Germany | 1:49.23 | q |
| 4 | 3 | Réda Abdenouz | Algeria | 1:49.42 | q |
| 5 | 3 | Pierre Leveille | Canada | 1:49.47 | |
| 6 | 1 | Valeriy Starodubtsev | Soviet Union | 1:49.66 | Q |
| 7 | 1 | Ari Suhonen | Finland | 1:49.67 | Q |
| 8 | 1 | Alex Geissbühler | Switzerland | 1:49.83 | |
| 9 | 1 | Luis Karin Toledo | Mexico | 1:50.02 | |
| 10 | 1 | Paul Rowbotham | Great Britain | 1:50.26 | |
| 11 | 2 | Simon Doyle | Australia | 1:50.41 | Q |
| 12 | 3 | Tonny Baltus | Netherlands | 1:50.53 | |
| 13 | 2 | Miroslav Chochkov | Bulgaria | 1:50.63 | Q |
| 14 | 1 | Mike Birke | Canada | 1:50.66 | |
| 15 | 2 | Mike Macinko | United States | 1:50.95 | |
| 16 | 2 | António Abrantes | Portugal | 1:50.96 | |
| 17 | 3 | Geraldo de Assis | Brazil | 1:50.97 | |
| 18 | 1 | David Moore | United States | 1:51.49 | |
| 19 | 2 | Alfredo Lahuerta | Spain | 1:51.84 | |
| 20 | 2 | Sergey Timofeyev | Soviet Union | 1:52.58 | |
| 21 | 2 | Yoshikazu Tachi | Japan | 1:53.07 | |
| 22 | 2 | Des English | Ireland | 1:53.19 | |
| 23 | 3 | Ryu Tae-kyung | South Korea | 1:53.24 | |
| 24 | 1 | Philip Tweedie | Ireland | 1:54.79 | |

### Final

Held on 30 August
| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Ari Suhonen | Finland | 1:47.13 |
| | Ikem Billy | Great Britain | 1:47.29 |
| | Simon Doyle | Australia | 1:47.48 |
| 4 | Réda Abdenouz | Algeria | 1:47.69 |
| 5 | Holger Böttcher | West Germany | 1:48.39 |
| 6 | Giuseppe D'Urso | Italy | 1:48.84 |
| 7 | Valeriy Starodubtsev | Soviet Union | 1:48.96 |
| 8 | Miroslav Chochkov | Bulgaria | 1:49.09 |