1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics
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	women
10,000 m	men
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
5000 m walk		women
10,000 m walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 800 metres event at the 1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Annecy, France, at Parc des Sports on 28, 29 and 31 July.^[1][2]

Gold	William Chirchir  Kenya
Silver	Wilfred Bungei  Kenya
Bronze	Paskar Owor  Uganda

31 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	William Chirchir	Kenya	1:47.23
	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1:47.53
	Paskar Owor	Uganda	1:48.20
4	João Pires	Portugal	1:48.22
5	Bram Som	Netherlands	1:48.36
6	Chris Moss	United Kingdom	1:48.77
7	Dmitriy Bogdanov	Russia	1:48.91
8	Dwayne Miller	Jamaica	1:49.25

29 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Chris Moss	United Kingdom	1:50.65	Q
2	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1:50.70	Q
3	Dwayne Miller	Jamaica	1:50.76	Q
4	Lucky Hadebe	South Africa	1:51.01
5	Nicolas Aïssat	France	1:51.11
6	Ramon Wächter	Switzerland	1:51.11
7	Mechal Gebreab	Ethiopia	1:51.19
8	Rachid Khouia	Morocco	1:51.49

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	William Chirchir	Kenya	1:48.93	Q
2	João Pires	Portugal	1:49.05	Q
3	Paskar Owor	Uganda	1:49.25	Q
4	Dmitriy Bogdanov	Russia	1:49.31	q
5	Bram Som	Netherlands	1:49.80	q
6	Joeri Jansen	Belgium	1:53.46
7	Mohamed Al-Bayed	Palestine	1:54.51
	Glauco Santos	Brazil	DNS

28 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1:49.47	Q
2	Dwayne Miller	Jamaica	1:49.59	Q
3	Glauco Santos	Brazil	1:50.41	q
4	Kiyoharo Sato	Japan	1:50.58
5	John Chávez	Colombia	1:51.23
6	Said Chabane	Algeria	1:56.89
7	Safari Rwakabera	Rwanda	2:01.29

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	João Pires	Portugal	1:50.73	Q
2	Mohamed Al-Bayed	Palestine	1:51.18	Q
3	Sergio Gallardo	Spain	1:51.32
4	Marlon Greensword	Jamaica	1:51.60
5	Youcef Djebbab	Algeria	1:51.94
6	Jon Stevens	United States	1:52.19
7	Shawn Jeffers	British Virgin Islands	1:55.98
8	Casper Pule	Solomon Islands	2:00.43

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Chris Moss	United Kingdom	1:49.92	Q
2	Mechal Gebreab	Ethiopia	1:50.28	Q
3	Nicolas Aïssat	France	1:50.30	q
4	Alberto Revilla	Spain	1:50.75
5	Craig Wood	Australia	1:50.91
6	Kim Myung-Hwan	South Korea	1:54.38
7	Baiju Mirandi	India	1:56.41
8	Gerard Solomon	Vanuatu	1:56.79

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Paskar Owor	Uganda	1:51.99	Q
2	Bram Som	Netherlands	1:52.15	Q
3	Jasmin Salihović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:52.28
4	Nick Lorenz	Australia	1:53.27
5	Jon Andersson	Sweden	1:54.80
6	Claudinel Vitor	Brazil	1:56.68
7	Clive Baron	Dominica	1:57.03
8	Florent Battistel	Monaco	2:00.31

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dmitriy Bogdanov	Russia	1:52.64	Q
2	Lucky Hadebe	South Africa	1:52.97	Q
3	Park Ho-Min	South Korea	1:53.14
4	Igor Khalavniov	Belarus	1:53.16
5	Mark Hassell	United States	1:53.16
6	Abdelkabir Louraïbi	Morocco	1:53.25
7	Florent Lacasse	France	1:54.42
8	Tobias Ganzmann	Germany	1:55.99

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joeri Jansen	Belgium	1:50.84	Q
2	Rachid Khouia	Morocco	1:51.91	Q
3	Dario Sbrana	Italy	1:52.01
4	Jan Drees	Germany	1:52.20
5	Ivan Heshko	Ukraine	1:53.10
6	Simon Lees	United Kingdom	1:53.79
7	Farid Salvaterra	São Tomé and Príncipe	1:58.09
8	Kamardin Andriantambezina	Madagascar	2:00.09

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	William Chirchir	Kenya	1:51.78	Q
2	Ramon Wächter	Switzerland	1:51.89	Q
3	Geert Waelput	Belgium	1:52.29
4	Mandla Nkosi	South Africa	1:54.08
5	Francesco Roncalli	Italy	1:55.89
6	Hamed Ahmed Mohamed	Sudan	1:56.38
7	Rickard Pell	Sweden	1:58.12

According to an unofficial count, 54 athletes from 38 countries participated in the event.