2002 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
10,000 m walk	men	women
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 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics was held in Kingston, Jamaica, at National Stadium on 16, 17 and 19 July.^[1][2]

Gold	Alex Kipchirchir  Kenya
Silver	Salem Amer Al-Badri  Qatar
Bronze	David Fiegen  Luxembourg

19 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Alex Kipchirchir	Kenya	1:46.59
	Salem Amer Al-Badri	Qatar	1:46.63
	David Fiegen	Luxembourg	1:46.66
4	Adam Abdou	Qatar	1:46.86
5	Ismail Ahmed Ismail	Sudan	1:47.20
6	José Manuel Cortés	Spain	1:47.44
7	Mohamed Battani	Morocco	1:48.18
8	Manuel Olmedo	Spain	1:56.73

17 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Alex Kipchirchir	Kenya	1:49.55	Q
2	Adam Abdou	Qatar	1:49.61	Q
3	Manuel Olmedo	Spain	1:49.72	Q
4	Yuriy Koldin	Russia	1:49.99
5	Ricky Soos	United Kingdom	1:50.17
6	Richard Smith	United States	1:50.29
7	Prince Mumba	Zambia	1:50.96
8	Andrew Ellerton	Canada	1:52.08
9	Roman Fosti	Estonia	1:53.36

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Ismail Ahmed Ismail	Sudan	1:46.36	Q
2	David Fiegen	Luxembourg	1:46.40	Q
3	Salem Amer Al-Badri	Qatar	1:46.82	Q
4	José Manuel Cortés	Spain	1:46.92	q
5	Mohamed Battani	Morocco	1:48.46	q
6	Cosmas Rono Kipkorir	Kenya	1:49.83
7	Antoine Martiak	France	1:52.37
8	Frank Francois	United States	1:53.67

16 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Adam Abdou	Qatar	1:48.93	Q
2	Antoine Martiak	France	1:49.03	Q
3	Manuel Olmedo	Spain	1:49.21	q
4	Tom Osborne	New Zealand	1:52.16
5	Mahmoud Abuattaya	Palestine	1:56.61
6	Park Ji-Yun	South Korea	1:58.21
7	Daryl Vassallo	Gibraltar	2:01.16

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Alex Kipchirchir	Kenya	1:48.26	Q
2	Ricky Soos	United Kingdom	1:48.82	Q
3	Andrew Ellerton	Canada	1:49.45	q
4	Roman Fosti	Estonia	1:50.23	q
5	Arno Hoevink	Netherlands	1:52.15
6	Werner Botha	Australia	1:52.84

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	David Fiegen	Luxembourg	1:49.86	Q
2	Frank Francois	United States	1:50.10	Q
3	Yuriy Koldin	Russia	1:50.15	q
4	Ibrahim Siddiq	Sudan	1:50.79
5	Sylvester Chishiba	Zambia	1:51.00
6	James Aaron	Australia	1:51.06
7	Domen Znidaric	Slovenia	1:56.74

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Salem Amer Al-Badri	Qatar	1:49.63	Q
2	Ismail Ahmed Ismail	Sudan	1:50.13	Q
3	Onalenna Oabona	Botswana	1:50.48
4	Walid Meliani	Algeria	1:50.62
5	Jermaine Myers	Jamaica	1:50.93
6	Bonolo Maboa	South Africa	1:51.25
7	Prince Mumba	Zambia	1:51.86	q

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	José Manuel Cortés	Spain	1:49.28	Q
2	Mohamed Battani	Morocco	1:49.45	Q
3	Cosmas Rono Kipkorir	Kenya	1:49.62	q
4	Richard Smith	United States	1:50.17	q
5	Erik Sproll	Canada	1:50.57
6	Thiago Chyaromont	Brazil	1:53.65
7	Tai Payne	Guyana	2:09.88

According to an unofficial count, 34 athletes from 26 countries participated in the event.