Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres

Men's 800 metres at the Games of the XI Olympiad
Venue	Olympiastadion: Berlin, Germany
Dates	August 2 (heats) August 3 (semifinals) August 4 (final)
Competitors	42 from 23 nations
Medalists
John Woodruff  United States Mario Lanzi  Italy Phil Edwards  Canada

Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Track events
100 m		men		women
200 m		men
400 m		men
800 m		men
1500 m		men
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men
80 m hurdles				women
110 m hurdles		men
400 m hurdles		men
3000 m steeple		men
4×100 m relay		men		women
4×400 m relay		men
Road events
Marathon		men
50 km walk		men
Field events
Long jump		men
Triple jump		men
High jump		men		women
Pole vault		men
Shot put		men
Discus throw		men		women
Javelin throw		men		women
Hammer throw		men
Combined events
Decathlon		men

The men's 800 metres event at the 1936 Summer Olympic Games took place between August 2 and August 4. The final was won by American John Woodruff.

Results

Heats

The fastest four runners in each of the six heats advanced to the semifinal round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Phil Edwards	Canada	1:53.7
2	Chuck Hornbostel	United States	1:53.7
3	Jean Verhaert	Belgium	1:54.3
4	Ferenc Temesvári	Hungary	1:55.0
5	Pierre Hemmer	Luxembourg	1:56.3
6	Rudolf Harbig	Germany	1:56.8
7	Francisco Váldez	Peru
8	Stavros Velkopoulos	Greece

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Harry Williamson	United States	1:56.2
2	Ab Conway	Canada	1:56.2
3	Pat Boot	New Zealand	1:56.6
4	Emil Hübscher	Austria	1:57.3
5	Emil Goršek	Yugoslavia	1:59.5
6	Carlos Marcenaro	Peru	2:00.8

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Brian MacCabe	Great Britain	1:54.5
2	Raymond Petit	France	1:54.8
3	Hjalmar Johannessen	Norway	1:54.9
4	Ewald Mertens	Germany	1:55.1
5	Clarke Scholtz	23x15px South Africa	1:57.6
6	Toshinao Tomie	Japan	1:59.9
7	Stanislav Otáhal	Czechoslovakia
8	Gyan Bhalla	India

Heat four

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Gerald Backhouse	Australia	1:57.7
2	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	1:57.8
3	John Woodruff	United States	1:58.7
4	Frank Handley	Great Britain	1:58.9
5	Evžen Rošický	Czechoslovakia	1:59.5
6	Paul Martin	Switzerland	2:00.0
7	Charles Stein	Luxembourg

Heat five

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jack Powell	Great Britain	1:56.0
2	Mario Lanzi	Italy	1:56.1
3	Franz Eichberger	Austria	1:56.3
4	József Vadas	Hungary	1:56.5
5	Willie Botha	23x15px South Africa	1:57.0
6	Grigorios Georgakopoulos	Greece	1:57.3
7	Jack Liddle	Canada

Heat six

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Juan Carlos Anderson	Argentina	1:55.1
2	Kazimierz Kucharski	Poland	1:55.7
3	Wolfgang Dessecker	Germany	1:56.0
4	René Soulier	France	1:56.1
5	William Lindeque	23x15px South Africa	1:56.4
6	Kumao Aochi	Japan	1:56.8

Semifinals

The fastest three runners in each of the three heats advanced to the final round.

Heat one

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	John Woodruff	United States	1:52.7
2	Kazimierz Kucharski	Poland	1:54.7
3	Juan Carlos Anderson	Argentina	1:54.8
4	Miklós Szabó	Hungary	1:55.1
5	Wolfgang Dessecker	Germany	1:55.3
6	Franz Eichberger	Austria	1:56.2
7	Pat Boot	New Zealand
8	Frank Handley	Great Britain

Heat two

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Harry Williamson	United States	1:53.1
2	Gerald Backhouse	Australia	1:53.2
3	Phil Edwards	Canada	1:53.2
4	Jack Powell	Great Britain	1:54.8
5	Ewald Mertens	Germany	1:54.9
6	René Soulier	France	1:56.8
7	Emil Hübscher	Austria
8	József Vadas	Hungary

Heat three

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Chuck Hornbostel	United States	1:53.2
2	Mario Lanzi	Italy	1:54.1
3	Brian MacCabe	Great Britain	1:55.4
4	Raymond Petit	France	1:55.7
5	Ab Conway	Canada	1:55.9
6	Hjalmar Johannessen	Norway	1:56.0
7	Ferenc Temesvári	Hungary
8	Jean Verhaert	Belgium

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	John Woodruff	United States	1:52.9
	Mario Lanzi	Italy	1:53.3
	Phil Edwards	Canada	1:53.6
4	Kazimierz Kucharski	Poland	1:53.8
5	Chuck Hornbostel	United States	1:54.6
6	Harry Williamson	United States	1:55.8
7	Juan Carlos Anderson	Argentina
8	Gerald Backhouse	Australia
9	Brian MacCabe	Great Britain

References

• 1936 Summer Olympics results: Men's 800 metres, from http://www.sports-reference.com/; retrieved 2010-04-28.