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2012 African 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
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men	women
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
20 km 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 at the 2012 African Championships in Athletics was held at the Stade Charles de Gaulle on 28 and 29 June.

Medalists

Gold	Taoufik Makhloufi  Algeria
Silver	Anthony Chemut  Kenya
Bronze	André Oliver  South Africa

Records

Standing records prior to the 2012 African Championships in Athletics
World record	David Rudisha (KEN)	1:41.01	Rieti, Italy	29 August 2010
African record	David Rudisha (KEN)	1:41.01	Rieti, Italy	29 August 2010
Championship record	David Rudisha (KEN)	1:42.84	Nairobi, Kenya	30 July 2010

Schedule

Results

Round 1

First 2 in each heat (Q) and 2 best performers (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
1	2	1	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	1:46.15	Q
2	3	4	André Oliver	South Africa	1:46.63	Q
3	2	6	Anthony Chemut	Kenya	1:46.78	Q
4	2	2	Shiferaw Wola	Ethiopia	1:47.27	q
5	2	4	Isaac Seokle	Botswana	1:47.90	q
6	3	7	Cornelious Kiplagat	Kenya	1:47.92	Q
7	3	2	Julius Mutekanga	Uganda	1:48.66
8	1	1	Moussa Camara	Mali	1:48.71	Q
9	1	8	Mamush Lencha	Ethiopia	1:48.98	Q
10	1	3	Severin Sahinkuye	Burundi	1:49.13
11	3	8	Esrael Awoke	Ethiopia	1:49.18
12	1	6	Lumax Selasi	Ghana	1:49.29
13	1	5	Rynhardt van Rensburg	South Africa	1:50.12
14	2	5	Mor Seck	Senegal	1:50.17
15	3	1	Daniel Nghipandula	Namibia	1:50.85
16	2	8	Tarek Eshebli	Libya	1:51.86
17	3	6i	Omar Jammeh	Gambia	1:52.96
18	2	3	Mahazou Alassane	Benin	1:52.98
19	3	3	Jacouba Boubacar Soumana	Niger	1:54.42
20	1	4	Ali Ahmed Mohamed	Djibouti	1:54.85
21	3	5	Ramadhan Hamed	Libya	1:55.16	Q
22	3	6e	Benjamín Enzema	Equatorial Guinea	1:56.23	NR
23	1	2	Mathieu Kiplagat Sawe	Kenya	1:56.29
	1	7	Nigel Amos	Botswana	DNS
	2	7	Abdelkerim Mohammed	Eritrea	DNS

Final

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time	Note
	3	Taoufik Makhloufi	Algeria	1:43.88
	4	Anthony Chemut	Kenya	1:44.53
	5	André Oliver	South Africa	1:45.09
4	6	Cornelious Kiplagat	Kenya	1:47.83
5	1	Shiferaw Wola	Ethiopia	1:48.26
6	7	Isaac Seokle	Botswana	1:48.39
7	2	Mamush Lencha Shirko	Ethiopia	1:48.98
8	8	Moussa Camara	Mali	1:49.12

References

• Results

• 2012 African Championships in Athletics
• 800 metres at the African Championships in Athletics