Athletics at the Friendship Games – Men's 800 metres

Athletics at the Friendship Games

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
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
Road events
Marathon	men	women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 800 metres event at the Friendship Games was held on 17 and 18 August 1984 at the Grand Arena of the Central Lenin Stadium in Moscow, Soviet Union.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Alberto Juantorena Cuba Ryszard Ostrowski Poland		Viktor Kalinkin Soviet Union

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
9	André Lavie	France	1:50.86
10	S. Suanatuuni	Madagascar	1:55.70
11	Sekou Camara	Guinea	1:57.78
12	Adam Assimi	Benin	1:58.62
13	Philip Sinon	Seychelles	2:00.44
14	A. Fahim	South Yemen	2:02.95
15	S. Choun	Cambodia	2:09.65
16	B. Sophon	Cambodia	2:12.33
	R. Idong	Guinea	?:??.??

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Alberto Juantorena	Cuba	1:45.68
	Ryszard Ostrowski	Poland	1:45.68
	Viktor Kalinkin	Soviet Union	1:45.83
4	Vasiliy Matveyev	Soviet Union	1:46.23
5	Leonid Masunov	Soviet Union	1:47.44
6	Andreas Hauck	East Germany	1:47.79
7	Ronny Olsson	Sweden	1:48.07
8	Tisbite Rakotoarisoa	Madagascar	1:50.31

Żemantowski, Jacek (October 1984). "Moskwa '84". Lekkoatletyka 10 (84) (in Polish). p. 7.