800-Meter Run
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
800-Meter Run
| 1896 | Edwin Flack, Australia | 2:11.00 |
| 1900 | Alfred Tysoe, Great Britain | 2:01.40 |
| 1904 | James Lightbody, United States | 1:56.00 |
| 1906 | Paul Pilgrim, United States | 2:01.20 |
| 1908 | Mel Sheppard, United states | 1:52.80 |
| 1912 | Ted Meredith, United States | 1:51.90 |
| 1920 | Albert Hill, Great Britain | 1:53.40 |
| 1924 | Douglas Lowe, Great Britain | 1:52.40 |
| 1928 | Douglas Lowe, Great Britain | 1:51.80 |
| 1932 | Thomas Hampson, Great Britain | 1:49.80 |
| 1936 | John Woodruff, United States | 1:52.90 |
| 1948 | Malvin Whitfield, United States | 1:49.20 |
| 1952 | Malvin Whitfield, United States | 1:49.20 |
| 1956 | Tom Courtney, United States | 1:47.70 |
| 1960 | Peter Snell, New Zealand | 1:46.30 |
| 1964 | Peter Snell, New Zealand | 1:45.10 |
| 1968 | Ralph Doubell, Australia | 1:44.30 |
| 1972 | David Wottle, United States | 1:45.90 |
| 1976 | Alberto Juantorena, Cuba | 1:43.50 |
| 1980 | Steve Ovett, Britain | 1:45.40 |
| 1984 | Joaquin Cruz, Brazil | 1:43.00 |
| 1988 | Paul Ereng, Kenya | 1:43.45 |
| 1992 | William Tanui, Kenya | 1:43.66 |
| 1996 | Vebjoern Rodal, Norway | 1:42.58 |
| 2000 | Nils Schumann, Germany | 1:45.08 |
| 2004 | Yuriy Borzakovskiy, Russia | 1:44.45 |
| 2008 | Wilfred Bungei, Kenya | 1:44.65 |
