2012 African Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

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.

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

Date	Time	Round
28 June 2012	15:30	Round 1
29 June 2012	16:30	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

Rank	Lane	Name	Nationality	Time
	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

Medalists