2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres
# 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships was held on March 9–11.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Yuriy Borzakovskiy Russia | Johan Botha South Africa | André Bucher Switzerland |

## Results

### Heats

First 2 of each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Yuriy Borzakovskiy | Russia | 1:47.28 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Trinity Gray | United States | 1:47.59 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Paweł Czapiewski | Poland | 1:47.75 | Q, PB |
| 4 | 5 | Florent Lacasse | France | 1:47.82 | Q |
| 5 | 1 | Daniel Caulfield | Ireland | 1:47.83 | q |
| 6 | 5 | André Bucher | Switzerland | 1:47.88 | q |
| 7 | 5 | Sergey Kozhevnikov | Russia | 1:48.74 | |
| 8 | 1 | Mark Rodgers | New Zealand | 1:49.25 | NR |
| 9 | 3 | Bram Som | Netherlands | 1:49.77 | Q |
| 10 | 3 | Johan Botha | South Africa | 1:49.84 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | Tom Omey | Belgium | 1:49.85 | Q |
| 12 | 4 | Roberto Parra | Spain | 1:50.12 | Q |
| 13 | 4 | João Pires | Portugal | 1:50.13 | |
| 14 | 2 | David Lelei | Kenya | 1:50.53 | Q |
| 15 | 5 | Mahmoud Al-Kheirat | Syria | 1:50.71 | NR |
| 16 | 2 | Glody Dube | Botswana | 1:50.73 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | Benjamin Kipkurui | Kenya | 1:50.73 | |
| 18 | 3 | Lukáš Vydra | Czech Republic | 1:50.99 | |
| 19 | 2 | Elliott Gaskins | United States | 1:51.04 | |
| 20 | 2 | Abdirizak Dirshe | Sweden | 1:51.28 | |
| 21 | 3 | Milton Browne | Barbados | 1:51.60 | |
| 22 | 2 | Crispen Mutakanyi | Zimbabwe | 1:52.94 | |
| 23 | 4 | Constantinos Hadjimarcou | Cyprus | 1:53.10 | |
| 24 | 4 | John Lozada | Philippines | 1:54.10 | |
| 25 | 2 | Amilcar Leal | Mozambique | 1:55.19 | |
| 26 | 3 | Mohammed Albayed | Palestine | 2:03.06 | |
| | 1 | Jean-Patrick Nduwimana | Burundi | DNS | |
| | 3 | Arthémon Hatungimana | Burundi | DNS | |

### Semifinals

First 3 of each semifinal (Q) qualified directly for the final.

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Yuriy Borzakovskiy | Russia | 1:46.84 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | André Bucher | Switzerland | 1:47.04 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Johan Botha | South Africa | 1:47.28 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Glody Dube | Botswana | 1:47.31 | Q, NR |
| 5 | 1 | Paweł Czapiewski | Poland | 1:47.35 | Q, PB |
| 6 | 2 | David Lelei | Kenya | 1:47.48 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | Tom Omey | Belgium | 1:47.67 | NR |
| 8 | 2 | Daniel Caulfield | Ireland | 1:47.79 | |
| 9 | 1 | Florent Lacasse | France | 1:47.90 | |
| 10 | 1 | Trinity Gray | United States | 1:47.90 | |
| 11 | 2 | Bram Som | Netherlands | 1:49.34 | |
| 12 | 1 | Roberto Parra | Spain | 1:49.67 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Yuriy Borzakovskiy | Russia | 1:44.49 | |
| | Johan Botha | South Africa | 1:46.42 | |
| | André Bucher | Switzerland | 1:46.46 | |
| 4 | David Lelei | Kenya | 1:46.88 | |
| 5 | Glody Dube | Botswana | 1:46.90 | NR |
| 6 | Paweł Czapiewski | Poland | 1:50.51 | |
