2000 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres
# 2000 Asian Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 2000 Asian Athletics Championships was held in Jakarta, Indonesia on 29–31 August.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - |
| Mehdi Jelodarzadeh Iran | Kim Soon-Hyung South Korea | Lee Jae-Hoon South Korea |

## Results

### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 3 | Mehdi Jelodarzadeh | Iran | 1:51.03 | Q |
| 1 | 2 | Kim Soon-Hyung | South Korea | 1:51.03 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Lee Jae-Hoon | South Korea | 1:51.09 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | K. M. Binu | India | 1:51.30 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | Redouane Jadouh | Syria | 1:52.01 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | John Lozada | Philippines | 1:52.37 | q |
| 7 | 4 | Salem Amer Al-Badri | Qatar | 1:52.48 | q |
| 8 | 4 | Mohammad-Reza Molaei | Iran | 1:52.71 | |
| 9 | 3 | Ibrahim Akrin | Indonesia | 1:53.28 | |
| 10 | 1 | Salah Taib Fadlallah | Saudi Arabia | 1:53.34 | Q |
| 11 | 1 | Abdulrahman Suleiman | Qatar | 1:53.36 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | Dicky Gunawan | Indonesia | 1:53.63 | Q |
| 13 | 1 | Akinori Mori | Japan | 1:54.07 | |
| 14 | 2 | Ali Sulaiman Hamdan | United Arab Emirates | 1:54.71 | |
| 15 | 4 | Maksim Lapyrenok | Kazakhstan | 1:54.94 | |
| 15 | 3 | Chidambaran Veeramani | Singapore | 1:55.00 | |
| 16 | 3 | Nazar Begliyev | Turkmenistan | 1:55.84 | |
| 17 | 1 | Naseer Ismail | Maldives | 1:56.09 | |
| 18 | 1 | Salem Saeed Omar | United Arab Emirates | 1:56.24 | |
| 19 | 4 | Mohammad Al-Azemi | Kuwait | 1:56.69 | |
| 20 | 2 | Mohamed Naji Haidara | Bahrain | 1:57.05 | |
| 21 | 1 | Bazragch Batmunkh | Mongolia | 1:57.19 | |
| 22 | 4 | Leung Tat Wei | Hong Kong | 1:57.62 | |
| 23 | 1 | Chamkaur Singh | Singapore | 2:01.82 | |
| 24 | 2 | Gao Shuai | China | 2:02.45 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Mehdi Jelodarzadeh | Iran | 1:49.80 |
| | Kim Soon-Hyung | South Korea | 1:50.06 |
| | Lee Jae-Hoon | South Korea | 1:50.35 |
| 4 | John Lozada | Philippines | 1:50.73 |
| 5 | Abdulrahman Suleiman | Qatar | 1:50.77 |
| 6 | Salem Amer Al-Badri | Qatar | 1:52.43 |
| 7 | Dicky Gunawan | Indonesia | 1:53.56 |
| 8 | Salah Taib Fadlallah | Saudi Arabia | 1:53.61 |
| 9 | K. M. Binu | India | 1:55.00 |
| | Redouane Jadouh | Syria | DNS |
