2001 IAAF World Indoor Championships

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

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

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

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