1998 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Men's 800 metres

Final

31 July

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	William Chirchir	Kenya	1:47.23
	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1:47.53
	Paskar Owor	Uganda	1:48.20
4	João Pires	Portugal	1:48.22
5	Bram Som	Netherlands	1:48.36
6	Chris Moss	United Kingdom	1:48.77
7	Dmitriy Bogdanov	Russia	1:48.91
8	Dwayne Miller	Jamaica	1:49.25

Semifinals

29 July

Semifinal 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Chris Moss	United Kingdom	1:50.65	Q
2	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1:50.70	Q
3	Dwayne Miller	Jamaica	1:50.76	Q
4	Lucky Hadebe	South Africa	1:51.01
5	Nicolas Aïssat	France	1:51.11
6	Ramon Wächter	Switzerland	1:51.11
7	Mechal Gebreab	Ethiopia	1:51.19
8	Rachid Khouia	Morocco	1:51.49

Semifinal 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	William Chirchir	Kenya	1:48.93	Q
2	João Pires	Portugal	1:49.05	Q
3	Paskar Owor	Uganda	1:49.25	Q
4	Dmitriy Bogdanov	Russia	1:49.31	q
5	Bram Som	Netherlands	1:49.80	q
6	Joeri Jansen	Belgium	1:53.46
7	Mohamed Al-Bayed	Palestine	1:54.51
	Glauco Santos	Brazil	DNS

Heats

28 July

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Wilfred Bungei	Kenya	1:49.47	Q
2	Dwayne Miller	Jamaica	1:49.59	Q
3	Glauco Santos	Brazil	1:50.41	q
4	Kiyoharo Sato	Japan	1:50.58
5	John Chávez	Colombia	1:51.23
6	Said Chabane	Algeria	1:56.89
7	Safari Rwakabera	Rwanda	2:01.29

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	João Pires	Portugal	1:50.73	Q
2	Mohamed Al-Bayed	Palestine	1:51.18	Q
3	Sergio Gallardo	Spain	1:51.32
4	Marlon Greensword	Jamaica	1:51.60
5	Youcef Djebbab	Algeria	1:51.94
6	Jon Stevens	United States	1:52.19
7	Shawn Jeffers	British Virgin Islands	1:55.98
8	Casper Pule	Solomon Islands	2:00.43

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Chris Moss	United Kingdom	1:49.92	Q
2	Mechal Gebreab	Ethiopia	1:50.28	Q
3	Nicolas Aïssat	France	1:50.30	q
4	Alberto Revilla	Spain	1:50.75
5	Craig Wood	Australia	1:50.91
6	Kim Myung-Hwan	South Korea	1:54.38
7	Baiju Mirandi	India	1:56.41
8	Gerard Solomon	Vanuatu	1:56.79

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Paskar Owor	Uganda	1:51.99	Q
2	Bram Som	Netherlands	1:52.15	Q
3	Jasmin Salihović	Bosnia and Herzegovina	1:52.28
4	Nick Lorenz	Australia	1:53.27
5	Jon Andersson	Sweden	1:54.80
6	Claudinel Vitor	Brazil	1:56.68
7	Clive Baron	Dominica	1:57.03
8	Florent Battistel	Monaco	2:00.31

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dmitriy Bogdanov	Russia	1:52.64	Q
2	Lucky Hadebe	South Africa	1:52.97	Q
3	Park Ho-Min	South Korea	1:53.14
4	Igor Khalavniov	Belarus	1:53.16
5	Mark Hassell	United States	1:53.16
6	Abdelkabir Louraïbi	Morocco	1:53.25
7	Florent Lacasse	France	1:54.42
8	Tobias Ganzmann	Germany	1:55.99

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Joeri Jansen	Belgium	1:50.84	Q
2	Rachid Khouia	Morocco	1:51.91	Q
3	Dario Sbrana	Italy	1:52.01
4	Jan Drees	Germany	1:52.20
5	Ivan Heshko	Ukraine	1:53.10
6	Simon Lees	United Kingdom	1:53.79
7	Farid Salvaterra	São Tomé and Príncipe	1:58.09
8	Kamardin Andriantambezina	Madagascar	2:00.09

Heat 7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	William Chirchir	Kenya	1:51.78	Q
2	Ramon Wächter	Switzerland	1:51.89	Q
3	Geert Waelput	Belgium	1:52.29
4	Mandla Nkosi	South Africa	1:54.08
5	Francesco Roncalli	Italy	1:55.89
6	Hamed Ahmed Mohamed	Sudan	1:56.38
7	Rickard Pell	Sweden	1:58.12

According to an unofficial count, 54 athletes from 38 countries participated in the event.