Athletics at the 1978 Commonwealth Games
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men
30 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 800 metres event at the 1978 Commonwealth Games was held on 8 and 10 August at the Commonwealth Stadium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Mike Boit  Kenya	Seymour Newman  Jamaica	Peter Lemashon  Kenya

Held on 8 August

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualify for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	John Higham	Australia	1:48.9	Q
2	2	Colin Szwed	England	1:49.1	Q
3	2	Peter Hoffmann	Scotland	1:49.1	Q
4	2	Glen Grant	Wales	1:49.3	q
5	3	James Maina Boi	Kenya	1:49.48	Q
6	3	Garry Cook	England	1:49.9	Q
7	3	Paul Forbes	Scotland	1:50.0	Q
8	2	Halidu Zinentah	Ghana	1:50.2	q
9	3	Rayfield Beaton	Guyana	1:50.3	q
10	2	Doug Wournell	Canada	1:50.4	q
11	4	Mike Boit	Kenya	1:50.6	Q
12	4	David Warren	England	1:51.4	Q
13	1	Chum Darvall	Australia	1:51.5	Q
13	4	Dennis Norris	New Zealand	1:51.5	Q
15	1	Peter Lemashon	Kenya	1:51.6	Q
15	1	Seymour Newman	Jamaica	1:51.6	Q
15	4	Peter Favell	Canada	1:51.56
18	1	James McGuinness	Northern Ireland	1:51.71
19	3	Conrad Francis	Grenada	1:52.22
20	4	Donald Pierre	Grenada	1:52.61
21	4	Ezzard Wilson	Saint Kitts and Nevis	1:52.66
22	1	Carlsen Phillips	Bermuda	1:52.83
23	1	Dave Hill	Canada	1:53.77
24	2	Henry Carver	Mauritius	1:54.83
25	3	William Amakye	Ghana	1:54.90
26	1	Trevor Small	Barbados	1:55.24
27	3	John Erysthee	Saint Lucia	1:58.43
28	2	Heligar Calderon	Saint Lucia	2:01.08
	3	Michael Watson	Bermuda	DQ
	1	Michael Olliviere	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	DNS
	4	Lewis Swann	Turks and Caicos Islands	DNS
	4	Auchinleck Spencer	Antigua and Barbuda	DNS

Held on 8 August

Qualification: First 4 in each semifinal (Q) qualify directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Seymour Newman	Jamaica	1:48.83	Q
2	1	Glen Grant	Wales	1:49.25	Q
3	1	Chum Darvall	Australia	1:49.26	Q
4	2	Mike Boit	Kenya	1:49.88	Q
5	1	Peter Lemashon	Kenya	1:49.93	Q
6	1	Peter Hoffmann	Scotland	1:50.10
7	2	Halidu Zinentah	Ghana	1:50.62	Q
8	2	Garry Cook	England	1:50.75	Q
9	2	John Higham	Australia	1:50.77	Q
10	2	Dennis Norris	New Zealand	1:50.77
11	1	Colin Szwed	England	1:50.89
12	1	Doug Wournell	Canada	1:51.23
13	2	Rayfield Beaton	Guyana	1:51.86
14	2	David Warren	England	1:51.96
15	2	Paul Forbes	Scotland	1:56.80
	1	James Maina Boi	Kenya	DQ

Held on 10 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Mike Boit	Kenya	1:46.39
	Seymour Newman	Jamaica	1:47.30
	Peter Lemashon	Kenya	1:47.57
4	Chum Darvall	Australia	1:47.74
5	Garry Cook	England	1:48.06
6	Halidu Zinentah	Ghana	1:48.15
7	John Higham	Australia	1:48.90
8	Glen Grant	Wales	1:49.32

• Heats & Semifinals results (The Canberra Times)
• Final results (The Canberra Times)
• Australian results