Athletics at the 1990 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	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
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
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 800 metres event at the 1990 Commonwealth Games was held at the Mount Smart Stadium in Auckland on 29 January and 1 February 1990.^[1]

The winning margin was 0.02 seconds which as of 2024 remains the only time the men's 800 metres was won by less than 0.05 seconds at these games.

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sammy Tirop  Kenya	Nixon Kiprotich  Kenya	Matthew Yates  England

Qualification: First four of each heat (Q) and the next two fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Sammy Tirop	Kenya	1:48.60	Q
2	3	Robert Kibet	Kenya	1:49.16	Q
3	3	Matthew Yates	England	1:49.24	Q
4	1	Sebastian Coe	England	1:49.83	Q
4	2	Nixon Kiprotich	Kenya	1:49.83	Q
6	1	David Strang	Scotland	1:49.92	Q
7	1	Melford Homela	Zimbabwe	1:49.97	Q
8	1	John Walker	New Zealand	1:50.09	q
9	2	Ikem Billy	England	1:50.32	Q
10	3	Mike Birke	Canada	1:50.36	Q
11	4	Mbiganyi Thee	Botswana	1:50.71	Q
12	3	Michael Craig	New Zealand	1:50.81	Q
13	2	Brian Whittle	Scotland	1:50.87	Q
14	1	Neil Horsfield	Wales	1:50.88	q
15	4	Tom McKean	Scotland	1:50.87	Q
16	2	Paul Osland	Canada	1:51.00	Q
17	3	Kenneth Dzekedzeke	Malawi	1:51.17
18	3	Samson Vellabouy	Malaysia	1:51.19
19	4	Simon Doyle	Australia	1:51.21	Q
20	2	Zacharia Machangani	Botswana	1:51.41
21	4	Simon Hoogewerf	Canada	1:52.00	Q
22	2	Mark Kirk	Northern Ireland	1:52.09
23	2	Alick Musukuma	Zambia	1:52.18
24	1	Mohammad Hossain Milzer	Bangladesh	1:52.44
25	4	Paul Breed	New Zealand	1:52.92
26	4	Philip Sinon	Seychelles	1:53.17
27	3	John Siguria	Papua New Guinea	1:57.57
28	4	Ancel Nalau	Vanuatu	2:00.33

Qualification: First 4 of each heat (Q) and the next 1 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Tom McKean	Scotland	1:46.83	Q
2	1	Nixon Kiprotich	Kenya	1:46.92	Q
3	2	Robert Kibet	Kenya	1:47.00	Q
4	1	Sammy Tirop	Kenya	1:47.04	Q
5	2	Simon Doyle	Australia	1:47.38	Q
6	1	Brian Whittle	Scotland	1:47.51	Q
7	1	Sebastian Coe	England	1:47.67	Q
8	2	Matthew Yates	England	1:47.77	Q
9	1	Ikem Billy	England	1:47.80	q
10	1	Mbiganyi Thee	Botswana	1:48.33
11	2	Melford Homela	Zimbabwe	1:48.53
12	1	Paul Osland	Canada	1:48.59
13	1	John Walker	New Zealand	1:49.60
14	2	Mike Birke	Canada	1:49.64
15	2	Neil Horsfield	Wales	1:49.93
16	2	Michael Craig	New Zealand	1:51.00
17	2	David Strang	Scotland	1:51.05
18	1	Simon Hoogewerf	Canada	1:53.75

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sammy Tirop	Kenya	1:45.98
	Nixon Kiprotich	Kenya	1:46.00
	Matthew Yates	England	1:46.62
4	Brian Whittle	Scotland	1:46.85
5	Ikem Billy	England	1:47.16
6	Sebastian Coe	England	1:47.24
7	Tom McKean	Scotland	1:47.27
8	Simon Doyle	Australia	1:48.06
9	Robert Kibet	Kenya	1:48.57