| Incheon Asiad Main Stadium - Track. Start time: 19:20 |   
| Final | time |   | L | Birth | bib |  | 1. Adnan Taes Agar Almntfage |  IRQ | 1:47.48 | SB | 2 | 24 Mar 1980 | 218 |  | 2. Haining Teng |  CHN | 1:47.81 |   | 4 | 25 Jun 1993 | 126 |  | 3. Jamal Hairane |  QAT | 1:48.25 | SB | 9 | 26 May 1993 | 414 |  | 4. Sajeesh Joseph |  IND | 1:49.59 |   | 7 | 14 Jan 1987 | 172 |  | -. Yusuf Saad Kamel |  BRN | DNF |   | 3 | 29 Mar 1983 | 106 |  |  First 3 finishers were disqualified - Rule: R 163.3a |  | -. Abdulaziz Ladan A Mohammed |  KSA | 1:46.28 |   | 5 | 07 Jan 1991 | 313 |  | -. Musaab Abdelrahman Bala |  QAT | 1:46.33 |   | 6 | 19 Mar 1989 | 413 |  | -. Abraham Kipchirchir Rotich |  BRN | 1:46.94 | SB | 8 | 26 Sep 1993 | 105 |   
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|  Records |  | WR | David Lekuta Rudisha |  KEN | 1:40.91 | London (GBR) | Olympic Games | 09 Aug 2012 |  | AS | Yusuf Saad Kamel |  BRN | 1:42.79 | Monaco (MON) | Super Grand Prix | 29 Jul 2008 |  | GR | Sajad Moradi |  IRI | 1:45.45 | Guangzhou (CHN) | Asian Games | 25 Nov 2010 |   
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| Ranking | time |   | L | Birth | bib |  | 1. Abdulaziz Ladan A Mohammed |  KSA | 1:48.85 |   | 6 | 07 Jan 1991 | 313 |  | 2. Jamal Hairane |  QAT | 1:48.91 |   | 3 | 26 May 1993 | 414 |  | 3. Adnan Taes Agar Almntfage |  IRQ | 1:49.03 | SB | 2 | 24 Mar 1980 | 218 |  | 4. Thai Duong van |  VIE | 1:50.66 |   | 7 | 28 Apr 1992 | 509 |  | 5. Junyoung Kim |  KOR | 1:51.81 |   | 5 | 09 Apr 1993 | 282 |  | 6. Odkhuu Gal Erdene |  MGL | 1:53.69 | PB | 9 | 26 Mar 1987 | 373 |  | 7. Ahmed Hassan |  MDV | 1:56.46 | PB | 8 | 15 Nov 1986 | 367 |  | -. Sajad Moradi |  IRI | DNS |   | 4 | 30 Mar 1983 | 199 |   
| Ranking | time |   | L | Birth | bib |  | 1. Musaab Abdelrahman Bala |  QAT | 1:49.50 |   | 5 | 19 Mar 1989 | 413 |  | 2. Yusuf Saad Kamel |  BRN | 1:49.56 |   | 6 | 29 Mar 1983 | 106 |  | 3. Sajeesh Joseph |  IND | 1:49.90 |   | 4 | 14 Jan 1987 | 172 |  | 4. Hyeongi Choi |  KOR | 1:50.15 |   | 8 | 21 Mar 1991 | 283 |  | 5. Farkhod Kuralov |  TJK | 1:50.55 |   | 2 | 18 Oct 1993 | 472 |  | 6. Akhyt Asyeikhan |  MGL | 1:55.49 |   | 7 | 28 Feb 1986 | 372 |  | 7. Nurgazy Asankulov |  KGZ | 1:57.40 |   | 3 | 24 Jul 1994 | 274 |   
| Ranking | time |   | L | Birth | bib |  | 1. Abraham Kipchirchir Rotich |  BRN | 1:47.95 | SB | 8 | 26 Sep 1993 | 105 |  | 2. Haining Teng |  CHN | 1:48.82 |   | 6 | 25 Jun 1993 | 126 |  | 3. Kh F Alazemi Mohammad M |  KUW | 1:51.63 |   | 4 | 16 Jun 1982 | 335 |  | 4. Sho Kawamoto |  JPN | 1:53.24 |   | 9 | 01 Mar 1993 | 233 |  | 5. Mukti Bahadur Khadka |  NEP | 1:55.20 |   | 7 | 15 Jun 1984 | 382 |  | 6. Almazbek Kazibekov |  KGZ | 1:55.90 |   | 5 | 06 Aug 1991 | 273 |  | 7. Shifaz Mohamed |  MDV | 2:02.58 |   | 2 | 17 Aug 1986 | 368 |  | -. Wesam K M Almassri |  PLE | DNS |   | 3 | 23 Nov 1990 | 406 |   
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