Men's 800m semifinals - 2023 NCAA outdoor track and field championships (Heat 1)

Georgia's Will Sumner ran the 800 meters in a personal-best of 1:46 flat in Heat 1 of the 800 meters at the 2023 NCAA DI outdoor track and field championships. Watch the full race here.

[michaeldeierhoi]

Will Sumner looks like he should go under 1:45 in the final especially with competition. That looked so easy for him. And he's a freshman!! Amazing!

[Slapthematwrestling]

unreal . Freshman running 52.5 and then coming back with a 53.5 and just strolling the last 75 meters in a prelim.

[tilinfinity]

World team for Sumner coming up book it. I have him 5th place at USA’s at worst

[kwasiisaac]

can we please get the other heats or semi’s

[Slapthematwrestling]

Sam Ellis DQ is bullshit. Not because he didn’t step on the line..because he did so on the initial turn at the start of the race. The DQ is bullshit because they came about the evidence of him doing so in a crooked way. The Long Beach coach, who didn’t even have an athlete in this heat (and the one he did have in another heat wasn’t effected at all on whether Ellis got DQ’d or not) protested saying Ellis had cut someone off. The officials reviewed it and came to the conclusion that he did not cut someone off. However, they saw that he stepped on the line twice, so they DQ’d him for that. Why were they even looking at ths part of the race for cutting someone off? The runners are in their lanes for this part of the race and quite sometime after. So clearly this would not be where he was said to cut someone off. Did they check all the other runners positioning while they were at it in this heat and the other ones? Million dollar question is why did the Long Beach coach put the protest in the first place? I can promise you and watching the race. There’s no point whatsoever doesn’t even look like he remotely cut someone off.

[et]

What a BS DQ in heat rules committee should be ashamed

[samuelkiser]

Track times keep getting faster except for this event

[blainenewton]

Nice run by Sumner, but the goal here is not to run a PB but simply to move to the next round while conserving as much energy as possible. In my opinion, he put too much effort into that race. Hopefully, it won't come back to bite him.

[traderstatusquo]

You guys gonna show just one heat of the event really? Might as well not show the meet at all if we’re getting teases here and there.