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Date: 23 September 1988 / 24 September 1988 / 26 September 1988
Heats
Quarter-finals
Semi-finals
Final
| Rank | Name | Nation | Time |
| 1 | Paul Ereng | KEN | 1:43.45 |
| 2 | Joaquim Cruz | BRA | 1:43.90 |
| 3 | Said Aouita | MAR | 1:44.06 |
| 4 | Peter Elliott | GBR | 1:44.12 |
| 5 | Johnny Gray | USA | 1:44.80 |
| 6 | Jose Luiz Barbosa | BRA | 1:46.39 |
| 7 | Donato Sabia | ITA | 1:48.03 |
| 8 | Nixon Kiprotich | KEN | 1:49.55 |
| Semi-finals | |||
| 9 | Babacar Niang | SEN | 1:45.09 |
| 10 | Slobodan Popovic | YUG | 1:45.11 |
| 11 | Alvaro Silva | POR | 1:45.12 |
| 12 | Sheikh Tidiane Boye | SEN | 1:45.93 |
| 13 | Reda Abdenouz | ALG | 1:45.95 |
| 14 | Ibrahim Okash Omar | SOM | 1:46.62 |
| 15 | Simon Hoogewerf | CAN | 1:47.30 |
| 16 | Peter Braun | FRG | 1:47.43 |
| Quarter-finals | |||
| 17 | Tom McKean | GBR | 1:46.40 |
| 18 | Pablo Squella | CHI | 1:46.45 |
| 19 | Steve Cram | GBR | 1:46.47 |
| 20 | Robin van Helden | NED | 1:46.61 |
| 21 | Rob Druppers | NED | 1:46.91 |
| 22 | Ahmed Bel Kessam | ALG | 1:46.93 |
| 23 | Vladimir Graudyn | URS | 1:47.07 |
| 24 | Juma Ndiwa | KEN | 1:47.27 |
| 25 | Faouzi Lahbi | MAR | 1:47.32 |
| 26 | Ryszard Ostrowski | POL | 1:47.72 |
| 27 | Tomas de Teresa | ESP | 1:48.01 |
| 28 | Paul Osland | CAN | 1:48.02 |
| 29 | Coloman Trabado | ESP | 1:48.12 |
| 30 | Melford Homela | ZIM | 1:49.62 |
| 31 | Tonino Viali | ITA | 1:50.85 |
| 32 | Ari Suhonen | FIN | |
| Heats | |||
| 33 | Kebapetse "Bobby" Gaseitsiwe | BOT | 1:48.08 |
| 34 | Mohamed Ismail Youssef | QAT | 1:48.20 |
| 35 | Agberto Guimaraes | BRA | 1:48.49 |
| 36 | Ryu Tae-Keong | KOR | 1:48.61 |
| 37 | Antonio Abrantes | POR | 1:49.01 |
| 38 | Mauricio Hernandez | MEX | 1:49.03 |
| 39 | Moussa Fall | SEN | 1:49.14 |
| 40 | Dale Jones | ANT | 1:49.31 |
| 41 | Spyros Spyrou | CYP | 1:49.84 |
| 42 | Mark Everett | USA | 1:49.86 |
| 43 | Michael Watson | BER | 1:50.16 |
| 44 | Tracy Baskin | USA | 1:50.38 |
| 45 | Ado Maude | NGR | 1:50.48 |
| 46 | Kenneth Dzekedzeke | MAW | 1:50.60 |
| 47 | Porfirio Mendez | PAR | 1:50.72 |
| 48 | Mansoor Al-Baloushi | OMA | 1:51.03 |
| 49 | Mohamad Hossain Milzer | BAN | 1:51.16 |
| 50 | Syed Meesaq Rizvi | PAK | 1:51.58 |
| 51 | Eversley Linley | VIN | 1:51.71 |
| 52 | Eulucane Ndagijimana | RWA | 1:52.08 |
| 53 | Duan Xiuquan | CHN | 1:52.17 |
| 54 | Manlio Molinari | SMR | 1:52.35 |
| 55 | Lin Kuang-Liang | TPE | 1:52.95 |
| 56 | Joao N'Tyamba | ANG | 1:53.23 |
| 57 | Josep Graells | AND | 1:53.34 |
| 58 | Maher Abbas | LBN | 1:53.76 |
| 59 | Lui Muavesi | FIJ | 1:54.48 |
| 60 | Fahmi Ahmed Abdul Wahab | YAR | 1:55.24 |
| 61 | Momodou Bello N'Jie | GAM | 1:55.57 |
| 62 | Oslen Barr | GUY | 1:55.95 |
| 63 | John Siguria | PNG | 1:56.12 |
| 64 | David Sawyer | SLE | 1:57.88 |
| 65 | Yussuf Moli Yesky | CHA | 1:57.97 |
| 66 | Nimley Twegbe | LBR | 1:58.43 |
| 67 | William Taramai | COK | 1:58.80 |
| Disqualified | |||
| Tommy Asinga | SUR | ||
| Kazanga Makok | COD | ||
| Hadi Bakr Al-Qahtani | KSA | ||