1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 and 14 March in Sofia.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yevgeniy Arzhanov Soviet Union	Phil Lewis Great Britain	Andrzej Kupczyk Poland

Results

Heats

Held on 13 March

First 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	John Davies	Great Britain	1:51.8	Q
2	1	Petar Kyatovski	Bulgaria	1:51.9	Q
3	1	Slavko Koprivica	Yugoslavia	1:52.5
1	2	Antonio Fernández	Spain	1:54.0	Q
2	2	Phil Lewis	Great Britain	1:54.3	Q
3	2	Atanas Atanasov	Bulgaria	1:54.4
4	2	Stavros Mermingis	Greece	1:57.8
5	2	Ali Erte	Turkey	1:58.0
1	3	Yevgeniy Arzhanov	Soviet Union	1:54.1	Q
2	3	Andrzej Kupczyk	Poland	1:54.3	Q
3	3	Ján Šišovský	Czechoslovakia	1:54.7
4	3	Eric Reygaert	Belgium	1:56.5

Final

Held on 14 March

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Yevgeniy Arzhanov	Soviet Union	1:48.7
	Phil Lewis	Great Britain	1:50.5
	Andrzej Kupczyk	Poland	1:50.5
4	John Davies	Great Britain	1:51.1
5	Petar Kyatovski	Bulgaria	1:52.0
6	Antonio Fernández	Spain	1:52.7