2002 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres at the 2002 European Athletics Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 9–11.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Wilson Kipketer Denmark	André Bucher Switzerland	Nils Schumann Germany

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:46.90	Q
2	3	René Herms	Germany	1:47.07	Q
3	4	Arnoud Okken	Netherlands	1:47.22	Q
4	3	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1:47.29	Q
5	4	Rizak Dirshe	Sweden	1:47.36	Q
6	3	André Bucher	Switzerland	1:47.48	Q
7	1	Antonio Manuel Reina	Spain	1:47.52	Q
7	2	Bram Som	Netherlands	1:47.52	Q
9	2	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1:47.53	Q
10	1	Stefan Beumer	Netherlands	1:47.66	Q
11	3	James McIlroy	Great Britain	1:47.67	q
12	2	Joeri Jansen	Belgium	1:47.71	Q
13	4	Florent Lacasse	France	1:47.74	q
14	2	Miguel Quesada	Spain	1:47.85	q
15	3	Grzegorz Krzosek	Poland	1:47.98	q
16	4	Panagiotis Stroubakos	Greece	1:48.00
17	1	Nicolas Aïssat	France	1:48.07	Q
18	2	Ramil Aritkulov	Russia	1:48.15
18	3	Dmitriy Bogdanov	Russia	1:48.15
20	4	Wilson Kirwa	Finland	1:48.23
21	1	Christian Neunhauserer	Italy	1:48.25
22	1	Tom Omey	Belgium	1:48.27
23	2	Vanco Stojanov	Macedonia	1:48.31
24	2	Franck Barré	France	1:48.68
25	1	Alibey Sukurov	Azerbaijan	1:49.27
26	4	Anthony Whiteman	Great Britain	1:50.60
27	1	Fernando Almeida	Portugal	1:50.81
28	1	Dominic Carroll	Gibraltar	1:58.22
	3	Khaled Azerkan	Sweden	DNF

Qualification: First 3 of each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1:46.56	Q
2	2	René Herms	Germany	1:46.77	Q
3	2	Nicolas Aïssat	France	1:46.89	Q
4	2	André Bucher	Switzerland	1:47.08	q
5	2	Bram Som	Netherlands	1:47.20	q
6	2	Rizak Dirshe	Sweden	1:47.38
7	2	Antonio Manuel Reina	Spain	1:47.41
8	2	Grzegorz Krzosek	Poland	1:47.82
9	1	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:48.01	Q
10	1	Arnoud Okken	Netherlands	1:48.22	Q
11	1	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1:48.37	Q
12	1	Joeri Jansen	Belgium	1:48.62
13	1	James McIlroy	Great Britain	1:49.15
14	1	Stefan Beumer	Netherlands	1:49.60
15	1	Miguel Quesada	Spain	1:49.83
16	1	Florent Lacasse	France	1:50.82

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1:47.25
	André Bucher	Switzerland	1:47.43
	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:47.60
4	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1:47.92
5	Arnoud Okken	Netherlands	1:48.39
6	Bram Som	Netherlands	1:48.56
7	René Herms	Germany	1:48.86
8	Nicolas Aïssat	France	1:49.16