2022 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres
# 2022 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres at the 2022 European Athletics Championships took place at the Olympiastadion on 18, 19 and 21 August.

## Records

Standing records prior to the 2022 European Athletics Championships :

| World record | David Rudisha (KEN) | 1:40.91 | London, Great Britain | 9 August 2012 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| European record | Wilson Kipketer (DEN) | 1:41.11 | Köln, Germany | 24 August 1997 |
| Championship record | Olaf Beyer (GDR) | 1:43.84 | Prague, Czechoslovakia | 31 August 1978 |
| World Leading | Max Burgin (GBR) | 1:43.52 | Turku, Finland | 14 June 2022 |
| Europe Leading | Max Burgin (GBR) | 1:43.52 | Turku, Finland | 14 June 2022 |

## Schedule

| Date | Time | Round |
| - | - | - |
| 18 August 2022 | 10:10 | Round 1 |
| 19 August 2022 | 20:27 | Semifinals |
| 21 August 2022 | 19:40 | Final |

All times are local times (UTC+2)

## Results

### Round 1

First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinals.

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Jake Wightman | Great Britain | 1:45.94 | Q, SB |
| 2 | 1 | 8 | Simone Barontini | Italy | 1:45.98 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | 5 | Gabriel Tual | France | 1:46.08 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | 2 | Tibo De Smet | Belgium | 1:46.48 | q |
| 5 | 1 | 7 | Andreas Kramer | Sweden | 1:46.50 | q |
| 6 | 1 | 3 | Dániel Huller | Hungary | 1:47.19 | q |
| 7 | 1 | 6 | Abedin Mujezinović | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1:47.29 | q |
| 8 | 4 | 4 | Eliott Crestan | Belgium | 1:47.41 | Q |
| 9 | 3 | 4 | Patryk Dobek | Poland | 1:47.49 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | 3 | Mark English | Ireland | 1:47.54 | Q |
| 11 | 4 | 7 | Adrián Ben | Spain | 1:47.64 | Q |
| 12 | 3 | 8 | Ben Pattison | Great Britain | 1:47.64 | Q |
| 13 | 3 | 1 | Mariano García | Spain | 1:47.66 | Q |
| 14 | 2 | 4 | Benjamin Robert | France | 1:47.66 | Q |
| 15 | 2 | 7 | Daniel Rowden | Great Britain | 1:47.67 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | 3 | Tony van Diepen | Netherlands | 1:47.67 | Q |
| 17 | 1 | 4 | Christoph Kessler | Germany | 1:47.72 | |
| 18 | 2 | 6 | Amel Tuka | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1:47.73 | |
| 19 | 4 | 8 | Mateusz Borkowski | Poland | 1:47.74 | |
| 20 | 4 | 6 | Yanis Meziane | France | 1:47.82 | |
| 21 | 4 | 2 | Catalin Tecuceanu | Italy | 1:47.94 | |
| 22 | 2 | 5 | Álvaro de Arriba | Spain | 1:47.94 | |
| 23 | 3 | 6 | Djoao Lobles | Netherlands | 1:48.00 | |
| 24 | 3 | 3 | Joonas Rinne | Finland | 1:48.03 | |
| 25 | 3 | 2 | Filip Šnejdr | Czech Republic | 1:48.16 | |
| 26 | 3 | 5 | John Fitzsimons | Ireland | 1:48.22 | |
| 27 | 4 | 5 | Tobias Grønstad | Norway | 1:48.28 | |
| 28 | 2 | 8 | Marc Reuther | Germany | 1:48.33 | |
| 29 | 2 | 1 | Kacper Lewalski | Poland | 1:48.43 | |
| 30 | 3 | 7 | Aurele Vandeputte | Belgium | 1:48.46 | |
| 31 | 2 | 2 | Jan Vukovič | Slovenia | 1:48.88 | |

### Semifinals

First 3 in each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the final.

| Rank | Heat | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 2 | 8 | Mariano García | Spain | 1:46.52 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Jake Wightman | Great Britain | 1:46.61 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | 6 | Mark English | Ireland | 1:46.66 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | 3 | Ben Pattison | Great Britain | 1:46.95 | q |
| 5 | 2 | 2 | Eliott Crestan | Belgium | 1:47.13 | q |
| 6 | 2 | 5 | Tony van Diepen | Netherlands | 1:47.64 | |
| 7 | 2 | 4 | Gabriel Tual | France | 1:47.70 | |
| 8 | 2 | 7 | Dániel Huller | Hungary | 1:48.03 | |
| 9 | 1 | 4 | Andreas Kramer | Sweden | 1:48.37 | Q |
| 10 | 1 | 2 | Simone Barontini | Italy | 1:48.51 | Q |
| 11 | 1 | 3 | Benjamin Robert | France | 1:48.51 | Q |
| 12 | 1 | 5 | Patryk Dobek | Poland | 1:48.63 | |
| 13 | 1 | 8 | Daniel Rowden | Great Britain | 1:48.80 | |
| 14 | 1 | 6 | Tibo De Smet | Belgium | 1:49.10 | |
| 15 | 1 | 7 | Adrián Ben | Spain | 1:49.26 | |
| 16 | 1 | 1 | Abedin Mujezinović | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 1:50.20 | |

### Final

| Rank | Lane | Name | Nationality | Time | Note |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 7 | Mariano García | Spain | 1:44.85 | PB |
| | 2 | Jake Wightman | Great Britain | 1:44.91 | SB |
| | 3 | Mark English | Ireland | 1:45.19 | |
| 4 | 5 | Andreas Kramer | Sweden | 1:45.38 | |
| 5 | 6 | Benjamin Robert | France | 1:45.42 | |
| 6 | 4 | Ben Pattison | Great Britain | 1:45.63 | |
| 7 | 8 | Simone Barontini | Italy | 1:45.66 | PB |
| 8 | 1 | Eliott Crestan | Belgium | 1:45.68 | SB |
