2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres explained

The men's 800 metres event at the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 3 March 2017 at 11:35 (heats), on 4 March at 19:25 (semifinals) and on 5 March 17:50 (final) local time.

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Adam Kszczot	Andreas Bube	Álvaro de Arriba

Records

Standing records prior to the 2017 European Athletics Indoor Championships
World record	1:42.67	Paris, France	9 March 1997
European record	1:42.67	Paris, France	9 March 1997
Championship record	1:44.78	Vienna, Austria	3 March 2002
World Leading	1:46.13	Birmingham, United Kingdom	18 February 2017
European Leading	1:46.17	Düsseldorf, Germany	1 February 2017

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinal.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Time	Note
1	1	1:46.86	Q, PB
2	1	1:47.21	Q, SB
3	1	1:47.32	q
4	1	1:48.06	q
5	4	1:48.37	Q
6	4	1:48.57	Q
7	4	1:48.63	q
8	4	1:48.68	q
9	4	1:48.73
10	1	1:49.18
11	2	1:49.21	Q
12	2	1:49.84	Q
13	3	1:49.93	Q
14	3	1:49.96	Q
15	3	1:50.04
16	2	1:50.08
17	3	1:50.43
18	2	1:50.87
19	2	1:50.88
20	1	1:51.35
21	3	1:52.61
22	2	1:52.62
23	4	1:53.54
24	3	1:57.83

Semifinals

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Time	Note
1	1	1:48.36	Q
2	1	1:48.53	Q
3	1	1:48.69	Q
4	1	1:49.23
5	1	1:49.26
6	2	1:49.42	Q
7	2	1:49.44	Q
8	2	1:49.53	Q
8	1	1:49.53
10	2	1:49.81
11	2	1:51.39
	2

Final

^[2]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Note
			1:48.87
			1:49.32
			1:49.68
4			1:50.28
5			1:50.47
6			1:54.17

Notes and References

Web site: Heats results . 2017-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150401170620/http://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATM008900_C73H.pdf . 2015-04-01 . dead .
Web site: Final results . 2017-03-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170305204754/http://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATM008101_C73G.pdf . 2017-03-05 . dead .