2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres explained

The men's 800 metres event at the 2019 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 1 March 2019 at 19:48 (heats), on 2 March at 18:25 (semifinals) and on 3 March 2019 at 18:57 (final) local time.

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Álvaro de Arriba	Jamie Webb	Mark English

Records

Standing records prior to the 2019 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	1:43.98	New York City, United States	9 February 2019
European Leading	1:46.52	Karlsruhe, Germany	2 February 2019

Results

Heats

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

Rank	Heat	Time	Note
1	1	1:47.95	Q
2	5	1:47.96	Q
3	1	1:48.09	Q
4	5	1:48.15	Q
5	1	1:48.33	q
6	1	1:48.56	q
7	2	1:48.62	Q
8	4	1:48.67	Q
9	4	1:48.71	Q
10	4	1:48.72
11	5	1:48.82
12	4	1:48.90
12	5	1:48.90
14	2	1:48.98	Q
15	5	1:49.14
16	2	1:49.26	PB
17	1	1:49.31
18	2	1:49.35
19	3	1:49.38	Q
20	1	1:49.39
21	1	1:49.54
22	3	1:49.62	Q
23	2	1:49.66
24	4	1:49.77
25	3	1:49.98
26	3	1:50.29
27	5	1:50.36
28	3	1:50.42
29	2	1:50.50
30	4	1:50.54
31	3	1:51.02
32	5	1:51.75
33	4	1:53.21
	2

Semifinals

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) advance to the Final.^[2]

Rank	Heat	Time	Note
1	2	1:48.84	Q
2	2	1:48.85	Q
3	2	1:49.06	Q
4	2	1:49.48
5	1	1:50.12	Q
6	1	1:50.18	Q
7	1	1:50.41	Q
8	1	1:50.62
9	2	1:50.70	qR^[3]
10	1	1:50.72
11	1	1:51.26
	2

Final

^[4]

Rank	Time	Notes
	1:46.83
	1:47.13	PB
	1:47.39
4	1:47.58	PB
5	1:47.67
6	1:47.91
7	1:48.06

Notes and References

Web site: Heats results . . 5 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190306042948/https://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATM008900_C74A.pdf . 6 March 2019 . dead .
Web site: Semifinals results . . 5 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190404073617/https://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATM008200_C74A.pdf . 4 April 2019 . dead .
Advanced on referee's decision after tripping over falling Guy Learmonth.
Web site: Final results . . 5 March 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190404073619/https://www.european-athletics.org/externalmodules/AT/pdf/ATM008101_C73G.pdf . 4 April 2019 . dead .