2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres explained

The men's 800 metres event at the 2021 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 5 March 2021 at 19:55 (heats), on 6 March 2019 at 19:25 (semi-finals), and on 7 March at 18:25 (final) local time.

Medalists

width=200 bgcolor=gold	Gold	width=200 bgcolor=silver	Silver	width=200 bgcolor=CC9966	Bronze
Patryk Dobek	Mateusz Borkowski	Jamie Webb

Records

Standing records prior to the 2021 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	1:43.63	Toruń, Poland	17 February 2021
European Leading	1:43.63	Toruń, Poland	17 February 2021

Results

Heats

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) advance to the Semifinals.^[1]

Rank	Heat	Time	Note
1	5	1:47.55	Q
2	5	1:47.78	Q
3	6	1:48.32	Q
4	5	1:48.43	Q
5	6	1:48.72	Q
6	6	1:48.78	Q
7	2	1:48.85	Q
8	6	1:48.87
9	5	1:48.88
10	2	1:49.08	Q
11	6	1:49.48
12	1	1:49.58	Q
13	4	1:49.66	Q
14	1	1:49.76	Q
15	1	1:49.76	Q
16	2	1:49.79	Q
17	5	1:49.82
18	3	1:49.86	Q
19	1	1:49.88
20	3	1:49.98	Q
21	1	1:49.99
22	6	1:50.09
23	3	1:50.12	Q
24	5	1:50.29
25	3	1:50.30
26	2	1:50.38
27	3	1:50.40
28	4	1:50.53	Q
29	3	1:50.65
30	4	1:50.97	Q
31	4	1:50.98
32	4	1:51.00
33	4	1:51.04
34	1	1:51.59
35	1	1:51.85
36	3	1:51.97
37	2	1:52.44
38	2	1:52.48
	2	DQ

Semifinals

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

Rank	Heat	Time	Note
1	2	1:45.79	Q,
2	2	1:45.99	Q
3	2	1:46.87
4	1	1:47.55	Q
5	1	1:47.56	Q
6	1	1:47.63
7	3	1:47.86	Q
8	1	1:47.92
9	3	1:47.98	Q
10	2	1:48.06
11	3	1:48.12
12	1	1:48.25
13	3	1:48.99
14	3	1:49.46
15	3	1:49.51
16	2	1:49.73
17	1	1:51.19
18	2	2:05.11

Final

^[3]

Rank	Athlete	Nationality	Time	Note
			1:46.81
			1:46.90
			1:46.95
4			1:47.23
5			1:47.37
6			1:50.13

Notes and References

Web site: Heats results . 2021-03-05 . 2021-03-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210305215634/https://liveresults.european-athletics.com/resEICH21-/pdf/EICH21-/ATH/EICH21-_ATH_C74A_ATHM800M--------------RND1--------.pdf . dead .
Web site: Semifinals results . 2021-03-06 . 2021-03-06 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210306214218/https://liveresults.european-athletics.com/resEICH21-/pdf/EICH21-/ATH/EICH21-_ATH_C74A_ATHM800M--------------SFNL--------.pdf . dead .
Web site: Final results . 2021-03-07 . 2021-03-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210307192852/https://liveresults.european-athletics.com/resEICH21-/pdf/EICH21-/ATH/EICH21-_ATH_C73G_ATHM800M--------------FNL-000100--.pdf . dead .