1997 European Athletics U23 Championships – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1997 European Athletics U23 Championships was held in Turku, Finland, on 11, 12, and 13 July 1997.^[1]^[2]

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
	Andrea Longo	Italy	1:46.49
	André Bucher	Switzerland	1:47.13
	Grzegorz Krzosek	Poland	1:47.45
4	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:47.77
5	James Nolan	Ireland	1:47.98
6	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:48.49
7	Artyom Mastrov	Russia	1:48.74
8	Wojciech Kałdowski	Poland	1:49.48

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Grzegorz Krzosek	Poland	1:49.57	Q
2	André Bucher	Switzerland	1:49.62	Q
3	James Nolan	Ireland	1:49.85	Q
4	Artyom Mastrov	Russia	1:49.91	Q
5	Felix Leiter	Germany	1:50.13
6	Sergey Yakovlev	Belarus	1:50.70
7	Filip Jedlík	Czech Republic	1:51.07
8	Mickaël Hotyat	France	1:52.77

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Andrea Longo	Italy	1:48.49	Q
2	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:48.80	Q
3	Wojciech Kałdowski	Poland	1:48.82	Q
4	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:48.87	Q
5	Roman Tarasov	Russia	1:48.91
6	Umet Uusorg	Estonia	1:49.69
7	Martin Jareš	Czech Republic	1:49.97
8	Nuno Lopes	Portugal	1:50.82

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:52.71	Q
2	Artyom Mastrov	Russia	1:52.73	Q
3	James Nolan	Ireland	1:52.77	Q
4	Viktors Lācis	Latvia	1:52.79	Q
5	István Nagy	Hungary	1:52.79
6	Pedro Esteso	Spain	1:52.89
7	Yoseph Gizatcho	Israel	1:54.47
8	Dalibor Balgač	Croatia	1:54.54

Medalists