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.^[1]

Men's 800 metres at the 2022 European Athletics Championships
Venue	Olympiastadion
Location	Munich
Dates	18 August (round 1) 19 August (semifinals) 21 August (final)
Competitors	31 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:44.85
Medalists
Mariano García    Spain   Jake Wightman    Great Britain   Mark English    Ireland
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Records

Standing records prior to the 2022 European Athletics Championships
World record	David Rudisha (KEN)	1:40.91 [2]	London, Great Britain	9 August 2012
European record	Wilson Kipketer (DEN)	1:41.11[3]	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[4]	Turku, Finland	14 June 2022
Europe Leading

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.^[5]

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.^[6]

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

^[7]

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