1998 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

1998 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men	women
100 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men	women
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
Road events
Marathon	men	women
10 km walk		women
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men	women
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men	women
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men	women
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Heptathlon		women
Decathlon	men
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The men's 800 metres at the 1998 European Athletics Championships was held at the Népstadion on 21, 22 and 23 August.

Gold	Nils Schumann  Germany
Silver	André Bucher  Switzerland
Bronze	Lukáš Vydra  Czech Republic

Qualification: First 2 in each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) advance to the Semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:46.12	Q
2	4	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1:46.19	Q
3	2	James McIlroy	Ireland	1:46.81	Q
4	2	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1:46.82	Q
5	2	Roberto Parra	Spain	1:46.91	q, SB
6	3	Nathan Kahan	Belgium	1:47.02	Q
7	3	André Bucher	Switzerland	1:47.05	Q
8	3	Wilson Kirwa	Finland	1:47.10	q
9	3	Ivan Komar	Belarus	1:47.14	q
10	3	Wojciech Kałdowski	Poland	1:47.17	q
11	1	Balázs Korányi	Hungary	1:47.32	Q
11	1	Andrea Longo	Italy	1:47.32	Q
13	3	David Matthews	Ireland	1:47.39	q
14	1	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1:47.40	q
15	4	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	1:47.57
16	2	Viktors Lacis	Latvia	1:47.58
17	4	Panagiotis Stroubakos	Greece	1:47.70
18	2	Sergey Kozhevnikov	Russia	1:47.71
19	1	Andrew Hart	Great Britain	1:47.90
20	4	Aleksander Trutko	Belarus	1:48.19
21	5	Lukáš Vydra	Czech Republic	1:48.20	Q
22	2	Balázs Tölgyesi	Hungary	1:48.29
23	5	James Nolan	Ireland	1:48.36	Q
24	1	Duarte Ponte	Portugal	1:48.65
25	5	Giacomo Mazzoni	Italy	1:48.74
26	2	Vanco Stojanov	Macedonia	1:49.00	NR
27	4	Paweł Czapiewski	Poland	1:49.24
28	5	Miklos Arpasi	Hungary	1:49.41
29	1	Urmet Uusorg	Estonia	1:49.42
30	5	Tarik Bourrouag	Germany	1:49.56
31	4	Rizak Dirshe	Sweden	1:49.76
32	5	José Antonio Redolat	Spain	1:49.86
33	1	Víctor Martínez	Andorra	1:50.54
34	5	David Divad	France	1:50.87

Qualification: First 3 in each heat (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) advance to the Final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:47.28	Q
2	1	Lukáš Vydra	Czech Republic	1:47.62	Q
3	1	James McIlroy	Ireland	1:47.66	Q
4	1	Andrea Longo	Italy	1:47.67	q
5	2	André Bucher	Switzerland	1:47.68	Q
6	2	Balázs Korányi	Hungary	1:47.70	Q
7	2	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1:47.79	Q
8	1	Wojciech Kałdowski	Poland	1:48.10	q
9	2	Ivan Komar	Belarus	1:48.14
10	1	Wilson Kirwa	Finland	1:48.19
10	2	Nico Motchebon	Germany	1:48.19
12	1	Nathan Kahan	Belgium	1:48.39
13	2	James Nolan	Ireland	1:48.50
14	2	Giuseppe D'Urso	Italy	1:48.95
15	2	Roberto Parra	Spain	1:49.26
16	1	David Matthews	Ireland	1:49.65

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:44.89	PB
	André Bucher	Switzerland	1:45.04
	Lukáš Vydra	Czech Republic	1:45.23
4	James McIlroy	Ireland	1:45.46
5	Balázs Korányi	Hungary	1:45.78	NR
6	Wojciech Kałdowski	Poland	1:46.60	PB
7	Andrea Longo	Italy	1:46.66
8	Wilson Kipketer	Denmark	1:50.13

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