1962 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

Events at the 1962 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4×100 m relay	men	women
4×400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
20 km walk	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Pentathlon		women
Decathlon	men

The men's 800 metres at the 1962 European Athletics Championships was held in Beograd, then Yugoslavia, at JNA Stadium on 13, 14, and 15 September 1962.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Manfred Matuschewski East Germany
Silver	Valeriy Bulyshev Soviet Union
Bronze	Paul Schmidt West Germany

Results

Final

15 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time
01 !	Manfred Matuschewski	East Germany	1:50.5
02 !	Valeriy Bulyshev	Soviet Union	1:51.2
03 !	Paul Schmidt	West Germany	1:51.2
4	Olavi Salonen	Finland	1:51.2
5	Derek McCleane	Ireland	1:51.3
6	Abram Krivosheyev	Soviet Union	1:51.5

Semi-finals

14 September

Semi-final 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Olavi Salonen	Finland	1:51.6	Q
2	Manfred Matuschewski	East Germany	1:51.6	Q
3	Valeriy Bulyshev	Soviet Union	1:52.1	Q
4	Norbert Haupert	Luxembourg	1:52.2
5	François Châtelet	France	1:52.2
6	Sidney Purkis	United Kingdom	1:52.3

Semi-final 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Paul Schmidt	West Germany	1:50.0	Q
2	Derek McCleane	Ireland	1:50.1	Q
3	Abram Krivosheyev	Soviet Union	1:50.1	Q
4	Anthony Harris	United Kingdom	1:50.2
5	Josef Odložil	Czechoslovakia	1:51.0
6	Volker Tulzer	Austria	1:51.1

Heats

13 September

Heat 1

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Norbert Haupert	Luxembourg	1:53.0	Q
2	Olavi Salonen	Finland	1:53.3	Q
3	Noel Carroll	Ireland	1:53.9
3	Klaus Widera	East Germany	1:53.9
5	Franz Bucheli	Switzerland	1:54.2

Heat 2

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sidney Purkis	United Kingdom	1:54.5	Q
2	Paul Schmidt	West Germany	1:55.7	Q
3	Jan Kasal	Czechoslovakia	1:55.7

Heat 3

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Valeriy Bulyshev	Soviet Union	1:51.0	Q
2	Volker Tulzer	Austria	1:51.0	Q
3	Francesco Bianchi	Italy	1:51.3
4	Gilbert Iundt	France	1:52.6

Heat 4

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Josef Odložil	Czechoslovakia	1:51.8	Q
2	Manfred Matuschewski	East Germany	1:51.8	Q
3	Trevor Schofield	United Kingdom	1:51.9
4	Hugo Walser	Liechtenstein	1:56.8

Heat 5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Abram Krivosheyev	Soviet Union	1:58.5	Q
2	Anthony Harris	United Kingdom	1:58.6	Q
3	Jaromír Šlégr	Czechoslovakia	1:58.8
4	Maurice Lurot	France	1:58.8

Heat 6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Derek McCleane	Ireland	1:50.8	Q
2	François Châtelet	France	1:51.3	Q
3	Alberto Esteban	Spain	1:51.9
4	Joseph Lambrechts	Belgium	DNF

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.

Finland (1)
France (3)
Ireland (2)
Italy (1)

References

↑ European Athletics Championships Zürich 2014 - STATISTICS HANDBOOK (PDF), European Athletics Association, pp. 391–397, retrieved 13 August 2014

800 metres at the European Athletics Championships

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