1985 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 1985 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 2 and 3 March.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Rob Harrison Great Britain	Petru Drăgoescu Romania	Leonid Masunov Soviet Union

Results

Heats

First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 6 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	3	Benjamín González	Spain	1:48.68	Q
2	2	Viktor Kalinkin	Soviet Union	1:48.69	Q
3	3	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1:48.77	Q
4	2	Colomán Trabado	Spain	1:49.00	Q
4	3	Leonid Masunov	Soviet Union	1:49.00	q
6	3	Marco Mayr	Switzerland	1:49.09	q
7	1	Axel Harries	West Germany	1:49.12	Q
8	1	Petru Drăgoescu	Romania	1:49.20	Q
9	2	Thierry Tonnelier	France	1:49.30	q
10	1	Rob Harrison	Great Britain	1:49.36	q
11	3	Herwig Tavernaro	Austria	1:49.66	q
12	2	Christoph Ulmer	Switzerland	1:49.77	q
13	2	Alberto Barsotti	Italy	1:49.99
14	1	Antonio Páez	Spain	1:50.44
15	1	Philippos Stylianoudis	Cyprus	1:50.48
16	3	Peter Braun	West Germany	1:50.50
17	2	Thomas Wilking	West Germany	1:50.71
18	1	Boyko Trayanov	Bulgaria	1:52.62

Semifinals

First 3 from each semifinal qualified directly (Q) for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Petru Drăgoescu	Romania	1:47.21	Q, NR
2	1	Leonid Masunov	Soviet Union	1:47.52	Q
3	1	Benjamín González	Spain	1:47.55	Q
4	2	Rob Harrison	Great Britain	1:47.72	Q, PB
5	2	Axel Harries	West Germany	1:47.84	Q
6	2	Viktor Kalinkin	Soviet Union	1:48.38	Q
7	1	Marco Mayr	Switzerland	1:48.50
8	2	Colomán Trabado	Spain	1:49.08
9	1	Thierry Tonnelier	France	1:50.13
10	2	Slobodan Popović	Yugoslavia	1:51.35
11	1	Herwig Tavernaro	Austria	1:53.61
	2	Christoph Ulmer	Switzerland	DNF

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rob Harrison	Great Britain	1:49.09
	Petru Drăgoescu	Romania	1:49.38
	Leonid Masunov	Soviet Union	1:49.59
4	Viktor Kalinkin	Soviet Union	1:49.92
5	Axel Harries	West Germany	1:50.00
6	Benjamín González	Spain	1:50.05