# 1958 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres at the 1958 European Athletics Championships was held in Stockholm, Sweden, at Stockholms Olympiastadion on 19, 20, and 21 August 1958.

## Medalists

| Gold | Mike Rawson Great Britain |
| Silver | Audun Boysen Norway |
| Bronze | Paul Schmidt West Germany |

## Results
### Final

21 August
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Mike Rawson | Great Britain | 1:47.8 |
| | Audun Boysen | Norway | 1:47.9 |
| | Paul Schmidt | West Germany | 1:47.9 |
| 4 | Zbigniew Makomaski | Poland | 1:48.0 |
| 5 | Lajos Szentgáli | Hungary | 1:48.3 |
| 6 | Herbert Missalla | West Germany | 1:48.5 |
| 7 | Derek Johnson | Great Britain | 1:49.2 |
| 8 | Christian Wägli | Switzerland | 1:52.0 |

### Semi-finals

20 August

#### Semi-final 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Derek Johnson | Great Britain | 1:48.8 | Q |
| 2 | Christian Wägli | Switzerland | 1:49.0 | Q |
| 3 | Zbigniew Makomaski | Poland | 1:49.1 | Q |
| 4 | Herbert Missalla | West Germany | 1:49.2 | Q |
| 5 | Lajos Kovács | Hungary | 1:49.2 | |
| 6 | Olavi Salonen | Finland | 1:51.8 | |
| 7 | Svavar Markússon | Iceland | 1:54.6 | |
| 8 | Hendrik Haus | Netherlands | 1:59.0 | |

#### Semi-final 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Paul Schmidt | West Germany | 1:49.5 | Q |
| 2 | Lajos Szentgáli | Hungary | 1:49.8 | Q |
| 3 | Audun Boysen | Norway | 1:49.9 | Q |
| 4 | Mike Rawson | Great Britain | 1:50.1 | Q |
| 5 | Evangelos Depastas | Greece | 1:50.3 | |
| 6 | Gianfranco Baraldi | Italy | 1:51.2 | |
| 7 | Rolf Gottfridsson | Sweden | 1:52.1 | |
| | Tadeusz Kaźmierski | Poland | DQ | |

### Heats

19 August

#### Heat 1

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Derek Johnson | Great Britain | 1:49.5 | Q |
| 2 | Lajos Szentgáli | Hungary | 1:50.0 | Q |
| 3 | Svavar Markússon | Iceland | 1:50.5 | NR Q |
| 4 | Hendrik Haus | Netherlands | 1:51.0 | Q |
| 5 | Cesáreo Marín | Spain | 1:52.8 | |

#### Heat 2

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Mike Rawson | Great Britain | 1:50.4 | Q |
| 2 | Evangelos Depastas | Greece | 1:50.7 | Q |
| 3 | Olavi Salonen | Finland | 1:50.7 | Q |
| 4 | Zbigniew Makomaski | Poland | 1:51.2 | Q |
| 5 | Gérard Vervoort | France | 1:51.6 | |
| 6 | Hendrik Heida | Netherlands | 1:52.3 | |

#### Heat 3

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Herbert Missalla | West Germany | 1:50.0 | Q |
| 2 | Audun Boysen | Norway | 1:50.5 | Q |
| 3 | Christian Wägli | Switzerland | 1:50.6 | Q |
| 4 | Tadeusz Kaźmierski | Poland | 1:50.8 | Q |
| 5 | Dimitrios Konstantinidis | Greece | 1:50.9 | |
| 6 | Rudolf Klaban | Austria | 1:51.3 | |

#### Heat 4

| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Paul Schmidt | West Germany | 1:51.4 | Q |
| 2 | Gianfranco Baraldi | Italy | 1:51.8 | Q |
| 3 | Lajos Kovács | Hungary | 1:52.0 | Q |
| 4 | Rolf Gottfridsson | Sweden | 1:52.0 | Q |
| 5 | Čeněk Hanka | Czechoslovakia | 1:52.1 | |
| 6 | Robert Misplon | France | 1:54.3 | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 23 athletes from 16 countries participated in the event.
* Austria (1)
* Czechoslovakia (1)
* Finland (1)
* France (2)
* Greece (2)
* Hungary (2)
* Iceland (1)
* Italy (1)
* Netherlands (2)
* Norway (1)
* Poland (2)
* Spain (1)
* Sweden (1)
* Switzerland (1)
* Great Britain (2)
* West Germany (2)