# Athletics at the 2003 Summer Universiade – Men's 800 metres

The men's 800 metres event at the 2003 Summer Universiade was held in Daegu, South Korea with the final on 27–30 August.

## Medalists

| Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| Roman Oravec Czech Republic | Ramil Aritkulov Russia | Fabiano Peçanha Brazil |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Roman Oravec | Czech Republic | 1:48.82 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Walid Meliani | Algeria | 1:49.09 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Mikhail Kolganov | Kazakhstan | 1:49.51 | q |
| 4 | 5 | Ioan Zaizan | Romania | 1:49.52 | Q |
| 5 | 5 | Ramil Aritkulov | Russia | 1:49.60 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Fabio Lettieri | Italy | 1:49.64 | Q |
| 7 | 2 | Artyom Mastrov | Russia | 1:49.76 | Q |
| 8 | 5 | Christian Neunhauserer | Italy | 1:49.92 | q |
| 9 | 2 | Gareth Hyett | New Zealand | 1:49.99 | q |
| 10 | 1 | Daniel Ruiz | Spain | 1:50.11 | q |
| 11 | 2 | José Maldonado | Puerto Rico | 1:50.56 | q |
| 12 | 5 | Cho Jae-deuk | South Korea | 1:50.73 | q |
| 13 | 2 | Avetik Arakelyan | Armenia | 1:51.75 | NR |
| 14 | 4 | Eugenio Barrios | Spain | 1:51.92 | Q |
| 15 | 4 | Joel Kidger | Great Britain | 1:51.98 | Q |
| 16 | 4 | Lee Jae-hun | South Korea | 1:51.99 | |
| 17 | 3 | Roman Hanzel | Slovakia | 1:52.12 | Q |
| 18 | 3 | Fabiano Peçanha | Brazil | 1:52.14 | Q |
| 19 | 3 | Heleodoro Navarro | Mexico | 1:52.22 | |
| 20 | 1 | Harry Larubi | Uganda | 1:52.64 | |
| 21 | 4 | Aggelos Thomopoulos | Greece | 1:54.42 | |
| 22 | 3 | Kondwani Chiwina | Malawi | 1:54.57 | |
| 23 | 1 | Saeed Ali Al-Adhreai | Yemen | 1:54.75 | |
| 24 | 5 | Aunese Mika | Samoa | 1:56.24 | NJR |
| 25 | 3 | Abraham Khumalo | Swaziland | 1:57.26 | |
| 26 | 3 | So Hoi Nam | Hong Kong | 1:58.50 | |
| 27 | 4 | Que Yin Tik | Hong Kong | 2:00.12 | |
| 28 | 4 | Johnson Rukundo | Rwanda | 2:01.03 | |
| 29 | 1 | Cheong Man Fong | Macau | 2:01.13 | |
| 30 | 2 | Iao Kuan Un | Macau | 2:01.35 | |
| 31 | 2 | Mohammed Al-Azri | Oman | 2:01.54 | |
| 32 | 4 | Telguy Djibeng | Chad | 2:10.29 | |
| 33 | 5 | Majed Al-Bousafi | Oman | 2:12.68 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Athlete | Nationality | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Ioan Zaizan | Romania | 1:48.27 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Roman Oravec | Czech Republic | 1:48.37 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Eugenio Barrios | Spain | 1:48.49 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Artyom Mastrov | Russia | 1:48.49 | q |
| 5 | 1 | Fabiano Peçanha | Brazil | 1:48.73 | q |
| 6 | 1 | Gareth Hyett | New Zealand | 1:48.85 | |
| 7 | 1 | Joewel Maldonado | Puerto Rico | 1:49.27 | |
| 8 | 1 | Christian Neunhauserer | Italy | 1:49.49 | |
| 9 | 2 | Ramil Aritkulov | Russia | 1:49.99 | Q |
| 10 | 2 | Walid Meliani | Algeria | 1:50.07 | Q |
| 11 | 2 | Roman Hanzel | Slovakia | 1:50.11 | Q |
| 12 | 2 | Joel Kidger | Great Britain | 1:50.15 | |
| 13 | 2 | Daniel Ruiz | Spain | 1:50.36 | |
| 14 | 2 | Fabio Lettieri | Italy | 1:50.84 | |
| 15 | 2 | Cho Jae-Deuk | South Korea | 1:51.28 | |
| | 2 | Mikhail Kolganov | Kazakhstan | DNS | |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Nationality | Time |
| | Roman Oravec | Czech Republic | 1:48.01 |
| | Ramil Aritkulov | Russia | 1:48.19 |
| | Fabiano Peçanha | Brazil | 1:48.20 |
| 4 | Ioan Zaizan | Romania | 1:48.85 |
| 5 | Walid Meliani | Algeria | 1:48.95 |
| 6 | Artyom Mastrov | Russia | 1:49.13 |
| 7 | Eugenio Barrios | Spain | 1:49.35 |
| 8 | Roman Hanzel | Slovakia | 1:50.21 |