# 1962 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

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

## Medalists

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

## Results
### Final

15 September
| Rank | Name | Nationality | Time |
| | Manfred Matuschewski | East Germany | 1:50.5 |
| | Valeriy Bulyshev | Soviet Union | 1:51.2 |
| | 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 | Sid Purkis | Great Britain | 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 | Tony Harris | Great Britain | 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 | Sid Purkis | Great Britain | 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 | Great Britain | 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 | Tony Harris | Great Britain | 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 | |
| | Joseph Lambrechts | Belgium | DNF | |

## Participation

According to an unofficial count, 24 athletes from 15 countries participated in the event.
* Austria (1)
* Belgium (1)
* Czechoslovakia (3)
* East Germany (2)
* Finland (1)
* France (3)
* Ireland (2)
* Italy (1)
* Liechtenstein (1)
* Luxembourg (1)
* Soviet Union (2)
* Spain (1)
* Switzerland (1)
* Great Britain (3)
* West Germany (1)