1969 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

1969 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
100 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	women
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
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The men's 800 metres at the 1969 European Athletics Championships was held in Athens, Greece, at Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium on 17, 18, and 19 September 1969.^[1]

Gold	Dieter Fromm  East Germany
Silver	Jozef Plachý  Czechoslovakia
Bronze	Manfred Matuschewski  East Germany

19 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Dieter Fromm	East Germany	1:45.98	CR
	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	1:46.26
	Manfred Matuschewski	East Germany	1:46.83
4	Yevgeniy Arzhanov	Soviet Union	1:47.1
5	Hansueli Mumenthaler	Switzerland	1:47.2
6	Andrzej Kupczyk	Poland	1:47.5
7	Noel Carroll	Ireland	1:49.1
8	Erhard Schulze	East Germany	1:55.4

18 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Yevgeniy Arzhanov	Soviet Union	1:49.2	Q
2	Erhard Schulze	East Germany	1:49.4	Q
3	Manfred Matuschewski	East Germany	1:49.4	Q
4	Noel Carroll	Ireland	1:49.5	Q
5	Andy Carter	Great Britain	1:49.6
6	Jože Međimurec	Yugoslavia	1:49.6
7	Stanisław Waśkiewicz	Poland	1:49.6
8	Tomáš Jungwirth	Czechoslovakia	1:50.0

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	1:48.9	Q
2	Dieter Fromm	East Germany	1:49.0	Q
3	Hansueli Mumenthaler	Switzerland	1:49.1	Q
4	Andrzej Kupczyk	Poland	1:49.2	Q
5	Dave Cropper	Great Britain	1:50.0
6	Bob Adams	Great Britain	1:50.9
7	Sergey Kryuchok	Soviet Union	1:53.3
8	Kazimierz Wardak	Poland	1:57.1

17 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Erhard Schulze	East Germany	1:48.7	Q
2	Bob Adams	Great Britain	1:49.2	Q
3	Jozef Plachý	Czechoslovakia	1:49.8	Q
4	Stanisław Waśkiewicz	Poland	1:50.4	Q
5	Jože Međimurec	Yugoslavia	1:50.5	Q
6	Zlatko Valchev	Bulgaria	1:50.6

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Andrzej Kupczyk	Poland	1:50.5	Q
2	Dave Cropper	Great Britain	1:50.8	Q
3	Manfred Matuschewski	East Germany	1:50.9	Q
4	Yevgeniy Arzhanov	Soviet Union	1:51.0	Q
5	Tomáš Jungwirth	Czechoslovakia	1:51.0	Q
6	Knut Brustad	Norway	1:51.1
7	Rudi Simon	Belgium	1:51.1
8	Ali Erte	Turkey	1:53.5

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Dieter Fromm	East Germany	1:50.1	Q
2	Hansueli Mumenthaler	Switzerland	1:50.1	Q
3	Noel Carroll	Ireland	1:50.2	Q
4	Andy Carter	Great Britain	1:50.3	Q
5	Kazimierz Wardak	Poland	1:50.3	Q
6	Sergey Kryuchok	Soviet Union	1:50.3	Q
7	Michel Medinger	Luxembourg	1:50.8

According to an unofficial count, 21 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.