1998 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres

Heats

First 2 from each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	1:48.74	Q
2	2	James Nolan	Ireland	1:49.04	Q
3	4	Lukáš Vydra	Czech Republic	1:49.23	Q
4	4	Ivan Komar	Belarus	1:49.26	Q
5	4	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:49.33	q
6	2	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:49.51	q
7	2	Pedro Antonio Esteso	Spain	1:49.63	q
8	3	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1:49.81	Q
9	3	David Matthews	Ireland	1:50.09	Q
10	2	Davide Cadoni	Italy	1:50.14	q
11	4	Tim Rogge	Belgium	1:50.24
12	1	Marko Koers	Netherlands	1:50.40	Q
13	1	Einārs Tupurītis	Latvia	1:50.50	Q
14	4	Luis Javier González	Spain	1:50.59
15	1	Nathan Kahan	Belgium	1:50.70
16	1	Sergey Kozhevnikov	Russia	1:50.76
17	3	Tom Omey	Belgium	1:50.89
18	4	Michael Wildner	Austria	1:50.94
19	2	Panayiotis Stroubakos	Greece	1:51.50
20	1	Duarte Ponte	Portugal	1:52.87
	3	Roberto Parra	Spain	DNF
	3	Andrea Longo	Italy	DQ

Semifinals

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Ivan Komar	Belarus	1:48.20	Q
2	1	Marko Koers	Netherlands	1:48.42	Q
3	1	David Matthews	Ireland	1:48.54	Q
4	1	Einārs Tupurītis	Latvia	1:48.89
5	2	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1:49.81	Q
6	1	Davide Cadoni	Italy	1:49.83
7	2	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:50.04	Q
8	1	Roman Oravec	Czech Republic	1:50.16
9	2	James Nolan	Ireland	1:50.21	Q
10	2	Lukáš Vydra	Czech Republic	1:50.23
11	2	Gert-Jan Liefers	Netherlands	1:50.82
12	2	Pedro Antonio Esteso	Spain	1:50.96

Final

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Nils Schumann	Germany	1:47.02
	Marko Koers	Netherlands	1:47.20
	Vebjørn Rodal	Norway	1:47.40
4	James Nolan	Ireland	1:47.81
5	David Matthews	Ireland	1:48.37
6	Ivan Komar	Belarus	1:50.94