Athletics at the 1928 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres

Round One

The first three finishers in each of the eight heats advanced to the Semifinal Round.

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Alex Wilson	Canada	1:59.2
2	Erik Byléhn	Sweden	1:59.8
3	John Sittig	United States	2:00.6
4	Guus Zeegers	Netherlands
5	Gérald Bertheloot	Belgium
6	Vasilios Stavrinos	Greece
7	Louis Schmit	Luxembourg

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Otto Peltzer	Germany	1:57.4
2	Brant Little	Canada	1:57.8
3	Wilfred Tatham	Great Britain	1:58.2
4	Adje Paulen	Netherlands
5	William Whyte	Australia
6	Albert Larsen	Denmark

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Jean Keller	France	1:59.0
2	Paul Martin	Switzerland	1:59.4
3	Ray Watson	United States	1:59.6
4	Max Tarnogrocki	Germany	1:59.9
5	Alfonso García	Mexico
6	Andries Hoogerwerf	Netherlands
7	Antonios Mangos	Greece

Heat Four

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Georges Baraton	France	2:03.4
2	Earl Fuller	United States	2:03.8
3	Olaf Strand	Norway	2:03.8
4	Ettore Tavernari	Italy
5	Philippe Coenjaerts	Belgium
6	Harry Houghton	Great Britain

Heat Five

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Lloyd Hahn	United States	1:56.8
2	Hermann Englehard	Germany	1:57.0
3	Vilém Šindler	Czechoslovakia	1:57.0
4	René Féger	France
5	Jack Walter	Canada
6	Charles Stuart	Australia

Heat Six

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Serafín Dengra	Argentina	2:01.2
2	Douglas Lowe	Great Britain	2:02.2
3	Guido Cominotto	Italy	2:02.4
4	Ömer Besim Koşalay	Turkey

Heat Seven

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Séra Martin	France	1:58.8
2	László Barsi	Hungary	1:59.0
3	Fredy Müller	Germany	1:59.4
4	Adolf Kittel	Czechoslovakia	1:59.6
5	Feliks Malanowski	Poland	1:59.8
6	Gerry Coughlan	Ireland
7	J. Murphy	India

Heat Eight

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Phil Edwards	Canada	1:59.4
2	Ralph Starr	Great Britain	1:59.8
3	Norman MacEachern	Ireland	1:59.8
4	Leopoldo Ledesma	Argentina
5	José Lucílo Iturbe	Mexico
6	Joaquín Miquel	Spain	2:03.2

Semifinals

The three fastest runners from each of the three heats advanced to the Final Round.

Heat One

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Earl Fuller	United States	1:55.6
2	Douglas Lowe	Great Britain	1:55.8
3	Jean Keller	France	1:56.0
4	László Barsi	Hungary	1:56.2
5	Otto Peltzer	Germany	1:56.3
6	Alex Wilson	Canada	1:57.1
7	Vilém Šindler	Czechoslovakia
AC	Norman MacEachern	Ireland	DNF

Heat Two

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Erik Blyéhn	Sweden	1:55.6
2	Ray Watson	United States	1:56.8
3	Hermann Engelhard	Germany	1:56.8
4	Brant Little	Canada	1:57.6
5	Ralph Starr	Great Britain
6	Guido Cominotto	Italy
7	Serafín Dengra	Argentina

Heat Three

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
1	Lloyd Hahn	United States	1:52.6
2	Phil Edwards	Canada	1:52.8
3	Séra Martin	France	1:53.0
4	Paul Martin	Switzerland	1:53.3
5	John Sittig	United States	1:53.4
6	Fredy Müller	Germany	1:53.8
7	Wilfrid Tatham	Great Britain
8	Olaf Strand	Norway	1:59.9

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Douglas Lowe	Great Britain	1:51.8	OR
	Erik Byléhn	Sweden	1:52.8
	Hermann Engelhard	Germany	1:53.2
4	Phil Edwards	Canada	1:54.0
5	Lloyd Hahn	United States	1:54.2
6	Séra Martin	France	1:54.6
7	Earl Fuller	United States	1:55.0
8	Jean Keller	France	1:57.0
9	Ray Watson	United States	2:03.0

Key: OR = Olympic record