1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres

1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men
60 m hurdles	men	women
4 × 200 m relay		women
4 × 400 m relay	men	women
4 × 800 m relay	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women

The men's 800 metres event at the 1971 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 13 and 14 March in Sofia.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yevgeniy Arzhanov  Soviet Union	Phil Lewis  Great Britain	Andrzej Kupczyk Poland

Held on 13 March

First 2 from each heat (Q) qualified directly for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	John Davies	Great Britain	1:51.8	Q
2	1	Petar Kyatovski	Bulgaria	1:51.9	Q
3	1	Slavko Koprivica	Yugoslavia	1:52.5
1	2	Antonio Fernández	Spain	1:54.0	Q
2	2	Phil Lewis	Great Britain	1:54.3	Q
3	2	Atanas Atanasov	Bulgaria	1:54.4
4	2	Stavros Mermingis	Greece	1:57.8
5	2	Ali Erte	Turkey	1:58.0
1	3	Yevgeniy Arzhanov	Soviet Union	1:54.1	Q
2	3	Andrzej Kupczyk	Poland	1:54.3	Q
3	3	Ján Šišovský	Czechoslovakia	1:54.7
4	3	Eric Reygaert	Belgium	1:56.5

Held on 14 March

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Yevgeniy Arzhanov	Soviet Union	1:48.7
	Phil Lewis	Great Britain	1:50.5
	Andrzej Kupczyk	Poland	1:50.5
4	John Davies	Great Britain	1:51.1
5	Petar Kyatovski	Bulgaria	1:52.0
6	Antonio Fernández	Spain	1:52.7