1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres

1977 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
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 1977 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 12 and 13 March in San Sebastián.^[1][2]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sebastian Coe  Great Britain	Erwin Gohlke  East Germany	Rolf Gysin  Switzerland

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Antonio Páez	Spain	1:48.8	Q
2	2	Erwin Gohlke	East Germany	1:49.5	Q
3	2	Viktor Anokhin	Soviet Union	1:49.6	Q
4	1	Olaf Beyer	East Germany	1:49.7	Q
4	2	Günther Hasler	Liechtenstein	1:49.7	q
6	1	Carlo Grippo	Italy	1:49.9	q
7	1	Pavel Litovchenko	Soviet Union	1:50.4	q
8	1	Robert Hoofd	Belgium	1:50.4	q
9	2	Kees Ruyter	Netherlands	1:50.4
10	4	Sebastian Coe	Great Britain	1:50.5	Q
11	3	Rainer Burmester	West Germany	1:50.7	Q
12	3	Rolf Gysin	Switzerland	1:50.7	Q
13	4	Feliks Wawrzon	Poland	1:50.8	Q
14	3	Milovan Savić	Yugoslavia	1:50.9
14	4	Gabriele Ferrero	Italy	1:50.9
14	4	Reinhard Aechtle	West Germany	1:50.9
16	4	Arie Ruyter	Netherlands	1:52.0
17	2	Eric Charron	France	1:52.5
18	3	Stavros Mermingis	Greece	1:52.9
19	4	Roger Milhau	France	1:54.8
20	3	Jan Willem Boogman	Netherlands	2:02.2
21	3	Markku Taskinen	Finland	2:31.6

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Sebastian Coe	Great Britain	1:48.2	Q
2	2	Erwin Gohlke	East Germany	1:48.3	Q
3	2	Rolf Gysin	Switzerland	1:48.4	q
4	2	Viktor Anokhin	Soviet Union	1:48.7	q
5	2	Robert Hoofd	Belgium	1:49.5
6	1	Günther Hasler	Liechtenstein	1:49.6	Q
7	1	Antonio Páez	Spain	1:49.6	Q
8	1	Olaf Beyer	East Germany	1:49.6
9	1	Pavel Litovchenko	Soviet Union	1:49.7
10	1	Rainer Burmester	West Germany	1:50.0
11	1	Feliks Wawrzon	Poland	1:53.1
	2	Carlo Grippo	Italy	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Sebastian Coe	Great Britain	1:46.54
	Erwin Gohlke	East Germany	1:47.2
	Rolf Gysin	Switzerland	1:47.6
4	Viktor Anokhin	Soviet Union	1:47.7
5	Günther Hasler	Liechtenstein	1:48.0
6	Antonio Páez	Spain	1:48.3