1983 European Athletics Indoor Championships – Men's 800 metres

1983 European Athletics Indoor Championships
Track events
60 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men	women
800 m		women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m	men	women
60 m hurdles	men	women
5000 m walk	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 1983 European Athletics Indoor Championships was held on 5 and 6 March.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Colomán Trabado  Spain	Peter Elliott  Great Britain	Thierry Tonnelier  France

First 3 from each heat (Q) and the next 1 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Viktor Zemlyanskiy	Soviet Union	1:49.26	Q
2	1	Rob Druppers	Netherlands	1:49.28	Q
3	1	Andres Garcia	France	1:49.45	Q
4	1	Hans Lang	West Germany	1:49.52	q
5	2	Thierry Tonnelier	France	1:49.82	Q
6	3	Peter Elliott	Great Britain	1:50.06	Q
7	1	András Paróczai	Hungary	1:50.07	q
8	3	Andrés Vera	Spain	1:50.09	Q
9	3	Didier Le Guillou	France	1:50.16	Q
10	2	Colomán Trabado	Spain	1:50.20	Q
11	3	Petru Drăgoescu	Romania	1:50.07	q
12	2	Binko Kolev	Bulgaria	1:50.40	Q
13	3	Zsolt Szabó	Hungary	1:50.62
14	2	Reinhold Studer	Switzerland	1:51.18

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

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	2	Colomán Trabado	Spain	1:48.39	Q
2	2	Peter Elliott	Great Britain	1:48.79	Q
3	2	Petru Drăgoescu	Romania	1:48.94	q
4	2	Andres Garcia	France	1:49.62	q
5	1	Thierry Tonnelier	France	1:50.08	Q
6	1	Binko Kolev	Bulgaria	1:50.26	Q
7	1	Andrés Vera	Spain	1:50.42
8	1	Hans Lang	West Germany	1:50.64
9	1	Didier Le Guillou	France	1:50.69
10	1	Viktor Zemlyanskiy	Soviet Union	1:54.44
	2	Rob Druppers	Netherlands	DNF
	2	András Paróczai	Hungary	DNS

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Colomán Trabado	Spain	1:46.91
	Peter Elliott	Great Britain	1:47.58
	Thierry Tonnelier	France	1:47.68
4	Petru Drăgoescu	Romania	1:47.91
5	Binko Kolev	Bulgaria	1:51.94
6	Andres Garcia	France	2:04.91