1946 European Athletics Championships – Men's 800 metres

1946 European Athletics Championships
Track events
100 m	men	women
200 m	men	women
400 m	men
800 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
80 m hurdles		women
110 m hurdles	men
400 m hurdles	men
3000 m steeplechase	men
4 × 100 m relay	men	women
4 × 400 m relay	men
Road events
Marathon	men
50 km walk	men
Field events
High jump	men	women
Pole vault	men
Long jump	men	women
Triple jump	men
Shot put	men	women
Discus throw	men	women
Hammer throw	men
Javelin throw	men	women
Combined events
Decathlon	men
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The men's 800 metres at the 1946 European Athletics Championships was held in Oslo, Norway, at Bislett Stadion on 22 and 24 August 1946.^[1]

Gold	Rune Gustafsson  Sweden
Silver	Niels Holst-Sørensen  Denmark
Bronze	Marcel Hansenne  France

24 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rune Gustafsson	Sweden	1:51.0
	Niels Holst-Sørensen	Denmark	1:51.1
	Marcel Hansenne	France	1:51.2
4	Olle Ljunggren	Sweden	1:51.4
5	Thomas White	Great Britain	1:51.5
6	Robert Chef d’Hôtel	France	1:53.0
7	Jørgen Heller Andersen	Denmark	1:53.7
8	Richard Brancart	Belgium	2:02.2

22 August

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rune Gustafsson	Sweden	1:51.1	Q
2	Marcel Hansenne	France	1:52.2	Q
3	Jørgen Heller Andersen	Denmark	1:52.2	Q
4	Richard Brancart	Belgium	1:53.5	Q
5	Joseph Barthel	Luxembourg	1:56.1
6	Óskar Jónsson	Iceland	1:56.1	NR
7	Dagfinn Fløisand	Norway	1:58.4
8	Jan Staniszewski	Poland	2:00.7

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Niels Holst-Sørensen	Denmark	1:54.2	Q
2	Olle Ljunggren	Sweden	1:54.7	Q
3	Robert Chef d'Hôtel	France	1:54.8	Q
4	Thomas White	Great Britain	1:54.8	Q
5	Karl Volkmer	Switzerland	1:55.0
6	Runar Björklöf	Finland	1:55.8
7	Tomas Sale	Czechoslovakia	1:56.7
8	Kjartan Jóhannsson	Iceland	1:56.7
9	Kaare Vefling	Norway	1:57.3

According to an unofficial count, 17 athletes from 12 countries participated in the event.