en 2002 European Athletics Championships – Women's 800 metres

The women's 800 metres at the 2002 European Athletics Championships were held at the Olympic Stadium on August 6–8.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jolanda Čeplak Slovenia	Mayte Martínez Spain	Kelly Holmes Great Britain

Qualification: First 3 of each heat (Q) and the next 4 fastest (q) qualified for the semifinals.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	4	Claudia Gesell	Germany	2:01.69	Q
2	4	Jolanda Čeplak	Slovenia	2:01.98	Q
3	4	Tsvetelina Kirilova	Bulgaria	2:02.29	Q
4	4	Natalya Dedkova	Belarus	2:02.31	q
5	2	Svetlana Cherkasova	Russia	2:02.40	Q
6	2	Mayte Martínez	Spain	2:02.59	Q
7	3	Nédia Semedo	Portugal	2:02.80	Q
8	3	Joanne Fenn	Great Britain	2:02.91	Q
9	3	Sandra Stals	Belgium	2:03.13	Q
10	2	Brigita Langerholc	Slovenia	2:03.14	Q
11	4	Aurélie Coulaud	France	2:03.16	q
12	1	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	2:03.18	Q
13	2	Tanya Blake	Malta	2:03.22	q
14	3	Ivonne Teichmann	Germany	2:03.23	q
15	1	Ludmila Formanová	Czech Republic	2:03.25	Q
16	3	Heidi Jensen	Denmark	2:03.41
17	4	Helena Fuchsová	Czech Republic	2:03.71
18	1	Olga Raspopova	Russia	2:03.73	Q
19	2	Virginie Fouquet	France	2:03.75
20	4	Rikke Ronholt	Denmark	2:03.97
21	1	Élisabeth Grousselle	France	2:04.07
22	2	Maria Papadopoulou	Greece	2:04.52
23	1	Suvi Myllymaki	Finland	2:04.69
24	3	Adrienne McIvor	Ireland	2:05.01
25	2	Petra Ptiček	Croatia	2:05.15	PB
26	1	Anni Christofidou	Greece	2:05.82
27	3	Irina Mistyukevich	Russia	2:07.67
28	1	Yuliya Gurtovenko	Ukraine	2:08.04

Qualification: First 3 of each semifinal (Q) and the next 2 fastest (q) qualified for the final.

Rank	Heat	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	1	Jolanda Čeplak	Slovenia	2:00.37	Q
2	2	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	2:00.66	Q
3	1	Claudia Gesell	Germany	2:00.67	Q
4	2	Mayte Martínez	Spain	2:00.72	Q
5	1	Nédia Semedo	Portugal	2:00.85	Q
6	2	Ludmila Formanová	Czech Republic	2:01.07	Q
7	2	Ivonne Teichmann	Germany	2:01.15	q
8	2	Natalya Dedkova	Belarus	2:01.20	q
9	1	Svetlana Cherkasova	Russia	2:01.59
10	2	Brigita Langerholc	Slovenia	2:02.43
11	1	Sandra Stals	Belgium	2:02.44
12	2	Olga Raspopova	Russia	2:02.53
13	1	Joanne Fenn	Great Britain	2:02.99
14	1	Tsvetelina Kirilova	Bulgaria	2:05.07
15	1	Tanya Blake	Malta	2:10.33
	2	Aurélie Coulaud	France	DNF

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Jolanda Čeplak	Slovenia	1:57.65
	Mayte Martínez	Spain	1:58.86	PB
	Kelly Holmes	Great Britain	1:59.83	SB
4	Ludmila Formanová	Czech Republic	2:00.23
5	Claudia Gesell	Germany	2:00.51
6	Nédia Semedo	Portugal	2:00.54	PB
7	Ivonne Teichmann	Germany	2:00.87
8	Natalya Dedkova	Belarus	2:04.24