| Final | 17:00 | time | | | 1. Nina Otkalenko |  Soviet Union | 2:08.8 | CR | | 2. Diane Leather |  Great Britain | 2:09.8 | | | 3. Lyudmila Lysenko | Soviet Union | 2:11.2 | | | 4. Aranka Kazi |  Hungary | 2:11.9 | | | 5. Bożena Pestka |  Poland | 2:12.6 | | | 6. Valerie Winn | Great Britain | 2:13.3 | | | 7. Anne Oliver | Great Britain | 2:13.3 | | | 8. Bedřiška Müllerová |  Czechoslovakia | 2:13.6 | | | 9. Anna Bácskai | Hungary | 2:14.6 | |
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| History Women 800m. 1st time in European Chsampionship. | | World and European Record: Nina Otkalenko, Soviet Union 2:07.6 Kiev, Soviet Union 16 September 1954 | | 19 Competitors from 11 Nations. | | Heats |
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Heats - Wednesday 25.08 18:30 | | First 3 progress to Final. |
| Heat 1 | time | | | 1. Nina Otkalenko |  URS | 2:09.9 | CR, Q | | 2. Anne Oliver |  GBR | 2:11.8 | Q | | 3. Bedřiška Müllerová |  TCH | 2:11.8 | NR, Q | | 4. Oros Ágnes |  HUN | 2:11.8 | | | 5. Inga Nyqvist |  FIN | 2:17.2 | | | -. Nicole Gouilleux |  FRA | DNF | |
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| Heat 2 | time | | | 1. Aranka Kazi | HUN | 2:11.8 | Q | | 2. Bożena Pestka |  POL | 2:12.0 | NR, Q | | 3. Valerie Winn | GBR | 2:12.4 | Q | | 4. Nina Cernoscek | URS | 2:12.7 | | | 5. Marianne Weiss |  FRG | 2:15.6 | NR | | 6. Odile Monguillon | FRA | 2:17.3 | | | 7. Maria Kessels |  BEL | 2:33.7 | |
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| Heat 3 | time | | | 1. Lyudmila Lysenko | URS | 2:08.8 | CR, Q | | 2. Diane Leather | GBR | 2:08.9 | Q | | 3. Anna Bácskai | HUN | 2:12.5 | Q | | 4. Claude Laurent | FRA | 2:14.7 | | | 5. Loredana Simonetti |  ITA | 2:16.5 | | | 6. Isolde Beichler | FRG | 2:17.6 | | | 7. Ludmila Dunst |  AUT | 2:24.7 | |
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