1938 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

The men's 800 metres at the 1938 European Athletics Championships was held in Paris, France, at Stade Olympique de Colombes on 3 and 4 September 1938.^[1]

Gold	Rudolf Harbig  Germany
Silver	Jacques Lévèque  France
Bronze	Mario Lanzi  Italy

4 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
	Rudolf Harbig	Germany	1:50.6	CR, NR
	Jacques Lévèque	France	1:51.8
	Mario Lanzi	Italy	1:52.0
4	Sjabbe Bouman	Netherlands	1:52.3	NR
5	Bertil Andersson	Sweden	1:53.0
6	Tauno Peussa	Finland	1:55.5
7	Paul Faure	France	NT
8	Lennart Nilsson	Sweden	NT
9	Paul Minder	Switzerland	NT
	Gusztáv Harsányi	Hungary	DNF

3 September

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Mario Lanzi	Italy	1:53.6	Q
2	Jacques Lévèque	France	1:54.1	Q
3	Lennart Nilsson	Sweden	1:54.2	Q
4	Francis Handley	Great Britain	1:55.0

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Rudolf Harbig	Germany	1:54.3	Q
2	Bertil Andersson	Sweden	1:54.9	Q
3	Paul Faure	France	1:55.2	Q
4	Ferenc Temesvári	Hungary	1:55.4
5	Alfred Baldwin	Great Britain	1:56.6
6	Emil Goršek	Yugoslavia	2:01.4
7	Charles Stein	Luxembourg	NT

Rank	Name	Nationality	Time	Notes
1	Sjabbe Bouman	Netherlands	1:56.8	Q
2	Tauno Peussa	Finland	1:57.7	Q
3	Gusztáv Harsányi	Hungary	1:58.4	Q
4	Paul Minder	Switzerland	1:58.6	Q
5	Eraldo Colombo	Italy	1:58.8
6	Antonio Calado	Portugal	1:58.8
7	Wacław Gąssowski	Poland	2:02.0

According to an unofficial count, 18 athletes from 13 countries participated in the event.